Trailblazer
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That makes no sense to me because that is the same as saying that all the scriptures of religions were written by humans and had nothing to do with God. Obviously, if one is an atheist that is what they are going to believe, and maybe that makes sense from an atheist perspective but it makes no sense from a believer perspective.Is God changing the message to suit the times, or are people creating an image of God that meets their needs and fits in with their societal structure, culture, norms? Given the disparity of messages and characterizations of God (or Gods for that matter), it is much more probable that all these explanations concerning God come from Man not God.
The different messages and characterizations of God (or Gods for that matter) are easily explained by the Baha'i Faith. The different messages in every age are owing to the fact that humanity needs a new and different message in every new age, and the different characterizations of God are because of the way people have interpreted their scriptures. There was always only one God, but people believed in many Gods because they misinterpreted their scriptures. Also, please bear in mind that there are no authentic scriptures for the older religions such as Hinduism so we cannot know was was originally taught by Krishna.
I fully agree. I think we should only believe in a prophet or a religion because it is true. That is all that matters.We can't choose a prophet or spiritual message simply because it feels right, wouldn't you agree?
Choosing a religion should not be like choosing a new pair of shoes that are pretty and fit well, it is a serious matter.
You are very astute, as that is exactly what has happened with most believers. People have chosen what they like and what feels comfortable. If for example Christians cared what is the actual truth they would be willing to look at the religions that came after them, Islam and the Bahai Faith; but they do not want to look because they are comfortable with Christianity. Much is this is going in at a subconscious level of course, on a conscious level they just "believe" that Christianity is the one true religion and because of that "belief" Christians are unwilling to look at any other religions that might also be true. The same applied to Jews, who believe that their religion is the only true religion.If our wants and desires hold sway over belief and understanding of God, then there is a unique and different God for each of us. God becomes whatever we want God to be.
I do not know how that could be done. Humans have to rely upon our fallibility because we are all fallible.As we have agreed that we human beings are fallible, we need a way to evaluate conflicting messages about God or Gods that does not rely solely on our fallibility or the fallibility of prospective Prophets or Messengers of God.
There are ways we can try to avoid making a mistake, and that is by careful and serious research, and by wanting to know the truth.