Is Any Religion Objectively True & Humanly Ennobling?

        Is Any Religion Objectively True & Humanly Ennobling?
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In our world there are hundreds of different religious beliefs and practices. Could your location on earth just happen to have been exposed to the right on? Some persons hate and murder others as infidels who don't accept or even know about their religion.
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So your religion can be dangerous to your health! If your religion is the true or right one, it seems you should be able to show that in a way honest thinking rational persons could accept. May I suggest five criteria honest thinking persons may find reasonable to expect and require of a true or right religion that uplifts and ennobles human beings?
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1. Such A Religion Must Be Objectively or Visibly True. We can eliminate any religion that can't meet the criteria for truth. Since the opposite of true is false no religion can have contradictions or falsehoods. Further, religion build only upon hearsay, opinion, preference, or merely a subjective claim is without  factual basis and  unworthy of belief. Wouldn't this eliminate any religion that's based on mere mystical insights, an angelic revelation claimed to be from  God, or God's prophet.? They're limited to a mere intangible unsubstantiated claim. Anybody can say God told me this--So?
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Mr. Immanuel Kant, Sir you're wrong to say truths about the real world are unknowable. That very statement itself claims the real world truly exists and is knowable. Again, you're wrong to say sense data in our mind is only appearance and not reality. We can see a tree and accurately describe its height, size, trunk, limbs, leaves, colors and bump into it. We can know the truth of the real world, and it points to a real Creator.
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Mr. Charles Darwin, Sir you and your followers are wrong to say the universe is eternal flux so that we can't ultimate know absolute truth. First, the facts that the universe is expanding, running down, cooling off, can't be backtracked eternally, and is presently dependent all suggests it has a beginning point and great cause. A nonexistent universe is powerless to create itself. Its Creator must be an infinite eternal unchangeable, independent self-existent Being very must like what the Bible calls God. Further, since natural elements have no mind and will to arrange themselves into life forms over any amount of time, they too depend upon a great intelligence and will. Finally, if any human act can be morally wrong, a moral standard must exist and only a moral Lawgiver or Person can know and make moral judgments. So, if reason and morality make any sense there is a personal ethical God. All this being true, such things as miracles, divine revelations, and angels are not only possible but probable.
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Biblical Christianity makes no empty subjective claims that can't be verified. Jesus performed miracles before individuals and crowds everywhere He went for three and a half years. Thousands of people heard His claims to be God, and saw His hundreds of miracles close at hand in open daylight before hostile critics who couldn't deny them. Further, He fulfilled ancient prophecies impossible to fake such as His virgin birth, sinless life, death for sinners, resurrection, and ascension. His apostles endured ridicule, persecution, and torturous deaths because they knew it for certain to be true. All this is real and true verification as much as anything can be.

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2. Such A Religion Must Apply to Everybody. Any religion restricted to caste, tribe, language, or a particular group cannot possible be right and evokes arrogance and hostility. If a religion is true and good for one person, then it is for all persons. Despite all our human differences such as size, shape, color, intelligence, whatever, we are a common humanity. We have the same ancestry and can interbreed. Geneticists have now established mankind descended from one woman and one man in the same locality. We wonder if there is any such religion for us all!
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Yes!! Yes! The God of the Christian faith loves and died to save us everyone. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, (unique sinless God-man Jesus) that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life"(John 3:16). The Jews were supposed to take God's message to the world but instead arrogantly felt Gentiles unworthy. An exclusive religion shows it's a mere creation of prideful man--the Christian faith puts loving arms around all who will believe, and love doesn't threaten or force with a sword.

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3. Such A Religion Must Assure Human Dignity and Ethical Responsibility. Human dignity and ethical responsibility are inseparately coupled together. For what you think about a person decides how you treat that person. So any religion that destroys the dignity of other humans cannot be of God as all humans have the same origin. Our common humanity requires all persons be regarded and treated with the same respect. And when or where this basic human principle is disregarded, hatred, strife, conflict and warfare breaks out to kill and destroy everybody. Biblical Christianity acknowledges the slave is our brother and equal under God. "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal. 3:28;Philemon 15, 16). Using innocent persons as human shields or murdering persons who never have even heard of your religion, is inhuman and unacceptable to persons of good conscience.

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4. Such A Religion Must Confirm Life After Death. We know people who die become cold stiff corpses. But, we don't know what happens after that. Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists and others claim reincarnation but it's only theory. The only way to be certain whether one lives after death is for a dead person to return to life. Further, religious claims or founders who give no objective proof of life after death really provide no sure basis for human dignity, ethics, justice, love, hope, even rational experimental science. People are reduced to soulless dirt as with atheism, or recycled energy as in monist religions and philosophies.
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The only world religion that offers proof of  life after death is biblical Christianity. "He presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them (His disciples) during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God" (Acts 1:3). See my articles: Did Jesus Arise from the Tomb? Is There Life After Death? 

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5. Such A Religion Must Provide A Worthy Example. Check out the many biblical lists of sinful and righteous acts and you will see the standard set is humanly impossible. Wicked human hearts is the world's major problem. A supernatural holy being is the required remedy which is exactly what we have only in Jesus the God-man. His accompanying disciples for more than three years testified that in Him was no sin. His victory over sin is what assures us we will one day have that complete victory too in the new Heaven on the new earth.
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"We implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him" (2 Cor. 5:20-21). He took our place and died to pay for our sins or wrong doings upon the cross. God's love was demonstrated, God's justice was satisfied, and Heaven's door was opened to all who turn from sin to the Savior of us sinners. 

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It's the greatest offer in the world! We weak sinful human beings can be made clean and acceptable to a perfect God and given new bodies fit for a perfect Heaven. We can't stop sinning in this body, but can trust the Savior of sinners to take our sin away. "Nothing in my hands I bring, simply to the cross I cling, save me Jesus, save me now." It's not what we do, but what He did on the cross that saves us. Our goodness is self will rebellion; His purity is God's grace and glory. John 3:36; Romans 3:23-24. 
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Pray, "I trust You right now Lord Jesus to save me a sinner." If you trusted the Savior, obtain a Bible as God's instruction book. Get with other believers for instruction and encouragement, live a godly life, and share your faith. Then you may meet them in Heaven one day. Praise God!
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