It seems people really stub their toe over this one. Yet do not all religions believe in One Source of Life? Does the Christian religion write about the Elohim (plural)? And, then refer to Elohim as God? As I see it there is one source and many angles (Angels, Archangels, Seraphim, etc) of the one source. Other religions have many aspects of the one source, too. Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva are all aspects of the One Source. No Hindu would argue against that.
All religions in the World fall into one of 8 Worldviews. Each Worldview denies or contradicts what the other Worldviews affirm. Therefore, they cannot all be true. They also cannot all be false since they exhaust all logical categories. Therefore only one can be true. The 8 Worldviews are:
Theism: Belief in a personal God who created and sustains the universe.
Atheism: Rejection of the belief in the existence of God or gods.
Pantheism: The belief that everything in the universe is divine or a part of God.
Panentheism: The belief that God is greater than the universe and exists in everything.
Deism: Belief in a distant, non-interventionist God who created the universe but does not actively participate in it.
Finite Godism: Belief in a limited, finite God who is not all-powerful or all-knowing.
Polytheism: Belief in many gods
Nihilism: The belief that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value.
It is a common misunderstanding of the nature of Truth claims (which all religions make) and the nature of the Worlds Religions to say that "all religions basically believe the same thing." All of them assert contradictory things regarding the nature of Reality.
It seems people really stub their toe over this one. Yet do not all religions believe in One Source of Life? Does the Christian religion write about the Elohim (plural)? And, then refer to Elohim as God? As I see it there is one source and many angles (Angels, Archangels, Seraphim, etc) of the one source. Other religions have many aspects of the one source, too. Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva are all aspects of the One Source. No Hindu would argue against that.
All religions in the World fall into one of 8 Worldviews. Each Worldview denies or contradicts what the other Worldviews affirm. Therefore, they cannot all be true. They also cannot all be false since they exhaust all logical categories. Therefore only one can be true. The 8 Worldviews are:
Theism: Belief in a personal God who created and sustains the universe.
Atheism: Rejection of the belief in the existence of God or gods.
Pantheism: The belief that everything in the universe is divine or a part of God.
Panentheism: The belief that God is greater than the universe and exists in everything.
Deism: Belief in a distant, non-interventionist God who created the universe but does not actively participate in it.
Finite Godism: Belief in a limited, finite God who is not all-powerful or all-knowing.
Polytheism: Belief in many gods
Nihilism: The belief that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value.
It is a common misunderstanding of the nature of Truth claims (which all religions make) and the nature of the Worlds Religions to say that "all religions basically believe the same thing." All of them assert contradictory things regarding the nature of Reality.
Oprah was wrong.
Religion vs Worldview. I was responding to your comment on Religion.
What does Oprah have to do with it?