Is it more likely that God sent messangers to every country to teach people in different ways or are other?

Question

Or are other religions lies? To me the modern Christian\Catholic claim to be the only one true religion doesnt make sense..So the question really is.. What is more likely.. Did God send messangers to teach people in different ways how to get back home or are other religions lies and nonsense if they arent Christian. Also does one have to be a member of a Christian Church to believe in Jesus if the Kingdom of Heaven is Within FOR ALL<<< PEOPLE to access?

Answer 1

The Baha'i Faith actually teaches something very much along those lines. It advocates that God has sent numerous messengers to different parts of the world to proclaim the One Religion of God, having a faith-system appropriate to the time and place. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, and perhaps countless others are parts of this One Religion of God. You can check them out at http://www.bahai.org/

Answer 2

through history the Christian church has experienced many schisms, one of the more famous is the reformation, but this still continues today. In most cases the schismatics simply believe that they know a better way to worship their God.

God did send messengers, originally through the disciples. They were instructed to go out into the world and spread the Word. This is now a role that Christians today adopt as they also outreach and try to explain God's love. Unfortunately, like the game Chinese Whispers, it can get confused- leading to schisms within the church.

No you do not need to belong to a church to love God. I've been a Christian for 9 years, and for 6 of them my parents wouldn't let me go to church or even have a Bible. Pray to maintain the relationship with God and discipline yourself to learn to obey Him. It helps to belong to a church so that you can have fellowship with other Christians, but it isn't a requirement. Just love God and follow Him.

Answer 3

You ask -- "Is it more likely that God. . ."

On what basis do you argue that GOD is "more likely" to have done things this way of that?

To do this you must begin with some evidence (or an assumption) about what God is like. But where did you get that from?

It sounds like your assumption is that since YOU would do such-and-such if YOU were God, this is how you would operate. But what makes you think that God is likely to do something that way you or I would choose to do it? You see, you're beginning with a theology-- "God is like this"-- without showing where you gain this knowledge of revelation of God's nature.

Another significant point here -- you mention "modern" Christianity as making this exclusive truth claim. This is historically incorrect. In fact, while there are "modern Christians" who suggest that God has revealed himself in other religions or even that there are "other ways to God", Christianity has through the ages held that Jesus of Nazareth was and is "God the Son" and is the only way to God.

You may not agree with this view. Fine. But it IS what historic Christianity has believed. And the very core of the Christian message (of human rebellion and God's sending his Son to die & rise again to restore people to relationship with him) falls apart if God has revealed "many equal ways" to reach him. The death of his Son was not really necessary in that case.

As for "needing to be a member of a Church" -- that's a more complicated question. But the idea of Christian salvation is NOT that God came simply to enlighten a lot of individuals, but to completely restore them. That doesn't just mean restoring them as individuals, but restoring their relationships, not only with him but with each other. In other words, Jesus comes to call not just individuals but a PEOPLE for God. That's what "the church" is. (The New Testament has a lot of images of this -- a Bride, flock, vineyeard, temple, city, etc.) So to seek God 'personally' without also seeking to be joined together with his PEOPLE does not make much sense.

Answer 4

I think God sent the same message to everyone - locked up in our genes and in our brains. The notion that there is something there beyond what we can sense and comprehend, and a purpose for our lives. After all, being the Author of our brains She can put anything there She wants, right?

Then I think man invented religions to express that feeling. Different periods, cultures and expressions created different religions. Even looking at how a single religion is practiced throughout the world you see huge differences from the same "messenger". Religion is really a cultural expression as much as anything else, but I think the nugget of truth behind it is in us all - even the atheists among us who place their faith, and find their purpose, in science.

And to me, this doesn't make a single religion any less holy.

Xan Shui,
Philosophic Philanthropist, Honest Man

Answer 5

Nah. There is no god.

Whenever someone says, "(whoever) is omnipotent", they are just lying to themselves.

Let's think it this way. In order to control, restrict and stop its own people from doing what the leader / tribe think is wrong or bad, they created some supernatural beings (what we now call as "God") to impose their thinking onto the normal people.

Then the large amount of obedient, naive, normal people then inherit all these thinking from their leader and become it's followers. Then we have a new religion.

Answer 6

I agree with your hypothesis. It's a puzzle we are meant to solve, but in order to do so, we must open our minds...then we will see that we are all saying the same thing, just in a different way. to achieve enlightenment and the approval of God, you must be willing to accept that there are things we must have faith in -- foremost being that worshipping God is always good, regardless of his name.
My dad was a wonderful father. I knew him only as my daddy. My mother knew him as a friend, partner and lover. My grandmother knew him as her baby boy. His friends knew him as a buddy. His employees knew him as a badass. When we all met at his funeral, there was a congruence of all these people into one man. We all cried. We all missed him. We all wondered what the world would be like without him. We all knew him, but we all knew a "different" man. That doesn't make any of us wrong, or any facet of his life a "lie". We came together to learn even more about the complete him. That's the human challenge to get closer to God.

Answer 7

Not only did God send messengers to other hemispheres, but He, Jesus Christ, visited them. John 3:16 doesn't say, "For God so loved Jerusalem . . ." He had the entire world as His objective to receive the gospel.

If you read the Book of Mormon you will see that this is true, that Jesus Christ followed through with His biblical statement of, "Other sheep have I not of this fold."

Answer 8

all that the different religions have in common(the more spiritual stuff) is what god sent messengers to teach. this is sometimes referred to as the perinial religion.
man, over the course of history, has by outward appearance, managed to change all that, but the perinial truths are still the same.

Answer 9

nah..ppl doesnt hav to be a christian to believe jesus.even if u're a non-christian u can still beleve in jesus n its gd tat u do beleive in jesus...God didnt say anything to us..those r more likely to be nonsense....

Answer 10

Call a scientolgy center...
they will love to hear from you. try thinking alone--Matt