Why are there misunderstandings in religion?

Question

We have only one bible but there are so many interpretations that contradiction from one to another, as result many religions arise. What do you think, why is this happening?

Answer 1

There are two ways of reading any holy books:

1. What it really says.
2. What you want/need it to say.

Answer 2

There are more than just one "Bible". What Christianity calls "The Old Testament" is similar to the Talmud/Torah but not the same. Nor is it the same as the stories of the Patriarchs the the Muslims use. There are hundreds if not thousands books, stories and parables that didn't make the "Final draft". Same thing with the "New Testament". Jesus had 12 main, male followers and each handed down teaching, musings and stories in their ministries and families. John, Mark, Luke and Mathew all had similar stories and recounting, more divine stories. Most of the other Christian Apocrypha show Jesus as more of a human.
I think that the Jewish tradition of questioning and debating the meanings and messages in the books is right. The God of Abraham doesn't want sheep that regurgitate, verbatim, some mistranslation of something He was supposed to have said. He wants people to come up to Him in that after life and say, "Why? why did You say this, then do that?"

Answer 3

I think you are confused. Not all religions use the same book or Bible as you say.
The reasons for the misunderstandings is ego and ignorance. No one wants to believe that maybe the other group may be right. I personally think that religion has done more harm than good on this planet.
Think about that before you give me a thumbs down but I know you won't.

Answer 4

Easy peasy this one! Because we don't know for absolute certain, as human beings, what happens to us (if anything) after we die. That is the reason for religion and why there are so many misunderstandings and contradictions. (By the way, not all religions follow the Bible! Some even predate it!)

Answer 5

misunderstandings are a result of miscommunication,,,also ur ryt that there is only one Bible,,,but some religion have other religious books in which they base their beliefs...most of these books contradict with the Bible...this is happening coz some people want to hav their own standards...

Answer 6

religion is man made God wonts are love in purity and truth. what did Jesus tell the pharasies but they had condemed every one to hell by their rules and religion. we can pray to good and know him with out any religion. the different translations of the bible do not contradict each other or at least none I have read do they tell the same history but in slightly different english. they are updated so that people can understand it better the king Jmes was in very old english and even those who know the bible could have truble reading it.

Answer 7

Do you know religions were around before the bible? Your religion is not the first. Look at life with relevance not blind faith in a book hand copied for over 1,000 years.

Answer 8

There is only one bible, but there are hundreds of translations into English that are various shades of poor. All of them are misunderstandings, and all are different. You do the math.

Answer 9

Religious books were written a long time ago and since then corruption is church (yes I said it, there were big corruption in Roman Catholic Church in England......) caused clergy and people to write the book as they pleased to give them self more power........ If you remember back then there was the Divine King system where they believed that Kind is god, and that GOD directly choses the king..... anyway so they changed the bible.. due to corruption in the church

Answer 10

There are so many misunderstandings because so many people think they have "The One Truth". The reality is that they are all wrong.