My take on Christianity - Judaism - Islam

[downbeatplumb]

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?

Really! your down to this now are you.

[Mystic]

Good question, MysticKnight, have you found the answer?

Really! your down to this now are you.

[Angrboda]

Talking to yourself is a sign that your meds need to be increased.

[Mystic]

Talking to yourself is a sign that your meds need to be increased.

Ok Dr. PHD in Psychiatry, thanks for your analysis.

[Ravenshire]

It's all bullshit, and it's bad for you.

~George Carlin

[Simon Moon]

Oh, I forgot you wanted to know why one book is retained and the others rejected?

For me, I did what the Bible said.
I prayed to the God of Heaven- "Our Father...."
I prayed a prayer of repentance. I surrendered.

I felt like I was on a tree branch sawing it off at the trunk.
Woke up 8 hours later without the awareness of sleeping and had an innate knowledge that I knew, that I knew,  God was real.
I was born from above.

So, you didn't pray for a god to provide you with evidence of its existence, you already presupposed a specific god exists, then prayed to that specific god, and had some sort of experience that you attribute to said god.

A perfect demonstration of confirmation bias.

Previous to this, I laid out all the myriad religions and systems of belief in my mind as a giant mosaic, and because they  are contrary to one another- one and only one is the truth and all the rest are lies and shades of lies.

You are missing one very important option, all religions could be wrong.

As time has gone by, more learning and more experiences have deepened my absolute confidence in the wisdom of that decision long ago.

So then, reinforcement of your confirmation bias. Nicely done.

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

That's funny.

All the other members of other religions also claim that their book is the truth, and all other books are a lie, including the Bible.

And here's me, a disbeliever in ALL religious books, with no method to tell which one, if any, is correct.

[Mystic]

^The method is Kunfoo fighting.

Everyone's got to do some kunfoooo fightin!

[Angrboda]

This is why necroing is bad. The professor has left the building. Quite some time ago.

[Mystic]

This is why necroing is bad.  The professor has left the building.  Quite some time ago.

That's a factor of why you shouldn't do it, but other factors, might lead to necroing a thread regardless with more benefit.

[Mystic]

So.... Any Christian, Jew or Muslim want to answer OP?