How you can tell if you have the true religion?

Question

Here are some scriptures to know if you have the true religion:
Matthew 7:17" Likewise every good tree produces fine fruit, but every rotten tree produces worthless fruit".
John 13:35"By this all will know that you are my disciples, if youhave love among yourselves.”
Matthew 24:14"And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come"
Romans 10:13,14" For “everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.” 14 However, how will they call on him in whom they have not put faith? How, in turn, will they put faith in him of whom they have not heard? How, in turn, will they hear without someone to preach?"

Answer 1

If your religion is based on love for ALL regardless of their denomination. If you are intolerate, believe in a version of the Bible that has been altered, and have a history of false prophecies then it is clear you are not in a true religion.

Answer 2

I would be willing to say that if you claim to have the true religion, then you don't.

There are too many religions claiming to be true. If they were true, then everyone would know that fact.

And that's obviously not true, as not everyone follows the same religion. In fact, no even the majority of the population follows the same religion.

I'm not sure why those scriptures mean anything. They were written by some superstitious guys. They were pretty good about the whole good tree/rotten tree quote. And Matthew is right: All those religions do produce some worthwhile fruit.

Answer 3

Not just that alone, the Bible is bigger and has more teachings than that. You can follow all those but you might believe tha when you die you go straight to hell or heaven but Jesus says that when you die you go to the grave until the second coming and the dead in Christ are risen first, if they are already in heaven why you need the resurrection? You might also believe that praying to Mary will forgive sins when it says that only Jesus and his blood can remit sins. You might not believe in Christ second coming when it is clear in 1 Thes, Revelation, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, etc. that he will come again and destroy the earth and make it anew. You might believe that Sabbath is not important but it is clear in scripture which day is to worship God, He is Lord of the Sabbath and Isaiah also says that we will keep it heaven when we get there. So isolating some scriptures to found a religion on is too general, the whole Bible and nothing less should be the foundation of a true religion. The way you know is to test every teaching according to what the Bible says and see if they matchup - search for yourself and not some pastor or priest told you so.

Answer 4

Wow it seems to me that everyone has an agenda to justify their beliefs by putting others beliefs down. Who decides what truth is and is truth one great truth that everyone will have to ascribe to.
I will promise you that your bible comes up short when it come to the absolute truth. How could there be a book that is missing nearly 1/3 of its content that people claim to obtain the fullness of God's truth? If you have read the bible you would know that there are many books missing from the Bible. In addition to that you have an issue where a man in the mid 1800's changed the Bible to fit his own view points. IE the new world edition or whatever it is called.

Answer 5

It's amazing how the Jehovah witnesses bible is different than any other KJV. Jehovah-God will not pick what group of religions to go to Heaven. He will pick those who are true servants that worship him in spirit and truth. Your religion says 144,000 will only get to heaven but there are over that. Explain that, please? You better hope you are in the Book of Life for a believer of God and not your doctrine and religion!

Answer 6

There is a prophesy repeated and repeated and repeated throughout history of a person who will come w/ the final religion w/ a book that never changes, and when that individual comes w/ that book and w/ proof over 1400 years it hasn't changed...then it kind of removes all doubt and becomes obvious.

Answer 7

So.... the big question... what do all these verses mean?

What specifically would they mean to someone, if you had to describe to them how they were relevant to their own lives?

[For example, what does it mean to "call on Jehovah?" Are you yelling names in the sky? Do you just beg once for forgiveness, then carry on with life as normal, happy that you have performed the magic ritual? How do you live your life? Who is Jehovah anyway?]

More importantly, what do these verses mean to YOU, and how do they affect your life in specific ways?

Answer 8

Well if that isn't the most loaded question of all time.

How do you know if you have the right religion? Here are some bible quotes to prove that it's christianity. That's interesting logic you are using.

Answer 9

how do you know that what you have quoted are true words of god?.

a true religion depends on definitive knowledge. take for example Quran which challanges the entire universe to write a single sentence that can be similar to Quran. so far human cannot bring one sentece that can be similar to a sentence that can be similar to the quran. it stands a divine book

Answer 10

There is no such thing as a false god or a false religion unless you are willing to call a child a false man.--Max Müller.