How can both Christians, Muslims, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and Wiccans all claim to KNOW GOD??

Question

ps. I know that Mormons and JW's call themselves Christians, but there is some controversy there, you know....

How can so many differing views of God all have adherents that say that they KNOW GOD - and they KNOW THEY HAVE THE TRUTH???

ps. Jesus has an empty tomb? But where? No one really KNOW any of that stuff - just stories, you know....

http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/

Hey Dummies!

I didn't say that Wiccans were monotheists, only that they felt they know the truth!

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Answer 1

I'm a Catholic, and as that particular kind of Christian, I can say that my Church teaches that we can KNOW ABOUT God, but we can never, with finite minds, completely know about an infinnite being like God.

Maybe Muslims, Mormons, JWs, and Wiccans know something about God just as I do. They just have different parts of the puzzle.

If we could come together in peace to put all our different parts of the picture together, we'd have a much more full and complete idea of God than we have individually, but pride and hubris apparently won't allow that to happen just now at our immature spiritual level.

Answer 2

mormons, muslims, jewish and christians, all claim to worship the same God, because of Abraham. Jewish know abraham from the Torah and abraham knew God, Muslim;s know abraham from abraham's son ishmael from Hagar. Christians are adopted into the faith from the N.T, and therefore know the God of israel. And mormons claim to know the God of the O.T. and N.T.
Wiccans believe in the God (or Gods) and the Goddess, that their power comes from nature, that their are good and bad witches, but I have been told this is wrong, but when I was wiccan, this is what I was taught, so whatever, that the rule of three applies, a curse can come back to thee three times as bad.
Joseph (gen. 50:25) left instructions for his bones/burial, Jesus did not (resurrection)
Christianity is the only religion to make the claim of a risen Lord, no other religion has a Lord that rose from the dead.

Answer 3

Because everyone that says God is not talking about the same God, Just like everyone that says Jesus is not talking about the same Jesus. Paul warned us about people preaching another Gospel or another Jesus and that is what is happening. and they twist and distort the Scriptures to fit their doctrine and their own god, so they make God out to be a liar . Either God, is who He says He is or who people in some group or religion started by someone directed by the spirit of error say He is. I believe God. Also, just because people use the same terminology does not mean they are saying the same thing and that is what causes confusion amongst people when they hear the words bible, God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, church, salvation, etc. they automatically assume that everyone is talking about the same and they are not. That is why it is so important to ask people what they mean when they use these words.

Satan loves this, he is having a jumping good time because those who believe his lies will follow him all the way to the pit and that is his main objective, to deceive as many people as he can so they can spend eternity with him. He does his best work in counterfeiting everything that God does because he knows the majority of people prefer his ways than God's. He diguises himself in false doctrines and teachings.

Answer 4

too bad you don't believe in Jesus Christ. there is no controversy that JW are Christians, I don't know where you got that, but they just don't acknowledge Jesus as god but as his only begotten son. I think all other religions claim to know god as a higher being, and somehow worship him to feel more spiritually connected to Him. of course we all feel we are in the one true religion otherwise we would not be in one of these religions. As for the bible being full of stories, well if you remember that is how much of history is oral stories later being inspired by god to be written down. I'm sorry you don't believe. I hope your heart opens up in time to accept god and Jesus.

Answer 5

The bible must be the standard by which truth is determined.

Jehovah's Witnesses are unique for their rejection of paganisms, use of God's personal name, and global preaching by every active adherent. No other religious organization can claim such purity of worship.

These facts about Jehovah's Witnesses are perhaps relevant to this question. The more one compares this Christian religion with others, the more remarkable it is shown to be.

1. Jehovah's Witnesses have no paid clergy. Yet they remain tightly organized with more than 6.5 million active Jehovah's Witness preachers (about 16 million associate themselves with the religion). Even fulltime preachers and workers at their branch offices are unpaid volunteers.

2. There is no elite class among Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the few 'anointed' among them enjoy no special privileges in their congregations on earth. An anointed person (one of those relative few with a heavenly hope) is not elevated above his fellow congregants in any way, and he may not even qualify for appointment as a simple 'deacon' or elder. There are no titles; EVERYONE is addressed as 'brother' or 'sister'.

3. No person benefits economically from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the 8 to 20 men who serve on their Governing Body receive simply room, board, medical care, and reimbursement for certain personal expenses according to the exact same provision as every other branch volunteer.

4. About a hundred men have served on Jehovah's Witnesses' Governing Body committee during the past 125 years or so. The vast majority of them have spent the vast majority of their adult lives volunteering for their organization's purposes, and the vast majority have died faithfully and near-pennilessly while still under their legal 'vow of poverty'.

5. Amazingly, Jehovah's Witnesses did not splinter as a sect from some other religion. Instead, a truly tiny but sincere group of bible students studied only the Scriptures to determine the will of God. Thus their religion remains absolutely independent of and not carrying the sins of Christendom's history, yet carries the authority of Christ's teachings.

6. Despite the distortions of anti-Witnesses, throughout their modern history Jehovah's Witnesses have refused to claim divine inspiration or infallibility for their teachings. They have pointed to the bible (and not any particular translation) as the only inspired infallible means of knowing God's thoughts. For over 125 years, their teachings have been presented as merely the results of sincere bible research by imperfect but godly humans.


Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_07.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20040601/article_02.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm

Answer 6

EVERY religion states that it knows the 'truth' and that all other religions are wrong. ALL of them do this. All the faithful of every religion believe it as well. They all think they have a lock on truth and that everyone else believes a lie. OF COURSE none of them are right, and anyone who operates from a rational, logical standpoint knows that but the faithful do not operate from a rational base, they operate from a faith base. You will not convince them that they're mistaken, and if you COULD prove it they would NOT want to see that proof. No one wants their world-view threatened, especially when that world-view reconciles their fear of death.

Answer 7

You answered your own question: they CLAIM to know a god. That doesn't mean any or all of them are right, they just claim to be. Their claims do not make it so, therefore it makes perfect sense that numerous people think they have figured out "the truth", but disagree with one another.

Answer 8

How can both High schoolers and Elementary schoolers claim to know math??

Consider, just because opinions differ, doesn't mean they are ALL wrong. Clearly if I have a belief, I will feel it correct. If my beliefs and someone elses are mutualy exclusive, then clearly I will think mine correct, as they are mine.

Answer 9

Did you ever hear the story of the five blind men and the elephant? Each described a different part of the elephant (trunk, legs, tail, etc.) and each was a different description, but each described the same elephant.

Answer 10

Because religious truth is totally subjective. It based on individual experiences and the reaction to those experiences. Since all of them are "faiths" there is no objective basis for any of them.