My take on Christianity - Judaism - Islam

[Dragonetti]

I have never prayed. I was never forced into any religious services. I was never indoctrinated into any religious cult. If something cannot be explained with the current answers, I do not lay claim to some mythical monster. I guess that I will never understand the religious person.

[professor]

Dragonetti,
In my initial quest to determine the truth about reality, i lumped in (under the heading) of "Systems of Belief", Atheism and Naturalism.
No one is exempt from a religious faith.

[truthBtold]

Dragonetti,
In my initial quest to determine the truth about reality, i lumped in (under the heading) of "Systems of Belief", Atheism and Naturalism.
No one is exempt from a religious faith.

Say again??? Huh?

[Dragonetti]

How does that work? Exempt from a stupid belief system? I still have to endure the religious nut jobs trying to enforce their beliefs on me via laws and policies.

[RobbyPants]

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For me, I went from subjective to objective via a supernatural encounter when I took the pardon Jesus paid for.

What do you mean it went from subjective to objective? Can you elaborate?

[professor]

Robby, since subjective is pertaining to thoughts, my experience (which I consider a real event) caused me to be objective in my understanding of spiritual things.
Objective means dealing with facts.
This was the START, not the totality of my experiences thus far.

I also note that I am old enough to have by-passed all the relativism that has been foisted upon younger generations. Something I consider adding to clarity of thought.

Dragonetti, we all have our stupid belief systems.
Everyone, everywhere operates under some system.
The only determining factor is which one it is.

[Minimalist]

Whatever book is contrary to the Bible is a lie.
For me, it is that simple.

We understand your simpleness.

[Rampant.A.I.]

[Senshi]

Nope he has freedom of expression, he just doesn't have freedom!

[Mystic]

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?

Good question, MysticKnight, have you found the answer?