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Bahá'ís: How can all religions be one?
Bahá'í doctrine says that "all religions are one", that is, that all religions are sent by the same god, and that they are all really just different aspects of the same thing.
How, then, do you reconcile this with the fact that there are many religions that flatly contradict each other, and many that flatly contradict the Bahá'í Faith itself?
For instance, any atheistic or polytheistic religion disagrees with one of the most fundamental of Bahá'í beliefs — that there is one omniscient, omnipotent god. The Bahá'í disagrees with its own ancestors (Islam, Christianity, Judaism, etc.) on many theological points as well.
How can all religions be different aspects of the same thing, when they are so incompatible?
Bob L: Think about your logic here for a second. If being internally inconsistent in its beliefs makes a religion a cult, then your religion (Christianity, by your previous answers) is a cult too.
amemhoney: That's a very interesting attitude, and in my experience it's the attitude that many American Bahá'ís take. However, more conservative Bahá'ís (particularly the early members of the religion before it spread outside the Middle East) seem to have taken this doctrine much more literally than that.
Queen M: This question is clearly directed at Bahá'ís. I didn't ask for a fundamentalist Christian rant.
Hugh W: I don't have a religion. I'm asking Bahá'ís about theirs. For the most part I am not interested in the opinions of non-Bahá'ís on Bahá'í doctrine.
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- amemahoneyLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
I'm not Baha'i, but there are several religions and philosophies that talk about this same principle. The basic premise of all religions - that there is a greater power out there - is the same in all religions.
The number(s) of Gods and Goddesses, the way you speak, meditate, or pray to them, the way you dress, act, and worship - they're all just window dressing.
If you read and study a lot of religions closely (as I have done for the past 16 years or so), you will start seeing the same concepts and priciples repeated, especially the rules and guidelines about how people should treat one another.
To me it is like we are all climbing the same mountain. Some of us will drive up the road to the top. Some of us will walk along the paths and backpack our way up. Some of us will get out climbing gear and try to go up the rock face. Some of us will call a helicopter and try to get an airlift straight to the top. But we are all trying to get to the top of the mountain.
- Hugh G. RectionLv 51 decade ago
All religion is man made. If your religion claims to be originated by god, then you know its bs... or should. So in that sense all religions are one.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You got me. No two people worship the same "god".
