isn't it possible that all religions are wrong?

Question

everyone who i know that has some form of religious identity, be it a christian, muslim, hebrew, or whatever other hundreds of religions that exist world, are convinced that their religion is the right one. certainly they can't all be right. so how does anyone know they're right. i hear people professing it all the time, from all religions, people who were born into their religion and converts.

Answer 1

Like so many people answering this question i too believe that it is highly possible that all religions are wrong. We cannot know for certain what exists beyond this life until we are dead! I believe though, that if your religion/beliefs (be it Buddhism, Christianity, Atheism etc) gives you hope, brings you comfort and peace, makes you a better person and gives you meaning then i think that is what truly matters!
No one can say for certain or be 100% positive that their faith is the "right" one and i think saying or thinking that it is would not only be extremely naive and ignorant but would be disrespectful to those people who hold different beliefs to you. I think however what you can do is not think about or even care whether it is the so-called "right" one but focus on the positive feelings that it brings to you in the present!
I for one do not care if i am right or wrong in my beliefs, to me it doesn't really matter, all i know is that it gives me extreme comfort and peace and i feel it makes me a better person to be around.

Answer 2

Okay in a sense all are right. Christan's claim there are right because they have the bible to go by. With that said other world religions have the basics like Christian's do to. For example every religion and civilization has a begaining of time and most start the same but are different.The Greeks had several gods that explain begaining of time. And all religions has rules to live by. Most just want humans to get along with each other. So everyone is right in a sense.

Answer 3

some people ask your self a similar concern approximately atheists. I mean, how do you clarify that the bible pronounced the international became around 2,000 years earlier it became ordinary by ability of guy? The bible (e book of interest) additionally is going into super element to describe a dinosaur living on the time. (e book of interest became written approximately 2000 years B.C.) yet you assert what approximately each and each of the geologic courting tactics we would desire to tutor that dinos existed hundreds of thousands of years in the past and not thousand? nicely pass obtainable, detect a rock from a lava pass which you comprehend befell interior the final 50 years or so and have it dated. a guy did this as quickly as to be certain what solutions he have been given and he became taken aback to locate that the courting technique pronounced the rock became a hundred and eighty,000 years old while he knew for a actuality it became decrease than 50! you will additionally locate some inconsistancies with dinosaur bones. they'll date it one way and while they dont like the date, they'll use yet another technique to "tutor" the date. yet once you're making kool-help and you place a cup of sugar in it, it doesnt rely what proportion different procedures you're able to desire to degree it, it is going to arise as there is in basic terms a million cup of sugar each and each time.

Answer 4

Of course, but I don't think religion is really about being right or wrong. It's hard to explain the greater force that is around and in all of us. We all want to have some idea of why we're all here, and some peopel need to here it in literal words. If you look accross many religions you find themes that are perhaps universal to what everyone believes. I think that maybe some religions came about the wrong way...but we all need to believe in something.

Answer 5

Of course they can all be wrong. I think it's rather arrogant to go around claiming one is absolutely right in their religion when there isn't any back up for these sorts of things. You can say certain teachings are correct - what comes around, goes around, etc... but I think it would be hard for a person to convince another of the absoluteness of their religion without first proving God(s) exist.

Answer 6

Yes, it is possible that all religions are wrong. In fact, I think the very fact that so many of them exist is evidence that there is no one simple truth.

But that's why I'm an atheist. Of course, there's a chance I may be wrong as well, and that there's a heaven full of Seventh-Day Adventists/Wahhabi Muslims/Hassidic Jews and no one else. Frankly, if that's heaven, I don't really want to be in it anyway. ;)

Answer 7

It's probable that all (or most) religions have a seed of "Truth" concealed within a rind of irrelevant and inessential dogma. Comparative religion reveals just such an identity beneath the diversity of forms. It seems simpler to me to argue that the devout of different religions undergo the same types of experiences, but each relates his own experience to the particular mythology in which he was raised, which accounts for the apparent controversy amongst denominations. The problem is in dogma, in insistsing on the superficial non-essentials and ignoring the essentials. The solution is in some form of "gnosticism," i.e. direct personal spiritual experience, each for himself. The only spiritual "Truth" is that which is received internally. "Revealed" religions, on the contrary, rely on blind faith in the testimony of some external "authority." This authority's experience may have been "Truth" for him; but it's not enough for others simply to believe in the supposed "facts" of his biography; they have to discover "Truth" for themselves.

It's pointless to dispute, e.g., the fundie Christian's "personal relationship with Jesus Christ;" but it's simple to prove that Christianity as an institution is historically founded on a series of deliberate frauds. The "Christ" one personally experiences has nothing to do with a man who may or may not have lived two millenia ago save in the minds of the people who have been systematically trained associate the two. In another, He might have appeared as Krishna, or Allah, or Osiris, or Odin, or Mithra, or IHVH, or take-your-pick.

Answer 8

I don't know about other religious beliefs, but Christianity is the only religion that professes to have a personal relationship with their God, all others have to make sacrifices and don't have the reassurance that their god will allow them t get to heaven. Like Muslims for example they have to kill non-believers and hope that they get to heaven. Christians have a relationship with God, and we know for a fact where we will be when we die.

Answer 9

Of course there is a possibility all religions are wrong, as a matter of fact, it's a given to most people that at least all but one are.. That's why I feel one should be ok with people choosing, and not try to cram what they see as true down the throats of others..

Answer 10

Not only is it possible, it is highly probable. Every reason you can think of why another religion is wrong can be used to show why yours is wrong. If people kept their religions to themselves and stopped squabbling about them, the world would be a safer and happier place to live in.