What do you know about the eight major religions of the world?

Question

Order of their founding. Judaism,Hinduism,Buddhism,Confucianism,Taoism,Shintom,Christianity,Islam.
Simularity is 1. Three gods in one. 2. Golden rule 3.Born again 4.Reincarnation 5.creater,destroyer preserver

Answer 1

John Huston's book on this topic is a good primer. Personally speaking, what I know about the eight religions is that each of them has a belief system (dogma), and each has adherents that range from fundamentalist (politically rightist) to mystical (leftist). That may be a broad generalization.... but the fundies usually try to get you to think like them, and the mystics want to know more about how *you* think. For the former, there is only one path to God. For the latter, all paths lead to God.

Answer 2

Firstly:

They are all the same when it comes to the ultimate meaning of "God."

The universe comes from a singularity. A "nothingness" that has an infinite mass. This is unity. Then, the universe expands, but things have all been separated. These separated things all eventually become another singularity, when all the stars burn out, and then probably just after the last remaining black holes die there will be another state of "nothingness" or another singularity - and the cycle repeats. If you want to know more, the scientific theory and evidence is from Sir Roger Penrose.

Take a look at it this way:

1) Birth of the universe (Creator)
2) Expansion of universe (Preserver)
3) Death of the universe (Destroyer)

And the cycle (reincarnation) repeats itself.

Secondly:

The mythologies of our major religions are all linked together, and adapted from similar sources. For example, one of the most ancient (that we know of) sources of this mythology comes from ancient Sumerian culture which speaks of a global flood as told in the Old Testament. The mythologies relate to a time long, long ago, where I suspect that there was another large, advanced human civilisation that was wiped out in a flood caused by a magnetic polarity shift. For explanation of what a polarity shift is, see http://www.gvnr.com/74/3.htm (NASA predicts one for the year 2012, which is an important astrological date which is also important in ancient mythology) - and you can also Google polarity shift . For an explanation of why this could cause a flood, see http://www.youtube.com/watch? (user name on YouTube = "Powervine"). Human civilisation is MUCH older than we think, and there is a lot of evidence to show this, however it is not taught in mainstream education. Archaeologists usually ignore it, and favour evidence in favour of their theories. See this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHNU6_er3Ks (Documentary) in order to see what I mean. Also, research about the Chinese and Bosnian Pyramids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzDY0EBvCbU (News story). So we have a human (and some say a past "alien") presence that his millions of millions of years old, and religious mythology represents the remnants of this.

This is a secret that is known only in detail to a few, the rest of us can have all the evidence right in front of us, but strangely we don't "feel" like it is the truth, due to our social conditioning, and mass control by those whom are aware of this secret. This is demonstrated by the whole "Secret society" conspiracies that deal with groups such as people who are in the upper levels of Freemasonry, and their links to, and obsession with ancient mythologies and prophecies. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UQ5CHifqMs (user name on YouTube = "heilgermany") and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUvSqY3po24 (user = "seallion") to understand what I mean.

This is my current view of the whole thing...Even if this is not a mainstream opinion.

Answer 3

1. Christianities trinity was a corrupted action by the Nicea assembly in their attempt to make Jesus God. The trinity didn't exist in the doctrine until 325 A.D. when the doctrine itself was created at the Nicea assembly. There are only 2 real places in the bible where it is mentioned, and 1 can be proven to be a complete addition and corruption and is not included in many translations, but remains in quite a few even though there is proof of the corruption. This is true also of the ending of Matthew.

The triune Godhead is referring to the male/female/child aspects, or better said active/reflective/neutralizing forces that premeate all things, from which everything is a result of or is constituted by these very forces (holographic). It is the divine pattern replicated throughout all things. Many hold this doctrine, and it is their belief that the Child is the mind of "God", the mind aspect which would be at our core of being, the indwelling Logos and we are all aspects/parcels within this mind - this is the ONE or the WHOLE. So our higher souls/authentic selves are are children of God, of that substance.

2. Golden rule, I'll give you this one in some cases. The sermon on the mount, for example. However they were not the same, imo, they went about different means to achieve. the more eastern paths emphasis is on meditation, this is not true for Yeshua/Jesus the Way, the mind is to be developed - rather than emptied. The same goes for the lower nature, must be subdued then raised up into becoming pure and tamed to reflect the higher natures/kingdoms, in many eastern paths this is not the objective, more so to leave it in a atrophied state, or to not work on it but suppress it.

3. Born Again, yes this is true. All movements at their core were about entering the inner kingdom/nirvana/promise land/Mecca, this is what they refer to knowing thy self in order to know God. It is the birth of the mind that makes this knowing/becoming of your higher being, which is your authentic self/being possible. The first birth was that of the body, the second of the mind/soul, where you manifest the your entity of light in the body/flesh. Hence putting on the anointed mind or becoming awakened, which is why Buddha came into all his past lives, he manifested the reality of the authentic self within himself, that acquaintance to the greater.

4. Reincarnation. Yup this is true. Yeshua/Jesus, Plato, Socrates, Buddha, and etc etc etc all taught it, knew of it.

5. Yes they all have an allegory of creator, destroyer, preserver, however not everyone sees these things as literal, which is why I refer to it as allegory. Buddha put the focus on "us" because of the danger of God-Centered mindsets, which really invoke complacency and externalism/literalism.

At their core their are similar objectives, but the means about going through this are different and some concepts are different as they fit the need of their way to the objective or ultimate goal. In Judaism, Christianity, Islam the objective of all of these at their core are identical. Their scriptures have the same message entirely in their allegory and speaks about the same thing internally reflective if you apply the key of knowledge. We can see this in their higher spiritual levels of instructions or mystical level; Kabbalah for Judaism, Gnosticism for Christianity, and Sufism for Islam.

Answer 4

I echo the words of NBM and Shihan.
At the very heart of all the great religions, (And most of the minor ones as well), is to be found one Truth.
Quietly and unobtrusively mystics and meditators preserve their separate traditions of the inner journey.
Courageous and selfless mountaineers of the spirit, they tell us this. That there is just one mountain, just one peak and just One who climbs.

EDIT,
Hi Shihan,
When my kids were young I read the whole of the Lord Of The Rings to them - with all the different voices and accents and everything. At one stage we were camping in France and all UK the kids on the site gathered round as well.
It was quite a feat and I'm still proud of it.

Answer 5

In their essence, they are all the same. They teach the same basic tenets and the only differences are in their dogmatic teachings and their traditions.

Jesus said "I am known by many names," and the religions all call Him God at some level, they just use a different name to get there.

Jews, Buddhists, Taoists, Christians, Pagans, Wiccans, Hindus, Muslims, Atheists, Agnostics -- at their core, they are all children of the Most High God, by whatever name we choose to call Him, or even if we choose to deny Him. It is HOW we LIVE that is of utmost importance -- not whether we call Him by any name or by no name at all.




(((((Mr. Baggins))))) . . . you honor the Hobbit by speaking so much truth; the Elves would welcome you as one of their own; the Wizards would wonder at your insight and your spiritual magick. Don't you just LOVE Middle Earth???

Answer 6

The three-gods thing is only present in Christianity and (to a certain extent) Hinduism. Many of the religions you listed don't even have gods.

Answer 7

Good question. Their most powerful unity is at the deeper 'mystical' level related to transcending the learned identity and returning to authentic being - the point at which being/reality synchronize for the greater (Divine) good.

Answer 8

If you can get past the layers of dogma and misinformation you'll find the stuff of spirit is in fact love.

But this secret has confounded the self righteous throughout history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh-1JVctSOY
♥Blessed Be♥
♥=∞

Answer 9

I know that the busiest religions are doing nothing to halt war, poverty and ignorance, they are only concerned with self-propagation, like weeds.

Answer 10

Um....I don't get your question. Is this a quiz? Because there is no god in Buddhism