My Belief System

A public opinion system is the combination of surveys, opinions, or reliances on the most pro ensnare questions of invigoration. What is a human being? What is the heart and soul and purpose of life? What is righteous behavior and what is sinful? Why is so much suffering caused and does it hand whatever purpose? How can a greater and lasting happiness be found in life? What happens at expiration? What happens thereafter? Is there anything much(prenominal) as arche flake? Will the righteous be rewarded? Such ar the questions that weigh heavily upon any person seeking a deeper meaning of life, and possibly the air to salvation.They are no indulgent self-evident answers to these questions. One cannot come to any clear-cut conclusions to these questions using thinking and analysis, although philosophers do try to do so. The ultimate questions of life belong to the dimension of metaphysics, and progress to to be largely accredited as a emergence of article of faith or f aith. The articles of a confiders religious faith are not conclusions derived by ratiocinative, discriminating mind. Mind has pocket-sized to do with them, they are to a greater extent related to the heart and the soul of a person.For example, the existence of soul itself is not something cardinal can infer from apt analysis or physical dissection. Yet the existence of soul is underlying to nearly ein truth religious belief system on the earth. perspicuous thinking cannot make anything of such a belief. Similarly, the presence of perfection is something beyond the reach of human mind to nab. Yet, a belief in God is again the core of nearly every religious belief system. I myself follow a deeply Christian belief system that is founded upon the nimbus cloud of God and the mystery of His creation.When we enter the domain of a religious system, we have to leave the mind behind and follow the voice of the heart. I believe that we should follow a belief system not because our par ents followed it or the spate around us follow it, but simply because there is a resonance between the elements of that peculiar(a) religious thinking and one and only(a)self. Of course, usually one finds this special affinity to the religious custom one is born(p) into, and that is the feature with me too.I am a Protestant Christian and I find that the Protestants have a direct and intimate approach to holiness. I am at home among Protestant Christians and particularly in my church and denomination, the Baptist Christians. Though I myself belong to the Baptist church, and have original strong convictions concerning theological/metaphysical matters in accordance to my particular belief system, I try to regard new(prenominal) denominations and even faiths with an open mind. I believe that deep down, the religious notion of men and women all over the world is the equal.Further, the courage or abstractness of thought needed to allow the heart to believe in completely spirit ual domain things is also more(prenominal) or less the analogous, although I acknowledge the fact that in a majority of cases, religious belief are but a matter of custom which do not have heavy implications in a persons life. But when religion is taken seriously, the essential nature of divergent belief systems can be the same though the contents differ, sometimes radically as between easterly pantheistic religions and the strictly monotheistic Judeo-Christian religion.I believe that Gods mystery is so great that it can perhaps equally support widely differing religious belief systems. Let me offer a relevant example here from the world of physics an electron can be a particle and also a wave at the same time. Common sense tells us that something cannot be a particle and a wave at the same time, surely that is impossible in the very nature of things and yet in reality it can happen and in fact this is how things are. Similarly, Gods mystery can be so vast that it can accommo date two or more apparently conflicting metaphysical viewpoints.Thus, almost paradoxically, although I am strong worshipper in the tenets of my own faith, I do not fanatically or arrogantly claim or even think that my denomination, my sect, my religion, is exclusively reject and all others wrong. I believe that ultimately, the mystery of God cannot be contained by any particular belief system. I also believe that more than the specific doctrines of a belief system, what is more important is the passionate gaudiness of the believer in God, whatever may be the name of the God. I believe in the efficacy of prayer and the total need to looking person-to-personly connected to the divinity of God.To me, that divinity is represented in the look-alike of savior Christ. As everyone knows, Baptists insist that one has to fully accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior as a own(prenominal) conscious choice, not as just a matter of course. The subject of Baptism marks this choice or deci sion. Although all Christians follow the ceremony of Baptism, and I respect that, I personally think (and not simply because I myself am a Baptist) that such a most sacred offspring in ones life which confirms ones personal relationship to God cannot be simply imposed on children who are not mature enough to make decisions for themselves.Making Baptism into a matter of tradition and custom, instead of being a reflection of the most deeply heart-felt conviction is trivializing it. And I am proud that I am born into a particular system of faith that recognizes this and places so much importance on the act of being born again. For me, being born again is not just a matter of belief of doctrine, but a rattling(a) inspiration at every step of my life. I also personally believe that being born again is not a one-time issuing associated with Baptism and does not end with it, in fact it only begins with it.One has to be born again and again in spirit. Ones faith in God has to be renewe d, rejuvenated and reaffirmed every day, only then the stream of faith can be kept flowing instead of becoming frozen. The belief in God, after all, is not simply a matter of belief anyone can believe anything, and it does not make much contravention what makes the difference is the living energy and intensity that goes into prayer which forms a personal confederation between the soul and God. There are numerous distinctive tenets in the Baptist faith that are the result of a well-grounded biblical, theological reasoning.However, as I mentioned already, ultimately belief goes beyond reasoning, in its intensity and legitimacy it even transcends the particular forms and structures it outwardly conforms to. Let me reiterate the fact that religion is a personal heart-to-heart affair between the soul and God. It is more like a love relationship than a particular type of world-view. The religious quest begins with questions such as what is the meaning of life, what happens after death and so on. A belief system permits or is supposed to provide answers for them. But how do I know that they are avowedly, and absolutely true?In this context, people usually say that that is the meaning of belief one accepts a certain element of belief as a matter of faith rather than a demonstrable fact of knowledge. I accord to that entirely. But I would like to go a little further. To me, my particular belief system does not provide all the answers to all the questions, such as why innocent children have often to suffer so cruelly, or why millions of people are dying in Africa from crave and disease. In a world governed by a compassionate and interminably wise God, how can such and so many other life-threatening things happen constantly and everywhere?There are no easy answers. My belief-system does not provide satisfactory answers to these questions, but my personal faith in the wisdom and power of God allays my questioning mind. There are no clear and distinct answers, b ut the questions themselves become amorphous and disappear in the burning intensity of ones faith. To have faith in God means to have faith that whatever is happening, is happening for certain reason, though it may not be easy for us to comprehend Gods ways. To a praying heart, ultimately, the one answer it needs is found in the joy and upliftment to be found in the act of prayer.