How many of you believe you have the only truth?

Question

How is it possible to have so many thousands of years of different religious paths and some of you think you hold the key to what is true? So everyone else who holds beliefs are wrong? This isn't just to Christians. All thoughts welcome.
Me: Buddhist

I actually thought I made myself very clear. Maybe you might read the question again, it could help.

If I am quite frank then I'm a Buddhist with Hindu leanings. But I have believed and still do that all paths lead to God. Love and be loved in return.
Namaste!

Answer 1

Not Catholics. Official Church teaching is that we have "the fullness of truth," but that any religion or denomination who teaches love of God, others, and self has at least some of the truth.

You might meet individual Catholics who claim the Church is the only one with the truth, but that is not Church doctrine.

Answer 2

There is only one truth that all advanced adepts have tried to explain throughout history from their unique cultural positions. But, until science catches up in understanding the causal relationship between being and reality the misunderstandings, arguing and silliness will continue.

The saddest part of all this is that Christianity has trivialized Jesus' unique psychological approach and teachings (for transcending the conditioned identity in order to achieve empowerment and purpose) to such an extent that Christians are a public embarrassment. It is a pitiful situation that the insights of such a great mind have been denegrated into self-righteous platitudes.

Answer 3

Yogini I have heard of you and was wondering when we would meet. All paths contain the same universal truths. Some paths have been cluttered with the thoughts of men adding so much that the path is barely noticeable. But when we sweep all this aside we see it is still the same path.

Many need the security of a physical form to lead the way. This is not necessarily a bad thing. At least they are on the path. I think it is harder for them. Many may see this physical image as the path instead of as the guide. By relying on the guide they need not be mindful of the path as much. This allows all the debris added to the path to cloud their mind. So much so that they become blinded to path and wander off. They need the guide to constantly call them back. But does not Karma work the same way for us pulling us back to the Dharma. I find no need in changing the path of others only to aid them in their journey.
Namaste * a lotus flower to you*

Answer 4

I happen to be a Catholic Christian. I believe that the truth is far greater than we as humans can understand. There is so much of this universe to experience, learn and see.
I imagine what it was like before electricity as a utility. If someone from our time was to go back and tell people in say the 6th century about our time and electricity and all the uses we have for it, they would burn us at the stake or something.
There would be disbelief and lack of understanding and compassion. We would be challenging the status quo of that time. People don't like change and hate surprises.
It is no wonder that brilliant minds meet great opposition from the mediocre in society.
Religion is a function of self-worth and self-actualization. Religion helps us to put a reason and purpose on our very existance. Without it, life is just vanity. To be borne and die without a reason is painful and distressing.
Religions for all existance have tried to put our situation in the universe into perspective. We never will until God sends Jesus back or we go to heaven. Which removes us from the temporal world and takes us to another situation as a different being.
Sort of like being in the 6th century trying to figure out how a machine flying around the earth can allow us to talk to each other on little metal rocks we call cell phones.
The same holds true for our future here in terms of technology.
When they can prove that intention is a force, like gravity or electromagnetism, people will understand the purpose of positive thinking and optimism, visualisation and meditating on what we desire instead of focusing on our discontent or limits.
There are other realities yet to be discovered, how long will mankind fight one another over money or land or oil before we focus our attention and energies toward enlightened fulfillment as human beings. We must separate ourselves from the material and focus on the spiritual.
The truth is too abundant to be consumed by our limited minds. Religion is man's futile attempt to think like God.
Faith is our gift from God so we can connect with His truth.

Answer 5

Why do you believe there can be multiple truths. I don't find that true in science, nor in mathematics. You can not have conflicting religions/ philosophies about God all being true. How would that make sense?

Despite the thousands of years there are many truths that we still do not have. Presently there is no Quantum Theory of Gravity.

...and sheer longetivity does not make something false true. Truth is not something that we can take a vote on and say the majority is valid. A religion or philosophy that says all the different paths are equally valid must be so wishy-washy, full of generalizations, that it holds no meaning at all.

I just happen to believe that if you try to solve a problem or question, you can find the real answer, whether it's the answer that you like or not.

Answer 6

in my teen and early 20's I spent all my time studying comparative religion

i found so many similarities between all of them apart from the biblical judeo-christain teaching that I feel very confident that the teaching of Jesus to be the true path to enlightenment and peace with God.

funny thing about my studies, in the occult world, UFO's figure in very prominately as does core mormon, islam and such.

islam is the logical extension of a very ancient babylonian religion of worshipping satan to avoid him attacking you. Even in the Qu'ran there is the passage, worship the lord and hide (it is either hide me or help me hide, this has been years and years ago from my study) hide me from the evil you do. this is a direct quote almost verbatim from the religion of babylon.

most of the core values of religion are all similiar to one another. Only the teaching of Jesus Christ is unique and teaches man is a sinner in need of salvation which only Jesus can provide.

do I think I know all revealed revelation, no, I know Jesus and him cruicified for my sin.


edit, corrosive always thinks he has one up on everyone, but the other way to freeze water is by compression under instant pressure in a tube, you have steam, water and ice all at once

no everyone who honors Christ is stupid as he assumes

Answer 7

There is a "Truth" that I believe in... but I would never persume to shove that truth down someone elses throat.

Personally - for me - I kind of look at all the different religions in the world as, essentially, just different paths to the same place.

Answer 8

Egg Nog: "This Isn't Just to Xians" Sunday With
"No Prospects" Even If ........."had Keys".

Desert Lotus: "No Path" For Joan of "Arc".
"Destined" Not To Attend "The Ball".

Me: "Who Cares" Now ?
The Only "Truth": "Factotum" Of Being at the 'mercy' of Anglisi
"TroudeQs"

Answer 9

It's called the "xclusivity Doctrine" The notion that "I am right therefore everyone else is wrong". This is especially pervasive among the Abrahamic faiths.

There is no objective, clinical way to determine which variation of which faith is a "true" one, so the believers have only one thing to go by: Their intuition/heart/gut. They convince themselves that their personal version of their holy books are right and that by definition everyone else is either misled at best or downright evil at worst. Provincialism at its finest.

Answer 10

lets see, in the bible there is a story of a people that decided to build a platform to the heavens.as they got closer, god decided at the last minute to change there languages to confuse the mass so to not understand each other, so the platform was stopped. each religion has taken excerps from the book and used it to comform as they wish it to be. as far as im concerned, the bible is a very nice story, written by men thur the ages of time and many items in it missing and translation misintrepeted, cos it was written by man, and we all know how the game telegraph is played, so no 1 really knows the truth, each religion claims their truths, but whom really knows.

Answer 11

Wow..I think your responder 'Magnetic' hit the perverbial nail on the head! The more study that one does with regard to comparative religions the more you will see that it really is just as 'Magnetic' has said.

Jesus Christ IS the Way, the Truth, and the Life!