with so many other religions, how can anyone seriously think theirs is the true one?

Answer 1

Because THEY believe in it.... and clearly they are the be-all and end-all of existence.


I put no value to myself nor anything else.... and hence all I know is that everyone is most likely wrong about anything they assume.
The "most likely" is there as an addendum to avoid self-contradiction... naturally.

Answer 2

It feels like they need to belong to a group and they defend it without thinking that others feel the same way about their religion.

I agree with Terry G. I have mine and others have theirs. That's fine by me. Of course mine are spiritual beliefs and not a religion but you get the point.

To go a bit futher with this. I believe that we are all on different spiritual levels. It doesn't mean anyone is superior to anyone else. It just means spiritually that is the point we are at. Every religion and spiritual person is at the level they should be. Some will grow in this life time and some want. However it will be what is right for them. I believe that is why there are so many different religions out there. That's why new ones comes along.

Answer 3

It takes an awful lot of searching, even more studying and constant prayer.
I didn't have any religious guidance growing up so I had to find my own way- and I started looking in earnest when I was 7 years old.
I studied with and/or practiced the beliefs of more religions than I can remember lol *sigh*, including (but not limited to): Baptist, Lutheran, Wicca, Pentecostal, Spiritism, Agnostic, made a brief study of Mythology, back to Spiritism (where I stayed for most of my life), to the Mormons and then Jehovah's Witnesses.
It was long and exhausting but I finally found peace. And I found that peace only because the JW's could answer all of my questions.
When even Christianity contradicts itself by the many different denominations only ONE can be true when you get right to it.

Jesus is either God or he isn't... God torments people in a fiery hell for all eternity or he doesn't... all good people go to heaven or there's something more... and it goes on and on but I'll shut up now :O

Answer 4

If one religion was historicaly and scientifically accurate, had scores of detailed prophecies that 100% came true, and had a leader who performed many miracles in front of dozens and sometimes several thousand witnesses, many of whom were hostile and who capped it all by coming back from the dead and appearing to several hundred witnesses, then as amazing as all that seems, if witnesses who wrote about him were telling the truth and prepared to suffer persecution, torture and even death rather than change their testimony, then you would have pretty good grounds for thinking the religion their master founded is the true one.

Answer 5

This is a difficult question to answer because it involves discussing some principles that the person you are witnessing to may or may not agree with. For example, does he or she agree with you that truth is knowable, that God would attempt to communicate with His people, or that only one religion may be right? Usually, I start by acknowledging the difficulty of coming to an easy answer. However, I tell them that I do have an answer; I am sure it is the right one, because it is an answer based on evidence. What kind of evidence? Prophecy and its fulfillment , Jesus and His miracles, the resurrection of Christ, etc. Then I ask that person if he or she knows of these things happening in other religions. The answer is invariably, "No." Then I point out that they have only happened in Christianity. If any religion were true, Christianity fits the bill.

If religion is whatever you feel is right, then that could lead to chaos. What if some people had a religion where they felt stealing was acceptable? And what about lying and cheating? Would you trust someone who believed in a religion that felt it was all right to steal, lie, and cheat?
Hitler felt killing Jews was right. He was wrong. The Bible says that the heart is deceitful and untrustworthy (Jer. 17:9). If you could come to know truth by what you felt, then the Bible, which is the revelation of God, didn't need to be written. But it has been written, and it has revealed that only God is the Source of truth, not your feelings.
I've never known truth to contradict itself. What if someone felt that something was right, and another person felt it was wrong? Would they both be right? If your statement is true, then how could there be a contradiction like that, if feelings determined truth?

Answer 6

I have no idea how people can honestly think that when you look at all the other religions in history/geography. I guess it's brainwashing basically. And I love it how most of the religious people would answer such a question with "because we're the true one"

Answer 7

This is the true relgion:

Jas 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Co 1:2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:
Th 2:14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
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Answer 8

Rational thought processes are among the last mental facilities to develop, at the age of 7 or 8 years old. Ideas that are taught before that age tend to be accepted without criticism, and are retained throughout life. Such ideas are amazingly resistant to overthrow by rational thought, no matter how ridiculous they are.

Answer 9

peace be upon you
My religion believe in all prophets and Holy books .
And also make me respect all other religions and doesn't force people to enter it.
My religion concentrate in human as God choose them to reconstruct the earth , and want them live in peace and love and my religion put basis for that.
It also included all life aspects and mocked evreything in this world to help the humanity.
I am sure not think that my religion Islam is the right one.

Answer 10

I think it's a great question, one which I have never heard a satisfactory answer to, apart from "you can't." It is one of the main reasons why I rejected my religious beliefs a long time ago.

Religions are little cultural games, nothing more.

Primoa, try as one might, they will never disprove any god! That's the problem, none of it can be disproven because it cannot held up to the light of rational analysis!