What religion is really real??? (i mean theres catholic, christianity, buddhism, etc.?

Question

dont you think its weird that there are different religions?

Answer 1

Almost all religions are real. Most religions are a sincere effort of man to reach out for God.

Judaism and Christianity are God reaching out to humans and humanity's response.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Religion stems from early mans attempt to make sense of the world around him and his own existence in times of limited learning and understanding.

All religions are real , whether all religions are good is arguable , whether all religions have made the world a better place is also arguable.

With the extended knowledge that modern man has is religion as relevent today to say those of the middle ages, again a point of discussion.

Religion is just the tangible infrastructure of an established philosophy in a particular culture, and it is real to whom ever serves it.

Do you need religion to have a relationship with your God , I wont debate that one , I think absolutely NOT!, that works for me and to me it is real.

Happy Festivus!

Answer 3

Way back when there were not Catholics, Muslims, etc... Jesus said, "Wherever two or more are gathered in my name..." is a church. We people, with our great ideas (and prejudices) decided we needed to divide it up, maybe so we could "get along" better. Most religious groups claim to be real, or be the best, but it is not true. Your heart will know if a certain group is good for you and "good" can take you far. There is no such thing as a perfect religion, only a perfect God.

Answer 4

What is "really real"? Is there something that's "falsely real"? Since the last question is clearly rhetorical and not meant to be sarcastic, I'm going to take the liberty of rephrasing to what I think you mean: What religious belief system most accurately reflects a view of a mind-independent cosmos toward which we can make an ontological commitment, based on the competent evidence available and assuming that any religious system of beliefs leads to meaningful statements about a mind-independent reality? I'm going to assume that's what you meant and that you understand some of the technical language involved.

We are talking about a universe that exists whether or not we think about it, as opposed to fantasy. We are talking about objective data that can be verified or disproven by a neutral third party. Essentially, I think you're asking what religion is sustained by a scientific view of the universe that comes out of the Enlightenment of the late 18th Century.

The short answer is probably "none." Although religion and science talk about the same universe, they do so from signifcantly different perspectives. Religion does not contradict science, but it's different from science. Religion and science ask different questions, using different language models, with different truth criteria. Because of the different truth criteria, religion and science are founded on different ontologies that a parts of very different metaphysical systems. Science asks "what" questions, and religion asks "why" questions. For instance, the Bible is not a chemistry or geology textbook, and it is not a history--in the 19th- and 20th-century sense of the term--of the ancient middle east. Those that try to read it this way generally misunderstand natural history, human history and religion, because they make a series of false assumption that end up leading to a false method of interpreting the text, or, to use the technical term, a inappropriate hermeneutic.

Religions come out of how particular people in particular historical and cultural contexts try to explain ultimate questions: what is the meaning of life, what is our relationship with what appears to be beyond nature, is there a divine grounding to our systems of morality. Given the variety of contexts in which these questions are posed by people of all varieties of scientific and theological sophistication, its more surprising to me that there aren't more religions.

(Also, just as an aside, since when has catholic not been Christian? Christianity does not equal Protestant Christianity--and I say that as someone brought up in the Protestant Episcopal Church before it shattered into a variety of competing entities.)

Anyway, that's a very short (and not terribly satisfactory answer) to a very complex question.

Grace be unto you and peace.

Answer 5

Because they are easily deluded and unable to understand scientific advances that show that there was no requirement for a god to exist for the Universe and everything in it to come into being,,

Answer 6

No it is not weird. Religion is a belief system, and everyone has one, as man is religious by nature for God has given us not just a body but a soul and a spirit, by which we have God consciousness and can express it (worship is an activity peculiar to man). But truth is exclusive by nature, so they all cannot be right, and there is a devil who seeks to lure you away from the truth.

And the truth is, that contrary to this world;s religions, you can neither merit Heaven nor escape Hell, and thus must look directly to God for mercy who did not leave in your helpless condition, rather "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him (1 John 4:9).

This Jesus "went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him (Acts 10:38). and after doing everything right, He paid for our sins with his precious, sinless blood in His death on the cross. He then rose from the dead 3 days later, and now sits in Heaven as man's present Savior and future judge.

As a sinner, you are a candidate for salvation.

What you do with Jesus Christ, the righteous Divine Son of God, reveals what you truly ultimately love, and determines where you will spend eternity. To be saved you need to decide that you want Jesus over sin, and ask Him to save you, trusting God to keep His promise to save you by His blood and righteousness. It is best you get alone with God and do not come out until you know you have received Jesus! This decision is shown by being baptized under water in identification with Christ.

As a result of accepting Jesus, then you are forgiven and given the Holy Spirit of Christ, so that you become spiritually alive, which is something that truly changes you!. You will want to know how to serve God according to the Bible, and pray, and be with Christians, etc. It also means that you will be persecuted by others who still want the darkness over Christ. But Jesus promises, as only God can, to be with you to the end of the earth, and you will find Him to be both your strength in time of trouble and deliverer from trials."It will be worth it all when we see Jesus."

I hope and pray that you will!

See here for stories that help show that only Jesus saves sinners.

http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/amazing/
http://www.truthsaves.org/testimony/
http://www.christian-faith.com/truestories.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4136610474021109864
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3682855866783766146
http://www.shelovesgod.com/library/testimonies.cfm
http://breadsite.org/topics.htm

Answer 7

The religion that is real is the one which teachs that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, gave his life and shed his blood on the cross that we could be saved and that he arose again and that he is coming back again to get us and take us to the place that he has prepared for us if we have repented of our sins and live according to the entire Word of God.

Answer 8

The Bible says this:

James 1:26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Answer 9

Jesus Christ is The Way, The Truth, and The Life. He is found by all who seek Him with all their heart. Recognize your need, and the answer will appear.

God's perfect will for our lives is hard for us fallen selfish humans to accept, so many other religions have appeared to fill the human need for the spiritual. I haven't studied them all, but the religions I have looked at tend to feed into selfish human desires. Most want you to do good deeds to earn your way to whatever form of heaven they have. Jesus said that no one is good enough for heaven , so our good deeds won't get us there.

The only way to know what is right is to open your heart and do a true search for what is true. Don't take anyone's word for it, tell God that you want to know Him, and seek Him with all your heart.

Answer 10

Islam

Islam is the true religion of Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed…
It is the manifestation of monotheism in actual… As a Muslim:
I believe in God almighty as the only supreme power and only creator to the universe…
I denounce any partners into his reign…
I only worship him; and never worship fellow human, myth or nonsense…
I praise his name; as he ordered me to search for him within evidence in his creation…
I thank him; as he provided me with mind and logic to find his path…the righteous path; not that of those whom earned his anger nor those whom gone astray…

So basiclly; Anyone who believes that there is no gods but God, then he is actually a Muslim and this is what it takes to be a Muslim


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Peace