Is it not arrogant and self-centred to think that your faith is the "true" one and all the others are false?

Question

There are thousands of different religions in the world, and in the vast majority of cases people follow the dominant faith of the culture they were born into.

Answer 1

it is very arrogant, especially since most people who believe that their religion is the "true" religion don't even know anything about any other religion. it is a very immature thought, and most people who think like that are ignorant.

Answer 2

Peace, yet no. A mathematical equation in a unmarried variable would don't have any solutions in any respect or all solutions would nicely be authentic. truly some have basically one answer and the others are fake. So i'd say that between the opportunities are that all fail to be straightforward, that all contain some truth, or that mine is authentic and the others fake. My answer, at this degree in my experience with the help of existence, and what my faith team teaches, is between the 2d and the third. There are factors of truth in a large number of faiths, mine is particular in that, even though it ought to not understand all that it preserves, what it preserves and all that it preserves is authentic. Step decrease back from the fake capture 22 situation that many answer one way or the different and evaluate the truth of the middle way.

Answer 3

If I don't believe that my faith is the "true" one, then what is the point in believing in my faith? Instead I would have no faith or I would have many faiths. The only culture I know of where people follow the culture they were born into, no matter where they may live in the world, is Islam. I have known many former Buddhists, Christians, atheists, spiritualists, Catholics, Baptists, etc., and they have all felt free to make their own choices about their faith once they are on their own. I have only heard of two instances where people have left the Muslim faith after being born into it, and both times it was on TV. Maybe this happens a lot, but not that I have ever heard or read.

Answer 4

My faith is Christian, in the Christian God Jesus. It's not arrogant to say that whatsoever, especially since I have tried most world religions and none of them have done anything for me, but Christianity (Jesus) has made all the difference in my life. So, no, it's not arrogant at all. Anyone who makes a claim of arrogance could never have discovered what I have discovered. If you discovered an immense treasure buried in a field, would you be arrogant to go and put it is a safe place and tell your friends how excited you are about what you have found? Certainly not.

Answer 5

Of course NOT. It is an either / or question. This has nothing to do with tolerance or let alone arrogance. Religion means belief, and what I believe is true - IS TRUE, because it is my belief and I do not need a proof. As long as my belief does not questions your right to believe something else, everything is OK. Some time ago a Muslim person asked me (Christian Orthodox) which of the big three religions is "the best?" I responded what I believe is TRUE: Judaism for Jews, Christianity for Christians and Islam for Muslims IS THE BEST. Believe (live) and let others believe (live).

Answer 6

It might appear that way, but there's something you have to remember. According to the Bible, the nations worshipped many different kinds of gods, and yet the God of the Hebrews proclaimed He was the only true one and He demonstrated this with the 10 plagues of Egypt. Many people don't realize that each plague actually humiliated a different Egyption god or power.

When Jesus Christ came , he showed evidence that he was the promised messiah and performed many miracles and exposed the hypocrisy of the priests and the pharisees( this can be read at Matthew chap 23). Jesus also said that he was the only way to the Father and that the road to salvation was small and cramped but the way to destruction was wide and full of people( Matthew 7; 13 and 14.)

Many people have access to the internet, Bibles, and other literature and can compare religions and history. It's up to each individual person to decide what the truth is, but it's usually easy to expose the false.

Answer 7

It is arrogant and ignorant in so many ways. People call them "beliefs", but the truth is that they are ideas. No one knows the ultimate truth. No one has all the pieces to the puzzle. Nor should they! They are ideas! The point is to find an idea that makes sense to you personally. To find an idea that inspires you to be a better version of yourself. It would be hard to go to war with others over an idea. It would be easy to change an idea as your understanding grew. But beliefs are hard to change and easy to kill over. We all have different ideas as to what the truth is....we just need to see that they are in fact ideas.

All roads may not lead to town, but all rivers do flow to the sea.

Answer 8

It maybe a little arrogant. You'd don't have to agree with other faiths, whether it be different denominations of the Christian faith, or entirely different religions, if you feel strongly that your faith is then true one, then that is between you and your God. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, no matter if it's wrong or right.

Answer 9

You are mistaking arrogance with confidence.

And when two confident people of differing religions speak together, they are bound to butt heads.

Each is confident about what they believe. If you and I butt heads it's not meant to be offensive, it's merely displaying the fact that I'm a Jesus freak and you are not.

Answer 10

Its in human nature no 1 can change it though i believe u can follow any religion. the main thing is that religion just servers as the food for spirit.

Answer 11

If the others are based on a comparable level of evidence, then yes it's arrogant.