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Are All Faiths Correct?
Their are some who believe that all religions on this planet are
equally true and therefore all religions should be embraced as 100%
true, and that anyone who challenges this belief is a hate monger. Well
I am about to in the kindest way I can muster challenge that belief.
I am a friend to several Pagans, Jehovah's Witnesses, and people
of several other religions, I am even married to an atheist. So I don't
believe I can qualify as a hate monger I love these people just not
their religious beliefs.
How do we find out if all beliefs are equally valid?
Two opposing statements can not be true. If two people were in a debate
one saying that God created the world and the other saying that God
absolutely had nothing to do with it someone would have to be
wrong because God can't have created and not created at the same time.
Traditional Christians believe that their is only one God . If we are
all worshiping the same God we should at least agree with that, but
many
do not agree.
Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, New Agers, Hindus, and many others
believe that many Gods exist.
God can not be the only God if their is more then one God so we can not
all be talking about the same God.
Traditional Christians believe in the trinity, and I know of no other
faith that believes that God is three persons but one God. Again
we
can not all be right.
Some religions believe that all is illusion, most believe that most
things are real.
Some religions believe that God is a personal God and cares about his
creation, some believe that he is impersonal.
At least some
of these religions have to be false. If they are not worshipping
the
being with the description of the real God you are not worshiping
the right God.
Some people try to use an old story to try to prove that we are
all right. The story goes something like this |
| Four blind men encounter
an elephant. One grabs the leg and is convinced it's a tree trunk. One
holds the tail and thinks it's a whip. Another touches the elephant's
trunk and decides it's a hose while the fourth man pats the side and is
sure it's
a wall. The wise man tells them, "All of you are right." What is the
moral of the story? |
The story is
misleading because they have a real elephant in front of them . If they
try to treat the "tree trunk" like you would a real tree at some point
the elephant is going to get mad and kick the blind man. It will
be quite difficult to water the garden with the hose without
training the elephant. My point is if they try to rely on this elephant
for anything but for being an elephant it won't be helpful for
anything, and failing to see the elephant for what it really is could
eventually get them killed. If any of these men would
have bothered to check out the entire elephant instead of just a
small
portion of it, they could have discovered that an elephant can come in
handy
for getting a ride through the jungle without having to worry about the
dangerous predators in their midst.
If there is a real God (and I believe there is) we
owe it to him to check out more than God's nose we need to find
God in
his entirety. Not just bits and pieces of him. And if we find out that
the deity that we are studying can't possibly be the one that created
the universe
we need to move on to a different one. Because common sense says
design doesn't happen on accident, design needs a designer, and our
world is highly designed to such a point that if any one thing were
slightly out of whack say for example carbon dioxide, apocalyptic
damage will result. Don't believe me? Ask Al Gore about what
happens when we have to much carbon in our atmosphere.
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