If God created man (and woman) why isn't his religion found everywhere?

Question

Okay, let's look at this from a logical standpoint. I'm not here to bash any religion. God creates Adam and Eve, the first real humans. If so, then there was only one religion. As their decendants spread out across the world, they would have brought their belief with them as we do today. If that were the case, then there would only be one religion (of course, with differences like we have today).

Unfortunantly, we have shinto, hindu, etc. Multitudes of religions that the people have never heard of god, nor are there any artifacts left behind by the first to a continent that even hints that there's a tie to Adam and Eve's children.

Why is this?

Answer 1

first as humans started moving away from the holy land, they lost their touch with God.
and with Abraham ,God created a nation to himself so people outside the nationality would never have heard of His salvation. (even though the nations heard of His power of freeing them from Egypt. ) the Jewish faith does not have a great commission, were only welcome strangers living in land that wanted to follow.
second if you read the old testament you will find that the people of Israel kept on creating their own gods to worship. after which the real God would send prophets to tell people to worship the true God. when they did not listen God would punish them.so you would expect people of other countries to form their own gods. that is the reason God wanted other nations destroyed and forbid marrying outside of tribes. because He did not want other cultures effecting His chosen people.

Answer 2

Consider this: If there was no God, why would every culture on earth be trying to find and appease Him? There are no atheistic cultures, why is that?
Because as Adam and Eve's decendants (and later Noah's) spread across the earth, they carried with them the knowledge of God, and while some lost the truth, all of them knew He was, and searched for Him. There are only two religions in the world today: those looking for God, and those found by God.

Answer 3

Because the story of Adam and Eve is a myth, just as the Greek myth that humans were repopulated after the Great Flood by the surviving couple throwning stones which turned into men and women.
Also, don't forget that the god of Abraham isn't named "God", but "Yahweh", who was a minor war god at the time, and even THAT isn't a true spelling partly because they believe back then that they weren't not to truly write or speak his name.
Religion comes about as a way of explaining what humans cannot otherwise explain. Unfortunately, most religions want to limit us from using the brains given us by the creator. That's what I like about Unitarian Universalism -- it is a religion that is not afraid of scientific discovery, but actually sees it as a way to discover the mind of the creator spirit and celebrate the creation.

Answer 4

From my knowledge, I believe Adam and Eve to be just a story. After all, they had two boy children. Even if they had had girl children, there would be incest, and god says incest is bad.
I also believe that god gave his people free will (which is an obvious belief, but many don't agree with what follows that statement.) In doing so, he gave us the mind to think the way we want. We get to decide if Buddhism, atheism, Judaism, Hinduism, paganism, etc. is right for us.
Are different religions bad? If everyone believed the same thing, we'd all be boring conformists. How fun would that be?

Answer 5

Because, if you look at what Adam and Eve did, you would see that their sin was taking a gift that could only be given. Every human person falls in the same way... taking a gift that is meant to be received. When people take what can only be given, they make it their own. On a larger scale, people take God and make Him their own, giving Him (or her, or them, for that matter), qualities and attributes which they desire. The fact is that this makes God a subjective reality, whereas God is an objective reality. When subjectivity enters religion, the result is many religions. God gave us free will to choose any "reality" that suits our needs, so we just have to accept it and evangelize the Objective Truth to the best of our ability.

Answer 6

Your answer is in the question...

Try setting up a chain of fifteen-twenty people. Whisper something, a sentence or two, in the first person's ear and let that person relay that statement to the person next to him, and so on down the line. Now, ask the last person in line to repeat the statement and look at how different that statement comes out as opposed to the original way it was stated in the first person's ear.

Now take millions of people who are in line for the word of God and now you begin to realize who so many differences. Religion is not fact. Religion is faith. There is a world of difference.

Because of the way the world is set up with so many different needs and interests, the word of God often is utilized to satisfy those needs and interests.

It's a natural phenomenon called Catholicism, Protestant, Islam, etc....

The Bible, the Koran, etc., is not the final word, but a type of road map, that leads us to the Supreme Being, we all believe exists.

Answer 7

Talking about religion is a very broad topic. Simplifying it, religion means reaching out to God. Because of the fall of Man (Adam's disobedience) the relationship between God and man was broken and because of that man tried many ways to reach out to God. So comes the emergence of so many religion.

The people during that time tried to build one religion and built the tower of Babel but because they become so proud and the ruler wants to be worshiped instead, God distracted them by giving them different languages and so they were not able to communicate and understand each other. So now, people have so many languages and different religions.

Answer 8

This is a fantastic question.

The answer Christians have is something went wrong after God created Adam and eve. Sin happened which confused man (and woman), caused them to start doing "what's right in their own eyes" and caused them to desire to be like God.

One of the easiest ways to be like God is to say God doesn't exist or make up your own God then God can be you or whatever or whoever you want.

Notice in the Garden of Eden what the serpent said to eve.

"For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."


So even the first sin was motivated by the desire to be like God.

Answer 9

You are logically right and this is what islam says that all prophets were given nothing but islam - right through Adam to Muhammad (peace be upon them all) were muslims.
They have been trying to align people of their times towards the right path.
Quran says: Abraham (peace be upon him) was neither a christian nor a jew and not offcourse a blasphemer but he was a muslim.
The differences we observe in today's life are man-made only otherwise only one religion was given to human beings by Allah the Almighty that is islam.
In quran, Allah the Almighty says: religion in the eyes of Allah is the islam only and nothing will be accepted other than islam.
So I totally agree with you if we all try to dig out the history of our own religion, I am certainly sure that we will find islam in the roots.

Answer 10

People thought that they could improve on The True Religion of God, so they started their own religion. The true religion could be found scattered through all of the religions of the world, even satanism as truths to it. Or you could just go to the one true religion that worships the way Adam and Eve did, it is The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-Day Saints.

Answer 11

Because God didn't create man and woman. The story of Adam and Eve is a work of fiction. Blessed be.