Can someone tell me is there a difference between Religion and Knowing God?
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With the exception of Judaism, religion is made by men to control men, knowing God is personal and real.
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Theology is the study of all religions and their concepts and is not contained within a specific belief system. Religion is the practice of a certain belief system, or dogma if you will, and is very narrow in scope. One can be a theologist without being religious or even practice any religion.\n\nI think what they are telling you is that you are not accepting or knowledgable of other belief systems outside of your own. In other words, your religion is the ONLY TRUE religion--which seems to be the down fall of most religious entities.
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Differences between the two religions began the day Abraham separated Ishmael and Hagar his mother from Isaac and Sarah, the progenitors of these faiths.  Both religions believe in the same monotheistic God, but views on how to relate and otherwise commune with Him differ drastically.  Christianity teaches that Jesus is the only way to God, Islam teaches that Jesus was not God Incarnate, but rather a prophet of Allah, who at the end of time will come back to proclaim Islam the true religion.
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I think God is just God.  Religions are PATHS to God.
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:}\nMans problem with religion is understood, if we understand what religion is.\nReligion is man’s attempt to draw near to God.\nWe create more and more rules\nmore and more traditions\nmore and more ceremonies.\nMan gets caught up with the rules and traditions and ceremonies and looses sight of his desire to draw near to God.\n\nWe shouldn't give up on religion, we just must remember the purpowe of religion is relationship
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Please read the Bible,upanishads,Gita(sorry if I am forcing any religion)but religion is billion times stronger and straight forward when it comes to explaining things,anything under the sun)in asimple and HUMBLE way.\n\nregards\n\nthanks
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What difference would it make? It's still the same deity. I think God is all genders, everything in general anyway.
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I'll check out the book you mentioned in the other thread but sounds a little too fundie for me. And sorry that you didn't like all the "mights" in my previous answer :)\n\nMonotheistic God = all knowing + all powerful\nIn some monotheist traditions the one God is all knowing/all powerful but not all. So Monotheistic God = all knowning +all powerful isn't always true and would be the first "might" in your own logic chain, might be all powerful might not.\n\nall knowing = knowledge of what you will do\nThe very fact that your using the word "will" implies that this one God who might be all powerful/knowing exists inside time. Our own studies have shown that the farther you are from a center of gravity, like the earth for instance, the slower time passes relative to someone nearer the center. So would this monotheistic god know what we "will" do or merely what we did? That is the second "might" in your logic chain.\n\nknowing what you will do = 0 choices\nThat is one way of looking at it, IF god exists inside time and IF he is really all knowning which isn't a must outside of the Judeo-Christian tradition (and isn't true across all groups within the tradition). Another way of looking at it is that knowing what you will do equates to already knowing what you chose to do. \n\n0 choices = 0 power\nThe power to choose? I'm not even sure what you mean here, the truth of the statement would seem to hinge on your definition of "power". Since power is a relative term it might be true if alot of other mights are met earlier in the process your laying out.\n\nomniscience = impotence\nWhat? Omniscience = knowledge of all things, whether real or apparent knowledge. = absolute power, not impotence. Or do you mean we're impotent? Impotent being the lack of strength to do anything?\n\nAre you a programmer by chance?\nHave you ever thought about the universe being one big program that is being compiled? The code was entered and is now being put together into a set form that was determined by the code? It sounds like what your describing, in which case we are all part of the program. Which means we dont' really need free will, we're doing exactly what we were meant to do. The reason there is a stigma attached to that kind of philosophy is that it justifies horrendous acts which are anti-social. Hitler for instance was doing just what he was supposed to, and so were Churchill and Roosevelt when they put him down. \n\nThat was a fun one to work through, I hope you got a little out of my answer. I honestly tried to answer it as best I could in the time taken.\n\nTake it easy,\nArmus
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Yes, God is God no matter what you call him (or her) or how you choose to worship.\nI wish everyone understood this!
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There are 0 gods.\n\nThe difference between your god and mine is that I don't have one, whereas, you also don't have one, but possibly believe that you do.
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Religion usually means people reaching out for God.\n\nChristianity believes God is reaching out for people.
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The only way I know of to KNOW a religion is to practice it.\n To learn what a religion is about, I think read the books, listen to the people and go to the churches and then make YOUR decision based on how you feel that it all fits in with your core values and beliefs
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A good point. Religions are supposedly faith-based, but then tack on requirements to keep that particular label. Even an agnostic has to meet the requirement of believing there is no God, so I guess the answer is no religion meets the parameter of not requiring anything to be a part of it.
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Why, yes, I did know that.  But, that also makes your question somewhat meaningless:  I could just as easily ask of you, 'Your Allah is called God.  Why don't you worship Him Alone?'  See how that changes exactly nothing about the actual theological differences we have?  :)
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The latter.\nAny 'god' is a figment of the imagination. Any 'god' is man-made.
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It's a fundamental difference in how the religions are practiced.  For example:  Confession, birth control, and the guy with the funny hat.
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See my article pertaining to the traditional notion of God.\n\nhttp://tcrnews2.com/spong.html\n\n\n\n\n\n\n---