2006-10-12 17:40:53 · 30 answers · asked by ok 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Do all religions based their teachings on the Bible? Absolutely no.
Is the Bible the only way to know God? Not really, but it is the BEST way, since it is so much more than just a book. Many people have been drawn to God through songs, near death experiences, personal encounters, prayer, and prophecy. But knowing God's acts (what He does) are a lot different than knowing His ways (how He thinks). You can only truly know God's ways through the Bible, which is God's blood contract and history with man expressed through and recorded by man. It is His actual words as inspired by His spirit and documented through men he chose for that purpose.
Think about this: when people fall in love with a singer, they buy all of their albums, read about their lives in magazines, watch them on TV, and attend their concerts -- even memorizing all of their music. Even though they haven't met the singer personally, they feel like they know them because of the intimacy they have with their feelings and thoughts expressed through words. It changes the listener: as a result of receiving the singer's words, the listener slowly changes and adopts the singer's thinking, dress style, attitudes and philosophy. They begin to imitate the singer, which is a form of worship, all as a result of receiving their words and emotions in music.
It's the same way with God, only magnified greatly. Jesus said, "The words I speak, they are spirit and they are life." God creates with words, so when He speaks, the very life and power of God is released in His words, like seeds. When we receive His words, we are receiving a portion of His life, and it gets planted in the soil of our hearts. The more we read, the more that godly seed gets watered, and eventually begins to reproduce the life and character of God in us, gradually changing us into His likeness. That is the system that God has set up for us to know Him, which is why the Bible is the #1 best selling book EVER. That is the greatest intimacy that we can experience in this life -- intimacy with God!
2006-10-12 17:58:46 · answer #1 · answered by Rodeba1 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes, only through reading the Word of God leads us to knowing Him. But no, not all religions base their teachings on the Bible. Islam has their own Holy book and that is Quran..and several other religions. now if you ask about christianity, all religion claims to base their teaching upon the Holy Scriptures but they teach somethings that is not found on the Bible and they sometimes refute what it says by the use of passages from it. some interpret the Bible wrongly so they end up saying some misinformations that many people who don't really read the Bible are lead to the wrong path. it's very important to pray for spiritual guidance before reading the Bible because without help from God the Bible can be very confusing...
thanks for that question!
2006-10-12 18:08:55 · answer #2 · answered by icenjel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Studying the scriptures is the only way we can find out about God and therefore develop a close relationship that is acceptable to him. All religions do no not base their teachings on the bible, they follow man-made rules. The only way you can find out which religion is true, is to examine what each religion does - to what the scriptures say.
For example:-
How many religions would (or have in the past) encourage their members to fight in war? - EXODUS 20:13
How many religions use idols/statues etc in worship? - EXODUS 20:4,5
It is not true that all religions lead to God - MATTHEW 7:21-23
2 TIMOTHY 3:16,17 - ALL scripture is inspired of God...
We need to examine everything we believe with the bible to find out if it is acceptable to God. Avoiding to do so, could cost us our life.
2006-10-13 05:50:29 · answer #3 · answered by New ♥ System ♥ Lady 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. To know God is beyond the Bible and ALL religions do NOT base their teachings in the Bible.
2006-10-12 17:44:33 · answer #4 · answered by UVRay 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What If u needed somebody but never met them in person? But they wrote a book that described a lot about themself, what their purpose was, what they had in common with u, and how they could save your life, wouldn;t u want to read it?. What if it's hard to understand or written in several different versions? Couldn't u investigate and do research?. What if men lost their life, so they could translate this book into your common language.? Wouldn't u appreciate that enough to not let their life- saving work sit on a shelf and collect dust? If somebody offered u a free home Bible study , woud u accept? U can get clues about God from our wonderful universe around us , which some call the book of Life or Creation. Now what about that other book that we call his Word? That's the big question
2006-10-12 17:55:15 · answer #5 · answered by jaguarboy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, all religions do not base their teachings in the bible. The bible is the sacred text of Christianity.
2006-10-12 17:42:43 · answer #6 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you can get to know God by discussing Him with other Christians, or reading literature that is devoted to understanding God, the Bible and Christianity.
All of Christianity IS based on the Bible, but all the other religions of the world have their own collected texts of varying importance.
Some good books:
The Case for Christ
The Case for Faith
The Case for the Creator
All three of these are written by legal investigator Lee Strobel. He began as an atheist, and found God when he set out to disprove Christ. He interviews the top scholars in the world.
http://www.amazon.com/Case-Christ-Journalists-Investigation-Evidence/dp/0310209307/sr=8-1/qid=1160714742/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-5138636-9664861?ie=UTF8
2006-10-12 17:46:03 · answer #7 · answered by roberticvs 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Christian Church knew God and His teachings for over 3 centuries before the Bible was compiled in its final form. Jesus didn't give His teachings to His Church as a book. He gave them in the form of oral teaching, and that was the principle form in which the Apostles and their successors passed them on - oral Tradition.
Even after the Bible was compiled by the Catholic Church at the end of the 3rd Century, it wasn't the usual way people learned about God. The great majority of people couldn't read, and even if they could, Bibles were not readily available since the printing press had not yet been invented. The only Bibles in existence were the large hand-lettered ones painstakingly produced by Catholic monks in monasteries. People learned about God and salvation by the preaching of the Church. That's what Christ told the Apostles to do - preach the Word of God. He never told them to make a book. Of course Catholics have always been familiar with the Bible, since several passages from the Bible are read at every Mass.
So, basically the Christian Church grew and prospered in unity and holiness for 1,500 years with almost no Christians ever personally reading the Bible. The teaching of the Church was their principle source of Christian truth, just as it is today. The Bible only contains what the Catholic Church was already teaching for three centuries before the Bible was compiled, and the Bible itself tells us that the Church is "the pillar and foundation of truth". Without its foundation, a structure weakens and collapses. The full truth of Christianity is available from Christ's Church, with or without the Bible. On the other hand, attempts to "follow the Bible", removed from its biblical foundation, simply result in denominationalism, fragmentation of Christianity, and conflicting beliefs. Which unfortunately means false beliefs, since truth cannot conflict with truth.
That's why Christ said that his followers were to be ONE, just as He and His heavenly Father are ONE. Obviously that means NO conflicting beliefs at all. That is what we find in the Holy Catholic Church - 2,000 years of continuous unity in teaching and in worship, in full accord with the stated will of God.
2006-10-12 18:10:02 · answer #8 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a collection can declare they base their ideals on the Bible yet some base them on the chief's **interpretation** of the Bible. i comprehend for a certainty that in the time of my very own (evangelical) church, my very own address specific passages could selection in specific techniques from a brother or sister's. My appreciation of specific aspects of our liturgy (form of provider) is incredibly diverse from some others. yet we agree on the time-honored fundamentals, and we are able to comply with disagree. even nonetheless in a collection which imposes the translation of the chief on all believers and demands conformity without dissent, then confident, you're coping with the two a cult or a collection with cultic inclinations. some years in the past I had to chop up from an self sustaining congregation that had began out nicely yet over the years the pastor's specific, very own take on the word grew to strengthen into paramount and all and sundry who disagreed "mandatory to repent" or "became in insurrection." the quantity of administration grew to strengthen into intolerable so I left, purely to be mentioned that the different individuals have been advised I had "wandered from the Lord." Oh fairly. The Lord (and my new congregation) incredibly do no longer think of so. And God has the final call, no longer Pastor X.
2016-12-13 07:23:19 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
unfortunately most religions base their teachings on the parts of the Bible that make them most comfortable. many base it on the traditions of man, using the Bible only as a prop. God's Word is a perfect picture of the character and nature of God, leaving out any part of it will cause you to miss an important aspect of who God is.
2006-10-12 17:44:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋