How many people try to make religion conform to their own beliefs?

Good Entity: How many people try to make religion conform to their own beliefs?
Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

Aren’t you supposed to conform to the religions beliefs?

Are religions teachings just a suggestion?

Are people under the impression that they can just do what they want and not follow the rules?

The reason I ask is because I see too many people who have it set in stone that their religion is the right one. If you’re going to make such make an extreme effort to claim you believe in god, and your religion shouldn’t you at least follow it 100%?

Answers and Views:

Answer by LadyB
Most of them.

They become captives and propogandists for their religions.

Answer by howard
every religious person makes their religion confrom to their own beliefts

Answer by i am dog
everything is conformed to our beliefs, because it is because of our beliefs it exists.

Answer by BILL
Pretty many! And as far as the rest of the questions:

Yes, Yes, Yes and Yes!

Answer by iThink
Very good question. What you’re suggesting sounds like paganism.

Answer by Trash Cat is Not Amused
And how does that affect your daily life?Are others practices interfering with the progress of your beliefs?

Answer by Uncle
Some religious zealots have an excuse for that — they call it ‘grace’ . Saved by grace, which means they think they can violate their holy book prime directives (The Beatitudes of Jesus for example) and still be allowed to be forgiven and go to Heaven.

Answer by Ossie
I believe the answer some Christians would give you is that the Bible can be interpreted in so many different ways, that they can all make it up and go along with it, until they go to their hell, if it exists.

Answer by doc
People want to live like they want to live, but do not want to go to hell, so they justify how they believe; thinking it is rite. The king james bible teaches all of us that there is one Lord, one faith and one baptism.

Answer by jpaul
Almost everyone.
Very few people really care what the Bible really has to say about anything.
That is why there are so many different religions and denominations and variations thereof.

Everyone wants to do it his own way.

But to have true salvation and enter into God’s heaven, we must find God’s true commandments, and obey them completely, totally forsaking our personal wants, likes, dislikes and desires.

Religion will not save you, religion will take you to hell.
It takes obedience to the commandments of God, to be pleasing and acceptable to God.
And NO religions are obedient to the commandments of God.
They are all doing their own way.

There wiil be NO religionist in heaven; Only born again Christians will be there.

Answer by goshine2
The answer is most.
“The fate of our times is tragic. We need a religion, but nowhere do we find a God to fit it.”—Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet and philosopher

WHEN it comes to religious doctrines, many people feel that as long as one sincerely believes that ‘there’s Someone up there’ and loves his fellowman, it does not really matter what else one believes. Some may look at the conflicting notions that religious groups advocate regarding God, his purpose, and how to worship him and conclude that the differences are merely superficial, like different styles of clothing worn by the same man. They may even feel that those who make a big issue of such differences have entirely missed the spirit of true Christianity.

Yet in the Bible what God wants is very clear. In fact a person my think how they worship doesn’t matter, but the Bible says different. Jesus made this statement at Matthew 7:21-23
21 “Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will. 22 Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’ 23 And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew YOU! Get away from me, YOU workers of lawlessness.

Answer by Crazy Pirate’s Ghost
hey, we need another couple thousand denominations …. god is not the author of confusion, after all