Why do christians and islamists question the work of god and want to impose their belief on others? Why would god create other cultures without imparting them the knowledge to work according to his plan? There is reason to everything god does or is their not? Why seek converts and incite religious hatred?
2006-06-27 16:39:08 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think I love you. This is so my own feeling. Everything works to his plan, so all are part of it. No one religion is the true one that negates all others who also love god to the nether regions. It also is true that one does not to have love god in the same way to be under god's protection.
2006-06-27 16:55:27 · answer #1 · answered by Bethany L 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He must have created other religions and cultures?
** Starting the ball rolling is more of what God did - He created Adam and Eve and we had our first religion (or two?). What happened after that was mostly of man's choosing.
Why do [people] want to impose thier belief on others?
** They think they are right and most religions encourage - even demand - that they tell others.
Why create cultures without sharing the knowledge of His plan?
** He does share His plan. The Bible says that nature itself reveals enough about His plan to satisfy any spiritural need.
There is a reason to everything God does, right?
** There is.
Why seek converts and incite religious hatred?
** For example, the Bible instructs Christians to go out and be a witness (tell others). That is why the try and in turn make some people pretty mad in the process. To complicate this, the Bible says you should be happy if you are persecuted for My sake. Oh great, tell them to irritate people because it is considered a reward! Well, maybe that doesn't happen all the time with all the people, but it does answer your question.
2006-06-27 23:47:41 · answer #2 · answered by dm_dragons 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in religion, which is why i believe I can objectively answer your question. I do believe in God, just not religion. I think God is an entity...an entity of creation. God created the earth and its resources, God also created man, I use "man" to summarize all of humanity. God does not control our thoughts and emotions. We were created to be free spirits, to think for ourselves and evolve on our own. People who feel they have to push their religion on others do so because they believe so strongly that their religion and beliefs are absolute and true and everyone else is wrong. God did not create culture...we did. God created the world and the organisms that inhabit it. We created religion and culture. As far as religious hatred goes, when people from one religion hear that people from another religion have beliefs that contradict the first religion, people start getting upset. All of this is just my opinion...take it or leave it.
2006-06-28 00:04:24 · answer #3 · answered by The Big Stu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There has always been knowledge of God, though many chose to follow their own ways. God himself led the israelites, and they turned away and made a golden calf to worship. Throughout history other cultures have known i.e. American Indians Great White Father, and the Chinese. Would you agree the American Indians were isolated, and if so, where did they get Great White Father? And the Muslims also claim Abraham as their father, who was told Gods' name, yet they call God by another. Only the jews were given the oracles of God, and through them comes mans' salvation through His Son. All others have gone their own way. We lucky few have been grafted into the family, and are told to share the gift of the knowledge of life.
2006-06-27 23:52:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God ceased from his creative work on day 6. While He oversees what goes on in his creation, He doesn't take away our free will. As a Christian, I don't seek to impose "my" beliefs on other people. I just tell them what God has said in the Bible. It doesn't matter a whole lot what I personally believe because I'm just a fallible human being like everyone else on this planet. But if I tell someone what God has said then it's true regardless of my imperfections.
2006-06-27 23:46:42 · answer #5 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The abilitiy of human beings to produce rich and diverse cultures is an innate component of the experience of being human, which according to God is "good."
God is infinite and incapable of being concieved of within the limits of human understanding. The multiplicity of cultures offer distinctive ways of capturing different aspects of God.
So, while each culture has a distinct viewpoint of God, it has at the same time a blindspot and cannot see what the others see, and thus arguments and hostilities develop.
Our task is to overcome animosity and to work for peace among cultures. To do this, though, we have to be willing to be respectul and listen to each other, not forcing anyone to adopt a different view or change religion, only to listen and try to understand, to live and let live.
2006-06-27 23:57:28 · answer #6 · answered by Ponderingwisdom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only a fool question the work of God-man work according to his own plan-not Gods plan-God does not incite religious hatred- man do those thing on his own-but it is a good way of not taking responsibility for your own actions,so why not blame God,that is the easy way out
2006-06-27 23:49:47 · answer #7 · answered by brown sugar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We do not incite religious hatred, not those who truly follow Jesus. And yes, God did create other religions and cultures. If you've talked to a mature Christian, you will have seen that they are not trying to convert you to their way, they are trying to give you some good news if you are lost.
Jesus respected all religions, this was obvious from His teachings, and would be sorely vexed to see members of His flock not following those same policies. Jesus told the Jews in John 10 "But you believe not, because you are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish..." See? Jesus understood completely that not all would follow His way.
2006-06-27 23:48:29 · answer #8 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, based on my beliefs, God created other cultures and religions. He created diversity of religions and of peoples to test their belief in Him - in God. There is only One God, but He has sent a succession of Messengers or Manifestations of God to provide Divine Guidance to mankind according to the needs of the time and place.
God has imparted the knowledge for all people, whether they are Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims or others, to work together. However, in order to accomplish this, we must remember God first, and that His essential spiritual teachings are all the same.
"The purpose of the one true God in manifesting Himself is to summon all mankind to truthfulness and sincerity, to piety and trustworthiness, to resignation and submissiveness to the Will of God, to forbearance and kindliness, to uprightness and wisdom. His object is to array every man with the mantle of a saintly character, and to adorn him with the ornament of holy and goodly deeds."
2006-06-27 23:48:53 · answer #9 · answered by Bahia9 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would seem that in every part of the world, in every culture, country, and group, there is always someone to belittle to make oneself feel better as more "right". They have nothing to do with what religion is right, but simply evident of human finding a Darwinin "survival of the fittest" in who is more right, in a bunch of subjective, relative, unknowable making sense of the world.
In other words, religious elitism does nothing except make people feel better by putting someone else down.
2006-06-28 00:07:01 · answer #10 · answered by rt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋