Of all faith, the followers of christ seem to have most conflicting viewpoints among themshelves? why?

Question

(with the current exception of the iraq sunni & shittes)
all muslims, buddhist, hindus have no conflict among themself WITHIN their own religion. Atheist & agnostic have no conflict too in their set of beliefs or codes

why then, christians have conflict & differences among themself. catholics versus protestants, non-pentecostal vs pentecostal, fundamentalist vs liberals, mormon vs main stream churches vs JW ?

Answer 1

Trinity and jesus is son of God are hard falsehood to sell

Answer 2

You already stated that Muslims have their own groups; same as Christians. Buddhist and Hinduism are rather vague and have no set philosophic concept. Neither one follow any one set of religious rites or performances and both can be argued to be more of a philosophy than a religion. They are as diverse as Christians or Muslims in their views, but Buddhism has no God, Hinduism has so many, neither has a prophet, nor a specific dogma by which to argue over. The main differences between the Christians come from how they choose to interpret the Bible or the teachings of Jesus. The same would go for the Muslims and the Qu'ran and teachings of Muhammad. Buddhism and Hinduism lack this.

Atheists and Agnostics act based on logic and science; They have no God, no prophets, no codes or teachings other than science, logic and what they can see with their own eyes. It is hard to have an argument based on that, which cannot be resolved merely be reviewing the facts. If you prove them wrong; they are probably willing to agree with some reluctance due to human natures distaste for being wrong.

Answer 3

Other religions do have conflicting view points. There are many versions of Buddhism where Budda is worshipped as a god and Budda is more or less a spiritual leader. Some Hindu's cannot eat meat while others can. Just an example.

But I think Christianity is more "at war" with eachother than others. I have heard many times: "The [insert denomination] read a false/poorly translated bible." But this desire to seperate is due to the intollerance that is taught in the Religion. In Catholism, we are taught that anyone who isn't Christian (or the worse case Catholic) will go to Hell. And if you don't agree, you will too. I was taught that in Confirmation class. I know the Jehova Witnesses teach that you cannot be friends with people who are not Jehova Witnesses. Thanks Watch Tower!

So some denominations of Christianity teaches intolerance. Which only means this intolerance is fostered causing this confliction.

But why don't other religions fight amongst themselves - they do have differences. I would be shocked if they don't, honestly. You and I are not emmersed in the culture. Sometimes we don't see the cultural conflict. It would be similar how families will fight, but if you arn't in the family, you will not see that. Also, my friend from India has told me, "He's sick of hearing people fight over religion [Hinduism]."

Also remember that these eastern religions are tolerant to other beliefs. Buddhism, Paganism, and Hinduism do accept other ideas of divinity. Hinduism is so multi facet, you don't need to worship the same God as your neighbor. You don't need to put your own desires into what you WISH to read/understand. If the god doesn't relate to you, you can worship another. Buddhism is about anti-conflict and anti-suffering. I would suppose the idea of fighting over religion would be negative in that religion. And with Pagansim, witches have been persecuted so much I doubt they want to persecute eachother.

I hope this "fighting" will end. Hearing stupid comments from politicians is not only down right ascinine but insulting. Seeing the fighting on here does not convince me their God is real - just shows the opposite.

Answer 4

"all muslims, buddhist, hindus have no conflict among themself WITHIN their own religion"

Actually there is a lot of "conflict" within the differing sects of Buddhism. Its rather that its more of disagreement about interpretation than say actually armed Martial warfare.*

The core teachings remain the same however, which is why the Buddha's Sangha can persist despite the variations that may occur.


[*An exception must be made for certain segments in Chinese history and definately for certain formats of Japanese Buddhism. In those cases, it is embarassing to say that the Buddhists monks were part of the source of the armed conflict - or fought better than the professional armed laymen!]

Answer 5

First factor. Your declare that there isn't any doctrinal or dogmatic variations interior "all muslims, buddhist, hindus...Atheist & agnostic" is fake. apart from the certainty that blanket statements (which incorporate that one) are frequently incorrect, your assertion is obviously the end results of a loss of even superficial study. next factor. between the presents of God, one especially is unquestionably magnificent. that would desire to be intelligence (the skill to think of and reason). As a individual grows in his/her faith, specific questions will arise (except you're enslaved in a closed-minded, inflexible perception equipment). some issues develop into considerable to exhibit communities. Take the ritual of baptism, as an occasion. One team says baptism would desire to be complete immersion into water. yet another team says it extremely is okay to basically sprinkle water on the pinnacle. Neither place threatens the middle subject concerns/values of the often used faith...it extremely is a ritual question. So, there's a denominational branch alongside that line. that's what motives the prospective super sort of denominations. What needs to be needless to say understood is that those denominational variations do no longer create yet another faith. they are all Christian. yet with minor (while in comparison with concerns of religion) ritual variations. Your job could be to present day a perception equipment wherein ALL believers have faith precisely a similar "occasion line" and prepare precisely like anybody else in the equipment. No variance. No distinction. i could possibility that, after taking a nearer look, you are able to no longer do it. thank you for the question. good success and ultimate needs.

Answer 6

You've pointed out a flaw with your question yourself, saying that Muslim Sunnis and Shiites are an exception. I'm not sure your assumption that only Christians have conflicting viewpoints (or that they have the most conflicting viewpoints) is true. It's probably just that you're more familiar with the conflicting views of Christians, and those who call themselves Christians.

Answer 7

I think it's probably the translation issue. I'm not sure that there are other religions where the main text has been re-translated into so many languages and has kept evolving over the centuries and is available in so many different versions in English alone.

Answer 8

Of course there are many reasons, but one is the lack of knowledge concerning the Word of God, the Holy Bible. Christians are people too. They twist words to fit just as the atheists and agnostics do.

Answer 9

Because the enemy knows that Jesus is coming soon and he has to try and confuse anyone who trys to follow Jesus. Sorry that these things happen but unfortunately we are in a real spiritual battle and only the ones who really pray and ask God to guide and teach them the right way will survive.

Answer 10

All religions have conflicts within themselves. Your assumption about muslims, buddhists and hindus is simply incorrect.

Answer 11

The law is not of faith: Galatians 3
So begin faith-->hope-->charity with grace,
unless you want confusion and every evil thing.
Having faith in law makes hope to be hopeless.
Having faith in grace makes hope to be hopeful.
As for charity never fails, it thinketh no evil(law).

Sadly, many xians have been duped: deceived,
bewitched, carried away, ensnared, by the law;
And the result of it(law) is division and not peace.
Christ is our peace who abolished the law as dung.

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.