Hello friends, i trust you are well. I am. A bit swamped though, so much to do in so little time. I wish the days were longer than the nights. Anyway today i have a good topic to write about. Its on religion and denominations.
Have you ever wondered why you belong to your religion and to your denomination? i had never had the reason to ask until recently. I used to go to church. this is because i found myself in a christian family that worships on Sunday. Thus i became an Anglican. Going to church was like a routine duty to me until recently. I go in, look at chicks, then leave.
As i grew older however, i became a bit serious. I now went in and even listened to the sermon. lately however i have become serous with God. I can say we have a covenant of some sort. He has been faithful in fulling his part.
This prompted me to ask questions. Personally i have always wanted to grow. To grow spiritually and in knowledge. As a result i had begun attending church at my local area. I however noticed that the church wasn't serious. They spent more time telling stories and less preaching. I was getting nothing at all. The Anglican church in this case has never quenched my thirst.
So i quit going to that Anglican church and i have been looking for a church since then. Maybe a new denomination. Most people i know are Christians. However few are from different religions like Hinduism and Judaism. The definition of religion states that a religion is a set of beliefs, culture and worldwide views of humanities to spirituality. Christians thus believe in their views and so does the rest. I don't know if there is one right religion however. I am just thankful that the ability for one to associate with the beliefs he regards as right has always been there. So most of us were born into a religion. We could have changed once we grew older. This is why my friend Raj is a Hindu and i am a christian. He believes in what he deems right and so do i. The freedom to choose is a blessing.
I have never had a problem with my religion though, what i have an issue with is my denomination. I am currently in the wilderness with this though. I don't know which denomination is right and which is wrong. It just so happened that in Christianity there are various denominations. The right one i don't know. One just has to subscribe to that which he fully agrees with. There are many good denominations out there. But i am yet to find one that i fully agree with all their views. Mostly i agree with majority of their views until i find that one thing i don't fully agree with.
I love reading lots of articles. i read almost anything that is new to me. This is because i never know when i will stumble on something that will increase my knowledge. This is why i love those books i am given by Jehovah witness. There is a lady near my campus that almost always never fails to give me those monthly books. At first i used to think they were books just about them. This is not the case however. These books contain material that has helped me immensely. I now enjoy reading them. This is because they help my understating of the bible and increase my knowledge. I however do not agree to some of their beliefs. Same for SDA. SDAs know their bible inside out. Their views on the bible are mostly spot on. But then again there are those values of theirs i don't agree with.
There are many others. I cant mention all of them. This is why you see all these new denominations spring up. None of them is wrong though. They all have the Christianity beliefs imbedded in them. They just happen to have small difference's on matters they deem important. All the denominations have a way of interpreting things to do with God and the bible. I am on a mission to read on all the denominations i can lay my hands on and hopefully i will find that which agrees with what i am ready to follow to the letter. I want total commitment and i cant get that without believing in every thing they do. I want to be able to defend a denomination fully.
If you feel the need to tell me more or if you feel you have a denomination you think i should check out then by all means feel free to share with me. At the moment my search continuous...
The wise words of today states...'Wisdom is supreme, therefore get wisdom, though it costs all you have, get understanding.'
Enjoy your day people.
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