Now wait wait, before you go saying it's *Insert religion here*, hear me out. You base your religion is true on your faith, true? Since I mean, there are no hard facts that states "GOD WAS HERE.", you can give your ideas, but there's no hard facts. So lets say faith can create truth. Your religion is now true. But what makes your faith so much more stronger than anyone elses? As long as there is faith in a religion, by that standard, it is true. So can there be one true religion if the qualification for truth is simply faith in the religion?
2006-09-17 21:23:02 · 27 answers · asked by ronintama 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm counting how many times I get an answer that doesn't read the details.
2006-09-17 21:27:39 · update #1
I'd like to see the scientific proof that shows that Islam is the truth. Until then, faith negates truth, thusly all religions are true, so there is no true religion.
2006-09-17 21:31:53 · update #2
*equates to truth, my bad.
2006-09-17 21:32:10 · update #3
monica80 : You've talked to them? How OLD ARE YOU?!
2006-09-17 21:37:50 · update #4
Aye, there's the rub.
The concept is that God (assuming that you believe him to exist) speaks to people in a way that they understand. So there cannot be one general "true" religion, but there can be a true religion for a particular group.
2006-09-17 21:28:39 · answer #1 · answered by Chief BaggageSmasher 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
So lets say faith can create truth. Your religion is now true. But what makes your faith so much more stronger than anyone elses? As long as there is faith in a religion, by that standard, it is true. So can there be one true religion if the qualification for truth is simply faith in the religion?
There is ONE TRUTH. YES
1. Faith does not create Truth.
2. My "Religion" is true, faith or no faith.
3. Truth in a religion based on a faith standard is a false assumption.
4. There is no religion that is true based on if it has faith only, that i know of. If there is, Your religion is self faith. Good Luck.
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2006-09-17 21:44:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This might be a little difficult to explain; but I will do my best.
There is and isn't a single true religion.
I will start with the isn't (even though this will upset most people). There is no religion on the planet today that is 100% the truth. How can any religion be 100% accurate without knowing everything. In other words there are gaps, inconsistancies, somethings not even addressed, ect. ect. in every religion.
However do not get discouraged that there isn't a perfect religion, because there actually is; but not exactly a particular religion.
See the true religion is based on your individual *Insert religion here*. See if your religion makes you a better person then it is the one true religion to you. If not then you are in the wrong religion.
What I am saying here is not that you think your religion is the one true religion. Instead I'm saying if it makes you a better person then it is the one true religion.
In other words what the one true religion is for me might not be the one true religion for you.
My religion could make you an evil person and visa versa. It all depends on what religion makes you a better person.
To better explain what I mean I will show something simular.
When I am stressed out; I play video games, or meditate to calm down. To some people this would make them more stressed out. Like a lot of people calm down by fishing; however fishing drives me nuts. What's right for me might be wrong for you.
2006-09-17 21:40:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Truth and faith are two entirely separate things. Having faith in something does not mean that it's true. For example, I can have faith that my friend will pick me up, but if he doesn't, it's not true no matter how much faith one has in that friend. Likewise, just because a person has faith in a certain religion doesn't make it the true religion. Even the Bible says:
Passage Romans 10:2:
2For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge
So, people can have a very zealous faith but it's not necessarily based on an accurate knowledge.
As to your question, "Is there one true religion?", I believe there is but am not going to get detailed as I'm still on my quest. ;-)
2006-09-17 21:38:58 · answer #4 · answered by tonyend2001 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Religion covers a wide spectrum of different perceptions of a single Source (The Bible - God)
Every religion`s dogma and believes are based on That Source.
Even before the Bible was in a written form, the people whoreshiped the moon, stars, sun, saints etc. which were nothing else but different ways (idolitory) to whorship the Creator - God.
There is only ONE true religion and that is the Word of God expressed in ONE mind and ONE Spirit. God is ONE and if all the people might whoreship Him in ONE Spirit , everybody should be able to see ONE thing - NO 1001 different viewpoints (idolitory) of ONE God
True faith is based on the Truth - God`s revealed Word for that hour you are living in.
Check http://www.biblebelievers.org for That Presence of God and the ONLY truth on earth today, amongst all religion ...
2006-09-17 21:55:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just because you have faith towards a thing doesn't make it the truth. If you are entering a jungle with the strongest faith human can ever find that there is no tiger, will this faith really cause the jungle to be free from tigers for you?
Religion is not the truth. It is merely a guide to the truth. All religion comes from God himself.
Let me give you a metaphor. Once upon a time there was no karate. One day, a man invented karate. So he spread his art to his students. When his students become masters themselves, they travel to places. One student-master go to the north and introduce Karate North. Another student-master go to the south and introduce Karate South. Others go to the east and west and you know what they do there. So now we have 4 types of karate. These student-masters also taught their art to students from newer generation. And these 4 arts survive to the current generation. One day, a student from Karate North meet another from Karate South and they got into a fight. Each argue that their own Karate is the best. Other karate are just fakes. They know not that the karate they learn are the same that came from the man who 1st invented it. This type conflict is what we all face today.
Religion is different because we alter them a bit by bit from 1 generation to another until we totally distort their teachings. Eventually we only understand their teachings based on our own ignorant mind.
So you say can there be one true religion ...? I've explained the faith part earlier. But I can say the one religion is the religion that came from God. And all religion are from God. Just because you are a Christian and happen to be ignorant of the teachings of Buddhism doesn't mean Buddhism is a fake. Just because you are a Muslim and happen to be ignorant of the teachings of Jewism doesn't mea Jewism is a fake. Do you understand?
2006-09-17 21:53:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
a million.the authentic faith has understand for God's word, not watering it down, employing some elements and pushing aside others-2 Timothy 3:16,17 2. it really is "no part of the international". It would not get all in favour of politics,nationalism or type struggles-John 17:16 3. It has because this is contributors those who've "love between themselves". they don't bypass to warfare hostile to at least one yet another. they don't look divided by employing quite some non secular alterations-John 13:35;a million Corinthians a million:10 ask your self: a million. What faith has contributors who're effortless for his or her good moral values? 2. What faith is nicely effortless for expelling unrepentant wrongdoers? 3. What faith has not taken up the frame of mind that particular sexual practices, once theory-about as sinful, at the on the spot are o.ok.? 4. Which faith refuses to bypass to warfare, get all in favour of politics, nationalism or type struggles? 5. Which faith has contributors who, global, do not trust that we've an immortal soul, that God and Jesus are part of a trinity, the depraved, after death, are alive being ceaselessly tormented? seek for the only which has all of this and also you'll discover the authentic faith.
2016-11-27 21:29:49 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
having faith does not make a religion to be true. true means rightousness that means the right way. if someone is speaking the truth that is the right way. like science is the truth. you could only differentiate the right and wrong only understand the "emptyness" or wait until the end of the world to see which one is really true hehehe. like you'll watching a movie wouldn't know which one is evil til the end hehehe.
2006-09-17 21:31:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
My religion is Life ...... as many people see go and creator etc etc .... in so many ways that this has led me to the conclusion that all religions and faith lead to the path of faith and rightness ( Is that a word)...... My religion is Sikhism and in our religion we bless all man kind ..... not may religions state this .... but still my personal answer is that the one true religion is life it self as we learn and move through with out without faith .... so one faith and religion is life it self and the way we lead it ..... so our parents would come close to god as we respect them and learn and then find our own way forward ......
2006-09-17 21:33:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Islam because is means surrender to God's peace.
In truth, Islam is not a religion of terror or suicide bombing. That is something the media would like you to believe. Some crazy people who don't know what Islam is calling themselves Muslims are just looking for attention and the does spotlight shine on them because this world loves a good fight.
Islam is surrender to Peace and surrender to God's will. Let's look at who surrenders to God's will: The Moon is always on time, the sun is always on time, the clouds, the wind, the trees, the seasons, the animals are being who they are supposed to be (a tiger does not act like a sheep even if it raised among sheep).... all these are true Muslims.
So man is left to decide for himself. Willful surrender to God's peace will bring about knowing ones true purpose in life.
Sufis are people who have come very close to representing the true meaning of life. They are the ones who can show you what Islam is, and I'm sure you will find it very beautiful.
peace
EDIT: Questioner: Islam initially does not require faith. it requires a logical analysis of the world and the nature of the universe. observe the harmony of the planetary orbits, the predictability of seasons and celestial events. does the next occurrence of Haily's comet require faith? not even a drop. through scientific analysis, we discover (or we are still discovering) the order to all things. this complex nature of all things did not occur randomly. Just look at how complex the computer CPU is... did that come into being by some random atoms smashing into each other, or did scientists and engineers formulate ideas and plans and implement them? Similarly, how can the vast universe, which has cyclical patterns be just random acts? the universe and the world around us would be in total chaos if there was no governing force. this realization is what leads us to the idea that the same governing force of the universe would reach out to humanity to give us guidance on how we are supposed to be. that is Islam. adding faith into it only beautifies the experience of Islam, but initially, it is not needed.
2006-09-17 21:24:32 · answer #10 · answered by Mustafa 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋