I don't understand how anyone can believe the Bible/Qu'ran/Torah etc and yet not accept the other texts as equally valid. None of them, in my opinion, have any more evidence than the others. Is it just personal preference? Culture?
2007-02-04 08:29:39 · 10 answers · asked by serf m 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
With the exception of the differences between eastern and western religious texts. The differences between Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Taoism etc and Abrahamic religions is more distinct in morals and general beliefs than between each Abrahamic religion.
2007-02-04 08:30:50 · update #1
Why buy one type of car when there's hundreds of others available? - So you ARE saying that religious 'beliefs' are just personal preference?
2007-02-04 08:39:49 · update #2
You can't say 'because my religious text says it's right so I have to believe that' - EVERY religious text, pretty much, says that too. How would you know that yours is right except that it's the one you're familiar with?
2007-02-04 08:40:51 · update #3
I believe that belief in one holy book over another has primarily to do with the culture in which you grew up. If you were born in a country where Islam predominates then it is most likely that a person given to conservatism and belief in the status quo would be Muslim. Likewise if someone is born where Catholicism, Buddhism or Hinduism predominates.
However in places where the population becomes dependent on or dominated by another culture, the values and deities of that culture can begin to dominate there, as in Africa or Latin America.
On the other hand I also believe that when introduced to other religions or holy books people (when allowed to) adopt the ones that best reflect their own views and beliefs. I personally think that there is some wisdom and value in all of them if you are willing to see it.
2007-02-04 08:49:39 · answer #1 · answered by jennette h 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not exactly positive about this but from what I've seen and heard every religious text in the world contains some way on how humans can 'earn' their salvation. In the Bible the God came and gave the salvation to all who'd accept it. For one religious text to be different from all the others is weird. The way the Bible was made was different from every other religious text as well. And the Bible's central theme of love is different from every other religious text.
2007-02-04 08:39:13 · answer #2 · answered by Alien51 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
check out Deism. it somewhat is the theory God exists, granted reason to humanity, and that each little thing is supplied to function with our own selection and freedoms yet additionally reaping the magnificent thing approximately creation. As for religious texts, i'm a literary guy, so i think of you may desire to examine them in order that which you already know what's in them. you probably won't opt to stick to them yet possibly you could take concepts you like from diverse religious texts and create your individual philosophy.
2017-01-02 08:27:31 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(Matthew 7:13-14) “Go in through the narrow gate; because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it."
See also 2 Cor 4:4; 1 Cor 10:20
Reason on this also: Would you be happy if someone gave you a glass of milk with a dead fly assuring you that most of it is good milk? Would that be suffcient for you? (2 Cor 11:14-15; 2 Tim 3:2, 5)
2007-02-04 08:35:09 · answer #4 · answered by ♥☺ bratiskim∞! ☺♥ 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We have leaders of cults who have been very successful in the way they speak and write.
There are "religious text" which were inspired by God and there are text called religious which were not inspired by God.
The question is: "Does this particular text bring me closer to God or is it there to glorify the creator of the text."
2007-02-04 08:36:49 · answer #5 · answered by Mary W 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible conflicts with every other religious text; everyone can't be right. Either God is who the Bible says he is, or he is something else. If you want to me to go further with this, email me.
2007-02-04 08:34:08 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because it's the only one your parents taught you, and they told you you'd be tortured for even considering any others?
2007-02-04 08:40:29 · answer #7 · answered by eldad9 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why buy one type of car when there's hundreds of others available? Sounds stupid doesn't it?
2007-02-04 08:35:48 · answer #8 · answered by Heaven's Messenger 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
because there is only one true God Jehovah and He only inspired one Bible.
all other gods are false gods and
all other religious texts are false teachings.
God says so.
2007-02-04 08:34:57 · answer #9 · answered by Chef Bob 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
instead, i accept none of them
2007-02-04 08:34:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋