Since religions are contradictory and all cannot be true,?

Question

Is it safe to assume that none is true?

Answer 1

no it isnt....2+2=4 right...sometimes theres only one right way and JESUS SAID HE IS IT!!

Answer 2

As someone once said, if you believe in God, and you're wrong, you are no worse off than the rest of us. On the other hand, if you DON'T believe in God,and you're wrong.....boy, are you in BIG trouble!
As regards the main religions, many are within a hair of each other philosophically. Certainly Judaism, Christianity and Islam teach many of the same things. (The most Fundamentalist Ayatollah would, if pressed, I suspect accept that Jews and Christians are "People of the Book").
Buddhism is more philosophy than religion, but it, together with the pantheistic religions of the East, teaches a moral code not very different, and in some respects superior to, the Judeo-Christian/Islamic tradition.
If you choose to accept a religion, which one you accept is for you to decide. Myself, I think there is much to admire in Theosophy, a system of philosophy which accepts a belief in God, but believes that all religions have an aspect of the truth, whilst none has necessarily the Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth.

Answer 3

Think of religion like a house.
Everyone is under the same protective roof, but one person is looking out the front window and someone else is looking out the back while another is watching from a side view in the bedroom.
They are all looking out of the same house and they are all seeing the sam eproperty-They just have different perspectives.
Same with religions, they all have a view of God-and a lot of them have similarities. Like the Golden Rule.
We are all looking at the same God, we just all percieve him differently.
Religions aren't wrong or right, humans are flawed and therefore interpretation and written word CAN be flawed and errored, not because of God but b.c of human kind. In th ebible God probably did not intend them to say a bird is a bat-but the humans knew no difference at the time and it was not important for God to correct-as it wasn't a book on biology or classification of animals. God couldnt give them scientific educations beyond their understandings-the times were not ready for it.


Now consider perception. It is subjective. So everyone is looking out of the same house but one person says it looks like rain, while another says it looks like the suns coming out. They are both not right or wrong-they percieve things differently-One person is seeing the back, where the clouds have not reached and the sun is shining, another views the ront where there are clouds-that could swerve either way or do whatever..
Both are not wrong.
So maybe God speaks to different cultures and everyone finds truths that are real.


Hard to xplain..but sure within each religion is a truth and an error.

Answer 4

Logically, no.

One is allowed to suspect it, and consider whether any evidence shades the odds one way or another.

I agree that many religions are inherently incompatible.
The proposition that all religions are "but different paths up one mountain" has some popularity, not least since it offers a comfortable escape-valve of tolerance, avoiding conflict over doctrine and questions of truth.
But in many cases it is itself a false view. No harmony of religions is possible without gutting them of doctrines crucial to each (the equivalent of declaring them false!)
"The great religions are talking at cross purposes"
Professor Zaehner, when professor of Eastern religions at Oxford University

Answer 5

i became into baptized a Pentecostal Holiness while i became into 5 years previous. At sixteen I grew to advance into an Atheist. i'm completely confident that no person would be stored. yet it somewhat is a stable component. we could be truthful in basic terms what could desire to any sane person do for Eternity. God keep me from Eternity. airborne dirt and dust to airborne dirt and dust is what i desire and not something greater. Neither Heaven nor Hell for me. i'm nicely happy with the life I even have in the international. i like it and am residing it to the fullest. Amen. xx

Answer 6

No. Compare theology and ideology. There are different truths for different peoples. It's a manifestation of human diversity. Communism wouldn't be right for most countries,but it works for some,such as Cuba. And not every country thrives on democracy. Afghanistan was better off under it's traditional monarchy. Spirituality has to be experienced within the framework of one's own culture; if Christianity is faltering in the developed nations it's because the culture has developed to the point where we no longer feel that understanding the spirituality within us needs to involve personification; ie. god or a god. Other cultures still feel the need,and they should not be ridiculed for it. Nor should Christians - although given our own culture I personally think they are merely adhering to established tradition and/or afraid to make the jump into non-theist spirituality.

Answer 7

No! it just means that only one can be 100% true. That is what Christians have always claimed.

Answer 8

There is not ONE truth. There are MANY truths. Therefore they could ALL be true. I know the Christians and Muslims don't like to hear that, but they have as much "proof" as the rest of us so I won't stress it.

Answer 9

Just because 2 people disagree does not mean that both are wrong.