What brought you to your religion?

Were you raised in it?

Did you have an experience?

Did you read your way into it (i.e. the Bible, Quran, etc.) and it satisfied you?

WHY are you who you are? Further, why do you accept your religion as true?

Or DO you accept your religion as true?

I was reading the book of Deuteronomy last night, and I came upon the following passage:

Deuteronomy 4:32-40
(32) "Has anything this great ever happened before? Never! Look at the past. Think about everything that happened before you were born. Go all the way back to the time when God made people on the earth. Look at everything that has happened anywhere in the world. Has anyone ever heard about anything as great as this? No!
(33) You people heard God speaking to you from a fire, and you are still alive. Has that ever happened to anyone else? No!
(34) Has any other god ever tried to go and take a people for himself from inside another nation? No! But you yourselves have seen everything that the LORD your God did for you. He showed you his power and strength. You saw the troubles that tested the people. You saw miracles and wonders. You saw war and the terrible things that happened.
(35) The LORD showed you all this so that you would know that he is God. There is no other god like him.
(36) He let you hear his voice from heaven so that he could teach you a lesson. On earth he let you see his great fire, and he spoke to you from it.
(37) "He loved your ancestors. That is why he chose you, their descendants. And that is why he brought you out of Egypt. He was with you and brought you out with his great power.
(38) When you moved forward, he forced out nations that were greater and more powerful than you. And he led you into their land. He gave you their land to live in, as he is still doing today.
(39) "So today you must remember and accept that the LORD is God. He is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other god!
(40) And you must obey his laws and commands that I give you today. Then everything will go well with you and your children who live after you. And you will live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving you--it will be yours forever."


It didn't take long before I started to recall a memory from my past that had appeared only so vaguely to me for so many years. I now remember that when I was in the process of being 'saved' I was engaged with this passage. My memory of the event has become more vivid, instead of being a simply forgotten Humpty Dumpty story that I could never put back together again, it has reminded me of things. I had always remembered a bit about what happened, what had led me to be there at that moment, but now it like a dream state coming alive inside my head which I can go back in time in an almost real life scenario and experience the past from other angles. Reminds me of the Butterfly Effect kind of.

Anyway, just thought this would be interesting to share. Probably boring to you guys though since I'm off in my own little world I guess.

yeah that sounds really weird to me.

I don't personally have a problem with modern science giving us an improved look at things that were not known when the Bible was written. If I did and took it to the extreme, then I'd have ask petty questions like "Why weren't there cars, trains, and planes in the Bible?"

many questions that either dont have answers or the answers there are dont make sense.

so ive made up my own that answers those questions.

Born Into christan/catholic family.. accepted jesus was i was around7-10 i guess idk.. and i have had my biiiig struggle.. with my belief's and everything.

it's like a seed was sown in me tho and it grew, bc now i hold on to it more sacredly.. maybe that's bc with age i learn to appreciate things more differently and i tend to have a passionate view on life.