Proof of the truth pt1
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The document summarizes information about different religions and beliefs including Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, atheism, pantheism, polytheism, monotheism. It provides statistics on the world's religious populations and describes some key beliefs and concepts within each religion such as God, prophets, the goal of nirvana, reincarnation, and creation of the universe.
Proof of the truth pt1
- 1. The CIA's World Factbook gives the world population as 7,021,836,029 (July 2012 est.) and the distribution of religions: Christian 31.59% Muslim 23.2% Hindu 15.0% Buddhist 7.1% Sikh 0.35% Jewish 0.22% Baha'i 0.11% other religions 10.95% non-religious 9.66% atheists 2.01%.
- 2. Pantheism • Pantheism is the belief that God and the material world are one and the same thing and that God is present in everything • Reincarnation. • The symbol of Naturalistic Pantheism is the Spiral.
- 3. Polytheism • The worship of or belief in more than one deity, especially several deities
- 4. Monotheism • The belief that there is only one God, as found in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. • The truth of this one God is reviled in Sacred writings.
- 5. Hindus • For Hindus, the highest of all truths is believed to be the truth of all religions.
- 6. Atheism • Atheism is characterized by an absence of belief in the existence of gods. • No adequately explain the existence of the universe. • No rational basis for determining good and evil, or the human need for absolute moral standards
- 7. Religion of Atheism Evolution: No God and no answers • 1. Where did the space for the universe come from? • 2. Where did matter come from? • 3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)? • 4. How did matter get so perfectly organized? • 5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing? • 6. When, where, why, and how did life come from dead matter? • 7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself? • 8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?
- 8. Buddhism The Goal • Most people have heard of nirvana. It has become equated with a sort of eastern version of heaven. Actually, nirvana simply means cessation. It is the cessation of passion, aggression and ignorance; the cessation of the struggle to prove our existence to the world, to survive.. We no longer need to manipulate things as they are into things as we would like them to be.
- 9. • Buddhism teaches that the question of God's existence is meaningless. • Buddha taught that a person can escape the cycle of reincarnation and enter nirvana only by following the "Noble Eight-fold Path", a strict ethical system. Buddhist teachings include dedication to meditation. • At its root, Buddhism is a form of agnosticism or at least practical atheism. It provides no answers about the ultimate meaning of existence.
- 10. Islam The Goal • A sensual Paradise where believing men are rewarded by being wed to 72 virgins. • Women will be provided with only one man, and they "will be satisfied with him”.
- 11. Islam: Six Articles of Faith • Muslims God: – There is one God. The Muslim name for God is Allah, which is simply Arabic for "the (al) God (Ilah)." • Muslim Prophets: – Muhammad, the founder of Islam, is the last and greatest of the messengers of God. He is not divine in any way
Editor's Notes
- #2: atheists 2.01%. (2010 est.).[1]
- #3: Mother nature
- #6: FOUR LOOSE DENOMINATIONS OF HINDUISM 1. Vaishnavism: the worship of Vishnu, the sustainer, as the supreme god. We might be familiar with some of Vishnu’s avatars, such as Krishna (the main character in the Gita) or Rama. Vishnu has ten avatars, but only nine have appeared … maybe you’re the 10th! 2. Shaivism: the worship of Shiva (the destroyer god). Although he’s supposedly better at destroying, Shiva is also a benefactor whose nature is ambiguous and paradoxical. Thus, many who follow Shiva are philosophically dualists. 3. Shaktism: is the worship of the Mother Goddess, who is full of energy and creation. She is often seen as complementary to the male counterpart god, Shiva. 4. Smartism: the worshipping of manifold gods.
- #8: 1. Where did the space for the universe come from? 2. Where did matter come from? 3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)? in·er·tia (-nûrsh)n.1. Physics The tendency of a body to resist acceleration; the tendency of a body at rest to remain at rest or of a body in straight line motion to stay in motion in a straight line unless acted on by an outside force. 2. Resistance or disinclination to motion, action, or change: the inertia of an entrenched bureaucracy. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/inertia 4. How did matter get so perfectly organized? 5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing? 6. When, where, why, and how did life come from dead matter? 7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself? 8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce? 9. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain this?) 10. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.) 11. Is it possible that similarities in design between different animals prove a common Creator instead of a common ancestor? 12. Natural selection only works with the genetic information available and tends only to keep a species stable. How would you explain the increasing complexity in the genetic code that must have occurred if evolution were true? 13. When, where, why, and how did: a) Single-celled plants become multicelled? (Where are the two- and threecelled intermediates?) b) Single-celled animals evolve? c) Fish change to amphibians? d) Amphibians change to reptiles? e) Reptiles change to birds? (The lungs, bones, eyes, reproductive organs, heart, method of locomotion, body covering, etc., are all very different!) How did the intermediate forms live? 14. When, where, why, how, and from what did: a) Whales evolve? b) Sea horses evolve? c) Bats evolve? d) Eyes evolve? e) Ears evolve? f) Hair, skin, feathers, scales, nails, claws, etc., evolve? 15. Which evolved first (how, and how long, did it work without the others)? a) The digestive system, the food to be digested, the appetite, the ability to find and eat the food, the digestive juices, or the body’s resistance to its own digestive juice (stomach, intestines, etc.)? b) The drive to reproduce or the ability to reproduce? c) The lungs, the mucus lining to protect them, the throat, or the perfect mixture of gases to be breathed into the lungs? d) DNA or RNA to carry the DNA message to cell parts? e) The termite or the flagella in its intestines that actually digest the cellulose? f) The plants or the insects that live on and pollinate the plants? g) The bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, or muscles to move the bones? h) The nervous system, repair system, or hormone system? i) The immune system or the need for it?
- #9: http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/intro_bud.htm