(November 14, 2018 at 11:57 am)Brian37 Wrote:(April 13, 2014 at 7:21 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: From what I understand, what unites these faiths the most is the belief in an intervening God who is unique and has no equals. The Christian doctrine can be said to contradict this, but, in theory, they believe in One God.
They each believe God sent Messengers to humanity through out time. They each believe they have that message that is the message that God wants us to follow. They each believe that God will establish justice through a person.
What I see is essentially these religions agree upon the core beliefs, and their structure is similar. They pray to God, believe he helps those who pray to him, emphasized on doing good, etc.
Now the two questions - is - why - I mean by this, what is the exact reason - you believe other religions could of been made up (like Bahais) but not yours without denying there is Messengers and God intervenes. The 2nd, is what makes you think other religions have been corrupted and have no book that is perfectly reliable, but you do.
I think that experience takes a subjective experience. I think it's hard to prove religion objectively. I think these religions would do well also to have dialogue and share their scriptural beauty.
Talking to some Christians, they find the Quran not as beautiful as the Bible. I have the opposite experience and find the Quran more beautiful then the Bible.
How do we leave the subjective experience to believing into an objective experience?
Islam is the third spin off off the Hebrews. Christianity is the second spin off of the Hebrews. But none of those three religions ever want to accept that even the Hebrews were merely a splinter sect spin off of the prior polytheistic Canaanites.
No different than Coke Vs Pepsi vs Sprite. All sodas, and all forgetting that water was around long before soda and soda would not exist without water.
Everybody likes to think that they're different. It's what the industry of individualism is all about and part of the reason why fascism is unpopular.