The gods of ancient Egypt.



Gilgamesh and two demigods holding aloft the sun, 3500 years ago. From the Hittite religion.



The Greco-Roman pantheon of gods. Titans are not pictured.



Veve of various lua from the Vodun religions

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Shiva and Vishnu's avatars, from Hinduist gods. There are over 320 MILLION Hindu gods. Hinduism is one of the oldest surviving religions, predating Christianity, Islam and Buddhism by thousands of years.


Humanity has created so many religions over the millenia, with many rising and many falling, often due to political upheavals or invasions and murder. The only reason so much of the world is Christian is because it was invaded by Christian countries. Similarly, the only reason so much of the world is Muslim is because it was invaded by Muslim nations. So why, in this whirlwind of religions and gods and beliefs, is YOUR GOD the right one?

Why is GOD, YAHWEH, etc. the one, true god?

Why is ALLAH the one, true god? What's the evidence for this?

Why is Krishna nonexistent, but God is true?

Why is Odin a myth but Allah a reality?

What is your reason for believing in the Christian or Muslim god, as opposed to the MILLIONS of other religions and gods, some of which you have probably never even heard of or been exposed to?

Bump.

I've noticed many Christians and Muslims seem to avoid these threads.

Its just because christainity and islam have the highest population of followers. And more so Yahweh and Allah seems not real and non-existence in a very remote india village where the statues of shiva and vishnu adorns their temple .....
our birthplace, residence, and family we comes from has high impact in our religious belief.
one thing is sure.... and that is that every religion will give you arguably points to back up their claim of the existence of their deity

MykOnyxo:
Its just because christainity and islam have the highest population of followers. And more so Yahweh and Allah seems not real and non-existence in a very remote india village where the statues of shiva and vishnu adorns their temple .....
our birthplace, residence, and family we comes from has high impact in our religious belief.
one thing is sure.... and that is that every religion will give you arguably points to back up their claim of the existence of their deity

Christianity and Islam are not alien to Indian villages, remote or not. India has the largest number of Muslims of any country, and has historically been ruled by the Christian British Empire, but the vast majority of it's population are religiously Hindi, Jain, Buddhist or some other Vedic religion.

In fact there is cold war in India between the Muslims and the Hindus in some places.

Hindu believers genuinely think that God or Allah is a farce, Muslims think that Hinduism is a farce and that Christians are misguided or evil pagan filth, Christians think that Hinduism is a farce and either that Muslims are misguided or evil pagan filth. Can you not see the contradiction in this self-centred belief?

This was the dilemma in scholarly Italy and France during the 15th-17th centuries that lead to the continuous birth of the Renaissance. The dawning realization that all religions were equally competing for the claim of being the true religion, and that none of them had evidence with which to support their beliefs, their gods, their tales or their mythologies.

An example of Renaissance genius was the famous polymath Leonardo Da Vinci. For centuries, devout Christians and Jews used the argument that because you could find seashells inside and on the top of mountains that Noah's flood really happened and the whole earth was flooded. But Da Vinci questioned this, because the seashells were often found in settled, largely undamaged conditions, at the same levels of sediment an orderly fashion, which didn't seem right in the case of a catastrophic earth-wide flood, because then the seashells would be smashed, broken, and most importantly found scattered all over the mountains randomly, and not on a singular plane of terrain.

From this, Da Vinci not only challenged the assumption that the seashells on mountaintops proved the flood, but he also used it to make the (now known as correct) assumption that the earth's terrain has changed shifted it's elevation throughout history. Absolute genius.

Bump.