Keith Ward - Can Many Religions All Be True?

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Closer To Truth

Closer To Truth

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@anton1949
@anton1949 3 жыл бұрын
All Religions can't be right, but all Religions can be wrong.
@paganphil100
@paganphil100 3 жыл бұрын
I think the question should be "can ANY religion be true" considering that the majority of them require followers to believe in magic and to ignore common sense and logic.
@Jesusismykin
@Jesusismykin 3 жыл бұрын
God, is as real as you and me. You tell me where everything came from??? Don't tell me it popped out of nowhere.
@kevinhardy8930
@kevinhardy8930 3 жыл бұрын
@@Jesusismykin Gerardo this channel seems to be full of people that hate God and religion. These poor brainwashed bastards can only be saved by the one thing they refuse to acknowledge. Divine intervention.
@andrebrown8969
@andrebrown8969 3 жыл бұрын
@@kevinhardy8930 So where is the devine intervention?
@andrebrown8969
@andrebrown8969 3 жыл бұрын
@@Jesusismykin my goodness you really did the we do not know therefore god comment, you really did that, my goodness that was bad, nauseatingly sick
@deepashtray5605
@deepashtray5605 3 жыл бұрын
@@Jesusismykin Sounds like you worship the God of the Gaps.
@yatima1158
@yatima1158 3 жыл бұрын
Sooo we just pick the language we’re more familiar with but we’re thinking of and feeling the same sensations?
@stevenpatterson3972
@stevenpatterson3972 3 жыл бұрын
The common thread is us, humanity. There's no need to add anything external to us. All of our gods are reflections of our human nature, not the other way around.
@thomasridley8675
@thomasridley8675 3 жыл бұрын
I question why each religion just happens too be culturally specific. Which seems to be all too convenient.
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
James 1:27.
@thomasridley8675
@thomasridley8675 3 жыл бұрын
@@williamesselman3102 You know that bible verses don't work on me. Or you should know that by now
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
"I'm the only person on the internet, don't ya know?"
@thomasridley8675
@thomasridley8675 3 жыл бұрын
@@williamesselman3102 Ouch ! I hope you don't get a rug burn from all that ego stroking. 🙄
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
I figured by putting quotes around the comment the idea that I was pretending to be you would be implied and wouldn't need explanation. Whelp.
@Scyllax
@Scyllax 3 жыл бұрын
No, but they can all be wrong, which they are.
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
James 1:27. Are you sure?
@Ploskkky
@Ploskkky 3 жыл бұрын
"Can Many Religions All Be True?" With a bit a lying, and twisting, and selective reading, etc... of course, why not?
@Seph0rz
@Seph0rz 3 жыл бұрын
Though it Depends on if you believe in one prophet or two prophets or three.
@cps_Zen_Run
@cps_Zen_Run 3 жыл бұрын
3500 religions and even more gods. Do the math. Common themes? Dracula movies has commonality. Doesn’t make the mythological vampires real.
@francesco5581
@francesco5581 3 жыл бұрын
and yet the mythological vampire have a seed of truth ...
@cps_Zen_Run
@cps_Zen_Run 3 жыл бұрын
@@francesco5581 as does Harry Potter. But that doesn’t make the books dogma, or form a religion, or have the fans being worshipers. Or does it?! Lol.
@francesco5581
@francesco5581 3 жыл бұрын
@@cps_Zen_Run It does, It does ...
@neffetSnnamremmiZ
@neffetSnnamremmiZ 3 жыл бұрын
The difficulty with self recognition is that it is about the in principle invisible!
@neffetSnnamremmiZ
@neffetSnnamremmiZ 3 жыл бұрын
And myths are "logos" too! Losing the myths makes enlightenment burn out, explained with Adorno.
@jayjayfreeman
@jayjayfreeman 3 жыл бұрын
But yet, why do some HAVE to believe that there is a God at all? Why do some insist there there HAS TO BE something rather than nothing? Is it a core, deep down personal belief based on experience or is it just something culturally passed down from generation to generation - a kind of "well, this is how it's always been done, because it's tradition?"
@sanchos9084
@sanchos9084 3 жыл бұрын
I had sense of belief since childhood🤷‍♀️
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
@@sanchos9084 Jay assumes that 7,254,00,000 people currently alive, that believe, and the almost 100 billion before, have all done so just because they were taught. Not because there's actually a God who gives evidence. Ha ha.
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
Dork.
@michaelzurilla7639
@michaelzurilla7639 3 жыл бұрын
@@williamesselman3102 argument from popularity. Oh, and please give evidence. Ha ha
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
@@michaelzurilla7639 no. That's not what I've done. To claim belief in God is culturally passed down is to say that everyone believes without evidence. Nevermind atheists who come from atheist backgrounds and convert to Christianity. The premise is false. It is absurd to claim that of the 100 billion estimated believers in the history of humans that all have believed because it's a learned trait. There's evidence. That's the obvious answer.
@bozo5632
@bozo5632 3 жыл бұрын
One thing they all have in common is the certainty that all the others are wrong.
@Seph0rz
@Seph0rz 3 жыл бұрын
??
@Seph0rz
@Seph0rz 3 жыл бұрын
They aren't certain of anything really. Religions can incorporate ideas very frequently. But others just never change.
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
James 1:27. Are you certain they are all wrong?
@bozo5632
@bozo5632 3 жыл бұрын
@@williamesselman3102 Same as leprechauns.
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
There is nothing intellectually honest or intelligent about your comment. You all do that all of the time and I hardly understand why. It is a glaring indicator that you are nowhere as intelligent as you think you are. But whatever.
@madben9981
@madben9981 3 жыл бұрын
No, but it is quite possible for them to all be wrong.
@PaulHoward108
@PaulHoward108 3 жыл бұрын
Commitment to the idea that reality is entirely consistent is practically a religious belief.
@cps_Zen_Run
@cps_Zen_Run 3 жыл бұрын
@@PaulHoward108 most of us realize that our brains and consciousness form only a simulation of reality. Just enough interpretation allowed by evolution.
@PaulHoward108
@PaulHoward108 3 жыл бұрын
@@cps_Zen_Run How do you figure brains create a simulation? Physical properties only refer to the object displaying them, whereas the mind is referring to everything in experience. Brains are part of the simulation.
@cps_Zen_Run
@cps_Zen_Run 3 жыл бұрын
@@PaulHoward108 colors don’t exit, nor sound. We cannot actually touch anything. The list is long. Our reality is just a simulation of the physical world.
@theworkethic
@theworkethic 3 жыл бұрын
@@cps_Zen_Run Agreed
@haydenspence6952
@haydenspence6952 3 жыл бұрын
This a question worthy of a lifetime of searching.
@boratkozak
@boratkozak 3 жыл бұрын
Let's then say that a personalised God is very controversial and non-rational.
@stinkertoy4310
@stinkertoy4310 3 жыл бұрын
And yet, the humility it instills, is useful and probably appropriate, lest we believe we are gods.
@Lalakis
@Lalakis 3 жыл бұрын
@@stinkertoy4310 Humility does not come from any God. The humility comes only through knowledge and this comes through science which makes you realize that you barely know anything. Religion claims absolute knowledge through dogmas. Nothing humble about that
@stinkertoy4310
@stinkertoy4310 3 жыл бұрын
@@Lalakis The idea of “god”, suggests something greater and more powerful than oneself. No other element required. Humility? Through knowledge/experience yes, science possibly. But clearly there are humble ignorant people as well.... smarter than the ignorant know it all! If I were you, then i’d be looking at one that don’t claim “absolute knowledge through dogma”. Not all do.
@Lalakis
@Lalakis 3 жыл бұрын
​@@stinkertoy4310 There is not a single religion that does not claim "absolute knowledge of truth" through their "holy books" or their "revelations". Humility and religion are incompatible. By definition. Humanity has no hope of progressing to higher levels of existence as long as there are bibles, quorans and talmuds...
@michaelzurilla7639
@michaelzurilla7639 3 жыл бұрын
@@Lalakis Pagan religions do not have holy books or revelations
@danellwein8679
@danellwein8679 3 жыл бұрын
like the band Guess Who would say ... 'too many churches .. but not enough truth' ..
@deepashtray5605
@deepashtray5605 3 жыл бұрын
The One True Faith just happens to be the one the person you ask follows.
@AnchovyRun
@AnchovyRun 3 жыл бұрын
Obviously the faith that any given person holds will be what they consider to be true other wise they would not hold that belief. Why would someone say "I'm a Christian but I believe Sikhism is true?" Given a faith in empiricism, one will assume any competing epistemology to be obviously incorrect even though the presuppositions of empiricism itself are rarely questioned.
@deepashtray5605
@deepashtray5605 3 жыл бұрын
@@AnchovyRun Yup, and if I got a nickle for every self described Christian who said that unlike all the other Christians in the world, the group they belong to are the very few who actually did practice the One True Religion as taught by Jesus I'd have enough to buy a seat on Virgin Galactic.
@AnchovyRun
@AnchovyRun 3 жыл бұрын
@@deepashtray5605 The fact remains that your statement is worthless as far as a criticism of belief goes. It's just an ad hominem without any evaluation of the actual grounds of any particular religion.
@deepashtray5605
@deepashtray5605 3 жыл бұрын
@@AnchovyRun Well here's the thing you're obviously having a difficult time grasping. I'm not commenting on the belief of the individual, people have the right to believe or not believe what ever they want and the fact that it is a belief means they have a great deal of confidence that it is an accurate reflection of reality. I'm commenting on the ridiculous collective nature of dogmatic religious belief.
@AnchovyRun
@AnchovyRun 3 жыл бұрын
@@deepashtray5605 And I'm commenting on the mundane nature of your statement. There is still no substantive criticism of belief, just a useless claim that boils down to "People believe what they think is true." You state it as though it's an insightful criticism of religion when it's really nothing.
@dougmattis9293
@dougmattis9293 3 жыл бұрын
His suit still fits well after he's bent himself into an irrational pretzel.
@SouperSaiyan96
@SouperSaiyan96 3 жыл бұрын
Okay that's a good one😂
@theworkethic
@theworkethic 3 жыл бұрын
Robert, you mean? Of course.
@Rfflllss
@Rfflllss 3 жыл бұрын
A lot comments on this channel deal with the way the people look not at all the thought provoking content. Rip future.
@dougmattis9293
@dougmattis9293 3 жыл бұрын
@@Rfflllss LOL you're NOT....supposing my comment was about what he looks like, are you? Hahahahaha
@deepashtray5605
@deepashtray5605 3 жыл бұрын
@@Rfflllss What's also sad is how people leave replies without having even bothered to try and understand the comment they're replying to.
@sunsetsam33
@sunsetsam33 3 жыл бұрын
How would you know that a religion is true? Religion is based on faith. Faith is belief without evidence. To establish whether a religion is true you would need evidence, at which point it would become science and stop being a religion. The premise contradicts itself.
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
Is it your claim that 7,254,000,000 people on the planet Earth claim belief in God without evidence?
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
If that is what you claim, what you have claimed is ridiculous.
@sunsetsam33
@sunsetsam33 3 жыл бұрын
@@williamesselman3102 Yes.
@sunsetsam33
@sunsetsam33 3 жыл бұрын
@@williamesselman3102 Not at all. What they claim is ridiculous, and so far not one of them has presented credible evidence to support their belief. One of the deep flaws in humans.
@sunsetsam33
@sunsetsam33 3 жыл бұрын
@@williamesselman3102 Do yourself a huge favor and read "The End of Faith" by Sam Harris. It could very well open your eyes, mind and heart to rationality vs belief without evidence.
@mariaandreaspashi1931
@mariaandreaspashi1931 3 жыл бұрын
Makes sense, we all may not share same religion, but may share same faith, Love through compassion pain and joy from heart and soul. Love isn't exclusive or dependant on any religion
@RolandHuettmann
@RolandHuettmann 3 жыл бұрын
The blind are leading the blind. They all do not know anything about the ultimate truth, nor do we. But they do as if... making people hook their minds on to them which gives them great power over preople's minds.
@cps_Zen_Run
@cps_Zen_Run 3 жыл бұрын
I am suspect that an " ultimate truth” is necessary. Life is short, let’s enjoy our brief existence.
@RolandHuettmann
@RolandHuettmann 3 жыл бұрын
@@cps_Zen_Run Sure. Billions if people have lived and died without...) The problem is that some talk about God's will as if they have a direct phone connection to heaven...
@athenathepooppooppoop8593
@athenathepooppooppoop8593 3 жыл бұрын
Great video thanks for posting!
@baronvonhoughton
@baronvonhoughton 3 жыл бұрын
To loosely quote the late, great Christopher Hitchens - With over 2000 religions in the world, the believers are almost in agreement with us atheists, they deny 1999 and only have 1 to go to reach consensus.
@catherinelh1979
@catherinelh1979 3 жыл бұрын
I was brought up catholic and went to church every week. However as I got older I started to question a lot of the beliefs as they didn’t make sense to me. I have since found truths in many different religions. I’m not religious at all now, but I am very spiritual. I think this allows me to look wherever I want for the answers I need. 🕉☮️
@thomasmusso1147
@thomasmusso1147 3 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the Club. In the 60's I attended a Catholic Boarding School .. 5 years. Mass minimum 3× per week. Daily Catechism in the Classroom with a full Rosary Hail Mary Session. Weekly Confession for Absolution of a myriad of Mortal Sins and even more lesser Evils .. with all of the associated guilt as a healthy teenager. Choir Practice Sunday Morning and Stations of the Cross in the Evening. 'To be seen' .. in the dormitory .. on awakening and before lights out in the evening's .. on one's knees at one's bedside.. 'saying one's Prayers' .. etc, etc. My true 'Enlightenment' started at age 16, during a school holiday, sitting out on the water with a Surfboard between my legs, watching the Sun rise. Glassy 3' surf .. waiting for suitable waves in the incoming 'Sets' .. time to 'mull'. I began to 'Question' .. Am I Religious? Absolutely not! Spiritual? Definitely! I still remember that Day ..
@hugofernandes8545
@hugofernandes8545 3 жыл бұрын
Religions cannot all be truth because they contradict each other. Despite they have some similarities but they have fundamental doctrines that are not compatible with one another. So only one can be truth and looking at the evidence I believe Catholicism is the right one. The Lord Jesus said "Im the truth, the Way and the life, no one can come to the Father execpt through ME". Jesus is God incarned. So if Jesus is God, buddhism, islam, hinduism, etc are all wrong.
@hugofernandes8545
@hugofernandes8545 3 жыл бұрын
@@thomasmusso1147 you call it "my true enlightenment" I don't think so.... I always questioned about the truth, about the Big questions and I found then in Catholicism. Christianity really makes sense of the World and is supported by evidence from science, philosophy, history, archaeology, personal experience and other backgrounds. Jesus is God incarned and rose from the dead. That's everything!
@catherinelh1979
@catherinelh1979 3 жыл бұрын
@@hugofernandes8545 I find different truths in many religions. I don’t think any one religion is all Truth. However I do think there are different truths in a lot of them. I think many have been misinterpreted and misunderstood. I respect the right for everyone to have their own beliefs, even if they differ from my own. I realise that everyone has their own perspectives and realise that what’s right for one maybe not right for another. I’m comfortable with my beliefs and respect your right to yours. ☮️
@catherinelh1979
@catherinelh1979 3 жыл бұрын
@@thomasmusso1147 I remember my Awakening too. 25th March 2019. It totally changed my life and I’ve had the most amazing, profound, mind blowing experiences since. How truly fascinating that you started to Awaken at such a young age. What a gift. Much love to you brother 💕
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@thomaswayne3911 3 жыл бұрын
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@SandipChitale
@SandipChitale 3 жыл бұрын
Very deceptive/seductive apologetics - sure we can all get along in our different ways. Do not see it practiced this way in the world out there. If only it was.
@MrRamon2004
@MrRamon2004 3 жыл бұрын
Religions, they all born from spiritual and material point of view, visions people they don't understand, in my case science helps me, is the reason I know I'm not crazy. In this life and the next one stay in the light.
@Rsvohi
@Rsvohi 3 жыл бұрын
If we are looking for “Truth” in religions, we are mistaking the “map for the territory” and at “the finger pointing at the moon”. Religions are “true” to the degree they point to “The Truth” and facilitate it’s Realization, as well as the individual and collective development of virtuous qualities.
@xspotbox4400
@xspotbox4400 3 жыл бұрын
Ideology never points to the true fact or it would be called scientific model, not ideology or religion.
@S3RAVA3LM
@S3RAVA3LM 3 жыл бұрын
You follow Aaron abke. If not, well he posted a video recently talking about that
@Rsvohi
@Rsvohi 3 жыл бұрын
@@S3RAVA3LM no, never heard of him. May check him out; but the “idea” is as old as religion.
@leonoradompor8706
@leonoradompor8706 3 жыл бұрын
Religions are complementary, the Religion of Goddess is Love the common denominator***
@neffetSnnamremmiZ
@neffetSnnamremmiZ 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, exactly in the differences between the religions there is even deeper wisdom or deeper insights into "god", the life! It needs different systems or languages and perspectives! It has good reason! Who really recognizes him self will understand all religions!
@troyhayder6986
@troyhayder6986 3 жыл бұрын
It's a democracy... The more people who vote in your favour... The more power you have... And slipknot made it to number one in the charts....
@xspotbox4400
@xspotbox4400 3 жыл бұрын
No religion, prophet, spiritual person or anybody was ever right, or we wouldn't suffer the human condition, and our planet would be a perfect place to live.
@PaulHoward108
@PaulHoward108 3 жыл бұрын
That might make sense of the public would always believe right teachings when they are given.
@xspotbox4400
@xspotbox4400 3 жыл бұрын
@@PaulHoward108 General population would always choose miracles and magic over plain boring and hopeless facts.
@PaulHoward108
@PaulHoward108 3 жыл бұрын
@@xspotbox4400 What reality do you think is boring and hopeless?
@xspotbox4400
@xspotbox4400 3 жыл бұрын
@@PaulHoward108 The only reality we're born into. It's because the real world is not designed for intelligent, self-aware beings, was meant only for plants and animals.
@PaulHoward108
@PaulHoward108 3 жыл бұрын
@@xspotbox4400 Material nature is meant to both satisfy and frustrate our selfish desires, until only pure love remains. What's wrong with it?
@havenbastion
@havenbastion 3 жыл бұрын
Truth is justified belief that continuously replicates. The central feature of all religious beliefs is dogma, which is faith-belief, Unjustified. They are the opposite.
@heavymeddle28
@heavymeddle28 3 жыл бұрын
My question is, can ANY religion be true? 🤔
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
James 1:27
@heavymeddle28
@heavymeddle28 3 жыл бұрын
@@williamesselman3102 James Bond, James 1,27... It's all just fiction
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but you don't know that.
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
Both sides of this internet back and forth are the same. Both sides stand firmly planted on a platform of Faith statements.
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
Unless God has made it a point to remove your doubt, you don't know. And you know you don't know. And since you know you don't know, and lots of Believers simply operate from Faith instilled from their ancestral environment, it seems everyone would be able to agree that a good practice amongst us humans would be to care for those who can't care for themselves, which happens to be the biblical definition of the only pure religion. If you can't agree on that with me, a person who God has removed the doubt from within, then you are an asshole.
@NeverTalkToCops1
@NeverTalkToCops1 3 жыл бұрын
No, and stop drumming up stupid ploys such as "Is ______ true?" Is water true?
@S3RAVA3LM
@S3RAVA3LM 3 жыл бұрын
Water holds memory.
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
You are both correct.
@LoVeLoVe-bi2rq
@LoVeLoVe-bi2rq 3 жыл бұрын
Many paths, one truth.
@Metacognition88
@Metacognition88 3 жыл бұрын
Now you wouldn't be just making that up would you.
@waerlogauk
@waerlogauk 3 жыл бұрын
Many lies one path.
@kallianpublico7517
@kallianpublico7517 3 жыл бұрын
There are many languages, is communication the purpose to all of them?
@magnolia8626
@magnolia8626 3 жыл бұрын
That was a total NON-ANSWER. He forgot to mention that all religions borrow heavily from one another. None of them are 100% original.
@christianheidt5733
@christianheidt5733 3 жыл бұрын
Who needs a fantasy religion? Everybody knows right from wrong. Do the right thing!
@willyh.r.1216
@willyh.r.1216 3 жыл бұрын
In this immense universe, some Gods forbid us not to eat pork, but incapable to solve the eternal puzzle: which religion is true, if there is, and which one is a bs (maybe all of them)? This type of Gods sadly take pleasure of seeing humans; Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc ... struggling/fighting each other on this ultimate fair question. So my question is: are these Gods sadistic if they exist OR simply, humans need Gods and want to believe that Gods exist ? Btw, is there a God of Gods? ... that sounds a old bs, right?
@JustMe-yy7uc
@JustMe-yy7uc 6 ай бұрын
Everything in this life you can find original and false. So, you have to search and find the original one. The way to find the right/original religion is by wanting with your heart and then asking God for guidance.
@owencampbell4947
@owencampbell4947 3 жыл бұрын
How the influenced mentality defends its basics. There will always be excuses to fit any problem causing argument in the best possible crack of the influenced information.
@BecomingAPsych
@BecomingAPsych 3 жыл бұрын
The speaker's description of what religions share is essentially humanism. What religions disagree about are all the metaphysical untestable aspects of their worldview. For example they are atheists about any other gods but their own. At their core all religions are humanist and atheistic. How ironic!
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
Only when viewed from an atheist's paradigm. You guys seem to never figure that out.
@BecomingAPsych
@BecomingAPsych 3 жыл бұрын
@@williamesselman3102 Which Gods do you believe in? All of them or just one?
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
You are so blind within your own paradigm. Your thought, or question, is based on your assumption that there is no God and that there are many gods to choose from that are false. That is your problem, not mine. There's only one God to believe in, dingbat.
@BecomingAPsych
@BecomingAPsych 3 жыл бұрын
@@williamesselman3102 So you don't believe in all the other hundreds of gods that some people believe in. You're an atheist about those false gods. We are nearly the same. I just go one further than you.
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
@@BecomingAPsych I have probably read that basic comment formed in different ways at least 1000 times. Think about that. And in all of these conversations where that comment is made, probably three-quarters of them tell me that atheism isn't an ideology. I think we know it is.
@TheUltimateSeeds
@TheUltimateSeeds 3 жыл бұрын
*Hermeticism* (from where we derive the phrase "As Above, So Below") seems to offer a pretty good suggestion when it comes to contrasting religions. According to Wiki: *"...Hermeticists believe in a 'prisca theologia', the doctrine that a single, true theology exists, that it exists in all religions, and that it was given by God to man in antiquity..."* Which, to me, means that we should look at all religions (including science and materialism) as containing their own unique pieces of a *Grand Philosophical Puzzle* that must be assembled and viewed in its entirety in order to get a better picture of the spiritual realm. _______
@andrewforbes1433
@andrewforbes1433 3 жыл бұрын
A better conclusion seems to me that religions are human constructions. I wouldn't think much of a god who provided different populations with conflicting revelations so that he could watch humanity puzzle out some hidden truth after bonking each other on the head for several thousand years.
@TheUltimateSeeds
@TheUltimateSeeds 3 жыл бұрын
@@andrewforbes1433 But what if the real and ultimate truth of God and our eternal destiny was so amazing and so wonderful that it was absolutely necessary for God to keep it a secret from humans until we die, so that we are not compelled to seek it out prematurely?
@andrewforbes1433
@andrewforbes1433 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheUltimateSeeds I don't know what amazing and wonderful qualities would require secrecy until after death, but let's assume that's true. Why would that require contrasting revelation? Are we supposed to find some ultimate truth during our lifetimes or not? How does that truth emerge from different religions unless we compare them? If we are to compare them, why distribute them across diverse populations? Why include mutually exclusive elements, if there is a transcendent truth? Nothing about it makes any sense so far as I can tell. If nonsense is the point, it seems like a dick move, especially since humanity tends to commit acts like the aforementioned head-bonks and even genocide (aka gigabonks) over it. The simpler explanation is that humans make up mythologies to explain that which they are unequipped to explain, to formalize social order, and to provide comfort in the face of mortality.
@TheUltimateSeeds
@TheUltimateSeeds 3 жыл бұрын
@@andrewforbes1433 Andrew, you asked: *"... I don't know what amazing and wonderful qualities would require secrecy until after death..."* To which I say, what do you think would happen if every human knew (beyond any doubt) that all they had to do was find a quick and painless way of exiting their body and they would awaken into a higher and better dimension of reality? I'm talking about a transcendent level of reality that would make life on earth seem like some kind of hell in comparison. How long do you think people would hang around in this lower level of reality? The point is that if the (speculative) truth that I am suggesting was not hidden from humans, then you and I, along with the rest of the 7.8 billion humans presently existing on this planet, would never have come into existence. And that's because our ancient ancestors would have vacated this universe from the get go, thus eliminating the means (physical bodies) by which new human souls are awakened into life. _______
@andrewforbes1433
@andrewforbes1433 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheUltimateSeeds And, having granted that point for the sake of argument, what about alllllllllll the rest of it.
@SandipChitale
@SandipChitale 3 жыл бұрын
Huh? Then why are there fights between (some) followers of different religions? Fair marketing of your own religion or atheism for that matter is obviously non objectionable as fair marketing of any other idea. No issues. But condemnation of fighting over religions or atheism is then the responsibility of the proponents of respective ideas. Unfortunately that condemnation is not to be seen to the desirable level by the leaders in those respective religions. And in some/many cases the fighting is even encouraged by the leaders or even codified in the idealogy.
@francesco5581
@francesco5581 3 жыл бұрын
indeed but that happen about everything ... Partners, money , land and even football teams :)
@SandipChitale
@SandipChitale 3 жыл бұрын
@@francesco5581 of course. And good sports fans do condemn rowdy fans. But my point was also about degree of consequences. I hope you agree that fighting over religious ideas have plagued humanity since the beginning, and the consequences as we all know have not been benign or limited. And sure in the past humanity was not enlightened. But now, in 21st century we know better. Due to the severe degree of consequences it should requires that much more vigorous condemnation. In fact I wish people think of it as a prime moral responsibility of followers of any religion or atheism to condemn in strongest terms any violence perpetrated in the name of one's ideology. It is like protecting the brand name. Also remember even though this is an individual act, hopefully the good followers vastly out number bad followers. So there is great potential to route out violent fighting. And to some degree silence, indifference is effective condonation, which is applicable to some groups even today.
@francesco5581
@francesco5581 3 жыл бұрын
@@SandipChitale and i totally agree.
@xspotbox4400
@xspotbox4400 3 жыл бұрын
People fight over many things, specially if they bother each other with their activities. People are religious. Therefore, religious people are fighting.
@andrewforbes1433
@andrewforbes1433 3 жыл бұрын
I was prepared to say that, although many world religions are demonstrably incompatible, it might be possible for multiple religions to be true, but I'm not sure what would differentiate those religions. Perhaps it would have to be a matter of detail, similar to Newtonian physics and relativity describing different scales of gravitation. But the question seems an academic one. I've yet to be compelled by the evidence for the veracity of any one religion, let alone many.
@deepashtray5605
@deepashtray5605 3 жыл бұрын
Doesn't seem to dissuade enough of them from killing each other.
@neffetSnnamremmiZ
@neffetSnnamremmiZ 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, exactly in the differences between the religions there is even deeper wisdom or deeper insights into "god", the life! Who really recognizes him self will understand all religions!
@athenathepooppooppoop8593
@athenathepooppooppoop8593 3 жыл бұрын
Well said 👍
@allablr5765
@allablr5765 3 жыл бұрын
The notion that people are good inside and seek to do good for other people is ridiculous. People are selfish not godly at all.
@stevecoley8365
@stevecoley8365 3 жыл бұрын
X-Files. The real Mission Impossible. Humanity needs to fill a giant black hole in space called ignorance (greed) with light (love)...so that it's darkness (misery, murder, mass shootings, suicides, war, etc.) goes away and it's heavy gravitational pull stops sucking the joy out of life and destroying the planet. Then life can become a celebration with joy spilling out of the smiles of everyone. Like Love (god) intended for life to be in the first place. We face some major obstacles though. 1) Light and truth (love) cause vampires (greed) great pain and suffering. That's why the words democratic society (socialism), "care for all" and "green new deal" cause the clueless counting corpses such misery. 2) Vampires (greed) are blind and cannot see the ignorance of transforming heaven (peace) into hell (war). The clueless counting corpses are also blind and cannot see the ignorance of destroying the planet. 3) The alien monsters are desperate to control a darkship called the Whitehouse. Because working in the dark to suck the joy out of life and destroy the planet is the only way that the loveless, lifeless parasites can survive and thrive. Unlike earthling poets, artists, musicians, mystics, human beings and creators of joy...the clueless counting corpses can't create harmony (real intelligence) because vampires (greed) are far worse than stupid. The loveless, lifeless parasites are ignorant (dead).
@saadabbas8976
@saadabbas8976 3 жыл бұрын
It’s not about path rather it’s about devotion and dedication of the follower. A drop has many paths to reach the Ocean.
@francesco5581
@francesco5581 3 жыл бұрын
yup
@vivelavida2204
@vivelavida2204 3 жыл бұрын
How do you know that this fallacious analogy actually works?
@saadabbas8976
@saadabbas8976 3 жыл бұрын
@@vivelavida2204 a fish would not realise/know water until it’s outside of it. Knowledge for the “insightful”, another “fallacious analogy” for others. 😉
@xspotbox4400
@xspotbox4400 3 жыл бұрын
But there is no drop, only hydrogen and oxygen atoms, they find a way into everything around us and inside us.
@francesco5581
@francesco5581 3 жыл бұрын
@@xspotbox4400 that is spiritual too :p
@considerthis7680
@considerthis7680 3 жыл бұрын
Really? being non-egoistic is a core human notion? What foolish woo-woo nonsense.
@SouperSaiyan96
@SouperSaiyan96 3 жыл бұрын
It does seem to come up a lot tho
@cvsree
@cvsree 3 жыл бұрын
Different religions are like different languages to praise the Lord
@rickwyant
@rickwyant 3 жыл бұрын
Aldous Huxley called the core beliefs the perennial philosophy.
@dreqvhjjii
@dreqvhjjii 3 жыл бұрын
Sir I like to thank you for your earnest quest for truth.Lots of us don't worry about this.Not because we chose to but just because sometimes we think we know about it .For a believer this quest is very elementary.Easy answer "GOD". But for a mind which seeks the truth" Scientific" it is not easy at all.Why? Let me tell you and african representation of god."we are inside a clay pot at god's home" If I translate it correctly.As for a scientist inside that clay pot? We can only compare it to an ape trying to break and see a coconut to know about it .we are just doing that but at a quantum and light year level.Dont worry about this quest and be happy.The quest never stops for god instilled in us. We don't strive after the wind. As for me what worries me much is that I promised my mow 40 years ago walking by the red sea,that I will put on a cruise ship one day and didnt make it happen .What disturbs me more is whether she remembers it or not.She is 80 now . So don't worry live Happy. Thank you.
@Anidem9
@Anidem9 3 жыл бұрын
All religions can be true depending on the context of what truth is being spoken of. No there isn't a cosmic all knowing all powerful judgmental wizard watching us. It's 2021 and it's about time that old trope died. Now if you were to read religious texts and not take them literally then we're getting somewhere. Remember, when humans first started talking most of the things spoken were stories. Literal language as it is today didn't exist thousands of years ago.
@madinaman
@madinaman 3 жыл бұрын
Why don't you read the Qur'an to make it easier to answer all the questions you both ask?
@dredelcottcryptozooligist4101
@dredelcottcryptozooligist4101 3 жыл бұрын
What if God was one of us? Just a stranger on a bus, trying to make his way home.
@altimate1
@altimate1 3 жыл бұрын
Infested thought. He be a mere human, no way.
@kristenjuly2755
@kristenjuly2755 3 жыл бұрын
Good song
@xspotbox4400
@xspotbox4400 3 жыл бұрын
Why would God need a bus, can't he just fly, like superman does?
@paganphil100
@paganphil100 3 жыл бұрын
@@xspotbox4400 : Its a reference to a song....see link below. www.grandlyrics.com/song-lyrics/what-if-god-is-one-of-us-joan-osborne
@xspotbox4400
@xspotbox4400 3 жыл бұрын
@@paganphil100 Man in space!
@Lalakis
@Lalakis 3 жыл бұрын
The first time a conman met an idiot, a religion was born.
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
James 1:27. Are you sure.
@Lalakis
@Lalakis 3 жыл бұрын
Positive
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
How do you know?
@Lalakis
@Lalakis 3 жыл бұрын
@@williamesselman3102 Basic human reasoning. Experience. Human tendency for exploitation
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
How exactly do you experience that God according to all religions isn't true?
@paulbrocklehurst2346
@paulbrocklehurst2346 3 жыл бұрын
But Buddhism isn't a religion _as such,_ it's a _philosophy_ because _religions_ claim there is a god & it's a _being_ & they have various names for this being. They can't all be real, but they can all be false & since there's no good reason to think that they _are_ real why believe in _any_ of them?
@PaulHoward108
@PaulHoward108 3 жыл бұрын
How did you reach the conclusion that there's no good reason to believe in any religion? It doesn't follow from the preceeding statements.
@paulbrocklehurst2346
@paulbrocklehurst2346 3 жыл бұрын
@@PaulHoward108 If there was a good reason to believe the claims that some religion was true it would be possible to _show_ it's true without attempting to smuggle in any assumptions that it is, therefore pretty much _everyone_ would know why in much the same way pretty much everyone knows that the world is _spherical_ or any other _demonstrable_ assertion is justified. That's how.
@PaulHoward108
@PaulHoward108 3 жыл бұрын
@@paulbrocklehurst2346 I find it incredibly difficult to even get people to listen to claims and reasoning about the absolute truth submissively enough to understand what's being said, so I can't agree that everyone would automatically be persuaded when knowledge of that truth is available. This book offers a true theory of everything, but I don't know how to get anyone to read it: press.shabda.co/publications/conceiving-the-inconceivable/
@paulbrocklehurst2346
@paulbrocklehurst2346 3 жыл бұрын
@@PaulHoward108 *I find it incredibly difficult to even get people to listen to claims and reasoning about the absolute truth submissively enough to understand what's being said, so I can't agree that everyone would automatically be persuaded when knowledge of that truth is available.* Well like I said _most_ people will believe something like E = MC2 because even if they don't fully appreciate _why_ energy equals mass times the speed of light squared, there are still good reasons to believe it none the less but there aren't any good reasons to believe any god claim because if one of them was supportable it would be as uncontroversial as E = MC2 despite people not fully understanding the formal proof Einstein came up with. *This book offers a true theory of everything, but I don't know how to get anyone to read it: **press.shabda.co/publications/conceiving-the-inconceivable/* Supply a good reason to do so which doesn't require any major assumptions Paul. Can't you think of even _one?_
@paulbrocklehurst2346
@paulbrocklehurst2346 3 жыл бұрын
@@PaulHoward108 *I find it incredibly difficult to even get people to listen to claims and reasoning about the absolute truth submissively enough to understand what's being said, so I can't agree that everyone would automatically be persuaded when knowledge of that truth is available.* > Well we can't simply believe every claim that something is 'absolute truth' just because someone says that it is & since you're shying away from supplying any valid reason to believe you do you'll have to a lot better than repeat your assertion all over again. What you need to explain is exactly how you can be as confident your opinion is correct rather than endlessly stating people ought to accept that on faith because milliions of opinions are expressed like that but very _few_ manage to actually demonstrate that they are indeed right. Einstein's E = MC2 is an exception to that rule because his assertion didn't simply have to be taken on faith like your does & that is not an insignificant shortcoming of your claim. *This book offers a true theory of everything, but I don't know how to get anyone to read it: **press.shabda.co/publications/conceiving-the-inconceivable/* Explain why the people who _have_ read it can't do what the people who read Einstein's writings did: Offered supportable evidence rather than claims about claims. They could but why can't _you_ so _Ashish Dalela's_ name is as well known as Albert's? _Can you say?_ Please *answer* this time.
@matishakabdullah5874
@matishakabdullah5874 3 жыл бұрын
Don't be so arrogant. If one goes to school thinking that "I know better than the teacher one wouldn't learn anything". Remove all dogmatism in one mind. Any personal opinion about God is only conjecture because no one ever personally see or met the God. Humbly and sincerely ask the Creator of all things in the universe for His guidance to real Truth. Go through each and every religion Religiuos Scripture. See without prejudices which one makes more sense to your intelligent. Let Him - The True God guide to the truth. No one else can.
@xspotbox4400
@xspotbox4400 3 жыл бұрын
Says a bug in an anthill.
@PetraKann
@PetraKann 3 жыл бұрын
No
@eyebee-sea4444
@eyebee-sea4444 3 жыл бұрын
"... the concepts are not contradictory but complementary ..." That's a flawed argument often proposed by theologians who can't admit the inevitability. Sure you can reduce all religions to the lowest common denominator. You can do this with anything, you can put anything into the pot, including atheism and science, and still find a common core. But then you lose all the specifics of any religion, specifics that are not considered as just byproducts but as integral part of the non-reducible core of their religios worldviews. For instance you can't reduce christianity beyond the doctrine of trinity. Whereas in Islam the mere idea that the almighty God could have a son is considered as pure blasphemy. Religions are not complementary but deeply contradictory in nature, because their worldviews are based on dogmas not reason. And because of the ambiguity of their "holy scriptures", so many wars arised, not just between different religions but also or even more often between different denominations of the same belief.
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
You are indoctrinated.
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
James 1:27
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
Over the last 156 years over 300 million people have lost their lives due to governments. Half of those people were murdered by atheist governments, or starved, same thing. The Crusades involved the deaths of approximately 1.5 million people. Most of them were soldiers on both sides, as well as people who died of disease and other peripheral causes. The Inquisition resulted in less than 5,000 deaths over a span of approximately 300 years. The Salem Witch Trials spanned just four months, resulting in a total of 19 killed. According to Philip Axelrod’s monumental “Encyclopedia of Wars,” only 6.98 percent or all wars from 8000 BC to present were religious in nature. If you subtract Islamic wars from the equation, only 3.2 percent of wars were due to specifically Christian causes. That means that over 96 percent of all the wars on this planet were due to worldly reasons. Indeed, in the last 100 years alone, upwards of 360 million people were killed by governments-and close to half of those people were killed by atheist governments! Religion is not the problem that your indoctrination has taught you to think it is.
@eyebee-sea4444
@eyebee-sea4444 3 жыл бұрын
The classic strawman argument. I didn't mentioned any numbers or made any comparisons about wars, victims at all. That's not the topic here. I just pointed out that religions are not complementary but contradictory in nature and therefore many wars arised, not just between religions but between different denominations too.
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
@@eyebee-sea4444 no it isn't, you made the claim that so many wars have Arisen because of religion and that simply is not the case. I have shown you plainly that what you are upset about pales in comparison to the reality you are a part of now.
@vivelavida2204
@vivelavida2204 3 жыл бұрын
Short answer: No, all religions *can't* be true. Explanation: All religions don't claim the same. They're fundamentally different and superficially the same, because they all try to describe existence and the world in terms of outdated supernatural beliefs and all of their efforts are futile and mutually exclusive
@PaulHoward108
@PaulHoward108 3 жыл бұрын
Why not interpret such a commitment to the rejection of supernatural beliefs as a type of religion?
@vivelavida2204
@vivelavida2204 3 жыл бұрын
@@PaulHoward108 Atheism isn't a religion. That's the absence of religion
@PaulHoward108
@PaulHoward108 3 жыл бұрын
@@vivelavida2204, Bullshit. That's just a disingenuous attempt to manipulate the burden of proof. If atheism is a tentative conclusion based on reasoning, it's practically a religion; or its just an unsubstantiated belief, not even a religion.
@virtualknight5669
@virtualknight5669 3 жыл бұрын
you can say most of them are right but what happen is you can put all religions on timeline from the oldest to newest and you can say each new religion corrected the one before it because people tend to forget and misslead each other. what I'm trying to say is all religion were valid in the past but now the newest one is valid and will still valid to the end of time
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
James 1:27
@thepeadair
@thepeadair 3 жыл бұрын
No. If anything there can be only one. They all preach different doctrine so they can't all be right. Don't give me any of that "your truth" nonsense.
@dmsvlcp
@dmsvlcp 3 жыл бұрын
He clearly does Not understand buddhism
@abhishekpratapsingh9117
@abhishekpratapsingh9117 3 жыл бұрын
❤️🙏🏾♥️
@brandursimonsen4427
@brandursimonsen4427 3 жыл бұрын
Religion is a dogmatic living and believing. Then the secular are the most religious. Those adhering to religious teaching usually learn to be pragmatic with believing and life.
@bobe8666
@bobe8666 3 жыл бұрын
None of the above!
@itstartedinmud
@itstartedinmud 3 жыл бұрын
Sure. But anything CAN be true. That's not a reason to believe in it.
@alanshteynberg2108
@alanshteynberg2108 3 жыл бұрын
In christianity slavery is sanctioned by a heavenly father. In the IT industry, the slave moral is sanctioned by years of subconcious manipulation and mk ultra. Not sure I like either.
@jayjames7055
@jayjames7055 3 жыл бұрын
inch by inch ... "..."
@i4niable
@i4niable 3 жыл бұрын
Life is the great test we are in....the test is all about sincerely seeking the truth and doing good deeds... Giving up and stop seeking the truth is not an option... If we seek the truth sincerely by leaving our all biases behind ...God will guide us to the truth...this is His promise...try it
@danielwaters6001
@danielwaters6001 3 жыл бұрын
All stories are true DW
@ThomasDoubting5
@ThomasDoubting5 3 жыл бұрын
When one is not lost truth is obvious but can't be known, but if one is lost then they need morality and religions.
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
Only the sick require a physician. I am.
@i4niable
@i4niable 3 жыл бұрын
Faith and good deeds...this is the universal message that almost all religions have in common
@deepashtray5605
@deepashtray5605 3 жыл бұрын
Seldom stops them from killing each other.
@i4niable
@i4niable 3 жыл бұрын
@@deepashtray5605 blame the theocrats....
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
@@deepashtray5605 The Crusades involved the deaths of approximately 1.5 million people. Most of them were soldiers on both sides, as well as people who died of disease and other peripheral causes. The Inquisition resulted in less than 5,000 deaths over a span of approximately 300 years. The Salem Witch Trials spanned just four months, resulting in a total of 19 killed. According to Philip Axelrod’s monumental “Encyclopedia of Wars,” only 6.98 percent or all wars from 8000 BC to present were religious in nature. If you subtract Islamic wars from the equation, only 3.2 percent of wars were due to specifically Christian causes. That means that over 96 percent of all the wars on this planet were due to worldly reasons. Indeed, in the last 100 years alone, upwards of 360 million people were killed by governments-and close to half of those people were killed by atheist governments!
@deepashtray5605
@deepashtray5605 3 жыл бұрын
@@williamesselman3102 So you're apologizing for the deaths of 1.5 million people. So much for prolife.
@jeremyduguay3640
@jeremyduguay3640 3 жыл бұрын
When the mind is clear you can see all the bullshit.
@guillermomartinez6006
@guillermomartinez6006 3 жыл бұрын
So short answer is yes they can all be true
@thepeadair
@thepeadair 3 жыл бұрын
Explain that nonsensical answer.
@guillermomartinez6006
@guillermomartinez6006 3 жыл бұрын
@@thepeadair he worded it so long, he could of just said yes and then explained
@JSwift-jq3wn
@JSwift-jq3wn 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, they can in sofar as they all have one thing in common; they are all lying.
@S3RAVA3LM
@S3RAVA3LM 3 жыл бұрын
Philosophy is the true religion. As it's spiritual by nature, so grasping the essence of God in all that is. Not so much about asking the big questions, rather experiencing the big meanings in life; contemplating on the beauty and what's hidden; seeking thyself, and reflecting on the mystery. Devotion to knowledge in attaining the power of God, so in cultivating aquiring the wisdom, the essence of God. What philosophy become today is watered down and not true philosophy. It's mixed up with too much of everything else. The core of everything is God, and the nature of God is Spiritual, thus philosophy is spiritually devote to seeking gnosis. Modern religion is as ridiculous as modern science, however the sacred, holy, gracious text is great to study, practice, live, and experience. You don't have to be religious to read such text, rather what is important is Spirituality. The religions are all wrong, especially Christianity. They attacked Alexandria and Truth, while the Arabs actually keep the philosophical teachings of antiquity, the christians burned them and deemed everyone pagans, heathens. Every religion has major issues. It just shows the nature of carnal man. Thoth, Krishna, Buddha, Christ. Great reverence for such gods. It's an honor to read, study, practise, co yemplate, live their teachings. And the cosmos. I acknowledge. I seek.
@Unconskep
@Unconskep 3 жыл бұрын
Religion is superstition and nothing more, the more superstitious you are the more religious you will be, all religion is man made, if one God made it all up by himself,then there would be no diversity in religion because all religious texts would come from the same source
@alfredoysada1999
@alfredoysada1999 3 жыл бұрын
Believe it or not.... all religions diversity came out from the same source. But the source it's not from a "God", because such a biblical "God" do not exist. It is not man made either. The answer is hidden in your subconcious mind.
@yqafree
@yqafree 3 жыл бұрын
Indeed more complimentary in the way that they're good versus evil and only transcendence will bring the truth
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
James 1:27
@yqafree
@yqafree 3 жыл бұрын
Sure thing. I just hope you're not trying to say buddhism or other ancient faiths necessarily prevents people from serving others in the terrible world. By transcendence I mean in the eschaton, because I don't believe the immanent transcends itself, rather the transcendental makes the immanent transcendental
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
All I need now is some Catalina. Anywho, the point being, all else is ego enriching. Kinda like the way salad dressing makes lettuce better, depending on your flavor.
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
Pure service to God comes in purely serving others, namely, those who can't take care of themselves
@yqafree
@yqafree 3 жыл бұрын
Indeed. Many people liv for the soul but I think it's all about living for the Spirit, Hagios Πνεύματος τοῦ Ἁγίου
@arthurzettel6618
@arthurzettel6618 3 жыл бұрын
You can have your Religions. I have Faith which carries my hopes and trust in God.
@silveriver9
@silveriver9 3 жыл бұрын
Reality cannot be described, it can only be experienced.
@cps_Zen_Run
@cps_Zen_Run 3 жыл бұрын
Expand your vocabulary.
@jamesbentonticer4706
@jamesbentonticer4706 3 жыл бұрын
You are certainly not a scientist are you?
@silveriver9
@silveriver9 3 жыл бұрын
@@Graewulfe Words are flawed and can easily distort reality. My statement above including this statement also runs this risk as they too are words. Therefore, do not get caught up in words, concepts and ego as they are illusions and easily distort reality. We have to be aware of our perception. Simply, observe and experience reality as it is. We are consciousness experiencing a physical material reality. This physical material reality is a result of consciousness itself.
@silveriver9
@silveriver9 3 жыл бұрын
@@jamesbentonticer4706 if you had some understanding of quantum entanglement and quantum superposition of quantum mechanics, you wouldnt have left that comment.
@andrewforbes1433
@andrewforbes1433 3 жыл бұрын
Of course reality can be described. Descriptions may be limited, or not fully accurate, but that doesn't mean that they are not true descriptions. One might fairly say that reality cannot be _fully_ described, but neither is it fully experienced. In fact, there are aspects of reality that we describe more fully than we experience.
@agirlwithagolden5238
@agirlwithagolden5238 3 жыл бұрын
ATHEISM is the TRUTH
@kengoch8308
@kengoch8308 3 жыл бұрын
what if jesus, muhammad and buddah were all the same guy! come to offer help and guidance as needed. and if you overlap each book you could see? wouldn't that just be crazy? good thing im just an uneducated crazy person.
@kengoch8308
@kengoch8308 3 жыл бұрын
@@dennisjump8655 but he did ask people to eat of his flesh and drink of his blood! no matter what your views are. that's pretty creepy!! and neither did muhammad or buddah but you wouldn't know because you don't take the time to read your to busy watching fox news
@kengoch8308
@kengoch8308 3 жыл бұрын
@@xspotbox4400 not sure what that means.... but like i said. uneducated
@alfredoysada1999
@alfredoysada1999 3 жыл бұрын
@@kengoch8308 Jesus, Muhammad and Buddha had one common denominator: -they try to wake up people. But unfortunately their teaching was very much manipulated with false beliefs to be able to make it into a new dogmatic religion. All those kind of stuff about eat my flesh and drink my blood, Jesus never said it. It was added to his false life story as many more lies you could find. The day you all understand that there is no "god", then that will be the day you will start to wake up to reality !
@kengoch8308
@kengoch8308 3 жыл бұрын
@@alfredoysada1999 i know all that!!
@kengoch8308
@kengoch8308 3 жыл бұрын
he was being a dick
@altimate1
@altimate1 3 жыл бұрын
*In any class of students or learners there is only one TOPPER upon conducting an examination finally, so also there is only ONE FAITH that stands as TOPPER, it's high time that we find out which is that ONE. Just read atleast three major religious texts that we know of and decide. No other go. This is the shortest and the best way possible to find out the ONE*
@xspotbox4400
@xspotbox4400 3 жыл бұрын
But they're all dumb, when you think about what was written back then in a Stone Age, can't choose the least dumb religion of them all.
@altimate1
@altimate1 3 жыл бұрын
@@xspotbox4400 written in stone age 🤔
@experiencemystique4982
@experiencemystique4982 3 жыл бұрын
If Christianity has a personal God, who complete the goodness ( are you talking about the concept of good against evil, or goodness on the sense of love, light, wisdom and harmony?) And the connection with a supreme being ( not necessarily an old man figure with beard) but in the bottom line God is spirit. And Nivana is a state of consciousness to connect with the all. Point me the difference? The separation is in our mind, cause we need to conceptualize to proceed?
@nikolaskarelis652
@nikolaskarelis652 3 жыл бұрын
the truth is we don't know anything about afterlife,space,evolution, just theories and guesses.
@stinkertoy4310
@stinkertoy4310 3 жыл бұрын
Nice one. There are both commonalities and distinctions among the various belief systems. Ask a group “what happened?” and get a group of similar yet distinct answers. Science is like that too......
@tonymontana2514
@tonymontana2514 3 жыл бұрын
Religion the root of the most evil
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
James 1:27. Are you sure?
@azurebrown3756
@azurebrown3756 3 жыл бұрын
"The 7 Religions of The 7 Races of Man are all True. Together they are Truth." -Azure Brown
@vincentchiong8957
@vincentchiong8957 3 жыл бұрын
all religions have false Gods. The real God is outside religions beyond words. The God TAO is beyond words. The God that can be described is not the Eternal God.
@thepeadair
@thepeadair 3 жыл бұрын
You just described Him.
@danzo1711
@danzo1711 3 жыл бұрын
Many historic religious thinkers, influenced by Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism, have also adopted that understanding of God.
@alfredoysada1999
@alfredoysada1999 3 жыл бұрын
you are contradicting yourself... if all religions have false Gods, then there is no real "God". If you believe in God TAO then you are into the philosophical religion of Taoism.... even though the TAO is not "God" to you, the deities you probably worship are part of TAO. (TAO's little demons). TAO, sometime represented as Lao Tzu, it's been manipulated by a DRAGON from Dark side of the 4th Dimension. In other words... all religions are false including TAO.
@TheGuiltsOfUs
@TheGuiltsOfUs 3 жыл бұрын
cryptic nonsense
@alfredoysada1999
@alfredoysada1999 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheGuiltsOfUs .. right, your cryptic speciation cannot interbreed. You are morphologically identical to TAO.
@bluelotus542
@bluelotus542 3 жыл бұрын
God is both personal and impersonal, but His impersonal feature depends on His personal feature like a painting depends on the painter.
@verily360
@verily360 3 жыл бұрын
We are hardwired to believe in a higher power. And the universe is a higher power that we don't understand yet. So that's why all the different beliefs occured because we were trying to make sense of it.
@cps_Zen_Run
@cps_Zen_Run 3 жыл бұрын
I think many of us would state that we are born atheists. Only through childhood brainwashing do we become believers in mystical deities, heaven and hell, etc.
@k-3402
@k-3402 3 жыл бұрын
@@cps_Zen_Run That really doesn't account for the "mystical" experiences that people have - even atheists. We do, in fact, have modules in our brains that correspond to spiritual and religious experiences. Doesn't prove anything, but it's still interesting.
@harryviking6347
@harryviking6347 3 жыл бұрын
Religion is a sad joke!
@ChuckBrowntheClown
@ChuckBrowntheClown 3 жыл бұрын
Here's how I think the Bible responds to them religions Genesis 6:1 and it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the Earth and daughters were born unto them, 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were Fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
@Lalakis
@Lalakis 3 жыл бұрын
You just described the birth of nephilim. gj
@ChuckBrowntheClown
@ChuckBrowntheClown 3 жыл бұрын
@@Lalakis which is all the different doctrines besides dispensationalism. You got churches in the book of Revelation called red ones and dead ones.
@Lalakis
@Lalakis 3 жыл бұрын
@@ChuckBrowntheClown There are far more important and useful things you can do than read faerie tales like the bible or revelation...
@ChuckBrowntheClown
@ChuckBrowntheClown 3 жыл бұрын
@@Lalakis yep reading it to my children training them up in it cuz Jesus Christ is the only one who fairly loves everybody. Who believes in him.
@shivercanada
@shivercanada 3 жыл бұрын
I can tell you right now there’s only one creator and I know this I don’t believe it. Unless you’re following the creator of this universe and all things, you’re following the dark side. That’s not an opinion that’s a fact that I hope people all come to realize before it’s too late. Too many rely on their own understanding which is severely limited. I pray regularly that he shows himself to everyone and I sometimes include Lawrence specifically because it’s an eye opening series and he’s seeking truth. Everyone has an opinion but mine is based on real experience.
@cps_Zen_Run
@cps_Zen_Run 3 жыл бұрын
We have evolved to have our mind see patterns, even when they are not there. Our minds are easily deceived and tricked. We have inherent biases, which makes our intuition faulty. Beliefs and faith are not the pathway to truth.
@alfredoysada1999
@alfredoysada1999 3 жыл бұрын
@@cps_Zen_Run ... I don't know how did you get into that conclusion but you are 100% right. Our minds are easily deceived and tricked.... and the reason why it's because Humans are made from 98% reptile genes.... and the Creator was not "God" but....
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
James 1:27
@Jesusismykin
@Jesusismykin 3 жыл бұрын
Can 2+2 be anything other than 4 ??? There is only one true God 👍and that is the God of the Bible. The creator of heaven and earth 🌎✨❤
@xspotbox4400
@xspotbox4400 3 жыл бұрын
Not necessary. What do you mean by those symbols, first we should agree about axioms and number theory used in your model. What do you mean by 2, perhaps we don't use 1 but start counting from 2. All symbols are important, + and = can have many meanings. But in all general terms, you're right, of course, just don't think that's all the mathematics there is.
@Jesusismykin
@Jesusismykin 3 жыл бұрын
@@xspotbox4400 1+1=2 all other answers are wrong. 4×4=16 all other answers are wrong. There is only one true creator God ,that is the God of the Bible all other answers are wrong. Satan comes out as a angel 😇 of light, the Bible says so. All other gods are idols. See what the Bible says about idols 🙄.
@xspotbox4400
@xspotbox4400 3 жыл бұрын
@@Jesusismykin OK, but think about one problem only. You can start any kind of mathematics, but from a scratch, like there are no numbers, axioms, symbols, nothing exist in the beginning. Can you do that?
@Jesusismykin
@Jesusismykin 3 жыл бұрын
@@xspotbox4400 The best answer I can give you is that numbers like God have no beginning or end. The other idea is that it is impossible for there to be nothing. Now God created the physical dimension which = physics ,God lives in the spiritual dimension, which is invisible to us. There is a lot that we don't know or understand. Remember we are very limited God is all powerful all knowing and present everywhere at the same time. How 🤔❓can we understand God with our so great limitations.
@williamesselman3102
@williamesselman3102 3 жыл бұрын
@@xspotbox4400 if you can't understand God, good, God is ineffable, we've only known this forever. I like thinking of it like this: no matter how easily decipherable you make the instrumentation panel of an airplane, once in flight, if you place an orangutan at the control panel, you are T-totally doomed. Your imminent demise would not be because airplanes can't fly, runways aren't a thing, or the entire Dynamic of flight and landing doesn't exist. Your imminent demise would be because the entire spectrum of flight, from airplanes, all the way to control processes, lies Beyond the ability of the orangutan to conceptualize. Maybe God is your airplane.
@kuroryudairyu4567
@kuroryudairyu4567 3 жыл бұрын
Of course i understand you for wanting to do these kind of videos also, but i simply find all religions false, stupid, silly and pathetic 💝😂and dangerous too, many times. Great video though 💪🙏💗
@chrisc1257
@chrisc1257 3 жыл бұрын
There are many truths but there is no truth.
@xspotbox4400
@xspotbox4400 3 жыл бұрын
Are there many versions of the same event? I don't think so, think again, there must be a single truth, regardless if we can know about it or not.
@chrisc1257
@chrisc1257 3 жыл бұрын
@@xspotbox4400 The problem with building a single truth is, one ends up dwelling in castle of contradictions.
@xspotbox4400
@xspotbox4400 3 жыл бұрын
@@chrisc1257 According to popular science BS, it should be possible, in principle, since the entire universe came from a single dot, gravity connects everything and all matter is only interactions in quantum fields, present everywhere in the universe.
@chrisc1257
@chrisc1257 3 жыл бұрын
@@xspotbox4400 “Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
@xspotbox4400
@xspotbox4400 3 жыл бұрын
@@chrisc1257 Dostoyevsky was like, he was walking around the crowded city on a bright sunny day, with a lit lantern in his hand, yelling on the people to show him the universe, where is space when all they could see was blue skies and golden sunshine.
@donnagjoka2587
@donnagjoka2587 3 жыл бұрын
It's all about power.i grow up with out religion ..but I remember very good in lecture of Marxism-leninism there we learn a a principle of life..and believe or not there was much better than religion fashion parade.
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