Light and peace to you!
My name is Constantine.
Please, sorry my english.
I can not say that I am a very religious person. But I believe in God. For nothing can be without a beginning.
I have studied many religions for a long time. In the end, my path came to Christianity and Islam.
Here, I'm confused. I do not know beyond the right path. And I ask you to help, to direct. Please help, for the sake of our creator, the true God I ask!
The fact is that Christianity has something that is close to me, and Islam has something that is close to me.
Let's take everything in order.
Since my childhood I can not say that I strongly believed in God. The church for me somehow had some sacred feeling, but maybe it's psychology.
Since childhood, I have problems with vision. At age 6 almost completely lost sight. But I do not blame God for this, I'm grateful to him. Why? Because I believe that my blindness helped me to avoid many of my peers' actions. Smoking, alcohol, etc.
Despite the blindness, until 12-13 I did not think much about life. Then God sent me anguish and pain. And I'm grateful to him for that.
Then I began to study the currents of Christianity. There were those things that I liked in Orthodoxy, such as saints and some other things, but there were also those that attracted Catholicism, for example, not greeting divorces, the requirement for the conscious commission of the Anointing, etc.
Then I moved on to other religions. And most of all, except for Christianity, I'm attracted to Islam.
I'm confused, I do not know the true way for me, I'm afraid of making a mistake.
Now I will explain in what I am repelled by Christianity, what attracts Islam, and what attracts Christianity.
In Christianity, such things as confession, acceptance into Christianity, occur through priests. I do not understand this. How can God forgive us through an intermediary who can be much more sinful than us? I believe that there should not be any intermediaries in communicating with God.
In Christianity, it is believed that heaven is good in the soul. How nervous in Buddhism. But why is peace of mind? For example, I'm interested in the physical. I want to feel, hear, see.
I don't understand the trinity. How can God be divided into three? Father, son, holy spirit, is not God 1?
I don't understand the bible. "God said," Let there be light, and there was light. " How so? Not from where? The stars - not the cosmos, heavenly holy? From this we presume that God himself created the inability of the world. But why?
The essence of people's lives. Mental suffering. The essence is to suffer. How so at all? What did Jesus redeem with his victim?
Reincarnation. Islam completely denies it. In Islam, we can say that parallel worlds, reincarnation, all the cunning and deceit of Shantai. In Christianity there is no transmigration of souls, but there is that when God himself brings us back to earth for a definite purpose.
In Christianity, God is like a father to us, because in fact he is a father, but in Islam, God is our master, we are his slaves. The statement about the God-father is closer to me.
In Islam, people are really kind. For every brother and sister. They do observe zakat, and often sacrifice very much. In Christianity, religion often outshines everything else, and there are really few religious ones. Muslims are mostly religious. Will you say about the Islamic state? I will answer. In the IS there are about 8 million Muslims. And there are about 1 billion of them in the world.
In Islam, God is truly one. No trinity.
In Christianity there is a blessed fire. Zoostation. These are the facts that confuse me in the choice of Islam.
And finally. I have an inexplicable sense of craving for Islam. When I read a book where the hero is a Muslim, and he turns to Allah with gratitude, I want to do the same. I want to pray with him. I do not know where this feeling comes from.
I am sincerely confused. I ask you to help me. Tell me the path.
Thank you in advance.
Glory to the true God!