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Don’t All Religions
lead to God?
Professor of Eastern Religions at
Oxford, R.C. Zaehner said… “To
maintain that all religions are paths
leading to the same goal... is to maintain
something that is not true... The only
common ground is that the function of
religion is to provide release; there is no
agreement at all as to what it is that man
must be released from.
The great religions are
talking at cross purposes.”
Worlds main Religions
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Christianity 31%
Islam 21%
Secular/Non-religious 15%
Hindu 14%
Buddhist 7%
All other religions 12%
#5—Buddhism
#4—Hinduism
#3—Secularism – Nonreligious –
Atheists
#2—Islam
1. Recite the shahada. (“There is no god
but Allah, and Mohammed is his
prophet.”
2. Pray [salat] five times a day facing
Mecca.
3. Give [zakat] alms to the poor.
4. Fast [sawm] during the month of
Ramadan.
5. Perform a pilgrimage [hajj] to
Mecca at least once.
#5—Buddhism
#4—Hinduism
#3—Secularism – Nonreligious –
Atheists
#2—Islam
#1—Christianity
Four Solutions
The Isolation Solution
The Repetition Solution
The Exertion Solution
The Relationship Solution
Which Religion is Right?
Because they’re all different,
they could all be wrong, but
they can’t all be right.
Hinduism
–Many gods
–Nirvana
–Multiple lives and death
NonReligious
None or unknown
None or unknown
None or unknown
Buddhism
–An Impersonal Force
–Nirvana
–The Eightfold Path
Islam
–Allah
–Paradise
–The Five Pillars
Christianity
–One God
–Heaven
–Grace
Hinduism
NonReligious Buddhism
Islam
Christianity
Many gods
None or
unknown
An Impersonal
Force
Allah
One God
Nirvana
None or
unknown
Nirvana
Paradise
Heaven
Multiple lives
and death
None or
unknown
The Eightfold
Path
The Five Pillars Grace
• Think about it this way: Buddhism,
Hinduism, Islam and all other religions
require that you DO certain things in
order to make it to their afterlife.
• Christianity is the only faith system
that believes that God has already
DONE what is necessary
for His children to reach
Him.
• Since all of these religions are
different, we have to make a
choice.
• According to each of these
systems, whichever religion you
choose will determine your
eternity.
• Which of these systems matches
the description of how life seems
to work on earth?
• Which of them offers the most
believable description of God?
• Which of them matches what your
heart tells you is true?
• You alone have the choice and
have to decide!