Probability your religion is true?

[DennisTate]

I don't know what most of my religion looks like. I'm discovering parts of it and leaving other parts I assume were part of it.

That said I can testify with confidence to Quran and Ahlulbayt (as). The religion attributed to them on the other hand, I cannot vouch for.

I do really like this idea of differentiating from an original vision........ in comparison to the religion that the vision generated over time. We humans can take good ideas and get them all mixed up with politics...... and our desires for more and more and more of whaever we want.

http://godspeaceplan.org/books-download-page/

“God’s Peace for the Holy Land*”? Isn’t that a presumptuous title? Please allow

me to explain. First, since the sacred books of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

provide the guidelines supporting this solution, and since I wasn’t the one who

wrote them, calling them “God’s” seems fair. That’s why the words “presented by”

precede my name on the title page. Second, this book in no way proselytizes or

puts one religion above another. Nor does it openly or subtly encourage anyone to

convert to anything. What it does is take into account something without which

attaining peace in the Holy Land (Israel/Palestine) will forever be unattainable.

That “something” is the sacred messages delivered to each of the peoples involved

in the dispute. In this case, referencing the sacred books is more than some dry,

scholarly exercise or even a gesture of courtesy. Without taking the sacred books

into account, peace in the Holy Land will be near, if not completely, impossible." (Robert Mendelson)

Sura 29:46;

Dispute not…with people of the Book;

And say ye, "We believe in what hath been sent down to us [Qur’an]

and what hath been sent down to you ]. [Old & New Testaments]

Our God and your God is one,..."

Sura 2:136;

Say ye: "We believe in God,

and that which hath been sent down to us [Qur’an],

and that which hath been sent down to Abraham

and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes [Joshua],

and in that was given to Moses, and to Jesus,

and that which was given to the prophets, from their Lord.

No difference do we make between any of them."

Sura 46:12;

But before the Koran was the Book of Moses, a rule and a mercy;

and this Book confirmeth it (the Pentateuch)—in the Arabic tongue—

that those who are guilty of that wrong may be warned,

and as glad tidings to the doers of good."

Sura 6:85;

And we gave him Isaac and Jacob, and guided both aright;

and We had guided…among the descendants of Abraham, David …”

Sura 60:7-9;

7 God will, perhaps, establish good will between yourselves

and those of them whom ye take to be your enemies:

God is powerful: and God is gracious, merciful.

8 God doth not forbid you to deal with kindness and fairness

towards those who have not made war upon you on account of your religion,

or driven you forth from your homes:

for God loveth those who act with fairness.



9 Only doth God forbid you to make friends of those who,

on account of your religion,

have warred against you,

and have driven you forth from your homes,

and have aided [America & the West] those [Israel] whom drove you forth:

and whoever maketh friends of them are wrongdoers."

There is hierarchy in scriptures and if certain verses are put as foundational by Christians...... then our understanding of our Scriptures changes dramatically.

Matthew 5

 

[The Gryphon]

If you are depending on religion to save you rather than establishing a personal relationship with Jesus, G_d, and the Holy Spirit; you are in serious trouble.

 

[cloudyday2]

If you are depending on religion to save you rather than establishing a personal relationship with Jesus, G_d, and the Holy Spirit; you are in serious trouble.

O.k. then what is the probability that your relationship with Jesus, etc. is true (as opposed to imaginary)?

For example, if God seems to be telling you to drown your children in the bathtub or sacrifice your firstborn son in a burnt offering then you must think about probabilities.

It's not so much a number like 75% that I am requesting. We really need to think about scenarios where false beliefs can lead to costly errors (such as drowning your children in the bathtub when it is only your imagination talking to you).