Try to avoid circular logic please. Do you have a logical reason or do you believe the way you believe because you were taught your concept of your god from an early age?
2007-02-19 17:11:39 · 22 answers · asked by dino 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
try to avoid circular *snicker*
2007-02-19 17:26:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Everyone believes there God exist over others. But the truth is there's only one God. The prayers of a Muslim and a Christian still reach one God, because God does not see religion but faithfullness. The God of the Jews and Christians are the same. The Old Testament is actually The Hebrew or Jewish Bible. And some religious figures are looked upon as great teachers such as Jesus and Buddah. The "Treat others as you would want to be treated" is used in schools. So basically it's all one God modified to culture. Many priest say since a child has heard of just God wether it be of any religion the child will still go to heaven.
2007-02-19 17:18:40 · answer #2 · answered by Ans2003 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How can we understand the nature of fire except from its heat, its light? Were not heat and light in this fire, naturally we could not say that the fire existed.
Thus, if there was a time when God did not manifest His qualities, then there was no God, because the attributes of God presuppose the creation of phenomena. For example, by present consideration we say that God is the creator. Then there must always have been a creation -- since the quality of creator cannot be limited to the moment when some man or men realize this attribute. The attributes that we discover one by one -- these attributes themselves necessarily anticipated our discovery of them. Therefore, God has no beginning and no ending; nor is His creation limited ever as to degree. Limitations of time and degree pertain to things created, never to the creation as a whole. They pertain to the forms of things, not to their realities. The effulgence of God cannot be suspended. The sovereignty of God cannot be interrupted.
As long as the sovereignty of God is immemorial, therefore the creation of our world throughout infinity is presupposed. When we look at the reality of this subject, we see that the bounties of God are infinite, without beginning and without end.
The greatest bounties of God in this phenomenal world are His Manifestations. This is the greatest postulate. These Manifestations are the Suns of Reality. For it is through the Manifestation that the reality becomes known and established for man. History proves to us that apart from the influence of the Manifestations, man sinks back into his animal condition, using even his intellectual power to subserve an animal purpose. Therefore there is no cessation whatsoever in the future for the appearance of the Manifestation of God, because God is infinite and His purpose cannot be limited in any way. If we ever dare to limit and circumscribe God's purpose within any bounds, then of necessity we have dared to set limitations to the omnipotence of God. The created has dared to define his Creator!
Consequently, the perfect man ever beholds the rays of the Sun of Truth. The perfect man ever awaits and expects the coming of the effulgence of God, he ever ponders over the methods and purposes of God, knowing that of certainty the realities of the Divine are not finite, the Divine names and attributes are not finite. God's graces and bounties are without limit, and the coming of the Manifestations of God are not circumscribed by time.
(Abdu'l-Baha, Foundations of World Unity, p. 51)
2007-02-19 18:48:34 · answer #3 · answered by Gravitar or not... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because my God who is the only one and true God (your God also if you would believe), is the only God who became flesh through His Son Jesus Christ, came to this lowly earth, died a torturous death for your sake and mine so that we could be with Him in Heaven. He is the only one who died and CAME BACK TO LIFE AGAIN, unlike false Christs, prophets who may have made promises, etc, but didn't come back to life to talk about it. His Word is the only Book that contains many, many prophecies that have ALL come about and many are unfolding before our very eyes --watch the news and the Middle East, and read Revelation. Ignorance abounds in questions like this, no offense to you personally, you just do not understand because you are unlearned or succumbing under satan's deceptions. Pray to Jesus and ask Him into your heart and He will reveal to you Truth that includes no other gods before you. He gives not because you ask not.
2007-02-19 17:26:24 · answer #4 · answered by connie 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, I was raised catholic and I renounced that religion due to the false teachings. I also dabbled in wicca for a very short time and what a BIG mistake that was. I am now a born again Christian. I know in my heart that this is the only right and true way I want to live. I read the Holy Bible (KJV) 1611. This is the only Bible satan has not been able to corrupt.
2007-02-19 17:25:05 · answer #5 · answered by Dakota Lynn Takes Gun 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I believe what I experience. And my experience leads me to accept what I have been "taught." I have a solid, living, real relationship with God Almighty - shall the one who speaks to me and guides me be called a liar by me? I believe what He says because I know Him in a real, tangible way. He says there is no other god and there is no other way to Him except Christ and I believe Him.
2007-02-19 17:18:39 · answer #6 · answered by wd 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe in any god, so therefore they all are fake. The need for a god is merely the need to believe in a higher power to blame someone for all that goes wrong in your life, and to look to someone to make it get better. This way it takes all the responsibility off of your shoulders. You live by fate. As you can tell I'm an existentialist
2007-02-19 17:17:41 · answer #7 · answered by lochmessy 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
There is no religion higher than the truth. The truth can only be discovered with the evidence of the senses and logic. Faith is the desire to know by feeling, without using the mind.
2007-02-19 17:17:00 · answer #8 · answered by DrEvol 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Those who are filled with the Holy Spirit are "witnesses" to Christ. This is based on a relationship....not as some might say, "blind faith" but faith based on a reason for having faith!
You will not find this with any other religion...because all of the other religious icons are still in the grave....our Lord is risen - and therefore our faith is in that which is living, not dead!
2007-02-19 17:21:40 · answer #9 · answered by whitehorse456 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Unfortunately, the answer is circular:
My god is real and the others are fake because my god tells me so.
I've talked to a lot of religious people and that's the best I have ever heard.
2007-02-19 17:15:41 · answer #10 · answered by Alan 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because of indoctrination and ignorance. Same reason most wars begin.
2007-02-19 17:27:59 · answer #11 · answered by Me, Thrice-Baked 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋