Kind of a cop out? I hear it a lot from more New Age theists. This basically means that instead of stating that your god is the right god, all gods represent 1 single god but the messages are all different but it doesn't matter what you believe because "All different paths lead to the same mountain top" Thoughts?
2007-08-18 01:52:40 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Is it? Religion is man made.
If there is a supreme being why would only one religion be the right one?
Is God a being or an energy? I don't know. I don't believe that he gets involved with us here in any way.
2007-08-18 02:20:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
As the different streams having their sources in different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee."
This is the slogan a Hindu tell in mind in his every day prayer
All the roads Leeds us to the same goal says Hinduism
Read Swamy Vivekananda speach at worlds parliment of religions ai Chicago usa (1893)
I will tell you a little story. You have heard the eloquent speaker who has just finished say, “Let us cease from abusing each other,” and he was very sorry that there should be always so much variance.
But I think I should tell you a story which would illustrate the cause of this variance. A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. It was born there and brought up there, and yet was a little, small frog. Of course, the evolutionists were not there then to tell us whether the frog lost its eyes or not, but, for our story’s sake, we must take it for granted that it had its eyes, and that it every day cleansed the water of all the worms and bacilli that lived in it with an energy that would do credit to our modern bacteriologists. In this way it went on and became a little sleek and fat. Well, one day another flog that lived in the sea came and fell into the well.
“Where are you form?”
“I am from the sea.”
“The sea! How big is that? Is it as big as my well?” and he took a leap from one side of the well to the other.
“My friend,” said the frog of the sea, “how do you compare the sea with your little well?”
Then the frog took another leap and asked, “Is your sea so big?”
“What nonsense you speak, to compare the sea with your well!”
“Well, then,” said the frog of the well, “nothing can be bigger than my well; there can be nothing bigger than this; this fellow is a liar, so turn him out.”
That has been the difficulty all the while.
I am a Hindu. I am sitting in my own little well and thinking that the whole world is my little well. The Christian sits in his little well and thinks the whole world is his well. The Mohammedan sits in his little well and thinks that is the whole world. l have to thank you of America for the great attempt you are making to break down the barriers of this little world of ours, and hope that, in the future, the Lord will help you to accomplish your purpose.
http://www.theuniversalwisdom.org/hinduism/why-we-disagree-vivekananda/#more-6
2007-08-18 02:02:33 · answer #2 · answered by Amidhala S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus claimed that He (alone) is the Way, the Truth and the Life...this means that He who came DOWN from Heaven/the Father is the One to show us the way UP to the Father. It is not by our own design...but God's. Thus the ONE path has been made known to us. We must, therefore (if we love Jesus) be in the same Church that he founded...the One Holy Roman Catholic Church. "All Religions"? Are you sure? Some preach hate...are they really on the same path as you? Many are just philosophies preaching ethics -- and that's not religion. Some preach themselves -- instead of finding God at the center of one's being they look to themselves...look up Pelagianism...
2016-05-22 01:50:30 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most religions are different paths leading to the mountain top.
However, its not a mountain top any honest-hearted person wants to be on.
Matthew 7:13
"Broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it."
2007-08-18 02:09:51 · answer #4 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes all paths do lead to the same ending point. It's true, the messages and methods are different, but God speaks through all religions (barring Satanism).
I don't see it as "new age", but more of the correct argument. To believe otherwise, implies that one religion is superior over another. All religions contain error.
2007-08-18 02:06:18 · answer #5 · answered by Soul Shaper 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes its true. Its not a cop-out. ALL "Gods" and all religions ome from the one same source. The problem is that religious followers, and people in general, are too stupid to realise this and prefer to have divisions and fight with each other to claim that "their god" is the only and/or right god and that all "other gods" are wrong. Fools!
2007-08-18 01:59:20 · answer #6 · answered by scotslad60 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That is why Jesus said "I AM the Way, the Truth and the Life, and no man comes to the Father except through Me".
Jesus new that Satan would make a new path for people to follow and be deceived in, and so He warned us about it.
2007-08-18 02:09:28 · answer #7 · answered by tim 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
All ultimate higher powers are synonymous with one another. If not, there's a lot of needless celestial fighting going on.
2007-08-18 03:54:09 · answer #8 · answered by beztvarny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they could just agree that it didn't matter which rules you had to follow or die, I think that might be a good idea. They still have similar ideas but they're willing to kill eachother over the slight variations
2007-08-18 01:58:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing
2007-08-18 02:06:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋