Why did god decide to create/allow so many different and contradictory religions on Earth?

Question

Isn't the Bible the 'Word of God'?

Man! There are some insane people here. Admit it, god doesn't exist, he doesn't listen to your prayers. He doesn't make your sportsmen run faster if they believe in him 'more' than the next runner. We are alone, completely alone.

Answer 1

Um, man creates religion, not God.

Answer 2

If you are asking a serious question, then it might be better to think of the answer this way: God did not create contradictory religions in much the same way God did not create wrong answers. Every answer has a correct response to it. However, in order for there to be correct responses, there must be incorrect responses as well. If 2+2=4, then there must be more than simply the numbers 2 and 4, and once you have other numbers, you have other possibilities. Another way to look at it is to consider any profession: a postal worker is a postal worker irregardless of how well or how poorly they do their job. A inefficient postal worker, with a bad attitude, essentially does not detract from the job a efficent, courteous worker does because one does not deny the possibility or existence of the other.

Where religions become contradictory is not in the basis of God, but in the delineation of their own particulars. Religion, lest we forget, has as much to do with determining 'truth' (and therefore, conditions of power) as it is about holiness or understanding God. There are good and bad proponents of every religion, but it is the intolerance of the bad practitioners that create the idea that religious ideas are contradictory.

Answer 3

Because this is God's schol house, and each class and level there of fits the need of the student/soul from where they are at in their development. We didn't come into the world to join religions and stay in them, these are like sign post, different stairs on the same stairway. Take from a religion what is beneficial unto you, but don't let it become an obstacle to further growth, for the point is to become a whole unto yourself, religions serve this purpose and since they are all elementary through change they must be casted off. Many people escaping the clutches of the limitations of one religions move into another illusion, without consciousness.

By the way, nothing happens outside of the Fathers will. The laws of God control and maintain all conditions of the earth, vessels of wrath come in any religion. Higher reality is that people are born atheist and etc, for their own needs in such a life.

Answer 4

religion is a manufacture of Man. A need to believe in higher things or find a meaning in life. If the "Big Guy/Gal" does exist the whole point was to believe in peae and love and a better place in death.. not to say "MY IDEA OF GOD IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOURS!"..

also think of this - If Man was created by god and Man makes God real how did it start as one is not available without the other... its a circular argument like the chicken and egg....



cheers

Answer 5

Actually He created what we know are the Abrahamic Faiths (Judaism, Islam, Christianity). The reason they are called the Abrahamic Faiths is the three of them were promised to Abraham, whom G-d chose to be the Father of many nations. That promise has been fullfilled and his seed scattered around the globe, as G-d told him it would be. The religions are in fact very similiar to one another. I was born of Judeau-Christian lineage, I have a Jewish prayerbook (Siddur Lev Chadash), A copy of the Qur'an and the Holy Bible. They compliment each other and did you know that Islam in the Qur'an recognises the Jews and the Christians. Also, there is a chapter dedicated to Jesus and Mary? G-d hasn't contridicted the religions, or corrupted the scriptures. We have by fighting and arguing over who is closer to Him. If you belong to any sect of the Abrahamic Faiths, you know and recognise G-d.

Answer 6

When God created man he gave him free will to choose between right and wrong. It is people that choose to either create good or bad religions depending on what they want to benefit out of it. At the end of the day peoples conscience should guide them but most opt for bad things.

Answer 7

How did you get to the conclusion that God doesn't exist?
Yeah, I know that there are bad things going on in this world and some people think that if God doesn't intervene he doesn't exist.
The ruler of this world is Satan. He blinded you. That's what he wants you to believe. But look around you. Look at yourself. Everything couldn't just appear out of nowhere in such a precise way.

Answer 8

You must understand that the Devil made the world for his own amusement. He made us aggressive so we would fight each other (there's nothing Old Nick likes better than a good punch-up).

However, he found that our aggressiveness was not up to the job and so he made us all a different colour and gave us different languages - but even this was not enough and so he invented Big G and gave us all a religion.

He figured this was a sure fire way of getting us fighting - and sure enough ...it did.

Answer 9

The "god" of this world, the fallen one -- Lucifer-- now Satan, the Adversary, Belial, Beelzebub, etc is the "god" of this world in the present age, because man through Adam sold it out to him. He is described as the Author of confusion , the Destroyer, a murderer, and it is he and his principalities, like the Prince of Persia (demonic hierarchy) that has concocted sedition's and divisions of the religions we see in this present age and world. Quite simple to do when he was responsible for creating division in heaven it self and swaying a third of the Angels in them midst of heaven to be deceived -- so to deceive man is easy for him. His time is running out, however, and the LORD God is going to call him on his allotted time of theft of this planet, world and age, soon -- the signs of the time point to the end of this age and its "god" .

Answer 10

Becuase different cultures came up with different ways to explain things they could not understand......Since the Enlightenment europe has become more and more secular as we descover more about the truth through science.

Unfortunatly there are always those who wish we where still ignorant believing in faries sitting in out own **** in a mud hut.