I saw an answer saying that other religions believe theirs is the only way.. that we non-christians don't say things like "oh those christians are sure going to get a great reward in the afterlife".. is that true for your belief or do you believe all paths are valid?
2007-05-26 02:21:50 · 35 answers · asked by Kallan 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Bright Blessings to you, Ariel!
2007-05-26 03:22:53 · update #1
No, I do not believe that my spiritual path is the ONLY way.
I believe that my Creator, being powerful enough and smart enough to Create all that has been created... that He/She was also smart enought to realise that as humans we are all different, unique, individual... and as such we all need different and unique ways to discover our Creator/s.
Personally I have always thought of the many different religions and spiritual paths as just that, paths that are leading us all to the same place. Kind of like a forest with many paths and trails through it, some easy to see and others nearly impossible to discern, but they’re all the same; many paths that all lead to the same place on the other side of the forest. That place could be Heaven, the Summer Land, or any name that man or woman could place upon it, but all still one and the same. This is the Paradise that we strive in life to reach after death.
2007-05-26 06:54:43 · answer #1 · answered by Shewolf Silver Shadows/Author 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm Pagan and a witch and my path certainly wouldn't suit lots of other people. I believe all religion has at heart a grain of truth but no one religion can claim to be the only way. We are all different and see the world in different ways. Logically our pathways through life are going to need to be different too. Christians seem to have a problem acknowledging that other paths may be valid.
2007-05-26 02:53:45 · answer #2 · answered by hedgewitch18 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If there is, indeed, a heaven...
Then naturally any path that leads there is the right one, and I would find it hard to believe there's only one road to get there...
In fact, if there is a heaven...
It seems a supposedly all-loving God would make ALL roads lead there...
A logical, speculative argument from a person who believes there might not be any way to anything at all...(and that's why there's rock-n-roll, ice-cream, and art in general)
Except a tragically permanent end to our too-damn-short lives...
Maybe there is no "way," so everybody who believes in a "way" is equally wrong about their "way..."
I hope I'm not right about my belief...so heaven better be fun...and I better not have to shave anymore...
2007-05-26 02:34:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I reject Christianity because of the fact their e book is contradictory, and no god has ever been shown, not to point the god from the bible. whilst the e book you base each and every thing on treats women human beings as 2nd classification electorate, condoning slavery, homicide, close up. purely stop it, you're talking goofy nonsense. you could not tell me it fairly is the only way. If it wasn't, for particular, for particular it would not have 40,000 distinctive denominations. we don't even have the actually bible, what we've's a e book first translated into Latin, then into Greek, then into historical Hebrew. once you have a thoughts informed in oral custom for one thousand years formerly this is ever written in historical Hebrew. And to this present day, they only understand 3/4 words of historical Hebrew. To this present day, 25% of each and every of the words, they have not got any concept what that's. And, in historical Hebrew, there have been no numbers. So, letters additionally double as numbers. So, you lose each and every of the numerical fee it fairly is imported interior the text fabric. like the word god and the word love, they have a similar numerical fee. and that's incredibly substantial for sentencing. And whilst that grow to be translated into Latin and Greek, they lost all of that. and that's a number of those thoughts are, hundreds of years of human beings bullshiting around the campfire, to the unique text fabric, being indecisive to what they have at present. And after all that, you are going to tell me Christianity is powerful? you will might desire to be loopy, actually loopy.
2016-10-08 03:50:52 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For all practical purposes there is only one truth and only one way to discover it - through reason and evidence. Anything else is invalid.
Of course if we're talking about subjective things like morality or matters of taste then no 'path' is more objectively valid than any other - it's all about value judgments in that case.
2007-05-26 02:24:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All paths are valid and probably none is entirely accurate. The mystery of life, death and the other elements of who we are are just that -- mysteries. Most of he systems we have developed as humans are attempts to explain the inexplicable.
The best we can do is to continue to pursue goodness and even perfection. We shall perish in the process and propser in the path. Our legacies are what we leave behind in our children, our grandchildren and our good works.
2007-05-26 02:27:42 · answer #6 · answered by Tom 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think any spiritual path is valid and I also think that any religion or spiritual path contains some truth. But no one has all the answer. I suppose the point should be that your spiritual path should eventually lead to greater truth.
2007-05-26 02:28:15 · answer #7 · answered by The_Slasher_of_Veils 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a deist myself(born as a muslim),I think all paths are valid.But religious people don't take it like that.Many muslims believe that only their way is going to lead them to heaven and some christians do that as well.I don't because I don't believe in eny religions.
2007-05-26 02:26:19 · answer #8 · answered by zeynepp 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All paths lead home dear friend.
The belief that God was not smart enough to come up with a plan to get all of us home safely is a complete lack of faith.
Love and blessings Don
2007-05-26 02:26:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
individuality is sacrificed by christianity so all become a bride and lose free will, freedom and choice
I assert my own path, free to change course at any time
I object to exclusive and controlling religions that tell me the only right choice is thier version or variant of 41,500 and growing variation of christianity or monotheistic based 'paths' to a god
I believe we need to love each other, self first before trying to love a god we can't see but are demanded to give to it's gurus who can't get support from thier god but milk it's mindless followers
2007-05-26 02:29:04 · answer #10 · answered by voice_of_reason 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋