Why would God use any one of these three religions? "JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM" Just because they are large religions does not make either one of them the true religion.
Also Satan uses false religion to keep people from knowing the Truth, so why would he not use the large ones to do this?
How do you spread the Word, people do not come to you, You go out to them, just like Jesus and the early Christians did.
God’s Word states: “He went journeying from city to city and from village to village, preaching and declaring the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him.” (Luke 8:1) What about the apostles themselves? After the outpouring of holy spirit at Pentecost of 33Â C.E., “every day in the temple and from house to house they continued without letup teaching and declaring the good news about the Christ, Jesus.” Acts 5:42.
2006-10-09 15:52:45
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answer #2
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answered by BJ 7
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To discover the one true God read this.
It may seem long, but it is well worth it. IT COULD CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER.
BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT RELIGIONS ALL WITH CONFLICTING BELIEFS, PEOPLE OFTEN FIND IT CONFUSING AND DIFFICULT TO DECIDE WHICH ONE THEY SHOULD FOLLOW. BUT WOULD A GOD REALLY WANT TO MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR US TO FIND THE TRUTH? SURELY THE TRUTH HAS TO BE AVAILABLE FOR ALL HUMANKIND - - - FOR THE SIMPLE AND HUMBLE, AS WELL AS THE INTELLECTUAL? SO IT MAKES SENSE TO CONCLUDE THAT IT MUST BE POSSIBLE TO DISCERN THE TRUTH THROUGH SIMPLE LOGIC.
FIRSTLY, IT IS EASY TO SEE THAT GOD HAS MADE HIS EXISTENCE CLEAR, THROUGH REASON AND LOGIC TO THOSE WHO ARE OPEN-MINDED AND GENUINELY DESIRE TO SEEK THE TRUTH. [THE EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF A SINGLE CREATOR GOD, IS OVERWHELMING. i.e. AN INTELLIGENT, SINGLE, FIRST CAUSE, ITSELF UNCAUSED, AND NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAWS OF NATURE (SUPERNATURAL), CAN BE SATISFACTORILY DEMONSTRATED TO THE SATISFACTION OF ANY TRULY, OPEN-MINDED PERSON THROUGH SIMPLE LOGIC AND SCIENCE… FOR EXAMPLE, THE LAWS OF: CAUSE AND EFFECT, BIOGENESIS, THERMODYNAMICS, INFORMATION THEORY AND INTELLIGENT DESIGN ]
THUS MONOTHEISM - - BELIEF IN ONE SUPERNATURAL, ETERNAL, CREATOR GOD IS EASY TO DEDUCE
BY THOSE WHO ARE OPEN-MINDED AND REALLY WISH TO SEEK THE TRUTH.
ONCE WE HAVE USED REASON AND LOGIC TO ESTABLISH THIS, WE THEN KNOW THAT ALL NON-MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS ARE AUTOMATICALLY RULED OUT AS INTRINSICALLY UNTRUE. OF COURSE, POLYTHEISTIC OR PAGAN RELIGIONS MAY HAVE SOME TEACHINGS WHICH APPEAR GOOD, BUT IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THEY ARE ALL BASED ON A FALSE PREMISE. THE TRUE RELIGION HAS TO PROFESS BELIEF IN ONLY ONE, SUPERNATURAL GOD AND CREATOR.
WE ARE LEFT WITH ONLY THREE MAJOR WORLD RELIGIONS THAT ARE STRICTLY MONOTHEISTIC. THEY ARE: JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM.
SO THE TRUE RELIGION HAS TO BE ONE OF THESE THREE.
IT IS A FACT THAT THESE THREE RELIGIONS HAVE MANY IMPORTANT DOCTRINES WHICH CONFLICT WITH EACH OTHER (FOR EXAMPLE; CHRISTIANS AND JEWS BELIEVE IN MONOGAMOUS MARRIAGE, WHILE MUSLIMS BELIEVE IN POLYGAMOUS MARRIAGE. CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE MESSIAH, WHILE JEWS REJECT JESUS AND BELIEVE THAT THE MESSIAH IS STILL TO COME. LIKEWISE, ALTHOUGH MUSLIMS BELIEVE THAT JESUS WAS A PROPHET AND A THE MESSIAH, THEY REJECT MANY OF HIS TEACHINGS, HIS DIVINITY AND HIS CRUCIFIXION. MUSLIMS BELIEVE THAT MUHAMMAD WAS A PROPHET WHILE BOTH JEWS AND CHRISTIANS REJECT THIS, etc. etc.] GOD IS TRUTH, SO AS THESE THREE BELIEFS DISAGREE FUNDAMENTALLY WITH EACH OTHER - - - -
IT IS OBVIOUS THAT IT ONLY POSSIBLE FOR ONE OF THEM TO BE COMPLETELY TRUE IN ALL ITS DOCTRINES.
SO HOW CAN WE DECIDE CONCLUSIVELY WHICH OF THESE THREE RELIGIONS IS THE ONLY TRUE ONE?
BY ASKING THE FOLLOWING QUESTION - - - WE KNOW THAT THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE (the first cause of everything) MUST BE INFINITE (unlimited). SO EVERYTHING ABOUT GOD MUST BE PERFECT, HIS LOVE IS PERFECT AND WITHOUT LIMIT (all love existing in the world originated from God), SO TOO IS HIS JUSTICE (His justice cannot be cheated). THEREFORE IF GOD INFINITELY AND PERFECTLY JUST, AND WE HAVE ALL OFFENDED HIS INFINITE MAJESTY BY SIN, HOW CAN ANYONE HOPE TO BE SAVED? ONLY BECAUSE GOD IS ALSO INFINITELY MERCIFUL AND LOVING. BUT HERE WE HAVE AN APPARENT CONTRADICTION, PERFECT JUSTICE DEMANDS THAT THE FULL PRICE IS PAID FOR EVERY SIN, WHEREAS PERFECT MERCY AND LOVE DEMAND EXTREME LENIENCY. - - -
HERE IS THE QUESTION: - - - HOW CAN GOD (WHO CANNOT DECEIVE, NOR BE DECEIVED) SATISFY HIS INFINITE JUSTICE, WHICH DEMANDS A PRICE EQUAL TO THE *OFFENCE, YET AT THE SAME TIME ENABLE US TO BE SAVED THROUGH HIS INFINITE MERCY AND LOVE?
*THE SERIOUSNESS OF AN OFFENCE CAN BE JUDGED TO BE COMMENSURATE WITH THE STATUS OF THE PERSON OFFENDED AGAINST. IN THE ARMY IF A PRIVATE WERE TO INSULT A FELLOW PRIVATE IT WOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED VERY SERIOUS, BUT IF A PRIVATE WERE TO INSULT OR DISOBEY AN OFFICER THIS WOULD BE MUCH MORE SERIOUS AND THE SERIOUSNESS WOULD INCREASE THE HIGHER THE RANK OF THE OFFICER. A SIN AGAINST A PERFECT AND INFINITE GOD IS OF THE ULTIMATE SERIOUSNESS. THEREFORE PERFECT JUSTICE DEMANDS INFINITE REPARATION FOR AN OFFENCE AGAINST GOD.
CHRISTIANITY IS ABSOLUTELY UNIQUE. IT IS THE ONLY RELIGION THAT HAS A PROPER ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION. THE QUESTION THAT IS MOST CRUCIAL TO OUR SALVATION. PUT THIS QUESTION TO THE FOLLOWERS OF ANY OTHER RELIGION AND THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GIVE YOU A SATISFACTORY ANSWER.
THE AMAZING ANSWER - - - JESUS CHRIST SAID “I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE” AND “NO ONE CAN COME TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME.” JESUS BACKED UP HIS CLAIM BY SUFFERING AN AGONISING DEATH ON THE CROSS FOR THE SALVATION OF ALL HUMANITY. JESUS, ALTHOUGH COMPLETELY INNOCENT OF ALL SIN HIMSELF, SUFFERED FOR THE SINS OF ALL HUMANKIND. HE WAS CRUCIFIED, AS A SACRIFICE, FOR THE REDEMPTION OF HIS ENEMIES, AS WELL AS HIS FRIENDS. WE ARE ALL SINNERS AND HAVE ALL OFFENDED THE INFINITE GOODNESS OF GOD. NO ONE DESERVES HEAVEN ENTIRELY ON THEIR OWN MERIT. EVERYONE IS DEFILED BY SIN, AND NOTHING DEFILED CAN ENTER HEAVEN. AN OFFENCE AGAINST THE INFINITE GOODNESS OF AN INFINITELY LOVING, BUT ALSO AN INFINITELY JUST GOD, CAN ONLY BE REDEEMED BY AN INFINITELY GOOD SACRIFICE. SO ONLY A DIVINE SACRIFICE CAN SATISFY THE DEMANDS OF INFINITE, DIVINE JUSTICE. ONLY THE SACRIFICE OF THE TRUE, SPIRITUAL MESSIAH, JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD, INCARNATED AS MAN (as prophesied in the Old Testament) IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE US ALL FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF SIN, TO OPEN THE GATES OF HEAVEN AND RESTORE ETERNAL LIFE TO THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE. Amazingly, this was foreshadowed in the Old Testament, when God asked Abraham (as a test of his obedience) to sacrifice his only son Isaac on a pile of wood at Mount Moria. This Mount Moria is believed to be in the same place as Golgotha, the site of the sacrifice of God’s only Son on the wood of the cross. Because of his obedience, Abraham became the symbolic, earthly father of all who follow God. Because of the Incarnation and sacrifice of the Son of God, Jesus, God became the spiritual Father of all who follow Him. The Cross of Jesus now represents the new tree of life, because it has restored the possibility of eternal life to the whole human race. Access to the original tree of life was removed from Adam and Eve and the rest of the human race because of original sin.
ONLY THOSE WHOSE GARMENTS HAVE BEEN ‘WASHED WHITE BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB’ ARE FIT TO ENTER HEAVEN. THE DEBT FOR OUR SIN HAS BEEN PAID BY JESUS AND HIS SAVING SACRIFICE IS OFFERED AS AN UNSURPASSED, LOVING AND FREE GIFT TO US ALL. WE SIMPLY HAVE TO GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND ACCEPT THAT GIFT IN A SPIRIT OF HUMILITY AND REPENTANCE. BY HIS SUPREME SACRIFICE, JESUS PAID THE PRICE FOR EVERY SIN EVER COMMITTED AND THEREBY OPENED THE GATES OF HEAVEN TO THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE. WITHOUT HIS UNIQUE SACRIFICE NO ONE OF ANY RELIGION COULD EVER ENTER HEAVEN. IT MATTERS NOT WHETHER YOU ARE THE MOST DEVOUT MUSLIM, HINDU, JEW, BUDDHIST OR FOLLOWER OF ANY OTHER FAITH, ULTIMATELY YOU WILL RELY NOT ON ANY OF THE RITUALS OR CUSTOMS OF THESE VARIOUS RELIGIONS, BUT ON THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS TO ENTER HEAVEN. ALL WHO ENTER HEAVEN DO SO ONLY WITH A PASSPORT PROVIDED BY THE MERITS OF THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS. WITHOUT HIS SACRIFICE ON THE CROSS YOU WOULD NEVER GET THERE, WHATEVER YOUR RELIGION. THIS IS THE UNAVOIDABLE TRUTH, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.
OF COURSE, WE SHOULD ALL HAVE FREE CHOICE TO FOLLOW ANY RELIGION WE CHOOSE, BUT ONCE WE KNOW THAT IT IS ONLY THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS THAT CAN MAKE US FIT TO ENTER HEAVEN AND ETERNAL LIFE, WE WILL SURELY WISH TO LOVE AND FOLLOW HIM. IT WOULD BE FOOLISHNESS INDEED FOR US TO CHOOSE TO FOLLOW ANY RELIGION WHICH REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE THIS AND WOULD RATHER PRETEND THAT WE CAN REDEEM OURSELVES BY FOLLOWING ITS MANMADE DOCTRINES AND RITUALS.
2006-10-09 15:24:51
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answer #7
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answered by A.M.D.G 6
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