Would you consider these as the three religious truths?
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I don't know about "religious truths," but they are true.\n\nBaptists hate sinners but love to sin (so long as no one sees them).
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In theory that would be good, but look at the answers here already and it is always the christians who come out with that stuff about there is only one god and one true religion blah blah blah. It's the christians who stand in the way of such unity.
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I do not...all of this religion stuff to me could be considered a myth...all beliefs are opinions from ones upbringings,teachings,and faith.
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It would probably be better to research the answer for yourself. Check here as to what there doctrines are.
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This one's a real hot potato.  And it's not something you hear \nso much from ancient religious institutions... rather, it's simply \nthe 'politically correct' way to talk about spirituality these days.\n\n   It tends to be expressed something like this: 'You've got your\ntruth, and I've got my truth.  You find a faith that works for\nyou, and I'll find a faith that works for me.'\n\n   Well here's my question:\n\n   How many conflicting versions of the truth can actually be true?\n\n   I'm not going to use this space to promote an agenda today -- or \nto push any specific claim of Ultimate Truth.  I'm just going to\nhighlight a very simple, logical reality that each of us, in our search\nfor Truth, must recognize.  Pardon me if I offend you, but I'm \ngoing to put it bluntly.\n\n   It's impossible for all religions to be true.\n\n   In other words, if Islam is essentially true, then Buddhism,\nHinduism and Christianity are not.  If Buddhism is essentially true, \nthen Islam, Christianity and Hinduism are not.  And so on.\n\n   How can I say such a thing?  Because if you *really* study these \nreligions, it will become clear that each makes bold, fundamental \nassertions about reality that are not compatible with the others.  \n\n   For example, Hinduism states that divinity is present in everything.\nChristianity, Judaism and Islam all assert that God is distinctly \nseparate from what he has created.  The implications of these different \nviews run very deep, and they are fundamentally incompatible.  It's \nlogically impossible for both views to be true.\n\n   So why bring this up, anyway?\n\n   Well first I have to make a confession.  I would *like* to believe \nthat all religions could be true.  I would personally *like* to believe \nthat all paths lead to God.  It feels good.  It's a kinder view of \nthe world.  It puts everyone on equal footing.  \n\n   But it just doesn't make sense.  \n\n   Truth is, by nature, exclusive.  There are always more wrong\nways to do just about anything than right ways.  There are always \nmore wrong answers to any given question than right ones.  \n\n   True?\n\n   And you know what?  This really raises the stakes.  It puts a \nreal sense of urgency in our search for truth, because it shows \nthat if we're not careful, we can fall for a half-truth.\n\n   On the other hand, if you diligently search, seek\nout the facts, and your spiritual journey brings you to\na place where the pieces fit in place - if everything makes\nlogical sense and it feels right in your heart - then you \nshould not hesitate to share your joy with others.\n\n   OK... now let's stop right now and make something very clear: \n\n   If we possess the truth, it doesn't give us the right to \nbe unkind to those who disagree.  It didn't give Bin Laden the \nright to declare Jihad, hijack airplanes and fly them into the \nWorld Trade Center.  It didn't give so-called 'Christians' the \nright to kill people in the Crusades.  It doesn't give us the \nright to be disrespectful or violent.\n\n   What it does give us is the right - and the confidence -\nto go out into the marketplace of ideas and *see* if our Truth\nstands up to hard scrutiny.\n\n   C.S. Lewis was talking about this very thing when he said, \n'You don't need to defend a Lion.  You just need to let him \nout of his cage.'\n\n   If you really do have the truth, then you have nothing to fear.  \nYou don't need to burn books or censor speech.  Truth is its \nown best defense.\n\n   In our modern, sophisticated culture, spirituality gets\nlocked up in a cage.  It's a taboo subject.  Discussions about \nreligion are not considered 'polite conversation.'  So nobody \ntalks about it.\n\n   The result?  People don't talk to each other.  They live in \nfear and isolation.  \n\n   Some folks harbor ideas and notions that make absolutely no
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Dude, I don't know where you get your views, but they are not a reflection of God as revealed in the Holy Bible.  Have you ever read it?  Ever had a serious discussion with real people who have also studied it and could have dismissed it all as bunk, but instead they "bet the farm", their lives, reputations, livelihoods on it.  Talk to some real Christians in person.  Anonymity on a yahoo answers forum is not going to get you the real answers you're seeking.
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Let's address the issue of truth: is it relative or is it objective?\n\nTechnically speaking, all religions could tap into the same spiritual truth therefore even if you wrongfully excluded a religion -- your own religion would still contain this thing called "truth."  That's one way in which all religions could contain truth at the same time.\n\nHowever what you want is for someone to say that they ALL cannot tap into the same spiritual truth and that there must be a "wrong" religious doctrine.  Suppose this is true.\n\nMost spiritual texts DEMAND -- not ask -- but DEMAND that their followers seek the truth. The texts claim that in seeking truth, they will ultimately come to this "religion" as what is true.\n\nTruth-seeking comes BEFORE the religion. Once one is converted, it takes blind faith, but it is important to know what you believe and evaluate it critically.\n\nNo "church" wants an ignorant believer to convert because they saw an movie and hey, it looked cool. They require that you KNOW how to respond to accusations and that your faith actually began in logic.  Orthodox Judaism has one of the most beautifully restrictive tests: in order for conversion to occur, a believer must endure these attacks against Judaism and have so many years of experience within the Jewish church.\n\nFaith and logic are not opposite or oxymoronic.\n\nWith that said, if your spiritually has a religious text, it basically demands you know why you believe what you believe. The first step is realizing truth, the second is conversion, and the third is preparation for your role within that religion.\n\nThe importance of this is: you're not supposed to believe blindly. So if someone said, I believe in X, you better be prepared HOW to back up your belief with evidence outside of that religion: hardcore evidence. THEN tie in the religious element showing that these two worlds not only agree but are the same.\n\nIn theory, if someone truly seeks truth independently of religion, they will pick the "true" religion.
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Yes, but not a trinity of God as 3 persons. He is manifested to man in 3 ways...or offices/ministries...but God is one and the same person.\n\nISAIAH 45:21\nTell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.\n\nTo say that He is more than one person, is paganism.\nThe Doctrine of the Trinity is a Roman Catholic doctrine from the Council of Nicea, 325 A.D.\n\nGod is a Spirit. As a Spirit He has no physical form to show Himself to us. The Bible says that Jesus was God, as a man...the express image of God.\nJesus said He and the Father are the same person.\n\nJOHN 14:7-9\n7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.\n8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. \n9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? \n\nMany Trinitarians say that when God said, "Let us make man in our own image", that it denotes God speaking to the two other persons in the Godhead. But there is no Scriptures that say He is 3 persons. He was speaking to us. We were in Him, before the foundation of the world.\n\nWE ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS HAVING A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE, WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS HAVING A HUMAN EXPERIENCE\n\nHe is FATHER, above us.\nHe is SON, with us.\nHe is HOLY SPIRIT, in us.\n\nOne God, 3 manifestations.\n\nI AM THE LORD I CHANGE NOT -MALACHI 3:6\nJESUS CHRIST THE SAME YESTERDAY, AND TODAY, AND FOREVER -HEBREWS 13:8\n\nCOLOSSIANS 2:9\nFor in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.\n\nI TIMOTHY 3:16\nAnd without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.\n\nHEBREWS 1:3\nWho being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; \n("RIGHT HAND" symbolizes POWER, this is throughout the Old Testament)\n\nAsk yourself this, can a Spirit bleed?...\nACTS 20:28\nTake heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.\n\nCompare ISAIAH 45:21,22,23 with ROMANS 14:11 and PHILIPPIANS 2:10,11...there is only ONE SAVIOUR!\n\nEPHESIANS 4:5,6\n5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, \n6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. \n\nLORD (Father) - JESUS (Son) - CHRIST (Holy Ghost)\n\nTo learn more go here...\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibletruth...\nThen click on DOCTRINES OF DEVILS\nThen click on THE TRINITY\n\nYou can also go here...\nThe Trinity - Christian Or Pagan?\nhttp://www.bridemessage.org/thustrin.htm...\n\nMay God bless you, as you seek His' Truth.
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I'd ask him who was right about this religion thing. He'd probably say we were all wrong, but I'd still want to know, just in case. lol
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Absolutely I agree. As a Christian, I find it disheartening the extent to which my brothers and sisters do not understand or accept that scripture has a mystical nature, and that our religion is a mystical one. \n\nThat is the essence of a "revealed religion" which Christianity surely is. Not all of its layers are immediately apparent, and a life of seeking - even within the fold - yields new treasure to store up in Heaven.
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yes - because different religions can be merely different interpretations of the same truth
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You are one of the few people who seems to be able to see that all three relgions are intr related.  Nice to see some uses the brain god gave them
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Sure, it's all right with the "Supreme Starfish" and don't the land dwelling Christians believe in at least three conflicting theologies at once and they seem to be able to work it all out somehow, so what's wrong with two?
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The Triple Gem\n1. The Buddha — The self awakened one. The original nature of the Heart;\n2. The Dhamma — The Teaching. The nature of reality;\n3. The Sangha — a. The Awakened Community. b. Any harmonious assembly. c. All Beings.\n\nThe Four Noble Truths\n1. The Noble Truth of Dukkha - stress, unsatisfactoriness, suffering;\n2. The Noble Truth of the causal arising of Dukkha, which is grasping, clinging and wanting;\n3. The Noble Truth of Nirvana, The ending of Dukkha. Awakening, Enlightenment. "Mind like fire unbound";\n4. The Noble Truth of the Path leading to Nirvana or Awakening.\nAll Buddhist teachings flow from the Four Noble Truths. \n\nThe Four Bodhisattva Vows\n1. I vow to rescue the boundless living beings from suffering; (Link to 1st Truth)\n2. I vow to put an end to the infinite afflictions of living beings; (Link to 2nd Truth)\n3. I vow to learn the measureless Dharma-doors; (Link to 4th Truth)\n4. I vow to realise the unsurpassed path of the Buddha. (Link to 3th Truth)\nFoundation of the Mahayana Path, these vows say. 'Whatever the highest perfection of the human heart-mind may I realise it for the benefit of all that lives!'\n\nThe Eight Fold-Path\nRight, Integral, Complete, Perfected.\n1. Right View, Understanding;\n2. Right Attitude, Thought or Emotion;\n3. Right Speech;\n4. Right Action;\n5. Right livelihood;\n6. Right Effort, Energy, and Vitality;\n7. Right Mindfulness or Awareness;\n8. Right Samadhi "concentration", one-pointedness. Integration of, or establishment in, various levels of consciousness.\n\nThe Five Precepts\nI undertake to:\n1. Abstain from killing living beings;\n2. Abstain from taking that which not given;\n3. Abstain from sexual misconduct;\n4. Abstain from false speech;\n5. Abstain from distilled substances that confuse the mind. (Alcohol and Drugs)\nThe underlying principle is non-exploitation of yourself or others. The precepts are the foundation of all Buddhist training. With a developed ethical base, much of the emotional conflict and stress that we experience is resolved, allowing commitment and more conscious choice. Free choice and intention is important. It is "I undertake" not 'Thou Shalt". Choice, not command.\n\nThe Five Precepts in positive terms\nI undertake the training precept to:\n1. Act with Loving-kindness;\n2. Be open hearted and generous;\n3. Practice stillness, simplicity and contentment;\n4. Speak with truth, clarity and peace;\n5. Live with mindfulness.\n\nThe Ten Paramita\nParamita means gone to the other shore, it is the highest development of each of these qualities.\n1. Giving or Generosity; *\n2. Virtue, Ethics, Morality; *\n3. Renunciation, letting go, not grasping;\n4. Panna or Prajna "Wisdom" insight into the nature of reality; *\n5. Energy, vigour, vitality, diligence; *\n6. Patience or forbearance; *\n7. Truthfulness;\n8. Resolution, determination, intention;\n9. Kindness, love, friendliness;\n10. Equanimity.\n\n\nThe Four Sublime or Uplifted States\n1. Metta — Friendliness, Loving-kindness;\n2. Karuna — Compassion;\n3. Mudita — Joy, Gladness. Appreciation of good qualities in people;\n4. Upekkha — Equanimity, the peaceful unshaken mind.\n\nFull development of these four states develops all of the Ten Paramita.\nThe Five Powers or Spiritual Faculties\n1.Faith, Confidence;\n2. Energy, Effort;\n3. Mindfulness;\n4. Samadhi;\n5. Wisdom.\n\nThe Five Hindrances\n1. Sense craving;\n2. Ill-will;\n3. Sloth and Torpor;\n4, Restlessness and Worry;\n5. Toxic doubt and the ruthless inner critic.\n\nThe Four bases or Frames of Reference of Mindfulness\n1. Mindfulness of the Body — breath, postures, parts;\n2. Mindfulness of Feelings, Sensations — pleasant, unpleasant and neutral;\n3. Mindfulness of States of Consciousness;\n4. Mindfulness of all Phenomena or Objects of Consciousness.\n\nThe Three Signs of Existence or Universal Properties\n1. Anicca — Impermanent;\n2. Dukkha — Unsatisfactory,
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I believe that most religious leaders attempt to convey the message of their particular faith, or at least their interpretation of it.  One of the problems with faith is that, in order to embrace it, one generally believes that it is truth.  As we are humans, and endlessly fallible, it is difficult to see how any of us could ever grasp the "truth", as demonstrated by billions of believers in disparate faiths.  As fallible beings, we also would make mistakes in interpretation, even if we knew the truth.\n\nAs religious leaders often use their faith as a rubrik to understand current events (using ideas and pracitices as old as millenia to interpret cloning for example) they often have to make some difficult decisions regarding moral courses of action.  Within the framwork of belief, these "moral" leaders have to decide if contemporary events are moral and how to guide their congregations to look at these issues.  Even if one takes this view (which assumes that all religious leaders are intellectually honest and aren't swayed by emotions, greed, racism, etc) it is easy to see how even civil wars are fought between two sides that are Christian, for example.  \n\nIf the religious leaders of a particular faith feel threatened by an outside faith they might have feel the need to resist the threat rather than be forced from the path of truth.  In Russia, during the reformation of the Orthodox church in the time of Ivan the Terrible, the old believers, who would not accept the changes in the church, burned themselves to death rather than face torture or punishment from the church.  We have seen holy wars between Islamic  countries, sanctioned by leaders of the faiths as necessary within their framework of what is right and moral.\n\nEveryone has a belief system that acts as a compass in the world.  What is necessary in order for everyone to do as you ask, is for everyone to embrace tolerance and forsake greed and competition. Also, everyone would have to either stop needing to believe that there is an "absolute truth" or at least accept the fact that what is true for one man is not for another.  Unfortuantely, I'm afraid that faith and the abovementioned are almost defining characteristics of our species and we have a long way yet to evolve.
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My first thought is No. \n\nI also agree with what you said later. However, I also believe that part of the beauty of religion is that the scared texts ARE so open to interpretation. What divides us is not that the openness, but rather that we forget how different each one of us can interpret the text. If God wanted us all to follow things so strictly, all the sacred texts would just be a list of commandments.
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You make an interesting point. I have made an exclusive study of the trinity in the Christian scriptures and found it to have a solid premise, albeit that particular word isn't in the bible, and neither is the concept directly addressed. I wouldn't attempt to go into it here - it's too much - and that wasn't your question. I know  little about the Hindu religion,  so I'm not really qualified to comment.  What I find interesting about your point - the trinity notwithstanding - is that Mary, the mother of Jesus is worshiped in some Christian religions, as some  pray to various saints as well. It does indeed sound like at least some Christians have more than one god. I think that's rather odd. But...I haven't answered your question. It's a bit tricky. If you were a Christian we could discuss it.