God has different plans for everyone. Like the body, every cell in the body can not be a heart cell, there needs to be bone cells, skin, eyes, etc. Why must every human on Earth be of the same religion? Maybe God wants the Christians and Atheists and Buddists and every other kind. Many people have a religion that fits with the environment they live in, like the native tribes of this land. Maybe God wanted Christianity for the Middle East but not South America? What do you think.
2007-02-16 16:34:10 · 14 answers · asked by Sara 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are right on your premise but not your conclusion. Let me explain-
The cells in the body are all different cells, as they need to be. But they are all part of one system, the body, working together to a single end, under a single uniting order. Whenever cells in the body start going against the designed system of the body, problems occur- such as cancer, tumors, or auto-immune disorders.
This is the same for the human race- God created the human race to be a single body united in Him. We rebelled. Christ came as the cure, paying our penalty so that those who turned to Him could be reconciled with God and woven together once again into a new body, the Body of Christ as the Bible puts it. Each person in this body does something a little different, but they are united in purpose and in believing and obeying God. Not doing this is resuming the roll of a cancer or tumor.
I don't know whether you realize it or not, but your body-part analogy is found in the Bible. Go read 1 Corinthians 12:12-27.
I hope this clarifies things, and God bless!
2007-02-16 16:47:21 · answer #1 · answered by The Link 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He didn't come to start a religion. He came to seek and save that which was lost. He came to start a Church! He came to buy our souls back for eternity. He came to give us a way out from eternal damnation. He told us how in St. John 3:5, by being Born Again. Peter preached the greatest message ever given, on the Day of Pentecost!! Acts 2:38. That message still applies to this day!! Repent and be baptized (by immersion) in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Ghost to help you overcome your sinful behavior!. Only Jesus defeated death. Mohammed is still dead, so is Buddah, Mary also, onlyJesus Christ Resurrected from the grave, and He still lives! He is the only way!! It's not what we think, it's what the Bible says!!
2007-02-16 16:52:51 · answer #2 · answered by michael m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God said that those who worship him, should worship him in spirit and in truth. This whole business of worshipping God is not a joke, where he tells one group of people one thing, and then another group of people something else.
God is the creator of the mathematical and scientific laws. He does not have one set of scientific laws for North America and another for South America does he?
What you are proposing is confusion and chaos. God says in the Bible, I am not the author of confusion.
Though you may not believe in God, why try to make him a loony-bin person just playing around with us?
2007-02-16 16:52:44 · answer #3 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God wants people to have a right understanding of what He is. And He tries to reveal it through different religions. It all ultimately leads to one truth, just as different paths that all lead to one source. We are all allowed to choose the path that suits us the most. As long as we all come to discover one truth. Different religions are like different ways to solve one mathematical problem. It's just that as you said, people in certain environments may be more predisposed to understanding things a certain specific way due to a number of factors. Just as in math, all the different types of solutions are valid, as long as you get the answer right in the end.
And for me the answer is that God is a Law or Principle by which the Universe and all in it was created. There are laws out there that work and apply to us, regardless of our ability to understand or measure them. But these laws were presented to us in different shapes (ie religions)
2007-02-16 16:57:23 · answer #4 · answered by auka_aqua 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven is not like driving into a big city that has many roads that lead in. There is only one road, that way people won't get confused in getting there. No need for more than one way.
Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life. No one can come to God the Father without Jesus Christ. Only one way, no confusion, no need for more than one way.
2007-02-16 16:47:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Find out what the real world has in store for you rather than cowering behind the imaginary god....god didn't create cancer to torture people and give us a job in the med research field but the world does so fear not and go forth in courage and heart.
this I know is possible What you say is possibly hogwash but not likely otherwise.
2007-02-16 16:45:51 · answer #6 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely.We are so different from each other despite being the same.In a sense we are all like pieces of a big jigsaw puzzle;all different shaped,purposed but if put together we complete this one great and beautiful design that god has made for all of us.
2007-02-16 17:08:52 · answer #7 · answered by anakin.kit 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I really like your thought process. To me, that seems just what God would want. I don't think God would want people to hate others just because they didn't believe in the one "true" religion. Diversity is important.
2007-02-16 16:41:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus said in ACTS 1 to the apostles to go out to Judea, Sumaria and the "ends of the earth" to spread the Good News.
So, probably not.
Cheers!
2007-02-16 16:39:07 · answer #9 · answered by iamwhoiam 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We share a oneness we cannot fully yet comprehend. The outer strife reflects merely upon an inner one.
2007-02-16 16:42:56 · answer #10 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋