If there is one true religion how and why did all the other religious beliefs come about.?

Question

If only one is true shouldn't there be only one? And if not isn't it likely that none are true? Or isn't it likely that the oldest or first one would be the true one? But didn't the oldest ones already become mythology?

Answer 1

Logic plays tricks on people. Every religious person who believes their religion is the one true religion has no proof to support it. But they continue to hold on to such belief.

Answer 2

Religion is founded in people's beliefs. If it is not inspired by God, and if the leaders only lead by their interpertation of the Bible or other holy books, then that religion will change over time, integrating Man's ideas with God's ideals. Truth, real truth, eternal truth NEVER CHANGES. Truth is not subject to trends or to what people think. 2+2 will forever equal 4. It does not matter what the popular thought of the time is. Mythology is only someone else's ancient religion as it is looked at by us. The story of Buddah is mythology to many of us. But to a Buddist it is a fact and not just a nice story. It depends on who is looking at the religion to see if it is mythology or a fact.

Answer 3

Great question. Logic dictates that only one of two possibilities must be true:

1) They are all false.
or
2) One of them is true.

There are many religious beliefs because there are infinite interpretations of spiritual things put forth by man and accepted as truth by some. However, you are correct that the oldest or first one would be the true one.

Unless the oldest or first one had become corrupted and divided over the ages by the infinite interpretations of men.

Only one church today that I know of claims to be a restoration of the ancient true church of God.

Answer 4

Different parts of the world developed different religions, and they all - at one point - believe they are the only ones who are right. I believe that it is true that none of them are right, and yet all of them are. It is what belief is right for the individual that makes the religion the 'only one'.

Answer 5

There is only one true faith, and the one who started false religion is Satan the Devil. Satan began his resistance of Jehovah God at the garden of Eden during the presence there of the perfect Adam and Eve, and through deception he introduced false religion into the garden of Eden. (Gen. 3:1-15) After the expulsion of the rebellious Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden, Satan caused religion of a false kind to flourish outside Eden until the flood of the prophet Noah’s days, which flood brought an end to the violence with which the earth was filled as a result of false religion.—Gen. 6:1 to 8:22; 2 Pet. 2:5; 3:5, 6.

After this global flood Satan the Devil finally succeeded in reestablishing and organizing false religion, especially in the days of Noah’s great-grandson Nimrod, the founder of the city of Babylon (Babel) 1 Chron. 1:10) Babylon became the central stronghold of all false religion on the earth, and starting out from here a world empire of false religion was built up. This religious empire is the mysterious thing that the Holy Bible calls “Babylon the Great, the mother of the harlots and of the disgusting things of the earth.” (Rev. 17:1-5) This Babylonish religious empire has come to include even Christendom.
True worship involves shunning all aspects of false religion which is based not on God's Word, but on the traditions of men.

"This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." Matthew 15:8-10

One God alone could be supreme and all-powerful; and one such God could mean only one true religion, namely, the one right worship of this one supreme, almighty God. His religion is one of right belief and is harmonious in all its expressions. The true religion of the one God does not disagree with itself, deny itself or get divided with itself. If it had internal disagreement, contradiction and disunity, it could never stand; it could not be simple truth; it would disagree with the scientific laws of the universe; it could not triumph in the long-drawn-out conflict between true religion and false. But true religion must triumph, because truth cannot be destroyed. That is why, despite all the many false religions in the world, the true religion has lived through till this day, although it stands alone. Certainly the one almighty God could not do otherwise than preserve his own religion.

Answer 6

Proven fact.
You tell 4 people one story word for word and ask them to tell it back to you, 99% will not be able to and thus we get all distorted opinions and the loss of facts.

Answer 7

God gave us free will. He doesn't want robots walking around blindly. Who does believe in Him and follow Him, He wants it to be genuine and real. With free will comes questions. People started saying "I don't like it like this" and so they made it their own way.

Answer 8

all religions are nonsense