Why so many religions?

Have you ever wondered why we have so many faiths or religions; I have? There is but one God who created all things seen and unseen. You may ask about or have contemplated why the Bible talks about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as though there are three? ............. Maybe this is the only way we humans can begin to understand Him. God has to bring knowledge down to a level we can understand.

 

Have you looked at His creation lately? What I mean is look beyond the surface. Take a moment to ponder just one thing God has made; a tree, a flower, a butterfly, a cloud, an animal………… Pretty awesome isn’t it? Now pull your mind out of that one thing and look at all the other things He’s created; and this is just what we see. How can we possibly begin to comprehend God?

 

Before I go on, have you taken a close look at us humans? The next time you are in a large group of people, look around at each one of them; all look different unless you happen to see identical twins. But even identical twins are different inside. We are all uniquely made. There are no duplicates. Some may look the same but their characters are different. Can you imagine, that there are an estimated 7 billion people in the world today, all uniquely made and God is able to see and know each one of us personally; like each of us has our own god? Isn’t that absolutely mind-boggling? Our very thoughts He hears as though we speak them out loud to Him. He knows why we do things when we do not. God knows us better than we know ourselves.

 

When I think about 7 billion of us in the world today all uniquely made, it’s no wonder we can’t get along with each other. It seems to me that the only way possible to have peace is for us all to marry God; become God’s bride. Think about it. We’ve all seen that the longer couples are married, the more they become as one.

 

Earlier, I said that seeing God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, may be the only way for us to begin to understand Him. I’ve been studying the book of John.

John 1:1-5

New International Version (NIV)

The Word Became Flesh

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was with God in the beginning. ³ Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. ⁴ In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. ⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome^[a] it.

He is talking about Jesus as "the Word". What I believe he is saying here is that Jesus is the part of God we can see, touch, communicate with; the part of God we can marry. The Holy Spirit is the part of God that binds us together.

 

Back to why so many religions. I believe this is our way of creating a recipe or instructions for life. Something we can follow to have what we believe to be the way to have a good life.

 

Have you ever tried to make something from a recipe? You see something with a picture of a food that looks scrumptious. It has a recipe and so you try to make it. You follow the recipe to the letter but your end product looks nothing like the picture you saw or may not taste as good as you thought it would. Maybe you have something you like so much that you want to share it with others. You meticulously create a recipe or instructions for someone to be able to make the same thing but when they try to make it, they somehow misinterpret your instructions and end up with something different.

Well, I believe that is what religion also does for us. We try to follow the teachings of our faith only to eventually find the results not to be what we expected.

 

You see what I’m trying to say? It is only through the marriage with God, Christ Jesus, whereby we can have that peaceful life we are all searching for.