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Can any one religion claim their God is the true God?

posted June 28, 2008 - 2:16am
Can any one religion claim their God is the true God?

There are so many different religions around the world that people follow and I was wondering if any one of those religions can claim that "their God" is the true God and their path is the right path. That, only following that belief system would lead one to salvation or heaven.

The many pagan religions or eastern religions are considered inferior and "not true." Certainly, it seems the Abrahamic religions hold this view. Perhaps, Islam seems to emphasize this more than the other two (Judaism and Christianity).

However, I wonder if any one religion can claim to be "true." I don't think so. I believe every man or woman who worships God (by whichever name) truly and with devotion will reach God. The name by which we refer to him surely doesn't matter - does it?

Come to think of it - so many conflicts and wars have been fought in the name of God, to sometimes enforce their version of God on others (called nonbelievers). I don't think people should feel superior about their system of beliefs and be pompous and arrogant. Fact is no one religion can claim to own God.

The very fact that there exists so many different religions is testament to the fact that there is no one "true religion." If there was something like that, the whole world will be following that "true religion" by now.



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Universal life church

So it doesn't matter what you believe as long as you have faith in something divine or supernatural? Is scientology included? "I have one small difference in my ideas than most wiccans. I don't believe that the divine is female or male, but neutral is sexual orientation" Why do you believe this? what does neutral mean with regards to sexual orientation? Does it mean that divine beings have no sexual urges in any particular direction, or simply that they don't have either a penis or a vagina?

Universal Life

I'm with a church that support all faiths and all denominations, not just Christianity, but Wicca, Tao, Buddhism, Shammanism. I teach for a multifaith foundation or church as some would say The Universal Life Church. I was ordained through them. Ordinations are free too. I have one small difference in my ideas than most wiccans. I don't believe that the divine is female or male, but neutral is sexual orientation. Reverand Conner

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believers believe in belief

Everyone who has a faith believes their belief is true. Complete waste of time debating with them. The only interesting subject is the investigation of religious experiences from both an internal and external perspective. http://www.xomba.com/what_does_feel_like_have_religious_faith Money for your Thoughts - join now OWO-BV

What about the feminine principle

If any religion claims that their 'God' is the only 'God' without acknowledging that any spiritual being or beings must be equally male and female, then where is its validity. There was absolute panic in Christian, especially Catholic circles when it was suggested that Jesus might have been married and had a child, yet it is acknowledged that for an adult male in those times NOT to be married with a family would have been pretty well unheard of. As a Wiccan, and female, my spiritual contact is with a Goddess, but male Wiccans may feel otherwise, that is their nature and prerogative. We recognise that the two have to exist and co-exist or there is no balance in nature, or in any aspect of human life. Think of that when you consider the problems of our modern world.

Couldn't agree more

The religious mindset requires people to suspend logic and fight wars sometimes. It ends up sometimes in the most brutal atrocities being committed in the name of God.

Religion

Can any one religion claim that their god is the only true god? Yes, they can and they do, however, religion is not about truth it's about faith. faith in what is claimed to be the truth. that makes it true for the people who believe but not to anybody else. Of course there is no one true religion (except Wow) but try and tell religious people that. I wouldnt bother, the religious mind functions in a fundamentally different way from the scientific oriented mind.

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