Well, that would be like saying that a box is 3 feet by 3 feet by 3 feet for ME, but for YOU, it is 5 feet by 5 feet by 5 feet.
That which IS, simply - IS.
Jesus said that He is the ONLY way to God. He said He did only those things He saw the Father do, and that when you've seen Him (Jesus), you've seen the Father.
If Jesus is correct, and if what He says is true, then every other approach to God is false and a lie. If what He said was a lie, then He is one belief that is false.
Jesus made it VERY unique - if other religious positions are true, then He was wrong. If He is the Truth (as He so claimed), then every other religious position MUST be a lie. (Mathematically speaking, it would be like if you tried to convince someone that 1=2.)
In his famous book Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis makes this statement, ';A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg - or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.';Are all beliefs valid? If so, how can anything be true or false, or moral or immoral?
All beliefs are not valid, they are all equally correct, and equally wrong. True, False, Moral, Immoral are all value judgments on beliefs, based on the ';amount'; of their closeness, or congruence to a belief held by the person making the judgment.
This, however, does not mean ';anything goes';, as some would claim, since it does not eliminate the consequences of the decisions that people make. What it does is force each person to actually examine their beliefs, and make a conscious decision as to what actions they will, or will not do...
This is the path of being the captain of the ship, and not one of the rowers.
This is a completely subjective question. If you believe in moral relativism, then yes, all beliefs are valid. However, if you subscribe to some form of scriptural authority in your beliefs (the Bible, the Qur'an, the Book of Mormon), then no, not all beliefs are equally valid.
YOU are the ultimate judge. You are god, you decide ultimately what is right and wrong. Society, teacher's, parents, church, teach us WHAT to think, NOT HOW to think
If you put it in true perspective, nothing is good or bad, until we label it good or bad. Everything just is. Language created a lot of barriers.
Just because i don't believe in good or bad, doesn't mean i will do things that will lower my Evolution or my vibrations . I enjoy positive energy, and love things, rather then the evil fear things. Choose whatever your most comfortable with.It's only a choice, an experience, you can choose to look through the world in the eyes of love or fear.
';Ultimate love is the only truth, everything else is an illusion.'; David Icke
Excellent point.
There can only be one way to truth if we are to have any certainty about morals, heaven, hell, religion.
Alot people say that there are many ways to heaven and just different paths. How do you decipher then what is truth if you are all believing something on human standards and not Gods?
The only way to know truth is to read God's word. Do some research on where the bible came from. It is made up of books that were written thousands of years ago and has still survived in translations until now.
There is only one truth. If you don't believe that you will never be sure of anything, truth, false moral or immoral.
GREAT QUESTION
All beleifs are valid. Morals and the immoral are interchangeable. I and a person of a total different faith can beleive that the same exact things are immoral but just for different reasons.
If all beliefs are equally valid then there is no right or wrong.
You would also be so open minded as to be empty minded because if you filled it with something there might not be room for something else.
A nice little read is Ludwig Wittgenstein's ';On Certainity'; the last book he wrote.
He said everything starts with doubt.
A belief never stands alone.
All beliefs rest on other beliefs.
That's where logic comes in- it's a framework for determining what is valid. If your beliefs are illogical they're worthless.
i think all beliefs are valid
it may not be to someone else but it is what matters to you and you cant change somebody else's beliefs.
Of course all beliefs are valid.
ACTIONS based solely on beliefs may not be valid.
Yes, this is how people create their reality, note how very different people are. Perception is reality.
Mutually exclusive beliefs are not all valid, no matter how polite you would like to be.
i think it's fair to say we don't see the whole picture because we can't. that's why we need something outside of ourselves to determine that.
Validity does not mean truthfully.
If all beliefs were valid hell wouldn't be filled with billions of lost souls right now.
You are in a Philosophy class, right?
The Bible. It's GOSPEL.
%26gt;Are all beliefs valid?
No.
This kinda makes the rest of your question moot.
no there are false churches which deny the Trinity.....the truth is in the TRinity churches...
There is only one way to Heaven and that is through Jesus Christ the Lord.
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