If we have a world full of religions don't you think there has to be one thats right?

Question

All our religions can't be right. Only one can be. Whats your view on your religion? Do you think its right? Explain.

Answer 1

Well, maybe more than one can be. Unless it's atheism - it can either be right, or wrong. There either is, or isn't a God.

Then I suppose Buddism and Scientology fit in somewhere, but as far as i can tell, they're moree of an individual based religion, so don't have a God either.

The rest depends on the leniency of the God, if there is one. If He's not bothered, then maybe loads of people will be "right", just for choosing to believe in A God. Then again, if it's all strict, then yeah...only one can be right.

I'm a Christian just now, because it feels right. But i'm not sufficientiyl indoctrinated that if i change my mind, i won't change religion. i am always open to new ideas and thoughts, and will reconsider my stance on my own religion as and when its necessary :)

Answer 2

If people of religions actually followed them properly by the True Morals they stand for then one would be able to actually accept anothers point of view and appreciate it knowing that it "could" be a very graceful bounty of GOD. "And say to them, to you be your religion and to me be mine. I will not worship that which you worship nor will you worship that which I worship". My religion teaches that on the Day of Resurrection only the religion I belong to shall be accepted from GOD. The thing that people forget is that GOD is all-forgiving and all-mercifull. The religion must stand for peace and submission to something that is and always will beyond thier own comprehension, then GOD will always stand soveriegn. Anything else is just pure arrogance.

Everyone will say that thier religion is the correct one and all others are wrong. It is just sad to notice some do not recognise this trend. Pascal's Wager. Of course, I am to argue that my religion is the True Religion for this is what I know. But that does not mean the other does not have the right to argue the same thing for the simple fact that conviction can be so potent. But truth is much more subjective. I accept many things as I am not the one to say that GOD is limited.

Peace!

Answer 3

That's like saying we have a world full of people, one of them has to be right about everything all the time. It's fundamentally impossible. Even if you follow a certain doctrine such as Christianity, Buddhism,etc, there are countless sub-disciplines of each one & if you talk to several people that go to the same church, they'll each have a slightly different view of what they are calling the same religion.

I think that each person's religion is right for them & as Bruce Lee said about Martial Arts (which, by the way has the same situation) you have to take what works for you and throw the rest away.

Answer 4

I'm a Christian but I don't believe that's true.
I think religion is right as it can give someones life purpose and meaning and can be something to believe in when everything else is going downhill.
I take Religious studies and know for a fact that many different religions overlap, the main ones that overlap being Christianity and Islam as well as of course Judaism.
Each of their holy books (Bible, Qu'uran, Torah) contains slightly different rules and meanings but they all contain many of the same characters. So for that reason, this leads me to believe that perhaps originally they were one religion and split off into different ones, just like Islam has Sunnis and Shi'ites and indeed christianity has baptist,protestant etc.
But many other religions don't overlap. Perhaps then none of them are right? Or maybe all of them are and they've just split off into different branches and different beliefs.
To be honest, we'll never know until we're knocking on heaven's door, but I don't believe any single religion is right or wrong, they all have their benefits and they all have their costs.

Answer 5

Your hypothesis is not complete

One religion MAY be correct
or
None may be correct
or
one (or more) may be partially correct without any being completely correct.

We are dealing with God - by definition, an infinite being. We are finite beings. What are the chances we will have - or would even be able to understand - a religion that encompasses an infinite being (if that is not itself a contradiction in terms.)

I cannot but feel the world would be a better place if more people worried about how they lived rather than trying to figure out who among their neighbors is wrong?

Answer 6

To be PC or not to be PC....? That is my dilemma.
Shall I pursue the reincarnation, or meditate until I reach Nirvana?

There may be Virgins awaiting me at martyrdom's demise, But I doubt it...!
Can there be a transfiguration into pure spirit with out the loss of conscious self..? Some say yes.
Where is the proof that mankind knows anything about the reality of a higher being..?
Where is the proof that there isn't one..?

Religions a construct of early mans limited mind...
Evolution is another mans way of defying its validity.

Perhaps we shouldn't worry whether this religions is real when compared with that religion.
Rather think of how we reflect what we say we believe and live according to said belief.

Answer 7

Why can't all our religions be right? I don't believe that there is any one true religion. I would like to hear why you think only one can be right. The Bible does not say only baptists, or only Catholics or only Muslims will go to heaven. Where is there evidence of only one right religion?This is my way of answering. Hope it helps.

Answer 8

Will you be arrogant enough to speak for the Gods to prove ONE religion is right? We all take a "chance" in believing what we believe. Therefor I won't assume to speak for the Divine's and claim any of them are correct.
And no just ONE doesn't have to be right. Come on, They are Gods. They can play by whatever rules they want to. You are thinking with HUMAN logic. Faith alone defies logic.

Answer 9

Actually, I see the number of religions in the world as proof that none of us has hit the one that's totally right. I believe that we all have pieces of the truth, but no one's got it totally right - after all, how can finite mortals like us comprehend the Infinite?

Answer 10

You are absolutely correct in that ALL religions can't be right. Though, many try to "combine" them all into one "over-arching" religion...which is simply absurd.

If you take certain things away from each religion in an attempt to "combine" them, then they will no longer be accepted by the people in each individual religion.

But, the major religions absolutely contradict each other on their fundamental or basic beliefs. Therefore, they CAN'T all be true or correct.

And as people above pointed out, there is also the possibility that ALL religions are incorrect...or at least partially incorrect.

But when one says, "There is no God".
And another says, "God(s) does/do exist".

Both cannot be correct.
But also...both cannot be incorrect.

So, one of the two IS correct...for God(s) either does (do) or does not (do not) exist...there are no other possibilities.

In the end, I rejected all religions in favor of atheism. So, I became an atheist. Then, I sat down to read the Bible and prove it wrong...and God revealed Himself to me. Therefore, it is impossible for me to "not believe" that God exists now...just at it is impossible for me to "not believe" that my mom exists (or, at least was alive at one point).

It turns out, there is one God....just as the Jews, Christians, and Muslims say. He is the God of the Jewish Bible...the God of the Christian Bible...but NOT the God of the Quaran (thank God!).

He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob...the God of Israel...Yahweh (Jehovah, the LORD). And He became man...Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the Messiah who came. Some Jews rejected Jesus and some accepted Him as Messiah. Almost all thought that the Messiah would come and establish His kingdom, but it turned out that He was to come once (to redeem mankind as the suffering servant) and He is to come again (to fully establish His Kingdom, as the victorious King).

All other religions are either simply wrong, misinformed, made up by man, subtle alterations of the truth, or just plain nonsense...
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