An interesting article about belief

Well this would explain a lot. A new article in New Scientist states that some of the beliefs we may attribute to God may be our own:

God may have created man in his image, but it seems we return the favour. Believers subconsciously endow God with their own beliefs on controversial issues.

"Intuiting God's beliefs on important issues may not produce an independent guide, but may instead serve as an echo chamber to validate and justify one's own beliefs," writes a team led by Nicholas Epley of the University of Chicago in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers started by asking volunteers who said they believe in God to give their own views on controversial topics, such as abortion and the death penalty. They also asked what the volunteers thought were the views of God, average Americans and public figures such as Bill Gates. Volunteers' own beliefs corresponded most strongly with those they attributed to God.

I can see some truth in this; there are hundreds if not thousands of denominations out there (Wikipedia puts the number of Protestant denominations at 38,000). This is why it's important not to believe what your church believes, or your pastor believes blindly. Vet this information. Read your Bible. Think.

Let your beliefs follow God, not the other way around.