Why are there so many different religions that all teach different things about God and the bible?

Laziness! From the Time of Jesus to 305AD people did stick to obeying ALL of the Bible.

In 305/6 AD 29 very lazy men that did not like having to Obey ALL that is required of us left and started the Catholic religion. It has never even taught more than nine of the first Ten Commandments! Split the Tenth into two and claim hey have ten. In the 4th century also added beliefs of the fake sun-god (that sun-day is named for ) to their religion. If we look at photos from their churches back then, the fake sun-god is even carved into the stone of they walls!

With the invention of the printing press, people saw that the catholic religion was Not obeying much of the Bible. So New, far more obedient Christian/Protestant religions came to be! Back then they were much more Obeying the Bible! Since then more lazier people have left them and started more .... plus they have decreased their obeying.

The People that are Obeying the Bible the strictest are "Independent"s They do Not belong to any religion and obey the Bible as best as they can, always working to be even closer! Not having the religions odd beliefs in their life.

The Christian religion "Messianic Judaism" is obeying the Bible the closest. For Rabbi Jesus even states in Matthew 5:17-20 that he was Not here to start a new religion, yet to fix the Jewish one! Also requiring us to keep Obeying ALL of the 613 Commandments that God gave to Moses! Few religions these days are even admitting of all 613 of the Commandments!

People are different, so our view of life and the universe is necessarily different. Religions are codified beliefs: somebody writes a story or a law and when other people agree with it they spread the idea. Our shared culture is a type of religion, its just not so codified or moralistic.

Actually I think that the idea that our understanding of God and the bible should be the same, is a modern day cultural distortion. Do we expect everybody to have the same interpretation of a poem, song or movie. And who would expect everyone to understand the supreme person in the same way? Science like to be objective and find fact - this is a mineral or a vegetable - but not everything in life lends itself to black and white definintion.

When I hear people saying this is what God wants or this is what the bible says, I think they are really saying, this is what they want to be considered good and bad. I think Jesus really wanted us to avoid telling others what to do; rather we should look inward and clean up our own life, judge not and you shall not be judged. It a bit hard to control others when you are working on your own weaknesses. But we like to control, we like to exert power, we will call it self defence but Jesus calls us to make sacrifice. We like the idea that we are saved but we keep asking others to make the sacrifice for us.

Oh its a muddle.

Matthew 7:21-23

Satan's way of hiding the TRUE religion from people. Where can TRUTH be found? at the Kingdom Halls all over the world where Jehovah's Witnesses are united in belief.

jw.org

because theyre all made up

though philosophically or poetically Yann Martel in The Life of Pi addresses the apparent conflict between various faiths quite nicely - worth a read if you havent

The core truth in all of them is the same. Do unto others, love your enemy etc...

Religion adds its own spin on these things...

Seek God and pray for understanding and for wisdom. And study to show yourself approved.

The Bible is a mixed bag. A person can pull out verses and say it says this or that or the opposite.

The many denominations should not exist.

Notice what 1 Corinthians 1:10 says;"Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment."

How many divisions are in "no divisions"? When he said we should "all speak the same thing", how many is "all"?

Jesus prayed for such unity in John 17:20-21.

Why do we have so many divisions? Men are not satisfied to all speak the same thing. Men are not satisfied to teach only the word of God. Men are not satisfied to only speak where the Bible speaks, and be silent where the Bible is silent. Men are not content to do Bible things in Bible ways and call Bible things by Bible names. Too many wish to add their own desires and teach their own doctrine.

Notice 2 Timothy 4:2-4.

"Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."

We should return to the Bible as our authority and only guide book. We should have a "thus saith the Lord" for everything we teach and do as a church.

The Bible teaches that the church is the body of Christ (Eph. 1:22-23) and that there is only "one body" (Eph 4:4). When the church first began, there were no denominations. (The Catholics were among the first new churches formed by departures from the original New Testament pattern, doctrine, worship, organization, name and/or practices.)

In Acts 2, we see that about 3000 all heard the same message, all understood it the same way, all believed it the same way and all obeyed it the same way. The result was they became Christians - nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. At this point, God added them to His church (Acts 2:47).

There is no authorization for Christians to "join the church of your choice", but they were added to the church Christ built and purchased! (Matt. 16:18, Acts 20:27)

After they became Christians they continued in one accord in fellowship and together in the apostles doctrine. (Acts 2:42-47) They had the type of unity Christians should have.

Today, if we read and understand what they understood, believe what they believed, and do only what they did, without adding any man-made doctrine, we will become only what they became - Christians!

This is the goal and plea of those who meet together under the name "church of Christ" today. We only want to be the church you can read about in the Bible.

Christ is the head of the church, therefore we have no "headquarters" on Earth that oversees the local congregation, but each congregation goes directly to the Bible to see what should be taught and practiced.

A denomination is larger than the local congregation, but smaller than the universal church. Since the church of Christ congregations are autonomous, only governed by local congregations, with no regional, national, or world-wide "headquatrers" they are not a denomination. There is no man-made organization in between the local congregation (which is not a denomination) and the church as a whole (which is not a denomination).

We only want to follow God's word in our name (Rom. 16:16), method of worship, organization, and teaching (doctrine). The word of God is sufficient for doctrine, reproof, correction and instruction. Using it in this way, we can be completely furnished with everything we need, and there is no need to add any man-made doctrine. (2 Tim. 3:16-17)

Those who are “teaching as doctrine the commandments of men” have form of worship that is “vain”, or useless in God’s eyes. (Matt 15:9)

I invite you to examine the Church of Christ by a comparison with the scriptures! If the things we teach are scriptural, found in the Scriptures, then accept them. If the things we teach contradict the Bible, then reject them!

Any church that claims to follow the Bible should not object to such a comparison to scriptures. In fact, they should encourage it!

Why Are There So Many Churches?

http://www.whyaretheresomanychurches.com/

because religion is made-up BS

People are confused and stubborn.