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Perhaps a parable would help:
One day, seven people from different tribes and cultures were coming back from a construction site. All of a sudden they see a column of bright light descending from the heavens. A voice from the column announces that it is the ONE TRUE GOD and that all shall worship Him/Her/It above all other gods! All seven agree that what they've seen is GOD! The One and Only TRUE God!
They go back to their respective peoples and convey, precisely, what they've just seen on the trip and what the Entity of light has told them. Only trouble is, each culture has its own idea of what a column of light looks like, and what each of the words uttered by the Entity 'really means.' Generations pass and confusion grows...unto the modern day when the members of each of a theoretical seven religions (not counting the thousand or so sects which branched off the original seven to form religions all their own) are literally at each other's throats over what amounts to definitions. Is a 747 really a chariot of fire, and was the column of light really the Arch? Is God Jean Luc Pickard?
BTW, much of the source of this confusion is explained, ironically enough, in the bible. :-)
Duh....Because different people in different cultures had different beliefs ?
Close. Look up. :-)
LOL!
Ask a class of children to 'write a story' and you'll get different results.
Part of the problem is that not everyone agrees on who God is. We can't even all agree if there's only one! The Hindu faith has (I believe) thousands of gods, Buddhism believes everyone's a god (I think, I'm pretty hazy though), Christianity holds to a single god (but it's complicated), and so on and so forth.
Even if you look at all of the different religions with only one god, who their god is differs. Christians believe that you must believe in our God, or you can't be saved, as do Muslim believers (only their single god, the same historically, become different with Muhammad), but the "requirements" are different. Thus, multiple religions sharing monotheism.
If there is one god, and he shows himself to all cultures, couldn't they share beliefs?
Hey Sapphi :)
I'm in pedant mode so forgive me ... The western concept of God, that is Christianity, allows only one God... Eastern beliefs allow many ... So there's the first problem.
It's a huge difference in beliefs .. one or many? ... Or none at all and we take responsibility ourselves?
The jury is out and I don't think they'll reach a consensus
The rooster I believe ...
Cheeky :)
And with good reason my Siren :)