Coming back from an African background I have seen, experienced and studied a big selection of non secular beliefs. I will begin with my tribe which is the Krios of Sierra Leone. We are descendants of freed slaves that were emancipated in the eighteenth century and resettled during a city created specifically for freed slaves called Freetown. Since Sierra Leone was colonised by the British we adopted their ways of life, religion, culture and also names. Thus we have a tendency to adopted Christianity of that I am of the Anglican denomination.
On the opposite hand Sierra Leone conjointly has a minimum of 13 alternative tribes and they have different beliefs starting from Islam to traditional indigenous beliefs such as praying to things, idols and components of the sea, air and land. In fact Sierra Leone is nearly sixty% Muslim . This has led me to research faith from different angles and whereas I feel in my faith of Christianity I also respect other people's beliefs as a result of it is what or whom you understand as the creator and protector of yourself and that defines your mysticism.
I believe that faith is outlined by ones experiences and ones upbringing particularly tradition, in other words if your oldsters, grandparents and great grand oldsters were Muslim s there is a terribly high share that you'll become Muslim also except if there's a dramatic life altering expertise that you will modification religions.
I feel that humans conjointly tend to seem for comfort and steerage from an entity not of the physical world however one that we believe and hope exists in another dimension that we cannot see. Humans also tend to use an object such as an idol or stone or carving as a method of communicating that what we tend to understand as our "God" or creator. I see similarities in Christianity in the alter, in Muslim s in praying facing the east, in Budism in praying to the Budha and Hindi in praying to the cow.
I Sierra Leone animism and ancestor worship is additionally common, some people follow dual religions for examples a lot of Muslim s would still observe ancient ancient African religions like Juju, Bondo for ladies and Poro for men. They believe that a soul or spirit lives in numerous objects that they'd use to wish and meditate on. I personally don't believe in such practices as a result of I'm christian however these are very robust believes in Africa and I also believe in Haiti.
In religions in Asia and also some in Africa folks believe in reincarnation that means that that we have a tendency to don't actually die, we come back to life and exist in some other kind and that offers us a probability to higher ourselves and correct our mistakes of a previous life. I personally find that onerous to believe however individuals
have talked regarding having deja vous or rather experiencing events from once more exactly as it happened. This Belief of course contradicts with my Christian beliefs because Christians believe that there's a judgement day where each singe person can be judged per how they lived their lives and based mostly on their documentation would either go to heaven or hell.
I think that at one purpose in history Islam and Christianity was one religion. They split into 2 religions with the coming of Christ and also the prophet Mohammed. There are multiple similarities within the bible and within the koran that are referenced by monks and Imans continuously, they forever reference events from the old testament in both religions that are precisely the same. Additionally the actual fact that both religions find Jerusalem in Israel to be a sacred city is not a coincidence.
One constant you will notice in each religion on earth is prayer, prayer I think may be a outlook, it's a manner to talk and communicate to our creator or conduit to our creator. It is based mostly on religion, if we tend to believe that our creator will hear us then we have a tendency to use prayer to speak with him/her or it. This is often how we tend to as humans build a relationship with our "God" and communicate with the non secular realm. Prayer allows our "God" to be our purpose of reference within the midst of all the confusions of our daily lives and therefore prayer acts as a comforter and eraser of problems.
Personally I think in a creator that is God almighty and I additionally believe that Jesus Christ (his son) exists and came to earth to forgive our sins. I also set up on teaching my offspring my spiritual beliefs as they were taught to me as a child. On the opposite hand if my youngsters decide to settle on another religious belief I can not stop them and I would support them in their decision.
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