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Why do you believe in God of Abraham?

Starlight

Spiritual but not religious, new age and omnist
Questions to Abrahamic believers, believers in Judaism, christianity, islam, baha'i , rastafarianism, mormonism and other abrahamic faiths.

Why do you believe in God of Abraham?

Why do you think God of Abraham is the one true God of the universe/universes?
 
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URAVIP2ME

Veteran Member
Why do you believe in God of Abraham?
Why do you think God of Abraham is the one true God of the universe/universes?

First of all, God promised that ALL families of Earth will be blessed through Abraham.
And that ALL nations of Earth will be blessed through Abraham - Genesis 12:3; Genesis 22:18

The God of Abraham gives us the earthly Resurrection Hope that Abraham believed in - Genesis 22:5 B
Abraham was so confident about the Resurrection that he was willing to sacrifice his son Isaac.
Abraham knew the 'promised seed (Messiah)' would come through Isaac.
Isaac would have to be alive in order for that to happen, so a dead Isaac would have to be brought back to life.
The fact that Abraham was willing to go through with sacrificing Isaac showed his confidence in the Resurrection.
The willingness was all that was necessary, and Not the actual act - Genesis 22:11-12.
 

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
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Premium Member
Why do you believe in God of Abraham?
I became interested in the idea that God was love, and I envisioned this as the reason for the universe and the creator of it. My idea of God keeps changing, but I still believe in that universal love which is so important and unique to humanity. I don't want to give that up or the idea of it. I don't want the world to be a cold place where children keep starving and get enslaved and other bad things happen. It shouldn't be. Even if I'm not there I want a future to exist where things are better.

Why do you think God of Abraham is the one true God of the universe/universes?
I would not say that exactly. I think love has to conquer all in the end, or everything is meaningless. That is how things must be. That much I can understand. It seems silly to think that one's own idea of God is the one true God, because God is inhuman. When we try to be inhuman like God is we're like dogs trying to understand doorknobs. We just don't get it.
 

Dawnofhope

Non-Proselytizing Baha'i
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Questions to Abrahamic believers, believers in Judaism, christianity, islam, baha'i , rastafarianism, mormonism and other abrahamic faiths.

Why do you believe in God of Abraham?

Why do you think God of Abraham is the one true God of the universe/universes?

Welcome back.

I grew up Christian, so the God of Abraham was a given. As an adult I recognised problems with Christianity that the Baha’i Faith and modern biblical scholarship resolved. In particular it promotes the God of Abraham as being more inclusive and having revealed Himself to all peoples, not just the Jews starting from Adam. Buddhism and Hinduism derive their inspiration from the same God of Abraham though the original Revelation may have been lost or changed. However One Universal God makes sense along with different Manifestations of that God throughout the ages.
 

Starlight

Spiritual but not religious, new age and omnist
Welcome back.

I grew up Christian, so the God of Abraham was a given. As an adult I recognised problems with Christianity that the Baha’i Faith and modern biblical scholarship resolved. In particular it promotes the God of Abraham as being more inclusive and having revealed Himself to all peoples, not just the Jews starting from Adam. Buddhism and Hinduism derive their inspiration from the same God of Abraham though the original Revelation may have been lost or changed. However One Universal God makes sense along with different Manifestations of that God throughout the ages.
Thank you:blush:

I agree, one universal God make best sense. I believe the God of Abraham is the universal God. The God all religions pray too in different ways

Its like "God is an elephant" analogy.

Four blind men stumble upon an elephant. Each man begins to grope around in order to understand what exactly it is: one man examines the tail, another, the trunk, another, a front leg, etc. After a while, they reach their conclusions and begin to describe their respective impressions.

The one who examined the tail says it is a snake. The one who examined the front leg says it is a tree trunk, and so on. Evidently, each man gives a different answer, and, yet, each in his own way is quite accurate and correct, at least from a limited perspective.
 

nPeace

Veteran Member
Thank you:blush:

I agree, one universal God make best sense. I believe the God of Abraham is the universal God. The God all religions pray too in different ways

Its like "God is an elephant" analogy.

Four blind men stumble upon an elephant. Each man begins to grope around in order to understand what exactly it is: one man examines the tail, another, the trunk, another, a front leg, etc. After a while, they reach their conclusions and begin to describe their respective impressions.

The one who examined the tail says it is a snake. The one who examined the front leg says it is a tree trunk, and so on. Evidently, each man gives a different answer, and, yet, each in his own way is quite accurate and correct, at least from a limited perspective.
That's an interesting analogy, but why are they all blind?
Didn't the Bible say God gives sight to the blind? Luke 4:18
What if some prefer to be blind, but one begged in all sincerity to see?
John 9:41 ; Matthew 13:11-15
 

nPeace

Veteran Member
Because He is the only deity that was ever truly there for me in my darkest times. He's the only deity that made me feel like I was worth something, and fill my heart with love and awe.
*Double take* Wait! :dizzy: Frankenstein? What happend to Kali? She left you!!!? :astonished:
Don't say it. I'll leave you be.
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SeekingAllTruth

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I became interested in the idea that God was love, and I envisioned this as the reason for the universe and the creator of it. My idea of God keeps changing, but I still believe in that universal love which is so important and unique to humanity. I don't want to give that up or the idea of it. I don't want the world to be a cold place where children keep starving and get enslaved and other bad things happen. It shouldn't be. Even if I'm not there I want a future to exist where things are better.


I would not say that exactly. I think love has to conquer all in the end, or everything is meaningless. That is how things must be. That much I can understand. It seems silly to think that one's own idea of God is the one true God, because God is inhuman. When we try to be inhuman like God is we're like dogs trying to understand doorknobs. We just don't get it.

On our local news today a mother who stabbed to death her 3 YO, 2 YO and 6-month old was finally captured. I used to look to the God of Abraham for answers to why such horrors happen--I mean why didn't the mother have gd heart attack before committing this atrocity. Answers were never forthcoming. Everything was silence. One day I came to learn that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were not real people, just a mythical figure around which legends of the founding of Jewish-ism were built, like Ragnar Lotbrok for the Vikings and Robin Hood for the Saxons. Even Jewish scholars today acknowledge this fact. So when you say God is inhuman you're not far from the truth. The best solution to a troubled mind about things like this is to just conclude God is deist. He simple doesn't give a damn about us. He leaves us out in the cold to either sink or swim. If you sink that's one less person to pollute the earth, sadly. But that's reality.
 
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nPeace

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Lol. She's not the jealous type. I have no quarrel with her.
She will really appreciate your words, I'm sure. "He's the only deity that made me feel like I was worth something, and fill my heart with love and awe."
Really. You mean you dumped her. Or maybe ... I'll be quiet now. :nomouth:
 

Starlight

Spiritual but not religious, new age and omnist
That's an interesting analogy, but why are they all blind?
Didn't the Bible say God gives sight to the blind? Luke 4:18
What if some prefer to be blind, but one begged in all sincerity to see?
John 9:41 ; Matthew 13:11-15

God does not want all people in the world to have the same religion. Evidence?


The Tower of Babel
11Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
 

Trailblazer

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I became interested in the idea that God was love, and I envisioned this as the reason for the universe and the creator of it. My idea of God keeps changing, but I still believe in that universal love which is so important and unique to humanity. I don't want to give that up or the idea of it. I don't want the world to be a cold place where children keep starving and get enslaved and other bad things happen. It shouldn't be. Even if I'm not there I want a future to exist where things are better.
I believe that the future will be better. It won't be a cold place where children keep starving and get enslaved and other bad things happen, it will be a completely different world with a new race of men. However, the reason it will be better is because humans will make it better and humans will change, not because God will do anything. God does send Messengers in every age, but that is all He can be credited for, as if that is difficult for an omnipotent God to do. Other than scriptures that say that God is loving, I have no idea why Abrahamic religious believers believe that God is loving, that completely eludes me. I think it is mostly because they want to believe that because otherwise they could not believe in God and worship God.
 
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Spirit of Light

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Questions to Abrahamic believers, believers in Judaism, christianity, islam, baha'i , rastafarianism, mormonism and other abrahamic faiths.

Why do you believe in God of Abraham?

Why do you think God of Abraham is the one true God of the universe/universes?
I believe in Allah because i notice the difference in my life after i started study the scripture and following its teaching.
There is still suffering in my life but i come to terms with it. When i ask Allah, why??
I do get answer. Allah sending me wisdom that lead toward the answer i need to solve my problems.
An other reason i believe in Allah is that my internal anger disapearded after i become a sufi. :)
 
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ameyAtmA

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Premium Member
That's an interesting analogy, but why are they all blind?
Didn't the Bible say God gives sight to the blind?
And didn't the Bhagvat Geeta, Upanishads and other scriptures say the same?
What if some prefer to be blind, but one begged in all sincerity to see?
How do you know ONLY ONE begged in all sincerity?
 
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ameyAtmA

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Premium Member
First of all, God promised that ALL families of Earth will be blessed through Abraham.
What about families that lived tens of thousands of years before a mortal human called Abraham? What about genealogies to which Abraham is irrelevant? Unless Abraham is not a mortal human but is BramhA
 

Starlight

Spiritual but not religious, new age and omnist
And didn't the Bhagvat Geeta, Upanishads and other scriptures say the same?

How do you know ONLY ONE begged in all sincerity?

Drop this childish attitude, and stop being the frog in the well.

Christians want to be all-exclusive while Hinduism is all-inclusive. Just the opposite.
If hinduism is really all-inclusive then why so many dalits (also known as "Untouchables," members of the lowest social group in the Hindu caste system in India) is not allowed to enter some hindustic temples?
 
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