the same one!!!
2006-09-26 18:39:48 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think that's one of those "beyond human comprehesion" type things. I DO believe there will be Jews, Christian, Muslems, Bhuddists, Amish, and yes maybe even Catholics in Heaven.
To answer your original question the best I can? I just really hope so.
2006-09-27 18:46:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, if there is no conception of God then the organisation cannot be considered religious and the purpose of religion is to attain love for God, there is one verse from an ancient Vedic Purana that answers this question, the Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 Chapter 2 Verse 6 says:-
The supreme occupation [dharma] for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted to completely satisfy the self.
Unfortunately allot of the difficulties in the world exist, due to certain groups attempting to claim exclusive rights to salvation through their chosen process.
Some organisations manipulate the translation of their chosen scriptures to support their claim and then highlight the doctrine as relevant proof, if there were more groups that promoted an understanding of different traditions, supporting rather then condemning, there would not be the constant struggle for supremacy through violent and political processes.
These types of qualities automatically discount the validity of those participants and their chosen path as being insufficient and lacking in the purity required to attain love for God and compassion for all living entities.
To discuss further:-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari (sda@backtohome.com)
2006-09-27 02:11:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Uh... isn't that what makes them a religion, that they are all some way to worship an almighty God? However, this does not include most Eastern religions since their idea of God would not comply with the Judeo/Islamo/Christian Gods. Plus how COULD these religions be talking about different things when they are clearly all describing, by definition the same all powerful being?
2006-09-27 01:50:22 · answer #3 · answered by Existence 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
All religions do not point or lead to God. All others (besides Christianity) try to lead people away from trusting in God alone. They end up trusting in the religion, their works, or some religious rite to get to God. And this is not the case. Do all roads lead to God? Let's look at an earthly example:
If I drive northbound on Interstate 5, sincerely believing that I am heading to San Diego, does not make it true. If I continue, I will end up in British Columbia, Canada, belief notwithstanding.
If "reality" is so, then Spirituality is as well. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)
That is not a claim of His followers. It is His claim about Himself. Besides, if other ways led or pointed to God, then Jesus died for nothing.
2006-09-27 01:44:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Uhm... no...
There are irreconcilable, fundamental differences between all the major religions.
For example, Islam says that Jesus was just a man, Christianity says he was God in the flesh. Big difference. Hinduism believes in reincarnation - the three monotheistic religions (Islam, Christianity, and Judaism) all denounce reincarnation. Big difference.
All religions but Christianity claim that eternal rewards are earned by something one does, Christianity claims that eternal rewards (ie: Heaven) is given based on Gods grace, apart from anything man could ever do. Big difference.
So no all religions do not point to the same god.
2006-09-27 01:45:29 · answer #5 · answered by AirborneSaint 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Point backward, Yes; but not forward. Since I believe every single word of the Bible to be the truth, I believe that God created man. Adam and Eve walked with God, knowing Him. Adam and Eve, therefore, had only one God. Generations perverted that knowledge of God to create variations of "religion" according to their religious leaders interpretation of that God. So religions derived from the One God, or man's interpretation of God. They do not all lead their followers back to God. Only the Holy Bible is written by several people with a unity that could not be humanly achieved. The intelligence of man could not have invented the consistencies of the Bible. It is wholly inspired by a knowledge greater than man. There is a science called psychology that bears this out... let alone history, sociology, physiology, etymology... even astrology bears out the star directing the wise men to Bethlehem.
I must be tired. I'm going to bed...................
2006-09-27 02:17:18 · answer #6 · answered by reformed 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Hi frankenchrist's. No, God warns us very clearly about false gospels in 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10
"The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved."
He continues in 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 "And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
God is telling us he is going to allow false Gospels to be preached. In fact he is going to send them!
2006-09-27 02:09:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely. You've got it! That's what the Baha'i Faith is all about.
Progressive Revelation
A great stumbling block to many, in the way of religious unity, is the difference between the Revelations given by the different Prophets. What is commanded by one is forbidden by another; how then can both be right, how can both be proclaiming the Will of God? Surely the truth is One, and cannot change. Yes, the Absolute Truth is One and cannot change, but the Absolute Truth is infinitely beyond the present range of human understanding, and our conceptions of it must constantly change. Our earlier, imperfect ideas will be by the Grace of God replaced, as time goes on, by more and more adequate conceptions. Bahá’u’lláh says, in a Tablet to some Bahá’Ãs of Persia:—
O people! Words are revealed according to capacity so that the beginners may make progress. The milk must be given according to measure so that the babe of the world may enter into the Realm of Grandeur and be established in the Court of Unity.
It is milk that strengthens the babe so that it can digest more solid food later on. To say that because one Prophet is right in giving a certain teaching at a certain time, therefore another Prophet must be wrong Who gives a different teaching at a different time, is like saying that because milk is the best food 123 for the newborn babe, therefore, milk and nothing but milk should be the food of the grown man also, and to give any other diet would be wrong! ‘Abdu’l-Bahá says:—
Each divine revelation is divided into two parts. The first part is essential and belongs to the eternal world. It is the exposition of Divine truths and essential principles. It is the expression of the Love of God. This is one in all the religions, unchangeable and immutable. The second part is not eternal; it deals with practical life, transactions and business, and changes according to the evolution of man and the requirements of the time of each Prophet. For example. … During the Mosaic period the hand of a person was cut off in punishment of a small theft; there was a law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but as these laws were not expedient in the time of Christ, they were abrogated. Likewise divorce had become so universal that there remained no fixed laws of marriage, therefore His Holiness Christ forbade divorce.
According to the exigencies of the time, His Holiness Moses revealed ten laws for capital punishment. It was impossible at that time to protect the community and to preserve social security without these severe measures, for the children of Israel lived in the wilderness of Tah, where there were no established courts of justice and no penitentiaries. But this code of conduct was not needed in the time of Christ. The history of the second part of religion is unimportant, because it relates to the customs of this life only; but the foundation of the religion of God is one, and His Holiness Bahá’u’lláh has renewed that foundation.
The religion of God is the One Religion, and all the Prophets have taught it, but it is a living and a growing thing, not lifeless and unchanging. In the teaching of Moses we see the Bud; in that of Christ the Flower; in that of Bahá’u’lláh the Fruit. The flower does not destroy the bud, nor does the fruit destroy the flower. It destroys not, but fulfills. The bud scales must fall in order that the flower may bloom, and the petals must fall that 124 the fruit may grow and ripen. Were the bud scales and the petals wrong or useless, then, that they had to be discarded? Nay, both in their time were right and necessary; without them there could have been no fruit. So it is with the various prophetic teachings; their externals change from age to age, but each revelation is the fulfillment of its predecessors; they are not separate or incongruous, but different stages in the life history of the One Religion, which has in turn been revealed as seed, as bud and as flower, and now enters on the stage of fruition.
2006-09-27 01:46:59 · answer #8 · answered by GypsyGr-ranny 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
No. If all religions were true then they would nullify themselves. Jesus said that he was the way. He didn't say he was the way until the next guy came along. I think there is one path to God and that is through Jesus.
2006-09-27 17:29:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Not at all!
GOD may be your attempt at creating another god to top 'em all but it wont work, since even your own selfish desires can be your God and that will be YOUR GOD.
2006-09-27 01:47:10 · answer #10 · answered by mythkiller-zuba 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋