Why do you think they believe the "wrong"book?.
2007-09-30 04:08:56 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Please don't use a quote from your Holy book(s).
2007-09-30 04:09:34 · update #1
Because that's how people were raised.
Holy books in general have a lot of stuff in them that aren't especially holy: the Christian bible has poetry, recipes, history, myth, allegory, etc. I have never read the Quran but I suspect it has the same.
If the Quran or the teachings or Lao Tse say to love people and God, I have no problem believing they are as inspired as the bible I have as a Christian.
Ok, let the fundamentalists' thumbs-down begin!
2007-09-30 04:11:32 · answer #1 · answered by Acorn 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
I personally do believe that there are other Holy books besides the Bible. In fact (not quoting here) but the Bible even states that there will be other holy books about God's other people that will emerge in the last days but that the people of the day will fight against them becaust they already have the Bible. (The answer above me is a good example of this.) These people also forget that in the Bible it says that in all things that God says there will be 2 or more witnesses. I don't understand what these people think these other books are if not other witnesses to what God has said.
Ok...I'll get off my soapbox now. I just hope you don't consider what I have said to be "quotes" from a holy book. Just stating what modern Christians seem to skip over in the Bible.
BTW: I am a Christian
2007-09-30 04:18:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most people believe what someone tells them to believe. Very few people actually think for themselves. When religious people start to think for themselves, they are told the "devil" is trying to sway them, and they quickly go back to what they are told to believe.
Religions must have their own holy books and dismiss the books of other religions. This is the way they protect their own religion. It's like the fishes in the ocean arguing about who is swimming in the "real ocean". But you can't convince most religious people that other religions are acceptable.
2007-09-30 04:32:08 · answer #3 · answered by Ann 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that God's is a house of order and not a house of confusion.
I believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; I also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
I believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
That is not to say that there isn't some truth in these other writings. Perhaps that is why it is so important to have living prophet on earth today.
2007-09-30 04:21:26 · answer #4 · answered by The Corinthian 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As Muslims, we believe in the bible and the torah (and other holy books), but we believe that they have been changed by man throughout time, so that they should not be followed. God sent us one last holy book, the Qur'an, and He promised to preserve it, and amazingly it has never been changed!
2007-09-30 04:24:45 · answer #5 · answered by Bonjour! 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because The Bible,Torah and The Dead Sea Scrolls are the only books to contain the actual words of the God Yahweh in both writing and being quoted as speaking The Laws of Moses which is written from the advanced scientific knowledge of the God Yahweh. No other religion's religious books contain any advanced scientific knowledge of their god or gods.
2007-09-30 04:22:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
As a Muslim, one of the 6 Articles of Faith is to believe in all Holy Books. These are The Torah given to Moses, The Psalms given to David, The Bible given to Jesus and of course The Quran given to Muhammad. In fact, A person isn't a true believer unless he or she believes in ALL of these books. Whether theym the 3 previous Books are followed or whether Muslims believe that they have been altered is a whole different story within itself.
2007-09-30 04:19:12 · answer #7 · answered by Simplicity 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I think they are just brought up that way. What I find frustrating is not what people believe but why they believe it. I also don't like how the books can be manipulated, and some people of faith won't look at other evidence but, just go with what a religious elder tells them
2007-09-30 04:13:44 · answer #8 · answered by Parrot Bay 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I find certain types and prophetic shadows of truth in many religion's holy books, but I find them confounded with an accretion of error over the centuries as well.
In the Bible I find a clear record--marked out by thousands of clear, historically and geographically identifiable FACTS--of God's dealings with man, and His will for us.
2007-09-30 04:15:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Scripture is the dead letter until it is alive in you. When this occurs, truth can be found in All scriptures. Most of the conflict between the religions are the man made dogmas and doctrines that focus on what makes NO difference, only in the mind!
2007-09-30 04:14:18 · answer #10 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋