Who gave different religions the power to claim God Personally?

Gnostic: Who gave different religions the power to claim God Personally?
Jews say that God belongs to them only.
Muslims say that Islam is the only truth.
Christians say that unless you believe in Jesus you are condemned.
Can’t people just ignore Religion and its odd traditions and worship God for what he is…the creator and sustainer of mankind?
Why do different religions fight among themselves for possession of the God of us all?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Roman Catholic
Actually, Christians don’t. Protestant fundamentalists do. We Catholics believe that anyone who lives a good life will go to heaven.

Answer by true friend
True, we all say ” God is one” but we posses our God to only our religion. It’s bad.

It’s may be b’coz we differ in our doctrine and ways of worship.

But their are some Christians who don’t do that( may be non- denominational Christians).

There is only one way to worship the true God:-
God is Spirit and all who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.

Thanks…

Answer by Paddy
God is Spirit and all who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. God created this whole universe and everything in it. And it was His plan originally to appoint the Israelites as priests to serve the whole of mankind by bringing them the bread of life, but they failed miserably. So He went to the Gentiles instead until the times of the Gentile are fulfilled, then He will again go back to His chosen peoples.

No one owns God, He cannot be owned. His ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts as well.

Religions of this world were created here on earth, it has nothing to do with God. Religion only uses the things of God to further its own ends to give it some respectability, but it stinks in Gods nostrils.

John 3:3-5 means, “If someone wants to be born again, they should be born of water and the Spirit. Here water means the baptism of Jesus, which does away with all the sins of the world once and for all. The Spirit means that Jesus who received baptism from John the Baptist is God Himself.”

Answer by God’s servant
no

God tells us in his word the bible what is true and correct

God said no one can come to him except by jesus

Answer by Alex (Laika)
The sweeping gesture creates a fuss… It’s only useful when receiving praise.

Relieving no-ones pain.

Answer by Dennis Fargo
The religions take it upon themselves to claim God. They are fighting for what they believe is right. Now the Buddhist don’t believe in fighting.

Answer by Ramon
themselves

Answer by ✡mama pajama✡ עם ישראל חי
I’ve never heard a Jew say that God belongs to Jews only.

That violates Judaism to think that. I also know that this asker has been told this directly before, thus making me wonder why that appears here. For others who may not have been informed previously and have been mistakenly informed that Judaism has such a notion is the only reason I answer here. It never ceases to amaze me how so many utterly contradictory to Judaism concepts are believed by so many people about it!

Leave Jews out of this accusation, it has nothing to do with Judaism.

Religion is defined in it’s simplest terms as belief in a deity with dogma.

Torah is the core dogma of Judaism.

Torah does not say God is exclusive to the Jewish people, God demands that the Jewish people are exclusive to God. That is a big difference.

It is only Christianity and Islam that have doctrine that claim that those who do not accept their doctrine are condemned to what they believe is eternal torture in a firey underworld hell.

The Christian concept that before Jesus, God was exclusively for the Jews,has ALWAYS been foreign to Jewish belief. The book of Kings records Gentiles worshipping at the Temple , Torah teaches that every human can directly connect to God and the righteous of all nations are blessed. It is Christianity that has as a part of it’s dogma that one must be Christian to connect to God, not vice versa.

Jews are obligated to participate in repairing the world through tzedakah (justice and righteousness) and g’milut hasadim (acts of loving kindness). Without our stake in the improvement of their environment, injustice and evil will continue to exist.

As the prophet Micah so succinctly stated : What does God require of you, Do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with your God.

Practice living as if you are in partnership with God in perfecting the world and then one day you’ll understand that is exactly what you were doing The eternal covenant places greater obligations on the members of the covenant of Israel.

Anyone who chooses to live in this covenant may do so. No one is obligated to do so to know God, to live a fulfilled and righteous life and be capable of direct connection or atonement with God. The Torah also teaches that the righteous of all nations merit equal blessing. Because this eternal covenant focuses on this life and the lives of those who come after us in each generation, and does not dwell on death and the afterlife as so many pagan and idolatrous religions before it. We clearly recognize that it is a guide of how to live to fulfill the purpose of our existence here with the spirit of life God gave us. The concepts of faith and of the nature of God and of the nature of our relationship to one another are very different in the Christians “new covenant” from the eternal covenant and Torah

The Tanakh is the Jewish Bible (Torah/law, Nevim/Prophets, Ketuvim/Writings). Tanakh represents God as the Creator of all humanity and every human can connect directly to God without need for mediator, and in fact, explicitly forbids praying to or through anything on earth or in heaven before God. The righteous of all nations merit blessing and a place in the world to come. The Christian notion is that unless one believes in a particular manner and prays to or through Jesus, they merit eternal torture in a fiery underworld hell “ruled” by a demi-god of that underworld, the devil.

Islam’s concept of the nature of God is closer to that of Judaism, but it is also a replacement theology and thus it’s doctrine is as insignificant to the Jewish religion.

Jews do not claim exclusive connection to God. Never have, never will.

Now I’ll leave you with my own ideas on religion at best and religion at worst:
“Religion at best connects humans to something beyond our mortal existence while it helps us to find purpose and meaning for our existence as mortals. It connects us to all other humans, all other life, and to God.

Religion at worst separates us from all of the aforementioned best.”
—– mama_pajama_1—-

edit:

I wonder at the “logic” employed by people who present the doctrine of a particualr religion and promote their particular religion’s dogma (even with copy paste quote directly from it) and then insult religion?

Answer by The angels have the Arc Light.
Actually, Jews say just the opposite.

Judaism is the details of our particular relationship with the divine. We respect other people enough to let them get on with theirs as they see fit.