I've heard Bush,as well as many peopl calling themselves christian, including some pastors say this.
2007-01-14 09:18:06 · 35 answers · asked by david w 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Catholics/Christians worship the same God
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2007-01-14 09:21:42 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Many religions do, but not all. I'd say all monothesistic religions worship the same God but call him/her/it by a different name. My state has 21 Indian tribes. Their God is generally thought to have many different aspects, but when they make an offering to the Corn Maiden, the ultimate offering is to the most powerful God of their native beliefs--but, of course, they are also Christians. Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zorasterianism all worship the same God. I think if it's a religion that believes in only one God, the God is the same with different names used.
2007-01-14 09:28:41 · answer #2 · answered by David M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well it's a very interesting topic! When you look at all the world's know religions, almost all of them have some sort of diety that supercedes all others (if the religion involves more than one diety). Many have creator dieties, dieties that command and control our surroundings, or some sort of supreme diety. Most of them are very similar in some way or another. When you can look to these similarities between religions it really starts to come together and you see all other religions in another light.
Edit: As the rev has mistaken repeatedly in her answers, the name Allah is not only used by Muslims but by Arab Christians as well, and is in worship of the exact same God. Allah is also found in the Arabic Bible. It's so strange that one who professes to be educated in religion (a reverend) can have so very little knowledge about other religions. Not to mention HATRED for them!
2007-01-14 09:26:11 · answer #3 · answered by hayaa_bi_taqwa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is only One God. He has been revealing himself to people since the beginning of the human race. It is like the story of the blind men who went to see an elephant. One felt the trunk and decided elephants were like snakes. Other the ear and believed elephants were like huge leaves. Another the side and assumed that elephants were like a great wall. The last felt the tail and was convinced that elephants were a type of rope. Each had felt an elephants, yet none understood the elephants.
Most religions have had a real encounter with God, but not understood all of who and what he is. That is why there are so many often contradictory religions. God is to vast and complex to be understood in a single encounter.
In the Bible, you have the encounters of hundreds of people, over a hundreds of years, with God. Contained within them is an expanding revelations of who God. Each encounter builds on information from before and foreshadows revelations to come. The library of the Bible contains 66 books, by over 40 authors, written on three different continents, over a period of 1500+ years, in multiple languages, by multiple races, in many cultures.
Yet the doctrines and themes of the book hold together from beginning to end. They give an expanding revelation of who God is and how to relate to Him. By giving us hundreds of encounters, through different people with different personalities and ways of relating to and expressing God, we are given a more complete picture then any one person or one touch could ever give.
The ultimate revelation comes in the person of Jesus Christ, who the scriptures claim was God Himself manifest in the flesh.
Do most religions worship the god - yes. (Can't say "all" because there are some religions that do not believe in a "god") It is just that in the Christian religion you have to the complete revelation of who that God is and how to relate to him. The others are have only parts and pieces, and often as wrong as the blind men who limited an elephant to just the part they could feel.
2007-01-14 09:38:16 · answer #4 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember Bush is a politician, politicians say just about anything to try and get the public to like them. This is not picking on bush or the Republicans. All politicians do this.
Anyone who knows and understands the bible will not say this. I am pagan. Wicca is my religion and one pagan/Wicca belief is that there is only one Deity and the many gods/goddesses/ are just differing aspects of that one Deity, so this is basically what those who claim to be Christian are saying, but they claim that one Deity is their God.
I accept this as a pagan, but when I was a Christian I could not because it is against scripture. Personally I like Christians believing this because those are the ones who do not bother us and try to convert us.
I have reasons to doubt Bush believes this, unless he in his mind is thinking about only the religions that are already spin offs of the Jewish God like Christianity and Islam, possibly more.
I doubt bush claims this about our pagan gods and goddesses because he has publicly said things about us pagans and Wiccans that is against us and he has admitted publicly that any pagan religion is not a religion at all, and that only those who worship the Christian god is a genuine religion.
I am not anti-Bush per say, but he has some scary ideas, and I would be More at ease if any Republican after him is not as radical in their Christian faith.
2007-01-14 09:42:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't speak for other religions. But it seems to me that there is no point each other over a name. Even among Christians, the nature of God varies, yet we still worship the same God. God exists, and we worship him, whether in the name of Allah or in the name of God. How we see him can vary though.
2007-01-14 09:25:32 · answer #6 · answered by moonman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Now think about it for a minute, are Zeus, Odin, and Jesus all one in the same? I think not! It actually is very insulting to say that all Gods are just one. Besides, not everyone who believe in a god is a monotheist. Some of us worship many different Gods and Goddesses.
2007-01-14 09:50:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does seem like the typical outlook on God is the same in most major religions. Many people think that there is one God, but many different ways to get to him.
Others don't think so.
The fact that God is not something or someone you can sit down and interview, and get a profile on, makes it impossible to say whether or not He's the same guy we're all serving.
2007-01-14 09:24:33 · answer #8 · answered by captainsquanto 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What then of polytheists? :) For me the way around this question is common: the two all gods exist or none possibly can. i elect to have confidence the former, simply by my very very own very own reviews and instinct, that's all any non secular man or woman truly has. So if human beings from all different religions are having almost same religious reviews with an excellent variety of deities, how can one be any "extra genuine" than the different? yet once you have 2 faiths - Christianity and Islam - who insist on a "One possible way" concept, something different than their very very own concept is misguided in accordance to them, even while it is composed of sects interior their very very own faith! And the peculiar element is they use a variety of of an analogous scriptures! LOL
2016-10-07 03:54:41 · answer #9 · answered by matlock 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Accept those who worship many gods they are worshiping the demi gods or the superintendants of the material world. They are servants of The Supreme God. He is also known as Krishna, Allah, Jehovah, Vishnu, Rama, etc. Shiva,Durgha, Ganesha,Indra, Vayu, Surya, are all demi gods and are not the same as God. Many Hindus lump the supreme God and the demi gods in one category which is wrong. So do the wikens and some pagans and others. Krishna says in the Gita " I am the source of everything and everything emanates from Me, those who worship the demi gods only worship Me, but they do so in a wrong way. (they get all their power from Krishna(God)). go to harekrishnatemple.c for details, Read Bhagavad Gita as it is By Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada. tells who's' who.
2007-01-14 09:29:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, all roads do not lead to the airport. Many Christians believe if you do not follow Jesus and the God of the Bible you are doomed.
I am not sure how accurate this is because many people in cults and occults truly are searching for God but started looking in the wrong place and stayed there not knowing. The Bible says God has mercy on whom he will have mercy. He knows people's hearts and who truly desire him
2007-01-14 09:27:06 · answer #11 · answered by sapphire_630 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋