Exactly! Unless you are trying out for debate class there is no reason to argue religion with any true believer. Very few are willing to budge on their chosen beliefs. It is their right. I just leave it alone. Be and let be. No biggy. Your statement says it all. They all believe they are right. Period.
This post was edited by Merlin at October 1, 2017 3:24 PM MDT
1. very true, but it is not restricted to religion. We all think our choices are THE right ones in everything. Clothing, food, cars, sports and, need I say, politics.
2. Being exposed to alternatives, especially through discussion, debates and comparative argumentation does have some impact on the open minded. Anyway, healthy debate is good for society and progress.
very true, but it is not restricted to religion. We all think our choices are THE right ones in everything. Clothing, food, cars, sports and, need I say, politics.
There are many interpretations of the Absolute Truth within each of Us. Many talk around it with ways and means to keep people trapped in the realm of talking about it, without actually experiencing that oneness within each person. There is a common energy that flows within each of us a oneness that is present within all life. The secret is to experience it. Not to be trapped within the ego and mind with its constant thoughts and desires, but to go beyond time and space and the limits of mind and ego to actually experience it. When the mind is still without any thoughts running through it and when the ego dissolves, the presence of the oneness within can be experienced and known. But Religions keep one trapped within the realm of the mind so there are many divisions in the thoughts about That Absolute truth. ...so until one can transcend the mind and ego and the divisions and separations that are created by thought and ego, no truth, no common thread is known.
1. Sure, and this is how the argument goes in Islam:
2. If God created all people He would love ALL people and would want guidance for ALL people without favouring any particular caste, race, nation, time or place. He would therefore not wait till Moses, or Jesus or Mohammed was born to give people guidance. That means ALL peoples whoever they were and wherever they were, had guidance from God, and that Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed were just a few greats among the huge number of conveyors of guidance from God.
3. God would not confuse His creation by giving them different guidance [religions]. So all religions that came from God must have carried the same essential core message - the common threads, for example:
a] that God is strictly one and unique and is the ultimate designer of all laws by which everything exists and functions
b] that God is omniscient and the only one who knows everything about His creation and all devotion should be addressed exclusively to Him directly and not to or through any statue, book or personality
Here as facts to back the above are quotations from the scriptures of some major religions:
In the Chandogya Upanishad, 6:2:1 says, "Ekam evadvitiyam" meaning "He is One only without a second" while the Brahma Sutra of Hindu Vedanta is: “There is only one God, not a second, not at all, not at all, not in the least bit”. Yajurveda 32:3 about God says, "Na tasya Pratima asti" meaning "Of Him (God) there is no likeness" while Yajurveda Chapter 40 Verse 8 adds “He is bodiless and pure”.
The "Old" Testament aka the Hebrew scriptures make clear in Deuteronomy 6:4 that "The Lord our God is one Lord’ and supports the above scriptures.
In the "New" Testament at Mark 12:29, for example, Jesus openly confirmed verbatim the strict monotheistic declaration of Deuteronomy 6:4 and seals it in John 17:3 by stating that the heavenly Father is "the ONLY true God"
The "Final" Testament aka the HQ says "God is one and only" and "there is none worthy of worship except the one true God"
Zack 
There many common threads. 