Why do most people that worship religions believe they worship the one true God? Doesn't everyone recognize that, which, god you worship is completely determined by which culture you grow up in?
2006-10-24 07:09:12 · 22 answers · asked by ULTIMATEMEANING 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You would think...
Sadly you've hit the crux of the matter. Usually people believe there's is the one true God because they have been brought up to believe that and therefore their culture is right and all else is wrong.
Also it's a lot easier to just sit back and think, 'i've got it all sussed' rather than keeping your mind open to the possibility that your God or Gods might not be the one true God...Or that they might not even exist.
Humans are lazy, and religion perpatuates that tendancy. It's why there are these devides between people who want to continue to search and think and question, and those who find something that seems like a reasonably answer and decide that's it.
Also imadgine if you had been brought up in a comunity that beleived their God was one the one true God. It would be very difficult for you to except anything else as you would have been around that since birth.
Another way of describing that is brainwashing.
2006-10-24 07:16:50 · answer #1 · answered by dirty_class 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Religion is anything done habitually as a practice. Most people are religious about something, including worshipping God. Being religious and worshipping God are not equal.
People who worship God are not often not worshipping the religion, and those who are not worshipping God. Finally, many, many people throughout history to the present, chose and continue to choose religions not based on the culture they grew up in, but on their personal choices and beliefs.
It takes just as much faith to believe there is no God as it does to believe that there is no God and everything is just coincidence or happened according to scientific theory.
BTW, I am a physicist by degree.
2006-10-24 07:26:59 · answer #2 · answered by hookedonflavor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While it may be true that as a child our religion is determined by our parents, I don't believe the same is true of adults. I grew up a Baptist but have since converted to Islam. I think most adults can think for themselves and most of us at some time or another question the religion of our parents in our quest for inner peace. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the U.S. and in the World. It is also the 2nd largest religion in both France and the U.K. and this is because of converts I am sure.
2006-10-24 07:58:58 · answer #3 · answered by brendagho 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am one of the few Christians left with an open mind on this subject.. I believe that the world has one "Higher Power" and that all the different religions have evolved over thousands, possibly millions of years.. If I start a rumor today, in 20 years it would be COMPLETELY different than how it was started.. Thats what I think has happened with religion. I think it is foolish to think that one group of people can be so closed-minded to believe they are the only ones who are going to have "everlasting life".. Especially the ones who knock on your door... I asked one of those people, how can their "Jehovah" (God) turn away people born into a way of life who never heard the name Jesus Christ? I got the most absurd answer I have ever heard... She says to me.
" We have people all over the world spreading the Word" Im sorry, but common sense tells you that one religion cannot physically preach to every person on the planet.. Gimme a break.
I believe that we have a responsibility to be good to people, caring, and honest.. Basically I believe we should live by the Golden Rule. If we all did that, the world would be an awesome place.. And I hate to say "if" but I will anyways.. If God sends me South after I have been a good kind caring person, then so be it..
I have lived my life, loving strong, and if I dont get to Heaven... what kind of God is he? Believe whats in your heart.. I do, and I dont let anyone tell me I am wrong.. Its my life...
2006-10-24 07:38:58 · answer #4 · answered by jessica m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! No matter what culture you grow up in, there is one true God. Different cultures may worship God differently but it's the same God.
2006-10-24 07:20:46 · answer #5 · answered by Roxton P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
many of the ppl answering this question need to do their research. Native cultures for instance believe in "the Creator". which is very different from God. They also believe rocks plants, everything on earth has a spirit. Some of the aboriginals believe earth and everything on it was created by the raven. Saying there is one God and that everyone believes in the same one is narrow minded and shows ignorance,not intelligence.
2006-10-24 07:37:46 · answer #6 · answered by corinne_29_ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in 98 out of 100 cases, the religion you follow is what you are born into...
AS for why they all beleive they all worship the one true god is simple - would you knowingly and purposfully worship the one false God? NO! Of course not! So, they all claim to be the one true God, thus obtaining more followers.
2006-10-24 07:12:28 · answer #7 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, this is just untrue. I mean, there is plenty of evidence to dispute what you say. Ask a person from Korea, for example, who has accepted Christ as his or her savior whether this decision was determined by his or her culture. Ask an American Buddhist. People all over the globe choose faith paths that are much different from the ones they should have inherited from their culture, if what you are saying was accurate.
2006-10-24 07:13:47 · answer #8 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes but as adults we can still ask certain questions of our religion. By using common sense.
Does the religion that I belong to promote peace and harmony?
Or do the people who believe that way promote war and killing, show a lack of mercy because of my religon?
Does it teach things that are bad about God? Think about living for 70 or 80 years. Seems like a long time but in the sceme of things a blink of en eye. So for something you did during that time you be tortured forever? what would you think of a man who tortured his dog because it bite someone. Built a fire under it and stabed it and slowly roasted it over a fire. He would be called insane and you would call the human society. What if he kept it alive just to torture it? Would that inspire you to love him?
What if that religion said to be faithful to your mate. To love her and cherish her and the two were so in love.
Lust caused the man to commit adultry or to take multiple wives in addition to her? Would that be showing love?
That is the cruelset thing you can do to a women. To violate that trust.
Do we need a religion that tells us that these things are true or good. We know in our hearts these things are not good.
The bible says in later periods of time they will be saying bad is good and good is bad. But, God gave us common sense to figure these things out.
2006-10-24 07:21:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably because they are told that by their parents and it's in the Bible.
Every "religion" thinks they are right.
Jesus (God in the flesh) walked this earth; did many, many miracles, signs and wonders...and died on the cross for our sin.
What have other "gods" done?
Religion is man's way of trying to reach God.
Relationship is God's way of reaching us through Jesus Christ.
2006-10-24 07:15:04 · answer #10 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋