do you think there are so many religions in this world because?

Question

we are a diverse community of people and one god or religion couldnt possible apply to all ,what africans consider to be god wont be the same as what arabs consider to be god or europeans. Therefore do you think when the creator of this universe made it he knew there would be many pathways to the same connection.? we all need a religion we can identify with culturally as well as spiritually. That why there are so many religions and gods in this world?

Answer 1

Baz, your explanation is well thought out, well put and I believe you are right. Would'nt this world be a wonderful place if we all respected each other. No one can stop me from dreaming can they Baz ?

Answer 2

Like everything esle religion is an out growth of what existed earlier through human developments and adaptations to its enviroments and societal needs. The earliest known religion may be considered to be Hinduism, then Buddhism. Taoism and Confusism is the early religions of the East, then later Buddhism set in. After all these, came Christianity and then Islam. Now there is a New Age developing. All later religions take and modify some moral ideas and spiritual understanding from the earlier religions to adapt to the changing political, cultural and societal needs. Christainity and Islam which existed a short 2000 years may well be a frabricated story filled with moral and spiritual aspects of centuries past.
Take care.

Answer 3

Please speak for yourself. We don't "all need a religion we can identify with culturally and spiritually". I feel no need at all of any religion and I know there are millions like me. I love nature and I think this is a beautiful world and I believe in doing good, but that does not mean I need some invented 'God' of any kind. Remember, before Christianity or Buddhism, people worshipped the sun, or the moon, or even mountains. Man seems to have a need to worship something, even if it is Elvis Presley or Marilyn Monroe. That is in the nature of man. But please don't state that everyone needs a religion. I don't, and I am very happy indeed without it.

Answer 4

Yes God will always be know by other means, but there is still only one, and religion is man made, done so to brainwash millions, and to con them out of their hard earned money. Just take a look around the world specially the USA and the God channel, do any of them look poor when there asking for your money, no, the Church is one of the richest organisations in the world, it's a shame that the money is not passed on to those who need it.
How it should be, and it does not matter what name you give God, is that you have faith in God, and not religion. man has written the pathways you talk of, by doing this it means more money.

Faith not religion,
Love & peace

Answer 5

If no religion is true but we have an urge to make up a religion for any reason it wouldn't be surprising if there were a lot of varieties. Only one religion can actually be true. If there is such a religion then either God cares what we believe or he doesn't. If the latter see the previous statement. If he does care then perhaps he mercifully hides the truth from us because if he didn't and we refused to accept the truth He might have to get seriously wrath with us.

Answer 6

In a word, no.
Many religions share the same ancient roots and the individuals who have inspired new religions were born into the earlier religion of their time. For example Jesus was a Jew, not a christian.
Some of the major religions have split into factions, sometimes due to differences in belief, but usually for reasons of political power.
Despite this shared heritage all the participants in the the ongoing conflicts in the world are usually defined by their religion, or which faction of a religion that they belong to.

Despite all this there is a religion which believes in the unity of all humanity, the Bahá’í Faith.

Quote: The essential message of Bahá’u’lláh is that of unity. He taught that there is only one God, that there is only one human race, and that all the world’s religions represent stages in the revelation of God’s will and purpose for humanity.

BTW BigBoy

Quote: "There is only one religion for all, ISLAM!"

Is that Sunni, Shi'a, Sufi or Wahhabi?

Answer 7

There is really only one God.
It is man that has created all the different religions to create for him a religion that he can accept.
Henry VIII, for example made himself head of the Church and thus was born the Church of England. This was because the Roman Catholic Pope would not grant him a divorce. A sect of Christianity.
Muslim - same God and same Old Testament Bible.
Jew - same God and same Old Testament Bible.
Zen - Historically, probably the same God and same Old Testament Bible.
Man does it for his own ends rather than accepting the boundaries.

Answer 8

G-d created the world to have Diversity.

G-d's Covenant with Abraham DOES NOT exclude the possibility of other peoples, cultures and faiths, for example Buddhism, finding their own relationship with G-d through the universal SHARED framework of the Covenant of Noah, and even Abraham and Moses.

In other words, there is more than one path to G-d and Enlightenment.

SHALOM PEACE

Learning without Thinking is Labour Lost;
Thinking without Learning is Perilous.
-- Kung Fu Tze (Confucius)

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. -- Dr Samuel Johnson

Integrity without Knowledge is Weak and Useless,
and Knowledge Without Integrity is Dangerous and Dreadful.
-- Dr Samuel Johnson, English author, poet, critic & lexicographer (1709-1784)

In order that all men may be taught to speak Truth,
it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
-- Dr Samuel Johnson

Answer 9

You seem to have answered your own question. Religions developed differently in different parts of the world because people have different needs - whereas in Africa people might pray for rain and crops, people in Northern Europe would need to pray for sun and fertility. Due to politics and immigration, different faiths have spread, but their cores seem to have sociological roots. Take Judaism - the laws about circumcism and eating Kosher food come from the religion having developed in a very hot climate where people needed to keep clean and eat safe food - pork and shellfish go off very quickly in hot weather, so they needed to be avoided in the days before refrigeration. In Christianity, different saints are more prevalent in some parts of the world than others, partly because a lot of them are adapted from the old gods of the indigenous religions, and partly because those saints are particularly relevant in that climate and society.

Answer 10

You got it, but most religions are similar in so many ways. I think of it like roads leading into a city, some religion out there (don't ask me which one, I'm still searching for it) has a direct path to the city, while others have bumps, detours, broken bridges, but eventually they all end up at the same point. I think they all stem from the same seed, and will eventually all end up at the same place.

Answer 11

Islam is practised in all parts of the world my dear.

'No other society has such a record of success in uniting in an equality of status, of opportunity and endeavour so many and so varied races o mankind. The great Muslim communities of Africa, India and Indonesia, perhaps also the small community in Japan, show that Islam has still the power to reconcile apparently irreconcilable elements Of race and tradition.'

(H.A.R. Gibb, Whither Islam, London, 193Z p. 379)

'The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue...'

(A.J. Toynbee, Civilisation on Trial, New York, p. 205)

,How, for instance can any other appeal stand against that of the Moslem who, in approaching the pagan, says to him, however obscure or degraded he may be "Embrace the faith, and you are at once equal and a brother." Islam knows no colour line.'

(S.S. Leeder, Veiled Mysteries of Egypt)

And among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the (wonderful) difference of your languages and colours. Verily, in that are indeed signs for people of sound knowledge. (Qur'an, 30:22)