believers only please....why are there so many different religions.?

Question

..and what makes yours right? Also, what do you think about the religions that came before christianity..and after?

Answer 1

No one faith is true! The truth was given to various people over the millenniums and filtered through their culture and communicated in a way they could understand. I have been to many places around the world and each location seems to have it's own local "GODS" In Israel the god of Abraham, Jesus and Mohammed (same guy, different name) is powerful but go south a ways to Egypt and you can feel Seth, Bast, Thoth, Sekhmet, Osiris, Isis, Horus, Hathor, Aton, Anon etc. (aspects of the same god. different heads and bodies)
In Agra its Krishna, Rama, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva (aspects of the same god. different heads and bodies) Ditto for Greece and Italy (around the ancient ruins not heavy population areas) In the US there a places where the Great spirits of the Native Americans can be felt. Ditto Mayan, Aztec and Toltecs where they lived. On Hawaii it's Madame Pele.
The Buddhists got this right "Each seeker must find their own path"
I'm still working on it. Organized religions are pyramid scams only for the people on top who live off the rank and file. Respect the local gods when you travel but then find your own

Answer 2

Somehow that seems like a very tough question to me. I know people sees colors differently, come from diffferent cultures, languages, times and countries. Most words have a negative and postive definition, average of 6 or 7 definitions. Run has over 100 definitions in one of those fat dictionaries and there is almost a half amillion words in English alone. We call English one language but everyone has different experiences and defines the words differently so it's hundreds of millions of languages that are similar. You have to translate no matter who you talk to. Who uses the dictionary for every word anyway and it only has synonyms which are even the word. After you get through all that and specialized jargon for religion like spirit which sometimes means power, energy, attitude, breath in Hebrew., I find that there is a lot of smilarity between what people mean and a lot of insight in all people, no matter what their background. The sciptures even say that pagans know the word of God when Christians don't. I would imagine though observation and inspiration because man has the some spirit/energy/breath of life/inspitation or they would be dead and dumb.
The information age is done. Some say we are two ages away from the information age.People are all beginning to get it and come together on at least what they can agree on and getting communicating and seeing their humanity. Of course some people are only going berserk. Information overload, I guess or myopia.

Answer 3

Simple, there are infinate number of personalities that all have thier own belief. Mine is right for me. Mine is also, not religious. You can find my beliefs in one place, my soul. The belief systems before the common ones now were an attempt to cut through the mystery of the universe. There were great movements to do this. Philosophy is as old as man. Soon there will be no religion, very soon. The changes have already begun. The main event you could say is within the next 5 years. Mock me and I hope you don't.

Answer 4

We only have our faith that we know it's right . and I'm not so sure what you mean about other religions that came before . Genesis 1:1 says In the beginning God created the heavens and Earth , I would say faith plays a part in it again but if that's not the beginning , I don't know what is .
I know , I know , I heard Egyptian mythology surpasses us on the time scale and all that good stuff , but just because you have proof of earlier writings doesn't mean it pre dated the writings of the bible . I guess that's where faith comes in again

Answer 5

Man can not seem to trust only in Him. The people He was most critical of in the scriptures were the religious leaders. They would not recognize Him as the Messiah. We continue to create more and more religions because we don't trust Him either. Religions seem to come from our need to be a part of the answer / solution. He's the answer.

Answer 6

Everyone knows that it is hard to keep telling the same lie over and over again. The same goes with BS and when it is discovered, some folks immediately want to distance themselves from it. So, once gone, a new church and different spin on the BS. When that is discovered, the cycle repeats itself. Think about it. The WHOLE of every religion is founded and documented on nothing but fabrications.

Answer 7

Quite a few questions within a question.

"Why are there so many different religions?"
This started during Paul's day when some were saying "I am of Paul", "I am of Cephas", "I am of Apollos". Paul rebuked this kind of disection. However, man being what he is could not help but divide. When Constantine gave power to the church, it became a monster. Other sects disagreed and divided away. Then came the reformation. The Bible was now in the hands of the common people. Religions divided up based on what they thought the Bible said. Some changed the scriptures to fit their pet doctrine, other added books saying scripture had been mistranslated. Jesus gives His report card in Revelation...
http://www.schneblin.com/studies/pdfs/seven_letters.pdf

"What makes yours right?"
I'm non-denominational. I came to faith in Jesus when I was alone and by myself. I have no established religious roots. When it came to learning the Bible and of my Lord, it was mostly me, Him, and some good teachers on the radio.

"What do you think about the religions that came before christianity"
All require works to get to heaven. Only the Bible contains prophecy that proves its origin is from the eternal. So for me, only Judeism worshipped the true and Living God.

"...and after?"
Most have become distractions from true salvation.

Answer 8

There are so many religions because man is attempting to interpret the bible and there are so many different interpretations, thus the different religions. Religion is man's attempt to reach God. Salvation is God's hand extended to man. In the end, all that matters is that a person believes that the bible is the word of God and has accepted Christ into their hearts and believes he came to die for our sins and rose again and is now seated in heaven at the right hand of God the Father. Religion is not what matters or what gets us into heaven. Salvation does.

Answer 9

People have a hole in them that can only be filled by God. They try to fill it with other things, but they just keep searching. I don't know why everyone doesn't read the Bible and see the sense it makes. The religions that came before are mostly pagan, and then Jewish. They are not the truth. I only can say that I follow God. A specific religion is not the key to Heaven, God is.

Answer 10

There are many religions because there really is a God who is trying to reveal himself to man, and a void within each man that makes him search for God.

But it is a lot like the one story of the blind men who wanted to see an elephant. They went together and each touched a different part of the elephant. The one who felt the truck that an elephant was a kind of snake. The one who felt the ear thought he was like a large leaf, the one who felt a leg through an elephant was a tree trunk. The one who pulled the tail through the elephant was a rope. Each had part of the truth, but not all.

As you study the different religions, you will find many things that are the same. "God" has a moral code and wants me to follow it. "God" usually wants man to care for his fellow men. "God" usually requires some kind of devotion and obedience from men. "God" usually requires some kind of sacrifice/penance/payment/etc to cover sin. The details may vary, but the principles are often them same. That is because each of them have felt a part of the "elephant".

In the Christian religion, you have a unique revelation of God. A collection of 66 books that include the stories of hundreds of people over the centuries who have had an encounter with "the elephant" - God. Each of those stories is filtered through the eyes of the person encountering God. Read the book of Joshua and you see how a military general would understand God - through military victories and wars. Next to that is the book of Ruth, which tells of God through the eyes of young widow merely wanting to survive and find love.

As you read the Bible, you will find a revelation of God that builds on what each generation learned before. And that looks ahead to the final revealing of God, when he would come to earth in human form. Written by 40+ authors over a period of 2000+ years, it is a unity in theme, images, doctrines, and prophecy that could only come from a supernatural source.

Its final revelation comes in the form of Jesus, God himself appearing as a man. He not only showed how a perfect life could be lived, but then gave that life to redeem others.

Nor that that revelation was complete, no other is needed. Any later "revelations", which do not support the fullness of Jesus Christ as God, are back to blind men merely feeling part of "the elephant" and missing a real understanding of the God.