Which Religion is True?

Chapter 6

Which Religion is Backed by the Supreme God

So how can we prove the holy book of which religion is inspired and backed up by the power of Almighty God? To reiterate, the only way we can prove that the holy book of a religion is backed by the power of Almighty God is to find proof in the recorded pages of that book that God said He would do great things in the past and brought them to pass precisely as prophesied without fail. This will also be one proof that the holy book of that religion is the true word of God so that we can believe in its doctrines concerning salvation and how to live our lives to attain that salvation.

Let’s now look at how various religions stack up.

Islam and the Quran

Islam says that males who have done good deeds according to the criteria the Koran defines as good deeds go to paradise. All others will go to hell. But good deeds cannot guarantee you paradise. Allah can still choose if he wants to give you paradise or not, even though you may have done good deeds. So going to paradise also depends on the mercy of Allah on the Muslim.

But we have no proof that such a paradise as promised by Allah exists. Nor do we have proof that the hell described as the fate of those who have not pleased Allah exists. These are mere promises for the future, not prophecies for the future.

The Koran contains no prophecies that came true in the past. Our criteria to evaluate the truth of the holy book of the religion of not one, two or three prophecies, but numerous prophecies that have already come true in the history of mankind. The Koran is totally silent on the subject.

There is a future prophecy of the coming of the 12th Imam Mahdi [meaning ‘the guided one’] to lead Muslims to victory over the Christian west. Then the antichrist will come and the Mahdi will fight the antichrist. Then Jesus Christ will return to earth to fight along with the Mahdi to defeat and kill the antichrist. Then the entire world will convert to Islam, and Jesus Christ, a Muslim Himself, will rule over the earth and then die.

This prophecy is not in the Koran, but is contained in the Hadiths or sayings attributed to Mohammad by the companions of Mohammad. The authenticity of many of these sayings is doubtful. Still why should we believe this prophecy in Islam? The Hadiths or the Koran do not contain any prophecies about the past that came to pass exactly as foretold? Therefore the coming of the 12th Imam is merely a statement about the future without incontrovertible proof that it has been given by Almighty God and backed by His power. There is no reason to believe in this prophecy. Hence the Koran and the Hadiths have miserably failed the test that they are backed by the power of the Almighty Creator God. The Allah of Islam is more likely a liar, an imposter and counterfeiter. There is also no reason to believe in the promises of reward in paradise and punishment in hell in the Koran on blind faith. God instead wants us to prove all things before actually believing in them.

Hinduism and the Gita, Ramayana and Mahabharata

Now let’s look at Hinduism. Krishna of the Hindus claims to be the creator or sustainer of the universe. How are we to believe whether his claim is true, or he is simply another liar, imposter, a charlatan and counterfeiter trying to deceive humanity?The Bhagvad Gita is a discourse between Krishna and Arjun just before a great battle. One can claim that its words have divine backing because Arjun and his side won that battle with the backing of Krishna who claimed to be the creator and sustainer of the universe. The Ramayana is similarly a story of the victory of Rama over Ravana. But such a story can be written by any winning side in a battle, providing its victory as proof of divine backing. One event coming true does not constitute irrefutable proof. For incontrovertible proof of backing of the Almighty God, there must be numerous predictions, stated in great detail and proof from history that they came to pass precisely as prophesied. The holy books of Hinduism are utterly lacking in such proof of the backing of Almighty God behind their words.

The three scriptures of the Hindus, the Gita, the Mahabharata and the Ramayan tell us that humans are born again and again as humans, or if they have done particularly evil deeds then as animals until they attain salvation.

These are mere statements we are required to believe on blind faith alone. There is no proof that any human being is born again and again as a human, or that the immortal soul of a dead human being is born into the body of an animal or another creature? These statements about the future of mankind after death are simply unprovable.

The Hindu scriptures contain fantastic mythological tales of myriads of gods, fighting each other, showing off their powers by empowering human beings with special unbelievably fantastic powers to curse and vengefully use against other human beings to get even with them. Humans are also able to curse gods and the curses come true. The gods cower in fear and obey when cursed by them. How ridiculous. You can read about such curses in the Ramayan and the Mahabharat. Then there are tales of birds and monkey armies protecting human beings. How much more foolish and unreal can it get than that? But the Hindus confer the status of ‘holy’ on the fantastic tales told in the Mahabharata and Ramayana of the exact same nature as the Greek, Roman and Egyptian myths, only more fantastic than them.

One can still see Hindu fakirs wasting their lives on the banks of the Ganges river around the city of Benares in torturous meditation, austerities such as sitting in front of fires in the summer, with the hope of gaining yogic powers and boons from one of the gods so that they can curse whoever offends them. They survive by begging. Outside of the fantastic tales in the Hindu scriptures, there is not even one single story in provable genuine history of any human ever having gained such yogic powers. If the Almighty God was backing up the Hindu scriptures, we should be able to see many of these almost naked begging fakirs with yogic powers today. Don’t waste your time trying to find such proof. If there was such proof, most of India would have flocked to that fakir in veneration.

Thus the holy books of Hinduism have failed to prove by our criterion that they are backed by the power of Almighty God.

Sikhism and the Guru Granth

The holy book of the Sikhs, the Guru Granth also contains no prophecies of many great events that came to pass precisely as foretold to provide us incontrovertible proof that its words are backed by Almighty God. So its words are mere philosophies of men, and not inspired by the true Creator God. We are asked to simply believe on blind faith that the salvation promised in it is the truth. The Guru Granth of the Sikhs thus has failed our test that its words are backed by the power of Almight Creator God.

Span of History Covered in the Holy Books

You will also notice that the span of human history covered by the holy books of various religions is very short. Human history covered by Islam can only be about 120 years, from the life of Mohammad and his companions who could have lived a maximum of about 60 years after he died. The history covered by the Gita and Mahabharata of the Hindus is just a few days of the battle. The Ramayan plays around with thousands of years, just as evolutionists can play around with time by mentioning that evolutionary events took place over millions and billions of years. We are asked to believe such foolish nonsense on blind faith, without a shred of evidence of prophecies that came true to support it. Sikhism covers a period of about 240 years beginning with the life of the first Guru Nanak and ending with the 10th Guru Gobind Singh. In contrast the Bible covers the history of mankind from the creation of man to about 4,000 years. But it also contains very detailed prophecies of great empires and what is going to happen during the following 2,000 years right down to our time and beyond.

What this means is that the holy books of all other religions except the Bible do not contain enough history which we can use to test whether the words of those holy books have been backed by the power of Almighty God or not. On the other hand the Bible contains detailed history which we can compare with secular history to apply our test of the inspiration of its words by Almighty God.

We have thus seen that the three religions of the world: Islam, Hinduism and Sikhism have failed our test that their holy books are backed by the power of Almighty God.

Next we will examine the holy book of Judaism, the Old Testament of the Bible, and the holy book of Christianity, the entire Bible according to the criteria we have established to determine whether its words have the backing of the power of Almighty God or not.

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