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Originally posted by pineappleupsidedown
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quote: orginally posted by paperclip
Imagine religion beling a cube, each side of it different colour and each side representing one world religion. Christians are, let say, red. All they see is their red side, and they keep saying the whole cube is red. Jews see the blue side and keep saying the whole cube must be blue, we are right. I reality, the cube has all the colours and NEEDS them all to be complete.
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But each religon says that the other religons' followers will go to hell if they dont follow the "correct" religon. so if more than one are correct, are we all doomed to go to hell, if such a place exists?
Id like ppl's opinions on this
Originally posted by paperclip
In your posts lies the answer to your question. PEOPLE say that if you dont follow their way you go to hell. GOD says if you kill you go to hell. If you lie, steal, you go to hell.
GOD never said " if you dont follow Nicene Creed" you are doomed.
GOD said love thy neighbour.
Men said love thy christian ( muslim) neighbour, kill the others if they dont obey.
You are going to hell if you sin, not if you dont go to church.
People should really read their religious books more often, really read them. Being a muslim, I have read Qur'an many times, and I havent found a part which justifies suicide bombings of civilians. Actually I have found dozens of verses which say that you are going to hell if you do that.
God spoke to humans many times, and each time humans have created a way to worship that message. That makes them united in their diferences.
Only one God, many ways to worship him, and each way is in its essence the right way.
So, if you believe in higher force and lead a righteous life you are going to heaven. If you are atheist and lead a righteous life, then its up to God to decide, although from what I've learned about him, he WILL let you in
Originally posted by ZeroDeep
Christians and Muslims believe in the same God, Bhuddists dont pray to an all might being, Hinduism believe in the the world soul, and that all our souls are yearning to be accepted back into this world soul, and Sikh's do not believe in the same god as any of the above.
Every religion is Different but yet hold Gods name true for the purpose of faith.
Paperclips analogy reminds me of the Glass one used,
"Truth is a giant piece of glass that has been shattered and all the shards of these broken pieces( Religions) are a certain truth and once put back together the truth is realized"
Deep
In Buddhism there is not, as in most other religions, an Almighty God to be obeyed and feared. The Buddha does not believe in a cosmic potentate, omniscient and omnipresent. In Buddhism there are no divine revelations or divine messengers
Originally posted by ZeroDeep
I do understand that, What I was trying to say is that Most religion do not pray to the same gods.
Muslims and Christians Pray to the same god, via different prophets.
Bhuddisms was formed for every man/women no matter what their caste unlike thier hindu counterparts, who restriced it to only the Bhramins.
Hinduism is to Caste restricted which has been a problem in india, hence the evolution of Bhuddism, Jainism, Sikhism.
Poor Hindu's.
Deep
In Buddhism there is not, as in most other religions, an Almighty God to be obeyed and feared. The Buddha does not believe in a cosmic potentate, omniscient and omnipresent. In Buddhism there are no divine revelations or divine messengers