Is God some sort of masocist?
2006-08-29 10:46:18 · 31 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No religion is the correct one, and all religions have got it wrong.
There are many major religions in the world, such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, and so on. Within each major religion there can also be many minor religions. For example, within Christianity there is Catholic, Protestant, Anglican and so on. Within Islam there is Shiite, Sunni etc.
In summary there are many hundreds of different religions in the world all with their devoted believers and followers. Talk to any devout religious person and they will almost emphatically insist that their religion is the right one, it’s fact, and any non-believer is doomed.
Commonsense and logic would suggest that if there was any truthful or factual basis to religion, then only one of these religions could be correct, not all of them. However, in my view, it’s highly unlikely that any of these man-made religions bear any resemblance to fact or the truth, and are more likely to be the result of simplistic human intelligence looking for an escape from reality.
2006-08-29 10:48:38 · answer #1 · answered by Brenda's World 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is NO religion that is completley correct. Its not a matter of religion or what rituals you practice. Its what you believe about God and the Bible. God is NOT a masocist.
2006-08-29 10:55:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-23 13:23:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many are called, few are chosen.
Everyones invited to come be with the Lord. Some tend to choose otherwise by the way they live their life. A lot more people are going to hell than they think. Which is WHY Christians are so concerned (at least they should be). It's a common practice to pray for the poor sinners who have nobody to pray for them.
God's law is written on the heart of (wo)men. It is possible to come to know and love God. Even if you don't know him as Jesus Christ. Yet, most people have heard of Jesus Christ, and many reject him. For someone who's never heard of him, they can be saved. Yet it would still be through Christ.
2006-08-29 10:55:48 · answer #4 · answered by nathancarson23 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah thats why its not ture. Also the chances of people changing religion is not very high, so people just stay with the religion they are born to. So if you belong to the wrong religion your out of luck. But thats all a bunch of lies. Seriously I think that if there is a God, he will accept all good poeple of the Earth into his kindom, not the bad ones. And I doubt hell is a place where you burn forever, I think old people made that up to scare logical people into submission.
2006-08-29 10:50:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So um let me get this straight, You refuse to research or believe, or to try to find the truth? Then you don't even take the time to read the Bible or to listen with your heart? But it is God that sends you to hell? Sounds to me like that is what you chose no that you were the victim you made your choice. Of course if you think the way that our society seems to think, then everything is someone Else's fault and you are a perpetual victim... good luck with that way of thinkin' patsy...
2006-08-29 10:54:58 · answer #6 · answered by 57chevy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Either God is fair or he isn't. If there's no God, that's the same as unfair. If God is fair, good people go to heaven and bad to hell. If God is unfair you get to heaven by getting one right answer on a 100-question test regardless of your other answers. I believe God is unfair in my favor. Just in case, I try to be good, giving me a two-thirds chance. If God is unfair in someone else's favor, I lose but at least I was right God is unfair.
2006-08-29 10:54:13 · answer #7 · answered by Sharon C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not about being "good".
Or comparing "good" and "bad". That's society not religion.
It's about being "best". Which, as any christian knows, is being born again of the Holy Spirit. Now, if I got some spirit in me then I can claim to be "best" because God is spirit!
The lesson learned, my children, is that the Devil doesn't offer you bad choices, just good choices that take you away from the best choices.
Keep the faith!
2006-08-29 10:52:51 · answer #8 · answered by wrathofkublakhan 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus is the only way to Heaven. I know that this is a cliche, but the validity and truth of this statement hasn't ceased. Has the founder or contributor to any other so-called religion said this?:
John 14:6
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
"Goodness" does not get you to Heaven. Obeying the laws of the U.S. does not get you to Heaven. Nothing gets you to Heaven except for Christ Jesus.
Luke 6:33
And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' do that.
Romans 7:18
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
Nothing is truly and eternally "good" except God. And no, God isn't a masochist. Rather, unbelievers are, in that they deny the truth. God bless!
2006-08-29 11:01:22 · answer #9 · answered by eefen 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it depends on the religion that is right. Some out there actually do believe that a good person will make it to heaven reguardless of the religion practiced here on earth.
2006-08-29 10:48:30 · answer #10 · answered by topher 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋