"There are 4,200 religions in the world with 320 million gods to believe in. What makes you think Christianity is the ONLY true one?"

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The OP recieved said # from Wikipedia. I suggest that you use Wikipedia, and look up # of religions in the world.
 
I found my value and dignity in Christianity and its unlike anything i have found or heard about when considering the human condition. It makes the best sense of my existence as a personal being.

One word. Jesus. And If we’re going to talk about movie portrayals, Preferably Robert Powell in Jesus of Nazareth.
 
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I doubt there are 330 million gods. There could be 33 gods in hinduism. But the count expanded to 330 million because of a figurative and poetic attempt to come to grips with the vastness of the universe. It is not taken literally. It is true that every Hindu has a god designed for him, but this seems more like a guardian angel, at least from the Catholic POV. If you are going to go with Hinduism, then you might agree with the Bhagavad Gita all beings in the universe have both the divine qualities (daivi sampad) and the demonic qualities (asuri sampad). Since each human being has a divine quality, that would put the number of gods well over 7 billion, just counting the humans, and then you have to add in the fact that each human has a separate god designed just for him, which then makes it 14 billion different gods. The best thing to do is to consider hinduism as a separate case, and even then you will find that there are only at most 33 different gods in hinduism 12 adityas, 11 rudras, 8 Vasus ,1 Indra and 1 Prajapati .
And some hindus will say that there are really only three major gods:
Brahma (creator), Vishnu (preserver), Shiva (destroyer).
Further although there are many different beliefs even within a particular religion, some of these beliefs are non-essential, or at least do not cut at the core the belief, which means that there are about 20 major religions in the world today and not 4200.
 
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Careful. While other religions certainly hold to certain aspects of truth, Roman Catholicism is the only religion that represents the complete truth of God’s revelation.
 
CatholicHere_Hi said:
What would be a good answer to this question?

There are 4,200 in the world, and I have never heard or know nothing about the majority of them.
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It’s quite possible for a man made religion to say everything that just so happens to be true; at least every conceivable thing that is true. But what makes a religion the true religion is not simply that it has said something true but rather that said religion comprises the people that God revealed himself to.

The Catholic Faith is divine revelation. It’s from God himself, that’s why we say we have the truth; we have been given a divine commission from God. Without that revelation, we are just another man-made religion, even if everything we say just so happens to be true.

Other religions tend to have degrees of truth. There is something to learn from them, but their religious beliefs do not descend from the people that God revealed himself to; and yet God’s light can be seen ever so dimly by those who do not have his revelation.

Even Catholics, having the privilege of God’s revelation, do not fully comprehend the light of God’s truth.
 
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I don’t think ANY religion is the ONLY true one. I think nearly every religion has a piece of the puzzle, some a larger piece than others.
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Most puzzles don’t have larger and smaller pieces. 😉

The question is which religion has a clearer view of the “big” picture on the puzzle, along with having the most pieces which fit together to best depict that picture?
 
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First, I discount any god that affirms the existence of other gods. Any god that recognizes other gods as gods lacks the absoluteness proper to God, and therefore is not a god. Then, I appeal to historical facts: fulfilled prophecy, the Resurrection of the Lord, and the miracles.
 
That’s why I said “nearly” every religion. But perhaps even those that contain human sacrifice have other facets that are much more desirable and compatible with our moral values which we can learn from. I am open to all religious viewpoints.
 
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Then change the metaphor to a larger quantity of pieces to the puzzle.

I’m not sure you really want me to answer that question.
 
Yet in science and technology “first” is not necessarily “best” and is often the reverse. Perhaps it is so with regard to religion, however. Food for thought.
 
I think Christianity is the only true one because I’m a Christian, and I don’t believe that two religions with conflicting doctrines and different ideas of who and what God is can be simultaneously true.

I really hate getting that question, "Why is your religion the only (emphasis on only) true one?" Can Christianity and Hinduism be simultaneously true, when Christians only profess belief in one God and Hindus, many (just as an example)?
 
I thought Hindus also believe in one Supreme G-d, whereas their other deities are secondary. Maybe I’m wrong, or maybe there are different kinds of Hinduism.
 
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I think the deal is, they believe in one “ultimate” god (Brahman?), and everyone else (Krishna, etc.) are certain manifestations of him- or, fellow gods who fulfill certain roles.

I could be wrong. I had to watch a video in my world religions class last semester, though, and the people in it said something like, “In my religion (Hinduism), we all choose which god we want to follow- I follow Shiva” or something similar. I think it does ultimately boil down to Brahman, but they are polytheistic nonetheless.
 
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As Thom said, it’s more that they believe in one ultimate but unknowable Gd but, to make itself/himself known, it has various manifestations of many different gds.

Though of course there are various understandings.
 
There is only one uncaused cause, and He came down to save us and resurrected on the third day.
 
4199 lies, deceits, fantasies can be told but it doesn’t change the truth.

Be logical.
 
There must be more and in Hinduism alone which has over 330 million gods and goddesses. Even in the face of all of these religions and gods it’s not all too unreasonable to believe that only one can be true, particularly because they are not the same as so many people prefer to believe. Having studied other religions, past and present, I can attest based on what I do know that they are not the same. This so even if they all want you to be “good,” what religion wouldn’t want that? When you get down to what “good” is we can see these differences.
 
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this is an atheist meme that has been floating around the twittersphere for the last month or so

OP is a troll
 
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