why does only one religion have to be the right"maybe they are all right"?

Answer 1

I agree. It's possible that all religions are right in the sense that all roads that lead to the top of a mountain are right -- different approaches to the same goal -- or different frequencies on a radio dial.

If so, it's doubly tragic that so often we kill each other over things that, in the greater picture, are pitifully small differences in doctrine.

Answer 2

Maybe. Or maybe it's like that South Park episode and everybody except the Mormons are going to Hell. Funny episode. Or maybe God is just a figment of our imagination. Or maybe...

C'mon. We can't know. Nobody's come back from the dead yet to tell us what's actually going on and whose god is the right one. So we pick one that seems to ring the most true within ourselves and say, "Okay, this is my right religion."

Answer 3

Religion should be compared to an education system. Which is right, third grade or fifth grade ? ... or maybe it's seventh grade or eleventh grade? Lemme know so I can sign up for the right one.

Everyone is at a different place and needs different nurturing. Yet all will "graduate".

Answer 4

I'm going to have to agree with the previous answers about contradictions.

Let's take a straight foward one:
The Qu'ran claims to be the perfect, inerrant, revealed will of Allah.
The bible claims to be the revealed will of Yahweh.

Now, in the Qu'ran, it is taught that Jesus was a prophet, but he did not die on a cross and he was not God.

The bible teaches that Jesus was the Messiah, that he died on a cross and was raised from the dead, and that he was, infact God in human flesh.

This is a direct contradiction.

Also Jewish people do not accept that Jesus was their Messiah whereas Christians do believe that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah.

These things cannot all be true because they contradict.

I'd just like to say in response to Sarah's comment that "we can't know which is right because no one has come back from the dead to tell us" - That is not true, Jesus came back from the dead. He has the experience and the authority to tell us what is to come in the life beyond the grave.

Answer 5

"The Catholic Church is the work of Divine Providence, achieved through the prophecies of the prophets, through the Incarnation and the teaching of Christ, through the journeys of the Apostles, through the suffering, the crosses, the blood and the death of the martyrs, through the admirable lives of the saints. When, then, we see so much help on God's part, so much progress and so much fruit, shall we hesitate to bury ourselves in the bosom of that Church? For starting from the Apostolic Chair down through successions of bishops, even unto the open confession of all mankind, it has possessed the crown of teaching authority." - St. Augustine of Hippo ("The Advantage of Believing" 4th century A.D.)

What did Martin Luther, the Protestant Reformer, state about the Bible? In his "Commentary On St. John," he stated the following: "We are compelled to concede to the Papists that they have the Word of God, that we have received It from them, and that without them we should have no knowledge of It at all." Regardless of what non-Catholic Christians may think or say, according to secular, objective historians, the Catholic Church alone preserved Sacred Scripture throughout the persecution of the Roman Empire and during the Dark Ages. All non-Catholic Christian denominations owe the existence of the Bible to the Catholic Church alone. Why did God choose the Catholic Church to preserve Scripture if It is not His Church?

Answer 6

Religions are just ways for us to get close to God. They are not always necessary, but they are all right if they help the person in question find their connection with the all.

Answer 7

religion: belief in a divine or superhuman power or powers to be obeyed and worshiped as the creator(s) and ruler(s) of the universe. [Webster's Unabridged Dictionary]
According to this definition (and I couldn't find a better one) since the religion is a matter of "belief in the existence" of a creator (or creators) and ruler (or rulers) of the universe, not a matter of "proven existence" of such, depending on how strong a person's belief could be, one could never rationally persuade that person that his or her religion might not the only right one.
The real tragedy is that at least three monotheist religions worship the same Creator and Ruler, and they kill (or killed) each other in His name (not to mention the Shiites and the Sunnites who both worship Allah and kill each other since more than 13 centuries!...)

Answer 8

Jesus Christ foresaw that there will be groups that will breakaway from the Church he founded and so he gave the Church the sole authority to interpret Sacred Scripture. The teaching authority of the Catholic Church comes directly from Christ and is, therefore, infallible.
Matthew 16,18-20: "And so I tell you Peter, you are a rock, and on this rock foundation I will build my Church, and not even death will ever be able to overcome it. I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven; what you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven and what you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven."
Matthew 28,20: "And teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And I will be with you always, to the end of the age."
Timothy 3,15: "But if I delay, this letter will let you know how we should conduct ourselves in God's household, WHICH IS THE CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD, THE PILLAR AND FOUNDATION OF TRUTH."
Have a blessed day

Answer 9

No because the religions contradict each other.

If one says there is one God and another says there is no God, both cannot be right.

If one religion says we need salvation to go to heaven and another says we need to pray six times a day to go to heaven, both can't be right

Answer 10

Religion to God is looking after widows and orphans and keeping ourselves unspotted from the world. In the Bible there is no such thing as religious denominations.