Why so many religions 4 one GOD??? (Christians only!!!)?

Question

Any logical reason at all?

Answer 1

People want the power over others
They want to believe they are right
It says that in the bible
somehwere near the back

Answer 2

So only Christian views are worthwhile? Why bother asking? BTW not all religions have a God, and even if they did who says the God is the same one? (Of course if s/he isn't then there is a logical problem in that some (or all) religions must be wrong!) And, even if the God is the same, the religions must be wrong because the teachings are so different. Any way you look at the religion of the vast majority is based on lies. Personally I think it's all delusion and pointless ... all we need is humanism.

Answer 3

It doesn't make sense to me either. I look at it like this. If God gave each of the apostles a little flame above their heads (similar to a light bulb now a days) that gave them the ability to speak to other people in other languages then why didn't he tell them how to set up their belief system as well? I think he did it as a joke. "Teach the word to all nations" well every culture has a different way of perceiving what you describe and the translated text will be off from the original because of the language. Now every one knows the "word" but every one sees it differently and so they set up their organized new religion and add to it the customs and rituals of the old. Thousands of years pass and so things are dropped or added to coincide with the current populous and politics.
Now nothing is as it was originally. It is now more of a manmade belief system than a divinely spiritual one.

Answer 4

6. Flexibility. Emotionally sound people are
intellectually flexible, tend to be open to change
at all times, and are prone to take an unbigoted
(or, at least, less bigoted) view of the infinitely
varied people, ideas, and things in the world
around them. They are not namby-pamby but can
be firm and passionate in their thoughts and
feelings; but they comfortably look at new evidence
and often revise their notions of "reality"
to conform with this evidence.
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The trait of flexibility, which is so essential to
effective emotional functioning, is frequently
blocked and sabotaged by profound religiosity.
For the person who dogmatically believes in god,
and who sustains this belief with a strong faith
unfounded on fact--which a pious religionist of
course does--dearly is not open to many aspects
of change and, instead, sees things narrowly and
bigotedly.
If, for example, a man's scriptures of his
church tell him that he shalt not even covet his
neighbor's wife-let alone have actual adulterous
relations with her!--he cannot ask himself, "Why
should I not lust after this woman, as long as I
don't intend to do anything about my desire for
her? What is really wrong about that?" For his
god and his church have spoken; and there is no
appeal from this arbitrary authority, once he has
brought himself to unconditionally accept it.
Any time, in fact, that people unempirically
establish a god or a set of religious postulates
that supposedly have a super-human origin, they
can thereafter use no empirical evidence to
question the dictates of this god or those postulates,
since they are (by definition) beyond scientific
validation. Rigid secular religionists, too,
cannot change the rules that their pious creeds
establish. Thus, devout Nazis cannot accept any
goodness of Jews or of Gypsies, even when it can
be incontrovertibly shown that such individuals
performed good acts.
The best that devout religionists can do, if
they want to change any of the rules that stem
from their doctrines, is to change their religion
itself. Otherwise, they are stuck with its absolutistic
axioms, as well as their logical corol
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laries, that the religionists themselves have initially
accepted on faith. We may therefore note
again that, just as devout religion is masochism,
other-directedness, intolerance, and refusal to
accept uncertainty, it also seems to be synonymous
with mental and emotional inflexibility.

Answer 5

All don't serve the same God...for some their God may be a statue, or something they've created in their mind, or a dead God that doesn't speak or communicate back to his followers. But there is only One True Living God. And He's a Loving, Just, Holy and Righteous God...The God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob. However since, satan is the God of "this" world that we live in, his goal is to cause division among the human race and decieve humans (in worshipping things, other people, statues, etc..., or just plain out decieve someone not to believe in a God) and attempts to influence us by turning us away from seeking and worshiping the True and Living God. This Living God is not dead nor is He a statue of any kind. He is Almighty and the Creator of all things. His Glory is undescribeable. His Majesty is ever lasting. He is the Great I AM....

Answer 6

The entire purpose for many religions is to confuse the issue of who is the true God. Like a shell game. Usually 3 shells are used with one pea or ball and you are to guess which shell has the ball under it.

Except this shell game of Satan's has many more than 3 shells. First, the God. Then the religion of the God. 1,000s of shells so people are so confused they give up on the whole thing hopefully--from Satan's viewpoint.

It is perfectly logical from that standpoint.

Answer 7

I think that each religion has its own specific idea of God or gods which distinguish them from oneanother. Even in the Christian 'orbit' of denominations, they all believe something subtly different about God. I recommend you look for churches who have never been state sponsored, never practised agression towards another denomination and who value love and humility above all else. That should narrow it down a bit.

Answer 8

There are indeed many religious sects believing in the same Christ, and the same One God. This phenomena is caused by many human minds differing in their interpretation of the same Bible. The word of God was given to the apostles and the disciples of Christ who directly received the word from Christ. They lived and believed according these teachings and passed these from one generation of believers to another. These traditions and teachings were entrusted to their disciples who had the direct connection and authority from Christ. But somewhere along the way some people picked up the Bible and without regard to the teaching authority of those to whom Christ left his teachings, freely interpreted the words. In disagreement, they preached their own interpretation as the correct interpretation and gained followers who believed in their interpretation. Thus, the existing sects are based on different interepretation of the bible, whether major or minor in nature. You can always ask a member of any sect on the major or slight difference in their beliefs from the others.
With kings trying to change the teachings to justify their deeds and established a separate sect when rebuked, and with the growth of the movement of freedom of religion, anyone can make a new interpretation of any passage in the Bible or believe on anything as god and create another new sect or religion in the process ad infinitum.
As for me, I believe in one and holy Catholic Church, because it has a direct continuous link to the apostles of Christ and I believe that their teachings and their interpretations of the Bible are the same ones taught by Christ to his apostles. The Pope traces his origin to St. Peter the Apostle. To me, all other sects trace their origin not to the apostles but to the person who interpreted the Bible himself and started his own religious sect. That is why the first few sects have the names of their founders or countries.
I hope and I pray that one day before the end of the world, all believers in one God would be united in one and the same religion. For me, the existence of many conflicting religions when there is only one God is a scandal of great proportions that human beings created and has not corrected.

Answer 9

I have no idea why there are so many religions, but only one God.

Church ( temple, synagogue) seems to be a place where people go who need to feel they belong to something bigger and better than themselves. Kinda like a social club.Unusual people seem to come from the churches.....many preachers cannot practice what they preach, and many individuals are not what they appear to be. But that happens everywhere.

Answer 10

If there was just on religion for one God, how many people would be lost. Everyone understands things differently, what better way to reach more people, but to have several paths to get there? Most religions offer a good path and a bad path, and are there to teach the good.

Answer 11

I'm a Christian. Here is a list of the 19 major world religions:

Christianity
Islam
Non-Adherent (Secular/Atheist/Irreligious/Agnostic/Nontheist)
Hinduism
Chinese folk religion
Buddhism
Primal indigenous (”Pagan”)
African traditional and diasporic
Sikhism
Juche
Spiritism
Judaism
Bahá’í Faith
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jainism
Shinto
Cao Dai
Zoroastrianism
Tenrikyo
Neo-Paganism
Unitarian Universalism
Rastafari movement


Not sure why.