What makes your religion the right one, over all other religions?

Question

NOTE - Atheism is not a religion. This is mainly aimed at Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but any religion will do.

Why are you right, when everyone else is wrong? What knowledge do you have that makes your faith the right one, over everyone elses? Can you prove it?
If, for example, you're a Christian born in the US, would you still be a christian if you were born in Saudi Arabia? If you were born in the middle east, and you were a Muslim instead, wouldn't Islam be the right faith?
Why are you the lucky one, to be chosen by god to have the one true faith, simply by demographics? Did god see to it that you were born where you were so that you would know the right faith?
Or has something else changed your faith along the way so that you don't follow what your parents follow? What was it?

You go to heaven and everyone else doesn't? Prove it.

I see nobody has touched on the 'demographics' part of the question. It seems you're right because you believe you're right, and you believe what you believe because of where you were born, that's all.
So, belief aside, why are you right? Why are they wrong?

Answer 1

You have many questions...I'll try to address them as best I can. I will address them from my own perspective.

>>Why are you right, when everyone else is wrong?<<

It really isnt a matter of right or wrong. There are those who preach a heaven/hell sermon who might ask, "Do you want to be wrong?" with respect to chosing between salvation/heaven or damnation/hell. Yet to my way of thinking to say that God is absolutely one way or another pigeon holes the One that cannot be canned by one person/people as acting "this way" in every situation. The best we can ascertain about how or what God may or may not do is by His character and His past actions.

If you mean right as in a test of trueness I might say 2 things. One I cannot unfortunately ask Moses, "Did God really appear before you in a burning bush, I mean flames and all?" I can't strap Isaiah up to a lie detector and demand true answers. I do believe what the Bible says as true. That is the pillar of faith, belief without seeing. But I also know what the Lord has convicted my heart about. I know what my relationship with Jesus means to me, and how He has proved His existence with me. But friend He's not to my knowledge jumped out at unexpecting unreceiving individuals and gone "BLAAAHHH....See I'm real! Now you have to believe in me." I just know that for many there's a turning point as there was for me where you begin to seek and find what you're looking for in Christ.

>>Can you prove it?<< No I can not prove a dang thing. But the Lord can. And He will if you are willing to listen with an open heart and give Him a chance. You don't have to join a church or a group to do it. You just sit with whatever version of the bible makes you comfortable and you read. Read it understanding that it is not a manual. It is a narrative, a poem, and a collection of life experiences.

>>If you're a Christian born in the US, would you still be a Christian if you were born in Saudi Arabia?<< Gosh that's hard to know. I don't know what challenges face those in Saudi Arabia, but I do know there are Christians there. I chose Christianity as an adult here in the US, but I'm far less condemned for my choice here than I would be there. On some levels I think their faith HAS to be fathoms deeper than mine simply because of the danger they face.

>>...simply by demographics?<< As far as I can tell there is no one dominate demographic for Christians. For those who are Jews I know there are different ethnicities of people, but how that works out I'm not sure. You're born in to being a Jew, and you only choose it by converting to it not simply by choosing to believe in it. Over time as people chose Islam it's demographic will thin out also with no predominant group of people believing. It may already have a more diverse ethnic congregation? If you are meaning that there are mostly white people believing as Christians you'd be wrong. Historically Chritianity was a middle eastern religion, but in the last millenium it certainly was predominately of caucasian participation. If you count Latin/Hispanic communities today caucasians are completely outnumbered. Add to that Africans (native Africans) and the list goes on. God isn't prejudice, but you can be assured that there are those who will say they are God's people who very well are. You can also guarantee that if they say they believe and do not follow the Lord's commands they will know it sure as they see Him or don't.

>>....that you didn't follow what your parents followed..."
My parents were raised as "Christians," but their faiths seem to me to be ones of obligation. I broke the mold as a teenager and struck out on my own. I never got to the point where I could say "There is no God." I tried to look over that precipice, but all I saw was no hope. So I tried to avoid for a long time. I even looked into other religions. I looked because as I got older and had children I felt myself failing spiritually, and needing a forgiveness and hope that no one could give me. I had everything else I needed or so it seemed to me, but one thing. Spiritual wholeness. Christianity offered it in a way no other religion seemed to do. It could be that my upbringing influenced me. In fact I'm sure it had an impact, but I can't explain on behalf of those who chose Christianity over other religions when there was no influence from family. I know of one atheist in my last church who was still quite reserved about accepting or not. He was supporting his wife by attending and remaining open minded and hearted on the issue. Since we've left and I didn't know them well I can't say what if any decision he made.

I read once from a writer that people who choose to believe in the various religions are really people who are afraid of death and who fear it so soundly that they must seek an afterlife in order to feel better about its end.

I have come to my own thinking that death is a part of life. We see it in every walk of life, and in every season. Sometimes we see it in things we do as much as in living things. The old must pass away to make room for the new. The greatest contribution that believing in Christ has made to my life has been the measure of peace I find in Him, and the way that my Lord calls me to relate to him and to all of His people (not just the Jews). One thing you might consider is trying to find the difference between religion and faith. Sometimes they end up lumped together almost co-dependant, but they really aren't the same.

Answer 2

romyn_79, Because it isn't the left one over all other religions; therefore it is the right one over all religion! Hey, if I got the wrong religion, well, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. I'm not so worried about being right or wrong, as much as trying to improve my moral and ethical life within the framework of friends and neighbors. In regard to demographics, if you are born and raised speaking French are you going to run away from your family, country, language and become Japanese just because you think shinto may have something better to offer. If you love your family, neighbors and even yourself one would try to do the best with what you have rather than trying to prove esoteric answers to your crazy questions. You sound pretty stupid here and are basically wasting your and other peoples time. Get a life buddy. . .

Answer 3

Unfortunately it kind of feels that for so much folks, doing somewhat study is NOT handy. And I'm no longer pointing palms at any special faith whilst I say that. I see my faith lied approximately via folks who declare to be the identical faith as me. Sometimes the lie is intentional and oftentimes it is simply incorrect information. The unhappy fact is that it simplest makes the misinformed seem unhealthy to those that recognise they are misinformed. It's the identical with the whole thing else - such a lot of folks revel in a first-rate little bit of juicy gossip or an unpleasant rumor. And we are so unhappy after we uncover out it is not precise. Even when we uncover out it is not precise we nonetheless generally tend to behave upon the rumor.

Answer 4

I think that different people have different spiritual needs. As a Heathen, I know that all pathways lead to the center. Some belief structures portend that they are right and anything else is not only worng, but evil. Fortunately for us Americans, we have freedom of religion. Even though most of the patriarchic structures wish to homogenize belief. I don't think that any one religion is "the right" one. It is a matter of personal requirements.

Answer 5

God is right and the others are wrong.
Those who love and seek the truth will find the true God who is righteous and merciful.

Demographics have little to do with the religion that I follow as it was started in the middle east and yet is now throughout the world. Jesus was born a Jew but God's children are worldwide.

Answer 6

Unlike all other religions, Christianity alone possesses a founder who transcends death and who promises that His followers will do the same. All other (false) religions were founded by men and prophets whose end was the grave. As Christians, we take comfort in the fact that our God became man, died for our sins, was killed, and was resurrected the third day. The grave could not hold Him. He lives and He sits today at the right hand of God the Father in heaven. The living church has a living Head.

The reason we are right is that Jesus proved that he was God when he conquered death. Only God has the power of life over death.

Answer 7

To me all religions are egual, none is either right or wrong. Don't they all believe in a higher power, an after life, and a reward for a good life? I have asked myself this question from time to time, and my answer stands, they are all, in the end, worshiping the same God. Each religion has their own traditions and way of worshiping him, that doesn't make one wrong and the others wrong.

Answer 8

I don't think that I am right or that everyone else is wrong. I am a Buddhist because I believe that the Buddha's teachings will help me to live a good, moral life with no regrets.

Answer 9

Well, when I attended a lecture in a wooden Church, the lady there said the Russian Orthodox Church was the one and only true Church of God on planet earth.

What more of a testimony does one need to know the truth?

Answer 10

In my opinion, believing that your's is the "one true faith" or that you are somehow fortunate or blessed enough to have received that faith, while others are not, is the height of arrogance.

Answer 11

Islam is the ONLY TRUE religion because Allah said so in the Qur'an:

"Verily, the only true religion in the sight of Allah is Islam."
3:19

"He is the One who sent His Messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth." 9:33

"And whoever looks for a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted from him and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers." 3:85