Steelplate
Bluesman
I don't know much about all the other religions, someday i want to learn more, just to know! But you mention Muslim, and it's so hard for me to believe that our loving God would be the same god that they worship. I understand what you're saying though, and i think there's some truth in all the religions. And i can't help but believe though that the Christian religion is much closer to the truth than others.
And i'm sure even the Bible doesn't cover EVERYTHING that ever was written for it. I think people did remove certain chapters/versus. I often wonder what happened to Jesus fromt he time he was a very young man until he started evangelising (sp?) before his death. There's years missing. Why would the writers of the Bible just not write about him anymore for so long? There's lots of questions none of us will know the answers to until we are in God's presence.
I do too... but is that because it is, or because we were brought up in that religion? As far as Muslims go...I happen to think that organized religion has trappings. One of those trapping is power. The quest for and the retention of power in this world is not of God, no matter how much the zealots want us to believe it.
It wasn't of God when Christians were committing atrocities during the Crusade, or when women were drowned and burned at the stake for being "witches(which happened to be a loose term for a woman who didn't bow down to men's authority...ie: free Spirit)", nor is it of God what the Muslim Fundamentalists have been doing for decades.
Before Rome took over the religion, Christianity was probably much different.