Considering that there are currently over 20 modern religions in the world today.....?

Question

and thousands of ancient religions (polytheistic, etc.) that have had slews of devout believers and have since faded. Considering that....How can a reasonable, logical person quote passages from a man-made book and proclaim it to others as the word of god? As if they saw god ("him" or "her" or "they") write it! And on top of that, argue that their book is right, while all the others (with millions of respective "believers") are wrong? It all seems silly to me. I just can't wrap my head around it.

Answer 1

On the contrary, how can they all possibly be equally right?

Particularly, when some religions are polytheistic, while others are monotheistic?

Then you have atheists who say there is no God whatsoever.

At a few of them, have to be wrong in some way.

Answer 2

During the course of human history, man has sought to understand his surroundings. Given an inherent knowledge of cause and effect, man must think that there was a single cause that brought the world into being. Some say matter has always been and the Big Bang caused everything to happen. Others believe spirits have always existed and they created the earth and the universe. I believe God has always been and created the earth and the entire universe.

Christians believe in two types of revelation: general and specific. General revelation is all the observables we have in front of us. Stars, unique creatures, the beauty of everything that surrounds us... We claim from this that SOMETHING had to have created all of this. Specific revelation is that which came from God, which would be the Bible. We believe the Bible to be the words of God. How can we believe such a stupid thing?

For one, we know what care the scribes took when copying the Bible. Each line had to have a certain number of letters, each letter had to fit strict tolerances for size, each page had to have a certain number of lines that was counted over and over, the scribes could not copy from memory, and they had to pen each letter in one at a time, referring to the original being copied from for each letter. If an error was ever found, the whole book was burned.

Christians also have the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The tomb was guarded by Roman guards whose lives depended on them staying awake and at their posts (they could be executed if they didn't do as they were told). The tomb was sealed by a Roman seal. If anyone were to open the tomb they could be punished by death. Jesus Christ was buried wrapped in over a hundred pounds of cloth, herbs, and spices. On the cross after he died, his heart was pierced by a spear and blood and water flowed from his heart. We know now that this could mean he died of shock. In any case, he was dead.. no doubt about it. The Roman authorities would not have taken the body. Even if they did, they could have reproduced it to prove that he was indeed dead. After the body was "stolen," the guards were paid to claim that the disciples overpowered them and took the body. Even if the disciples somehow did manage to steal the body and claim that Jesus Christ had risen, how did five hundred followers of Christ throughout the land claim they had seen the risen Lord within a short timespan? More importantly, why would a group of people risk their lives, and eventually die for a cause they knew for certain was a complete lie unless it actually wasn't?

I'm a reasonable person and I know plenty of reasonable people. It seems reasonable to me.

Answer 3

P P: Yes; there are multi modern religions in today's world. Where you go wrong is assuming that the Bible is a "man-made book". The bible or Holy Bible - correct title was written or scribed by the hand of men, who were inspired by God, via the Holy Spirit and not by private opinion. This is why it is the HOLY Bible (Bible - "Book" re: Greek word "biblios"). The prime or main difference between the religions of this world and the Christian faith is that "religion" is man-made, based on dos and dont's, ( called "legalism" ); whereas, Christianity is based on RELATIONSHIP with God, the Father through Jesus Christ [grace]. Christianity is therefore, founded in SPIRITUALITY based on relationship, opposed to "religion". A hugh hallmark with Christianity is that Jesus Christ is alive and makes intercession for Christians to His Father [God]. A lot of numbers of people do not necessarily make something "right".

Answer 4

Krishna says in the Gita "When ever their is a decline in religious principals and the truth appears to be lost, I appear again and again, or send my representative to reestablish the truth."
Simple answer. Originally the Word of God was written then man changes things so God has to reestablish the actual truth by sending another Messenger. But people due to their insincerity stay with the untrue books that have been changed by the hands of evil men. The Bible for example was changed By King Constantine to control the people. If one would like the original New Testament go to gospelofthenazirenes.c One copy of the original New Testament was found hidden by the ancient Essenes and is now available today. IT speaks the Original Truth of Christ. Also the Bhagavad Gita was changed by so many rascal interpreters. Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada was the most recent messenger to reestablish the Truth. For that go to harekrishnatemple.c - The Truth is one. But one must seek it out and with his sincere heart accept it.

Answer 5

There is only one right answer to a math problem and infinate wrong ones. Does that mean that one shouldn't believe in the right answer?

Answer 6

there are so many religions! We all need to agree on what the word says, so that we may be united with each other in heaven @!

Answer 7

A person is entitled to his faith. To each one of us, our faith makes personal sense.

Answer 8

a reasonable person couldn't.

Answer 9

Because it is silly.

Answer 10

Jesus is alive!! No doubt about it!