Humanity searching for meaning and purpose Our sorting it out is not always reliable. We are easily deceived if we do not take responsibility to know why we are believing something. One or two of these are usually predominate in making our beliefs. People tend to accept religious beliefs as a cover to personal involvment in experiencing and responding to God. Here are some examples of how this works in individuals.
Evangelistic revivals emphasize emotional religious experience.
Roman Catholics emphasize tradition, church authority, doctrinal control. Mormans emphasize church authority and tradition. Many sects and cults emphasize control by emotional experience. God emphasizes spiritual truths which change us and set us free. The earliest New Testament church emphasized Holy Spirit experience and testimony concerning Christ.