Do All Religions Lead to God?

Do All Religions Lead to God? Some say "Indeed they can, all religion is a guide...similar to an atlas. There are MANY different paths to the same destination."

These people mean well, but a problem quickly appears when one reviews the fundamental doctrines of the world's religions - they contradict each other.

In logic, contradictions occur when one or more statements lead to opposing results and both results can not be true:

For example:

Statement 1: Sally is a girl.
Statement 2: Sally is not a girl.
Either Sally is a girl or she is not a girl. She can't be both.

Contradictions also occur in self-refuting statements:

Example 1: Tom is a married bachelor.
Tom is either a bachelor or Tom is married - he can't be both.

Example 2: All truth is relative.
The statement is asserting, absolutely, that all truth is relative. But, if that's the case, then the statement contradicts itself because it asserts all truth is relative.

In order for all religions to lead to God, one or more religions would need to discard or compromise their fundamental doctrine about what they believe leads to God. Try reconciling Christianity and, say, Paganism without compromising the doctrine and traditions or one or both. It can't be done because their fundamental beliefs contradict each other.

Therefore, when it comes to religions, the logical possibilities are only two:

1. All religions can be wrong
2. One or more of them can be correct

All of them can't be correct since a logical contradiction would result.

The challenge is to discover the religions, or religion, that best describes reality.

Proof of God

Stephen D. Unwin is a theoretical physicist in the field of Quantum Gravity. In his book, The Probability of God, Unwin sets out to mathematically prove the existence of God. He concludes there's a 67% probability for God's existence.
Dr. Unwin's Home page

Kurt Goedel, a gifted logician and mathematician, is best known for his incompleteness theorems which basically posit that all formal systems are incomplete because each of them contains, at any given time, more true statements than it can possibly prove according to its own defining set of rules.

But, Goedel also sketched a revised version of Anselm's ontological argument for the existence of God that wasn't published until after Goedel's death. His proof is more elaborate than Anslem's and used a system of logic known as Modal Logic that provides a useful language to discuss God's existence because it distinguishes between necessary truths and contingent truths.

Goedel's Ontological Proof

Was the New Testament Influenced by Pagan Religions?

The charge that Christianity borrowed from pagan mystery religions to form her doctrinal practices has been with the Church since her formation. Could this be true?

The short answer is no, the New Testament was not influenced by pagan religions which a careful and unbiased examination of history will reveal.

The long answer is given by Ronald Nash of the Christian Research Institute.

Was the New Testament Influenced by Pagan Religions?

The Hidden Face of God

Former atheist Andrew Flew credits physicist Gerald Schroeder's book, The Hidden Face of God, as the driving force behind his (Flew's) acceptance of a supernatural force at work in Cosmos.

Schroeder's book demonstrates that belief in God is not only acceptable but scientifically and rationally based.

Also available is a DVD that explores the interface between God and Science. In Has Science Discovered God?, Flew is joined with Schroeder and Dr. John Haldane of St. Andrew’s University to discuss the origins of the Universe, life, consciousness and the existence of God.

For those needing it, this DVD and Schroeder's book provides the scientific evidence to justify a belief in God.