There are many religions in this world. All of these mosques, tabernacles, churches, and temples say, *‘We (fill in the blank) are the true religious faith; we are on the right path/road’. There is one common problem with all of these religions. Mark 3:25 says, Mark 3:25
“If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”
Mark 3:24-26 (in Context) Mark 3 (Whole Chapter)
This isn’t a bible study. Actually it is to ask if the 3 main religions, are even true!!!!!
This is the problem with EVERY RELIGION on earth; even atheists have agnostics! We have all sorts of Christian religions, still they all say this or that one is on the correct path, and our brothers of the same religion but different branch or a divided belief, of the same religion, is not. The Muslims have the least (for now) with 3 sects: The Sunni, the Shia, and the new (what most of the world; including most Muslims believe) radical Islam groups. Islam is the youngest religion out of the 3 largest religions, but the fastest growing. In itself, the word Islam or Muslim means peace and submission to God. Radical Islam is a new fast growing division, in its religion.
I watched a youtube video called Zeitgeist religion and as I’ve said before to some, “It blew me away, with many facts. There were too many to dispute them as coincidence, for me anyways. So I showed a fellow iReporter it, (a believer in God) and after she told me that she still believed in God because of the miracles in her life. (I happened to agree, for the same reason) Yet the comparisons left me with MANY questions of why so many coincidences or beliefs had fundamentally the same beliefs all throughout history. Virtually every faith or philosophical tradition in modern history or as far back as the Mayans have predicted the age of the apocalypse (which is a Greek word literally translated as an UNVEILING OR REVEALING; reveal-ation) Hindus call it the Krita Age, astrologers call it the Age of Aquarius, the Jews describe the coming of the Messiah, theosophists call it the New Age, cosmologists (the Mayan) call it Harmonic Convergence. They all agree there is an apocalypse or revelation, on its way.
So I ask myself, “how is this possible?” I also told the ireporter who watched Zeitgeist that I would be studying this, until I figured it out, and then I left to go to work. On the way to work I was reading a fiction book, to my husband; I found the answer in the book. To my pleasant surprise this was the question asked in the book, “What could possibly explain such a synchronicity of beliefs in these different religions and philosophies?”
The answer is “The Truth” The answer in the book was “there could be a universal truth embedded in everyone’s soul. Maybe we all have the same story hiding inside, like a shared constant in our DNA. Maybe this collective truth is responsible for the similarities in all of our stories.” The book also said, “Truth has power. If we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true… written deep within us. When we hear the truth, even if we don’t understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us…vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called… re-membered …re-cognized… as that which is already inside us.” Excellent writing by Dan Brown.
Perfect answer for the question I was looking for; found in A FICTION BOOK. Imagine the surprise when I read this!
Lastly, convictions will lead us to the light or truth … darkness feeds on apathy...and conviction (whether you agree with me or not) is our most POTENT ANTIDOTE to the DARKNESS.