Why Believe Anything?

What are the reasons you believe anything you think you know is true now? Illusions, delusions, false conclusions, and false perceptions are all around us, every moment of our lives. What is true? How do you know? Can you admit it and change when you are wrong? When you are a child you begin by believing nearly everything you are told to believe. When you go to school or are exposed to other people and groups, you may begin to believe them over your parents. Most people find groups, someone they admire, or just someone nearby at the moment to blindly follow and implant random beliefs into them. The desperate hunger for imaginary acceptance of these people and groups creates delusions of "belonging." Your identity: "who I am" is defined by those beliefs you have chosen to accept. Many of your beliefs, true and false, were told to you. They are implanted thoughts without logic, experience, or evidence of truth. Yet, people get hurt, angry and even violent when beliefs controlling their identity are questioned, as though they themselves are being threatened and attacked.

In time, you discover that not everything you are told is true, unless you are stuck in the naive child like cycle of ignorance. When you develop as an individual, you start adding some of your own conclusions and beliefs based on your perception of your experiences. It is not about what really happened that programs you; it is your perception, feelings, and limited understanding of what happened that has power over you. You create your future reactions, beliefs, and behaviors when similar events make these feelings and conclusions come back to the surface. You are responsible for your reactions because of your free will to choose. A bad thing happens to one person who uses it to fuel motivation for changing themselves and the world around them. The same thing happens to another person who chooses to use it to hurt themselves and those around them; as an excuse live a life of destruction and failure. One's chosen view of their life events and experiences causes them to choose and set powerful behavior controlling actions and reactions.

Within these experiential beliefs and behaviors lives the influence of learning from imaginary stories or experiences of other people, places, and times. The true and false faces of the imaginary and real characters one looks up to or of someone who one chooses to admire can implant beliefs. Often one learns over time people one follows or admires are often behind a false masks. The real person is often very different than the false image one sees.

Once you wake up and understand that God gave you the power to accept, and create your belief system; you can know how to change it and get closer to truth. Don't cheat yourself by thinking you already know what is totally true. If you can't test and challenge truth; you may never find it. One has a tendency to filter, ignore, and distort, all incoming information that threatens one's existing thoughts and beliefs. This stops one from getting closer to real truth as one only looks for reinforcement of what one already believes. This is not a truth seeker; it is a self-deceiver choosing to live in a delusional imaginary world. To know if what you believe is true, look at results. Look at your life; is your way working? Is your life full of happiness, peace, success, healthy real love, and all you feel your life should be? To find real truth; one must be open to challenging every belief within them and willing to replace it with a greater more accurate truth. Be open to admit you are wrong; this is the power of repentance and regret that releases the power of change and salvation. Real truth's and beliefs can withstand testing. One "danger" sign of false, man-made religions is the rule many have about not questioning their teachings, groups, or leaders. They want to stop you from thinking for yourself. Real truth doesn't fear fire. Just as refining impure gold in the fire will purify it; purify your truths by challenging them. Let the impurities burn away.

In summary, all your behaviors and beliefs are the result of those you chose to accept into you. You are not helpless to react without control. To think you are helpless is just another way of escaping your responsibility to change you and your life, or because you just don't know how. Your free will can be retrained to use it's power to reprogram your reactions and your future. God loves you so much He even gave you the power of free will to believe in Him or not; to have power over your life or be helpless. Your belief system makes you who you are; made the life you live in now; and creates your future life. Sometimes you may need God's help, more of His words and thoughts in you, guidance, and real love to change the world you live in. These are the most important reasons you are here: you were born into this world to find the real God; freely choose to bond with Him; allowing His love to guide you; to re-program your mind with beliefs and faith that change you and life around you. You chose to accept or reject everything other people taught you. You chose to define these words and events; you attached feelings and meaning to every event, real or imagined, that you experienced. Now understand:

You are the author of your book on the life you lived
and now on the life you will live.
Begin to rewrite it.