Seems they have minds of their own.
2007-12-12 09:22:47 · 21 answers · asked by Mike 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So many great answers!
2007-12-17 04:14:36 · update #1
If there really were a god, he could do something unambiguous like write the Qu'ran across the face of the Moon (and leave it there, unlike the supposed division of the Moon performed by Mohammed). But he doesn't. The Universe looks, at bottom, exactly as if there were no supernatural elements in control whatsoever.
2007-12-12 09:29:44 · answer #1 · answered by cosmo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is not real, no religion is real. The evidence is so overwhelming. I even spoke to an old priest who admitted to me that most of the bible were fables written generations after Jesus supposedly lived. Why four gospels when there were 19 I believe? Because there are 4 corners of the earth and 4 winds. This was when the earth was flat. Apparently jesus was never asked about astronomy or the make up of the universe. The priest also said the made the universe in 6 days, rested on the 7th was later put in by Hebrews when church attendance was low to boost more people to come by saying god rested on the 7th day. Really people, who can believe this stuff?
2007-12-12 17:29:01 · answer #2 · answered by John L 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Understanding the pattern of the rise and decline, the spring-summer-autumn-and-winter, of religions' cycles clarifies what we see happening. It is important to recognize that every religion has had its beginnings characterized by the onrushing forces of divine Revelation vivifying the souls of men as in a spring season. But at the end of the Dispensation winter sets in and the spiritual energies die down. This process, in older Dispensations, lasted several centuries. For example, the springtime of Christianity, which lasted about three years during the Ministry of Jesus, was followed by the summer season a few centuries later when the Christian religion flourished. But with the advent of Muhammad, it lost its vitality and spiritual potency. The advent of a new Dispensation brings about the close of the older one. All past religions have gone through this cycle of spring, summer and winter, and the Dispensation of the Báb is no exception. The only difference is that whereas this cycle in older religions lasted several centuries, in the case of the Báb's it took only a decade for the spiritual winter to set in.
However, all religions have promised a time when this cycle would stop and justice, peace, and prosperity would be established. That cycle of fulfillment has begun with the techings of Baha'u'llah.
2007-12-12 18:05:54 · answer #3 · answered by jaicee 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No he dose not man controls all of the religions of the world, and in the history of mankind God has never been found in a church or any where else on this planet, it's simply a man made creation that many cannot accept.
2007-12-12 17:33:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God has never ask man to make a religion, He has only ask that man follow his directions because he knows what is better for us than we do. He gave us a set of laws and then even made it easier for us by not binding us to the letter of the law, but to love him and his son, then loving our neighbors as we would ourselves. Its not hard to follow his directions and if we do he promises us everlasting life on his earth. However we don't have to follow his directions if we don't want to. He also tells us what will happen if we don't. The bible is a book that is authored by God and he tells us all the answers if we look. What a shame that so many of us think we are just too smart to listen. Ask a reasonable question and see if his letters to you can answer?
2007-12-12 17:36:38 · answer #5 · answered by gem 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Religions have control over gods.
2007-12-12 17:32:07 · answer #6 · answered by Celestial Teapot 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religion is man's attempt to reach the universal divine, that which some call "god". It is therefore a creation of MAN. The short answer to your question would, therefore, be "No".
2007-12-12 17:28:26 · answer #7 · answered by Stephen H 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The bible talks for "one faith". So God "control" only one religion. The bible says, “We know we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in the [power of the] wicked one.” (1 John 5:19)
2007-12-12 17:26:54 · answer #8 · answered by Cretan1986 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God has left men to their own devices, however not without leaving us with his infallible word.
Yet of course men have twisted and distorted the truth to no end for their own selfish gains.
Seek God himself and his righteousness and the truth of mens errors will be made known to you as the apostasy that it is.
2007-12-12 17:28:04 · answer #9 · answered by Ephesus 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Religions are the creation of humans. That is one reason why there are so many (each suited somebodies purpose at the time), with so many different rules and regulations.
2007-12-12 17:27:32 · answer #10 · answered by huckleberry 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋