WHY BELIEVE IN THE GOD OF ABRAHAM (JEWS, ISLAMICS, CHRISTIANS, BAHA'I, RASTAFARIANS, MORMONS, ET AL):
Same reason you shop at Ralphs. . . best deals, good coupons.
God's deals: God blesses, offers heaven.
God includes all (if they comply, by believing and being good). God revealed himself to all people (did that include American Indians, islanders in the Pacific, and Alaskans?)
All we have to do is sacrifice someone else (like Isaac sacrificed his son, or humans sacrificed Jesus).
If Satan offered a better deal, people would take that, and respect Satan's power. Is it just a matter of kissing up to power, or is it about believing that God is good?
God offers love (like the kind of love that destroyed the earth in Noah's time....including innocent people dying). Or is that love a lie that people tell themselves and tell others to gain converts?
If there is one God, why are there so many different faiths that say so many different things about God. Even within a single religion, there are many different versions of the bible, and many different beliefs.
Do we trust in the bible that has been rewritten many times, and altered? Many passages of the bible refute each other.
Or, do we trust what God, himself, says to us? Does that including talking in tongues (klksjflk) while writhing on the floor? Does that include the Heaven's Gate Church members killing themselves so that they can ride around in the Hale-Bopp comet for all eternity? Does that include the Jonestown massacre in which people killed themselves for their faith?
If we choose God (among all of the other Gods), do we then ignore God's laws and make wars and a torture camp, ignore the homeless, pollute God's environment, etc? Do we take over politics and force schools to teach our brand of religion? Science is not the enemy (it just cured COVID).
Is God really there for us? Does he answer prayers? Does he keep cancer patients from suffering?
Maybe everyone worships the same God (sometimes with lesser Gods too, as the ancient Jews did)? Maybe the different bibles and beliefs are merely about our limited capacity to understand? We don't see many dogs driving cars, yet we, with our limited intelligence, seem to judge and define God. Maybe people see different aspects of the same God, so he appears different in each society?
Maybe it is not an issue of understanding? Maybe God intended the many people of the world to have different languages and religions? Consider the Tower of Babel, for example.
Maybe Babel is a test to see if we could overcome language barriers, help fund food for the starving even if they are not in our country? Maybe God is trying to see how long it would take to fix the world?