why do most religions say that their religion is the only one ?

Question

How do we explain all the other religions if only one religion is true. Does it have more to do with culture than truth if it has to with culture then who are we to say that somebodys religion is wrong.

Answer 1

Because they are strong in their faith and are set in their ways.

My religion is my belief system. Other people have different belief systems.

Answer 2

A really good question that gets to a crux of the problem. Is religion based upon truth or is it based upon culture?

If evolution really happened, and we are all just highly evolved animals - then there was no Creator. All the different cultures of the world came up with fantasies about being created by some sort of god. None of them is actually what happened, so none is any better than any other. They are all wrong. And religion and the belief in a creator is stupid.

On the other hand. If there really is a Creator, then it all makes sense. All the cultures of the world have in their history some recollection of the creation story as handed down by their forefathers. Just as in the children's game "Chinese telephone", (and especially since there is a deceiver with the intent of destroying the story), the story ends up being changed over time as it moves around. That's why, after many years, God found a faithful man (Abraham) and renewed the story. He had to give it to a special man and do it in a way to give everyone the opportunity to become reconciled to Him.

Logically, there can be only one truth. To believe that any belief system will get you to heaven if laughable. I can disagree with Muslims and Jews, but I respect their stance that they are correct and I am wrong. Not so with people who think that all roads lead to God.

Answer 3

The Christian God was very careful to prove Himself when He had the Bible written. He wanted to make sure you would recognize him as a God when he acted. What he did is predict the future. No person on earth, no medium or psychic, can claim the one hundred percent prediction rate of God. God gave names, dates, and places so we can check out history and verify his work. He even gave us the very words someone would say centuries before the fact!

By taking this route, God would not have to appear and prove himself over and over again to new groups of people.

Now if you wanted everyone to know that you, as God, were going to come as a human being, you would explain what you were like so you would be recognized. You would put in the city of your birth, where you grew up, what kinds of deeds you would do, your temperament, your purpose, even how you would die.

God did all that in the Old Testament. It was all in written form four hundred years before Jesus came. The New Testament gospels follow Jesus and point out some of the places where He fulfilled the prophecies.

Let me give you an amazing example of prophecy.

“Daniel 11, written in the 6th century B.C., gives an amazingly thorough account of Alexander’s Grecian kingdom, divided first into four competing factions after his death. It predicts details of the struggle between the Ptolemy and Seleucid empires for a period of 160 years, right down to the advent of the Roman Empire. That is why the skeptics used to claim that the book of Daniel could not have been written before 164 B.C., but now we have proof of a much earlier writing text.

“The prophet Isaiah (44:28) gave the name of a king not yet born and of a kingdom not yet instituted and of an event that would not take place for another 150 years. He predicted that a king named Cyrus would commission the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. Cyrus did come to the throne in Persia, and in the first year of his reign in 538, he issued a decree that the temple in Jerusalem should be rebuilt. (See 2 Chronicles 36:22-Ezra 1:1-3. This prophecy described in the Bible is confirmed by the discovery of a Babylonian inscription.)

“Daniel actually gave the time when Christ would come into the world and die. Daniel (9:24) predicted that Messiah would be cut off (die) 483 Hebrew years after the issuing of the Persian decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. Artaxerxes Longimanus issued that decree on March 5, 444 B.C. (Neh. 2:1-8), granting the Jews permission to rebuild Jerusalem’s city walls. This, too, is confirmed by archeological discoveries. Four hundred eighty-three prophetic years (360 days to a year) and seven days later, Jesus was crucified as predicted. How could a prophet accurately predict the date of Messiah’s death hundreds of years before it took place, unless he was the ‘voice’ of God as he claimed?”

Thanks to the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran, we know with certainty the above prophecies date before the occurrence of actual prophesied events regarding Jesus.

He has proven His existence perfectly and wonderfully. The Christian God is the true God.

Answer 4

For the same reason people have the "best" sports teams, high school, State, Nation...etc. It's human nature to feel like you want to belong to something that is the best or correct or righteous. We want to be considered one of the winners... not losers or coming in second place.

Answer 5

Actually most religions don't say that. They in fact say the exact opposite.

Answer 6

The church does that to draw attention, and stir up chaos, that they say other religions cause. They are stupid, arrogant, intolerant, etc..., etc....

Answer 7

ppl can say anything BUT WE MUST WORSHIP GOD IN SPIRIT and truth and the truth is in the Trinity!! Matt 28:19

Answer 8

They are unaware of other options and other interpretations. They are not stupid, but they are parochial, based on ignorance.

Answer 9

simply they all teach different things ,some say pigs ok ,some not ,some say alcohol is ok some not ,

Answer 10

We all wear clothes, but they are different from place to place. We all eat food, but it is different from place to place. We all read and write, but it is different from place to place.

Catch my drift?