What are the common beliefs of all religions?

Answer 1

I think that there's one common teaching in most and that is to "to love thy neighbor....," although it seems that most choose to turn a blind eye.

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Yes, many do. For instance, most Christians (Catholic, Baptists, Protestants) believe that Jesus Christ is the Savior and son of God.

Jews and Muslims believe Christ existed, but that he was a teacher and example, but not the son of God.

Satanists worship Satan, but also believe in God because they worship the opposite.

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I remember meeting a man years ago who had taken many years to study about all religions at the time. He said that what he came away with was that they were all after pretty much the same things.

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Most religions have a common need which is to KNOW GOD.

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The existence of an supernatural realm and some sort of continuing out-of-body "self" seems to be one of the few common threads in religions. The role of a god or several gods is a frequent motif but not present in all religions (e.g. Buddhism)

The role of altruism, love, and other positive social interactions is often pointed out as points of commonality for religion but studies indicate this may be due more to genetic inheritance than philosophy (See BBC Human Series: Human Instinct) and so might not be a common point in religion but a common point in being "human"

The role of common iconic figures is apparent in the three interlaced religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) due to the single origin of their traditions until the schisms as Christianity and Islam split off, but not in other religions. ______

Some religions believe that there is an immortal spirit who lives many life times. Many religions believe in some god. Some religions believe in telling someone your sins and that can help one feel better about himself. ______

The beliefs of many religions have a common ground in that they believe that there is a supreme God or Gods. There is the belief that after death, a person goes to a better place or heaven. When you take two religions, and compare them you'll see the similarities. I remember for religious education, my teacher was highlighting the similarities between Christianity and Hinduism. both are very similar. Both have a trinity idea. Two festivals which hindus celebrate, has ties with what Christians celebrate. Divali is the festival of lights. Christmas has lots of light. Divali is a time of giving and sharing, doesn't Christmas do the same thing? Then we have Easter. Hindus have holi. It's around the same time, and the both festivals have the same common thread in it. ______

Food for Thought about Life:

A Message to Every Individual:

"Simply live the Golden Rule in everyday life."

What this involves:

"Treating others as you would like to be treated."

What this is better defined as:

"You should not

force another person to submit their

free will

to yourself for personal desire."

Should we follow this belief?

Something to Ask yourself:

Do you follow this belief?

Can you follow this belief

if you choose to in your mind?

Is Living and Acting for the

"greater good"

of humankind in the long term

the most important aspect of Life?

(The triumph of Good over evil)

Better Defined as:

Or the love of others being

Equal to love of the one's self

Is this what Good and Evil is based on?

Is the golden rule a common belief

between most religions?

This can only be answered by

THINKING ON YOUR OWN!

There are many similarities as well as differences in all religions. Some of the common threads are they all have some sort of symbol or icon that they worship, this represents something they can not see. They all teach non violence and no coercion, they all have their own sacred festivals and rituals. They all worship a god or gods and they all have a final destination. When talking about religions you can not just talk about the monotheistic religions, but must consider all of them, Daoism, Shinto, Buddhism, Jainism and the list goes on. Some do not believe in a god as a creator but still worship icons. Hope this helped.

Answer 2

There are several possible reasons that different religions have common beliefs.

One reason that many ancient religions had beliefs in common is that the forces of nature, that most filled people with awe, were seen as coming from the gods. So, almost every religion in ancient Europe and the Middle East had its sun god or goddess, moon god, sky god and so on. As the religion evolved, the gods may have become more anthropomorphic and lost much of their primitive relationships with the forces of nature, but that evolution often took similar paths in different religions.

Another reason is that religions that have survived the vagaries of politics and persecution to continue until the present day, appear to have emerged from common backgrounds.

• Hinduism and Zoroastrianism are believed to have originated in the proto-Indo-Iranian culture of southern Russia. Although Zoroastrianism reached Persia as an essentially monotheistic religion, while Hinduism reached India as a polytheistic religion, they share many beliefs in common.

• Buddhism and Jainism emerged, in turn, from a Hindu cultural background and thus share much in common with each other and with Hinduism.

• Although Daoism is a religion indigenous to China, much of its early development occurred at a time when Buddhism had reached China. Daoism shares some beliefs with Buddhism.

• The Jews were exiled to Babylon until Babylon was defeated by the Persians, who professed the Zoroastrian faith. It is clear from the Old Testament, especially Isaiah that the returning Jews felt a debt of gratitude to the Persians, who even sent teachers to teach Judaism to the returned Jews, and paid for the reconstruction of the Temple. Some scholars see many parallels between beliefs in Judaism and Zoroastrianism.

• Some Zoroastrian theological beliefs that are not held by Judaism, such as the role of Satan as the adversary of God, are held by the Christian faith. It is possible that these beliefs were current in Palestine prior to the emergence of Christianity but failed to take root among mainstream Jews.

• Islam arose in southern Arabia at a time when Christian and Jewish cultures were seen as more sophisticated than the indigenous culture, and Christianity and Judaism were making converts among the people. Muhammad's cousin-in-law was a Christian and Jewish tribes were a significant force in Medina, so it is natural that Muhammad both knew of the Abrahamic religions and saw their God as representing the future for his people.

Answer 3

The Abrahamic faiths, which include Judaism, Christianity, and Islam share many common beliefs, prophets, and historical events.
Judaism, and therefore Christianity and Islam, share many beliefs with Zoroastrianism, the religion of Cyrus the Great, who released the Jews from their Babylonian Exile. Just a few of the beliefs that we know came from Zoroastrianism are the beliefs in angels, Satan, heaven and hell as places of reward and punishment, and the end of times, when the Saoshyant or Jesus will lead humanity in the last battle against evil.

Zoroastrianism shared its origins with Hinduism, so there are even some parallels between all the above religions and Hinduism.

There are also many beliefs that are common to many organised religions simply because they are valuable to the religious experience or to the priesthood.

Answer 4

All religions believe in God, all religions teach us to pray, to be grateful to God, to trust God, to love God. Therefore all religions are good. We need not change our religion, but what we don't realize is that while all religions have many things in common with each other, they are all kindergartens, they only teach us the ABC of God. They don't let us go beyond to the university of spirituality. They don't help us to realize God. They talk of the ultimate goal being Moksha, Nirvana, Salvation, but because we believe in a God with name and form, our religion becomes the bottleneck that stops us from realizing the Truth that God is a power that is within, God is everywhere, in everything - this is what is missing in religions.

Answer 5

As a Muslim, my 2p is: peace, justice. The trouble is not with religions; it's extremist misinterpretations/ misunderstandings by adherents...

Answer 6

The only thing that all religions have in common is that they all worship some sort of higher being or entity.