There's only one God why is their so many religions?

[redskulldangerzone64]

[jennifer_bloom]

I think God wants us to base our faith on God and not on culture so he creates cultural divides in religious communities to test us.

[LisaLisa89]

Some religions hold that there's only one god. Others hold that there are many.

Rational thought rejects both of those. It's quite alarming in this day and age that anyone can be gullible enough to believe in the existence of a god.

[AndrésC64]

It truly is mind-boggling, isn't it?

[GlassTop]

I find it irrational to think there isn’t one. You think the universe came from nothing and turned into what it is? You know how impossibly perfect earths conditions are for life? Just study science? Hell study how complex the human body is 😂 a lot of doctors and scientists believe in god.

[AndrésC64]

@GlassTop the only people that the Universe came from nothing are the religious people. They think God poofed everything into existence.

What do you expect to see, a world not fit for life?

Just because people believe something doesn't make it true. They used to believe that the Earth was flat and the sun went around the earth.

[GlassTop]

@AndrésC64 yes just look at our universe. We can’t even find a planet with water. Earth is impeccably perfect for life and it is protected by meteorites that have the destroy the world, the perfect distance from the sun, correct tilt and all the elements needed for survival. I can’t stress how perfect. If literally 0.0000000001 was altered it would cause extinction. That’s just the earth. Now go down to the microscopic level. Be you examined the eye? Do you know how advanced the human eye is to see in such detail? Our immune system is working tirelessly daily to protect from disease. It’s extremely complicated. People studying this know that this was no accident. Either some aliens planted life on a perfect planet or god created it.

[AndrésC64]

@GlassTop 🤦🏼‍♂️ You are simply restating what I have already rebutted. I'll respond in greater detail later when I have more time.

[GlassTop]

@AndrésC64 ok I’ll be waiting:)

[AndrésC64]

@GlassTop "yes just look at our universe. We can’t even find a planet with water"

Wrong. Just in our solar system
Jupiter: Water in frozen and vapour form. Saturn: Water in frozen and vapour form. Uranus: Frozen water. Neptune: Frozen water. And those are only a few and only in our Solar system.

Yes, the Earth is in what is commonly known as the Goldilocks zone. If it weren't, we wouldn't be having this conversation. What do you expect to see, a world NOT fit for life? And just for the sake of discussion, I'll accept that decimal value that you gave. So what? Yes it is what it is. Now is the explanation a naturalistic that we just haven't figured out yet, and maybe never will, or some timeless, spaceless, disembodied being (which is a contradiction in terms). There is not one single shred of verifiable evidence for the existence of any such thing.

[AndrésC64]

@GlassTop Do you realize what a poor design the human eye is? Having the optic nerve go right through the retina creates a blind spot. Not to mention the numerous other maladies that come along with human eyes such as short-sightedness, farsightedness, glaucoma, etc. There are numerous animals out there with better eyes than we have. In fact when it comes to design in general, I challenge you to name one part of the human body that couldn't be improved upon.

There are literally thousands of diseases and hundreds of virus out there that kill humans and cause severe pain and deformity every day. Luckily, science is helping fix and prevent these mistakes.

And you are creating a false dichotomy. It isn't God or aliens. You are assuming those are the only two possibilities. You have nothing on which to base that. In fact, you have no evidence whatsoever for the existence of either of those.

[NamerOfStars]

No, there are, as should be evident to anyone paying the least bit of attention, quite a few gods- whether they actually EXIST is a fair question; whether they're distinct from one another, much less so.

[Wade12345]

Because idiots have free will too, and other idiots make up lies, and then the really, really dumb idiots believe all the lies of the other idiots.

[CountessSarah]

Is there one god? As far as I can tell there are no gods.

There are no gods - why are there so many religions?

[jshm2]

The same reason there is only one human race, but many languages.

You'll figure it out eventually, kiddo.

Stay in school.

[Anonymous]

If god really exists, then clearly he likes to see us divided and conflicted.

[GlassTop]

I mean he could just make robots that follow him blindly but he gave people choices.

[Opinion Owner]

@GlassTop
We don’t need division and conflict in order to have free will. That’s what you were going for, right? The free will argument? 🙄

[GlassTop]

Yea we don’t. We create division and conflicts ourselves not him 😂 why blame god for everything. We could as a human society come together and create solutions to everything but we don’t.

[Opinion Owner]

@GlassTop
We are talking about His word. If there is any confusion when it comes to His word, then the problem lays with the message, not with those receiving the message.

[GlassTop]

Where’s the confusion?

[Opinion Owner]

@GlassTop
All the different religions. As per the topic we are discussing.

[GlassTop]

So what exactly are you expecting from god?

[Opinion Owner]

@GlassTop
Clarity

[GlassTop]

Read his book

[Opinion Owner]

@GlassTop
The book that brought about all this confusion in the first place?
Do you understand the topic here?

[GlassTop]

I don’t understand where the confusion is. It’s all straight forward to me.

[Opinion Owner]

@GlassTop
And I bet you believe to have the correct interpretation, right? What you believe the Bible says is EXACTLY what it means? Because the majority of the world’s Bible believing community will disagree with you. They believe their interpretations are the correct ones, and they believe with just as much conviction as you do.
So who’s right? You?
This is why either clarity is need, or it all part of the design and God wants us divided and conflicted.
He’s kind of shitty either way.

[GlassTop]

Can you give me a text example of what you think is confusing?

[Opinion Owner]

@GlassTop
Yes! The text is called the Bible. And it has caused confusion among the human race for generations.
We know this is true because there are many different religious offshoots that are Bible based, yet they disagree with each other.

[GlassTop]

So you don’t have a specific verse or text just the whole book?

[888theGreat]

God /Christ is only true religion.

Satan created all the others including the catholics to muddy the waters and create doubt and it is working

[AsaKyo]

There's people who have different interpretations of "God"

[AndrésC64]

Good question. I imagine you'll get some rather inventive answers.

[Anonymous]

who said there's only one god or any gods at all for that matter?

[Anonymous]

You have it all wrong. There are NO gods.

[Anonymous]

Only one? Lol you're nearly right...

[LordOfThePines]

Because that is not the case.

[call_me_scar]

Because penguins