If any one of them has any basis of truth that there is a God, wouldn't the God of which ever one is the right one have been seen, written about, and worshiped in other places besides just the Middle East and Europe?Is it possible that places that never heard of the Christian God or Jewish God or Muslim God never heard of any of those "God" stories because the authors of the religious texts... I mean "God" didn't know they were there?Or, was God just a regional kind of God?You know, just a God that only people from the lands he was made up in.... I mean seen in, heard in, and/or written about in could worship.That is, until religious people forced.... I mean brought their religious beliefs to the natives of lands not known about when Christianity, Muslim beliefs, and Judaism were dreamed up by a bunch of guys in a desert.... I mean were inspired by an all seeing God..
2007-03-20 22:47:02 · 7 answers · asked by Demopublican 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
First answerer:
You basically repeated my point.But my question is why, if any God is a true God, didn't the native Americans-before religions from Europe and the Middle East were brought here- ever hear about this supposive "true" God?
2007-03-20 23:00:43 · update #1
because the winner forgot to write a few minor details in to history. Then again there are one or two religions (one in particular is very large, at least in one western state) that make some outlandish claims in order to answer that little problem of there being one true god, but then again that religion isn't really that old, it started here and moved with the wagon trains. Of course there's always the problem that if there was one true god that everyone worshiped that would make a small problem for groups that wanted to feel special because they were the only ones that had the truth, and it would also interfere with justifying a lot of wars.
Your questions also holds true for many of the european tribes (celts, goths, normans, spainish ect) that the romans conqured. As well as much of south america that spain held, the many small tribes that egypt conqured, rome conqured by greace; really those could go on and on. I think religion must be taken by "faith" (and historicly, often by force) and not by logic. kinda makes the whole thing sound like a crime of passion doesn't it (I mean the one true god thing)?
2007-03-20 23:00:10 · answer #1 · answered by nikomat77 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
First of all, the Christian God and the Jewish God are the same God. The difference being that the Jews are waiting for God to send the Messiah to establish his kingdom on earth. Due to numerous prophecies in the Old Testament about that Messiah, people proclaimed Jesus as that awaited Messiah. Christians believe Jesus was that Messiah but the Jews did not and thought it heresy and had him crucified. Jews still await the Messiah.
To your question: If all of mankind had it's source and beginnings in the Middle East than it makes perfect sense that all of this history is found in that part of the world. Before there were written texts everything was an oral tradition where stories were passed down from generation to generation. Get 20 people in a room sitting in a circle, whisper a secret message in the ear of the person next to you and tell them to tell the next person. By the end of the line the message can be amusing. Imagine passing a message down through hundreds of years and through thousands of people. If you compare stories from around the world over the centuries, China, Hawaii, Middle East, Norse cultures etc. did you know there are 15 different flood stories where the world was flooded and a man built a boat to save his family. Now if this story is found around the world in different languages in different cultures going back to their early histories, I might be temtpted to believe that THERE WAS A FLOOD AND A MAN BUILT A BOAT TO SAVE HIS FAMILY!
2007-03-20 23:20:17 · answer #2 · answered by Kuulio 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As part native american myself this question seems pretty dumb. Before europeans came to this country the natives believed and worshipped God. He's usually called the Great Spirit and was worshipped with dance, song and prayer just as he is in todays Christian culture. The only thing that changed is the level of knowledge and the customs.
2007-03-20 23:31:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Your question takes faith to answer. God is a God who loves all men and he has given men the same ability to love. Thus, God wants men to choose to love him back and he doesn't force them to do it, as it is their choice. A person must first have faith that God exists, he created the earth, sea, every creature, and the universe. Then we must believe that if God can do all that he can write a book called the Bible about himself that explains the answers to your question.
In this book called the Bible, God tries to teach us that he created all things and that everything created has a purpose including the ability for us to read and write. Next in this book he tries to teach us that he has communicated to us promises that shows us that he doesn't lie and when he promises something it will happen. He tells us that he made a plan for all men even before he created this earth and all that has happened in creation is working for the final fulfillment of this plan.
So the Bible is God's way of showing us promises he made to a certian family and it is because of the promises he made to this family all men would have the ability to look at God as a personal God and be adopted into the family of God..
He tells us that it was during a time after the great flood that men pretty much lived in the area of Iraq and they built a temple that they set up for worshipping a false god. So, The One True God, confused men buy giving them all different languages causing them to disburse into areas pre-ordained on this earth for their tribal dialects, customes and traditions.
Since it was their choice to accept the true God or not they chose to continue to worship their false gods.
So, God knew that it was going to take some convincing of men to provoke them to love him back thru faith and to see that he really exists thru faith. Thus, he uses Israel as a nation to teach us how we should have faith and love God. Not thru religion for Israel was a religious nation, but through true faith and true love towards him and to teach us this way of love he sent his Son, Jesus, to show us what love really is. That when we love him as he taught us we will also truly love our fellow men.
2007-03-21 05:05:49 · answer #4 · answered by Bobby B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh...well for starters, america is only about 300 years old. So of course we didn't know all the world religions until they were brought here. Before then, it was native american religions.
2007-03-20 22:50:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is why religions are very wrong. There may be God...but no religions explain God in the right way...its all perspectives...flawed and edited sources...
2007-03-20 23:00:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Buddhism.
www.meditationthai.org
2007-03-20 22:50:55 · answer #7 · answered by Bright 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋