Why are there so many religions in the world?

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Mighty Bear

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Why are there so many religions in the world?
"I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled!" Luke 12:49 (ESV)False Christ and false prophets Matthew 24 (ESV)Works will be revealed by fire so as to test them 1 Corinthians 3 (ESV)
 

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Why are there so many religions in the world?
To keep you from the One True God. You will find Him in the Bible and in prayer. :study: :pray3:. Religion (all religions) have the ability to keep you from Him....sad, isn't it?
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. It's all part of His plan. He knows His children and He calls His children out of confusion....listen to Him only.........Whirlwind
 

Jerusalem Junkie

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Why are there so many religions in the world?
Because no one agrees on everything and most agree on nothing so folks just went out and said hey lets start a new religion.......don't take much to start a new one even you could do it or me.......bottom line is religions are as varied as the people who practice them.........theres no one true one but you will get an argument made that there is. Maybe so, maybe not who knows?
 

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Why are there so many religions in the world?
Because satan wants to keep people as confused, bewildered, and deceived as possible. He doesn't want people to know the truth, and so he came up with denominations that don't agree with one another and won't associate with one another.
 

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Because satan wants to keep people as confused, bewildered, and deceived as possible. He doesn't want people to know the truth, and so he came up with denominations that don't agree with one another and won't associate with one another.
I don't buy this. Its easy to blame it on Satan but the fact of the matter is different faiths were created because no one sees eye to eye..beliefs are different, people see things different an example is this forum if two people agreed on the same thing why have it? No blaming on it Satan or some other deity does not cut it beliefs vary..........
 

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I don't buy this. Its easy to blame it on Satan but the fact of the matter is different faiths were created because no one sees eye to eye..beliefs are different, people see things different an example is this forum if two people agreed on the same thing why have it? No blaming on it Satan or some other deity does not cut it beliefs vary..........
You don't believe that Satan has tried to create other religions to bring people away from christ? How do you not buy that? I agree that people weren't guilt free in this but I can't help but believe that this is of Satan. Giving people the comfort of religion, just not the one he hates.
 

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Believe what you will but blaming it on some one or some thing else well.............
All I'm saying is that I am think satan has tempted, twisted, and distorted people into doing things that he wants. I'm not saying they couldn't have fought him if they had wanted to, I am saying that he had a hand in it.
 

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All I'm saying is that I am think satan has tempted, twisted, and distorted people into doing things that he wants. I'm not saying they couldn't have fought him if they had wanted to, I am saying that he had a hand in it.
Possible. But if Satan tells us to go jump off a cliff is everyone going to follow just because he says do it? Your most likely right in your assumption of the twisted and distorted stuff but man has his own mind kind of makes you wonder why we cannot think for ourselves don't it.
 

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Possible. But if Satan tells us to go jump off a cliff is everyone going to follow just because he says do it? Your most likely right in your assumption of the twisted and distorted stuff but man has his own mind kind of makes you wonder why we cannot think for ourselves don't it.
Thats very true, we can think for ourselves. Unfortunately most people choose not to. Thats why standing out in a crowd is such a big deal. So I do believe most people would jump off a cliff if satan told them to. It would only take one and then the rest would follow
 

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Dear friends, I would like you to check out this book to find out the one and the only true religion(faith). Ethiopia: The classic caseA Biblical Nation Under God That Survived Great Trials For 7500 Years of its Existence and Ordained To Invoke Divine Judgment And Condemnation Up On The World.Will The Present Generation Of Humanity Hearken This Time To The Divine Warning In Order To Avert Another Imminent Universal Cataclysm?http://ethkogserv.org/books_.htm
 

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careful with these kind of Books I have never read this but there is only one Book inspired by God and that is his Word. It also covers everything from the begining of time
 

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Dear friends, I would like you to check out this book to find out the one and the only true religion(faith). Ethiopia: The classic caseA Biblical Nation Under God That Survived Great Trials For 7500 Years of its Existence and Ordained To Invoke Divine Judgment And Condemnation Up On The World.Will The Present Generation Of Humanity Hearken This Time To The Divine Warning In Order To Avert Another Imminent Universal Cataclysm?http://ethkogserv.org/books_.htm
What as this got to do with the subject of the thread is what I want to know?
 

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Why are there so many religions in the world?
Let me be up front and say that I haven't read any replies to this thread, just the question. My response is:Because no matter what your particular sinful tendencies are, and no matter what your personality is, Satan has a "religion" for you. Murderers, rapists, authoritarians, nice guys, wimps, alcoholics, polygamists, and people who just want to be left alone...there is a religion out there that will let you do what you want to do without making you feel bad and needing to repent and give your life over to God.
 

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Because satan wants to keep people as confused, bewildered, and deceived as possible. He doesn't want people to know the truth, and so he came up with denominations that don't agree with one another and won't associate with one another.
I don't buy this. Its easy to blame it on Satan but the fact of the matter is different faiths were created because no one sees eye to eye..beliefs are different, people see things different an example is this forum if two people agreed on the same thing why have it? No blaming on it Satan or some other deity does not cut it beliefs vary..........

There's a lot of blame on Satan and his demons. It's true that we humans can do terrible things on our own, without Satan help, but much of the problems in this world Satan and his demons have caused. Satan is the ruler of this world we're living in. The nations, or governments belong to Satan. This is shown to be true when Satan tempted Jesus, telling him if he did one act of worship to him Satan would give him all the nations or governments. Satan is the one who caused this wicked world we live in to come into existence. He did that in the garden of Eden when he caused the first couple, Adam and Eve into rebelling against God's Rulership. A World with sin and death in it, that's the world Satan caused to come into existence.
Satan says that God is a liar and that he doesn't rule with justice because Satan says that God doesn't rule considering mankind's best interests. The scriptures say that Satan is misleading the entire inhabited earth.(Revelation 12:9) Satan is about hate not love, so Gods people expect this wicked world we're living in to be divided. Hate divides people, love unites them.
 

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Why are there so many religions in the world?

As a young kid, I asked my mother what made thunder and she said "It's the gods playing skittles up there" so the ancient cavemen probably thought the same thing and each tribe gave its particular god a different name and bingo! multiple religions were born.
It's still the same today, assorted religions have their own gods and creeds based on what the founders of those religions told them.
Christianity is different however, because all the founders of other religions are corpses in graves somewhere but Jesus is not, spot the difference?..:)
 

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According to my dad (when I was a kid), thunder is the result of clouds banging together.