(January 17, 2014 at 2:01 am)Polaris Wrote: How can they not all be right in their own? Why can't my coworkers in India have their own gods and I have mine? In my Bible, it says to not have any gods before Him, but that applies to me. God did not say that the entire world could not have any gods of their own, just the fact that He was infinitely stronger.
... Which might work fine on a polytheistic sense, except that those followers of other gods are also generally hitching their beliefs to them as the determiners of the afterlife, but you also have different interpretations of the same god, too. Jesus, for example, cannot both be the son of god, as christian sects believe, and not the son of god, as the jews and muslims believe. That's a mutually exclusive set of positions: someone is wrong there.
You think you're going to either heaven or hell, right? Are there any other options? If not, then I guess we've got another exclusive proposition, contradicting the visions of all those other afterlives that can't be true under your system. There are more points of conflict than you might think, even within different denominations of your own religion; homosexuals will burn in hell, according to x preacher, but y preacher says their faith will save them. Rabbi z tells us salvation is through faith and not works, but father a says otherwise. And so on, and so forth.
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