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Originally Posted by J. Damascene
I would say, rather, that the fullness of truth can be found in Christianity. All other faiths have the truth in part. You may say that this makes them false- that is your perogative.
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I would be wrong to imply that some(not all) religions do contain some acknowledgement of inescapable truths, such as the laws of physics and the reality of our very existance in the present.
Here's why I consider other religions to be false, in spite of that truth: A specific belief must be either true or false. The mere existance of truth demands this. All of the worlds religions are centered around their own very specific belief in what is true and what is false. That's why people follow them so religiously
The fact that some religions share similar beliefs in truths does not mean that they are all true religions. If they are not all true , then all are false, or one is true and the rest are false. Otherwise, there could only be one religion.
A belief in something that is thought to be true, yet is not, is a false belief. A belief that something is false, when it is true, is also a false belief. It must be completely correct in order to be true.
If, as you say,(and I agree with 100%) that Christianity holds the fullness of truth, any religion that holds to be true
one or more of the following:
-that Jesust is not the one true son of the one true creator God,
-that Jesus is one of the sons of the One true creator God,
-that Jesus is not/was not the Messiah prophecied of in the OT,
-that Jesus died and remains dead(no resurection),
-that Jesus was a prophet and nothing more,
-that Jesus was not even a prophet, just a really unique guy with some incredible will power and snappy answers to tough questions
-that Jehovah is not the one true God,manifest in the triumverant of the Father, the Son, ad the Holy Spirit
-that there is no one single creator God, but many creator gods,
-that humans are beings with the potential to become creator Gods
-that there is no real intelligent god(s) but only common energy,
-that there is nothing beyond what we can physically see, hear,taste, feel, and smell, and everything that exists just happened by pure chance,
-there is no real absolute truth, only what is percieved to be true by the individual for that individual,
all of which are false statements according to the central beliefs of Christianity, those religions must therefore be regarded as false religions by Christianity.