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This is a discussion on ENFPs and Religion within the ENFP Forum - The Inspirers forums, part of the NF's Temperament Forum- The Dreamers category; I was raised Christian, but I don't believe in the stories of the Bible...like Noah and the ark, Adam and ...

  1. #31
    ENFP - The Inspirers

    I was raised Christian, but I don't believe in the stories of the Bible...like Noah and the ark, Adam and Eve, etc. I do believe in a higher being though. We all run out of fact based knowledge at some point, and that requires us to take a leap of faith. My leap of faith is a combination of science (I believe in evolution for example) and a higher being. I do not strongly believe there is someone out there who hears my prayers, but I have had so many of them answered, and so many things fall into place in unbelievable ways, that I can't help but believe there has to be something.

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  2. #32
    ENFP - The Inspirers

    Not really like religion but im spiritual for sure. Rather not follow the old way and find my own way. Which is weird because my grandpa was a paster of a Lutheran church. I do respect the teachings of jesus and buddha. Even if you dont believe there teachings should be followed. :) I respect every religion maybe not scientology freaks lol
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  3. #33
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    Quote Originally Posted by Enfpleasantly View Post
    I was raised Christian, but I don't believe in the stories of the Bible...like Noah and the ark, Adam and Eve, etc. I do believe in a higher being though. We all run out of fact based knowledge at some point, and that requires us to take a leap of faith. My leap of faith is a combination of science (I believe in evolution for example) and a higher being. I do not strongly believe there is someone out there who hears my prayers, but I have had so many of them answered, and so many things fall into place in unbelievable ways, that I can't help but believe there has to be something.
    Over 800 flood stories not including biblical context extending over various culturess dating back to 4k years, which is more or less the time it would have taken place according to the bible. Plus there's a boat shaped structure fitting the biblical scale near mt Ararat in Turkey where the ark was supposed to have landed also according to the bible. Towns near the locations have names that translate into phrases such as "place of eight", there were 8 people on the ark. The bible is simply a biased historical account. There is proof for every major event documented in the bible. Gotta know your facts before you make up your mind.

    I challenge you to challenge evolution until you know for a fact that there is no way that it could possibly be a fictious theorum. You owe it to yourself as an independant individual. Because as far as I can see Darwin observed a process known as micro-evolution two hundred or so years ago on the Galapagos & started a theory with which others ran as it supports every ascpect of selfish carnal nature & humans as carnal egotists will gladly accpet anything that allows one to do as one pleases. It was then romanticzed & passed as fact by accumelating potential scientific proofs that supported it & discarded the rest. It's pretty messy if you dig deep into the depths into the illusion that is evolution. I'm surprised it has been passed as fact for so long, when it is laced with flaws.
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  4. #34
    ENFP - The Inspirers

    Quote Originally Posted by Gypsy View Post
    Over 800 flood stories not including biblical context extending over various culturess dating back to 4k years, which is more or less the time it would have taken place according to the bible. Plus there's a boat shaped structure fitting the biblical scale near mt Ararat in Turkey where the ark was supposed to have landed also according to the bible. Towns near the locations have names that translate into phrases such as "place of eight", there were 8 people on the ark. The bible is simply a biased historical account. There is proof for every major event documented in the bible. Gotta know your facts before you make up your mind.

    I challenge you to challenge evolution until you know for a fact that there is no way that it could possibly be a fictious theorum. You owe it to yourself as an independant individual. Because as far as I can see Darwin observed a process known as micro-evolution two hundred or so years ago on the Galapagos & started a theory with which others ran as it supports every ascpect of selfish carnal nature & humans as carnal egotists will gladly accpet anything that allows one to do as one pleases. It was then romanticzed & passed as fact by accumelating potential scientific proofs that supported it & discarded the rest. It's pretty messy if you dig deep into the depths into the illusion that is evolution. I'm surprised it has been passed as fact for so long, when it is laced with flaws.
    Well like I said, at some point our knowledge runs out and we all have to take a leap of faith in some way, even after as much research as we want to do. Some believe in science, some in a God, some in a combination of the two...the ability to prove any further in either direction always runs out in the end, and we have to have faith (blindly believing in something). I've heard these things you mentioned, like the ark in Turkey. I can either choose to believe it belonged to Noah as written in the Bible, or I can believe it is just a big old boat. Just like I can choose to believe the skeletons of old humans are our ancestors, or they are just a different, unrelated species.

  5. #35
    ENFP - The Inspirers

    i am a pretty definite ENFP in most respects.

    G-d is my LIFE, my breath, my Love. i have always been firmly religious, and grew with it when i recognized that for real, it permeated every detail of my life.
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  6. #36
    ENFP - The Inspirers

    I'm not spiritual and I don't believe in any form of God. When I was a kid, I loosely thought of myself as some form of christian, but during my early teens I did some serious re-evaluating and by about 15 I was confident in my beliefs.

    I consider myself an existential nihilist. I also consider myself a definite ENFP.
    I don't have anything against religious people though, in fact basically all of my friends are either Christian or Catholic.

  7. #37
    ENFP - The Inspirers

    I'm low Protestant. My religion isn't just my faith but also very much my cultural heritage and a link to my ancestors.

  8. #38
    ENFP - The Inspirers


    I'm anti dogma of any sort. I'm also very personally spiritual.

  9. #39
    ENFP - The Inspirers

    I wasn't raised nor taught any formal method of religion during my childhood and teens. Even as a kid though, I was skeptical regarding the idea of God, heaven, and Christianity; both in means of logical sense (how can God exist? why? what/where is heaven? why do people cry at funerals if their loved ones will be seen again eventually? etc.) and the empirical sense (what prove is there to actually believe that any of this religious stuff is true concerning reality?). Respectively, I have been an atheist all my life, safe for the occasions where I considered myself to be agnostic or (briefly) pantheist.

  10. #40
    ENFP - The Inspirers

    Grew up Christian, so I am still Christian. I don't think if I grew up Muslim I would have become Christian, because I really find religion to be hugely unimportant in terms of faith. If you are faithful to God, it doesn't matter what religion, if any, you follow. I think I follow Buddha just as much as I follow Jesus—to follow someone to me means to live their way. It doesn't have to mean you scream out their name during sex, it means living like them, even if you don't necessarily know them. I think religion can be as sinful as alcohol or drugs when people begin to worship it rather than the God they profess to believe in.

    Also, I'm an agnostic in terms of the afterlife. I don't know if anything happens but what matters is bringing Heaven to Earth, not vice-versa.

    Hope this helps :)


 
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