Comments on: Why are there so many religions? http://thoughtsofaseeker.net/why-are-there-so-many-religions/ Exploring the important religious questions from a Mormon (LDS) perspective. Focus on ancient history, early Christianity, and Mormon doctrine/practice. Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:21:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bryan http://thoughtsofaseeker.net/why-are-there-so-many-religions/comment-page-1/#comment-202 Bryan Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:09:56 +0000 http://thoughtsofaseeker.net/?p=11#comment-202 You pose a very good question--regarding the possibility that God could intervene again. Do we believe in a loving God? Do we believe that we need God? Do we believe in a God that is smart enough to answer our questions? My heartfelt answer to these three quesitons is a definite yes. If so, and if His purpose is to bring about the happiness and exaltation of His children(that is what the scriptures teach), then why would He set up the perfect atmosphere to bring the truth back (the religious freedom we have today that is unparalleled in world history), enable global communication so that any important message could go to all the world, and aid the world in becoming more literate than ever before in its history, and then leave the world in confusion? In essence, why would He do all that and not bring the fulness of the truth to a clearly confused world? God is not the author of confusion. He is a Being of light and knowledge--which He wants to share with His children. The only logical and correct conlusion is that He has brought back answers that were lost through the Dark Ages in which learning was terribly suppresed. God prepared the world for a restoration of truth. Since He is preparing the world for the Second Coming of the Savior (at which time He will gather in the faithful, so there must be faithful people to gather in), He clearly has a plan for letting His children actually know what is true. The idea that we can't actually know something, but must blindly believe, is an old trick of the devil and is false. We CAN know! I believe in a God who reveals truth if we ask--and He only stops revealing truth when we refuse to learn more. So, the truth is out there and God wants us to find it. How then can we know what the truth is when so many claim to have it? If you have a chance to talk to a couple of LDS missionaries, they would happy to share with you how God has made it possible for anyone who desires to know to know for certain what is true in this world. I advise all to listen to the missionaries with an open heart and read from the Book of Mormon they give you. They will make a unique claim--you don't have to believe it because that's what you're told--believe it because God answers your prayers and tells you so. Put their promise and mine to the test: if you ask God sincerely He will tell you that it is true! You pose a very good question–regarding the possibility that God could intervene again. Do we believe in a loving God? Do we believe that we need God? Do we believe in a God that is smart enough to answer our questions? My heartfelt answer to these three quesitons is a definite yes. If so, and if His purpose is to bring about the happiness and exaltation of His children(that is what the scriptures teach), then why would He set up the perfect atmosphere to bring the truth back (the religious freedom we have today that is unparalleled in world history), enable global communication so that any important message could go to all the world, and aid the world in becoming more literate than ever before in its history, and then leave the world in confusion? In essence, why would He do all that and not bring the fulness of the truth to a clearly confused world? God is not the author of confusion. He is a Being of light and knowledge–which He wants to share with His children.

The only logical and correct conlusion is that He has brought back answers that were lost through the Dark Ages in which learning was terribly suppresed. God prepared the world for a restoration of truth. Since He is preparing the world for the Second Coming of the Savior (at which time He will gather in the faithful, so there must be faithful people to gather in), He clearly has a plan for letting His children actually know what is true. The idea that we can’t actually know something, but must blindly believe, is an old trick of the devil and is false. We CAN know! I believe in a God who reveals truth if we ask–and He only stops revealing truth when we refuse to learn more. So, the truth is out there and God wants us to find it. How then can we know what the truth is when so many claim to have it?

If you have a chance to talk to a couple of LDS missionaries, they would happy to share with you how God has made it possible for anyone who desires to know to know for certain what is true in this world. I advise all to listen to the missionaries with an open heart and read from the Book of Mormon they give you. They will make a unique claim–you don’t have to believe it because that’s what you’re told–believe it because God answers your prayers and tells you so. Put their promise and mine to the test: if you ask God sincerely He will tell you that it is true!

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