If you're Christian and believe that God created earth, what do you think of other religions claiming their God created it?

[waltzingparrot]

Well there's only one planet, so I'm wondering it's all the same God and each religion just provides a different path to get to the same 'God'.

I think that they are describing the same initial 'impluse' or energy but that they have a different name for it.

They are all myths to describe a 'truth' while not necessarily being factually accurate. They are describing the this world has a start, it has an end and each of us has a purpose within it - and that purpose is to love.

Where my being a christian comes into it -is that I don't think that my God is formless or unknowable but that he made himself known when he entered the world as Jesus Christ.

Well there's only one planet

I'm a Christian and I believe that there are thousands of known exoplanets.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet

To answer your questions about are all the different religions providing a path to the same thing - well that is where the discussion becomes interesting.

In a nutshell - Buddism is a philosophy with so many truth's within it about looking out for others. It' s ultimate 'point is enlightenment. Which is something you earn through practise.

Hindusim the ultimate goal is enlightenment which allows them to break free from the cycle of reincarnation. Earned through the practise of certain things.

Islam - the ultimate goal is paradise which is limited for a select few. Earned through the practise of the six pillars.

Christianity is the only one that says 'paradise is for all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord' - which is where you let go of being in charge of your own life and doing what you want when you want. It is about letting go to let God in - and so so many Christians explain that as like being born again or waking up or enlightenment. But its an enlightenment that you don't have to earn through practise but that you get through acceptance of Jesus Christ being God, of living as an example of what life in union with God looks like, and ultimately provides a bridge to life with God through his death and resurrection.

For me that is what marks Christianity out as different. It is not earned but is accepted- but of course there is overlap with other religions because they are looking to minimise the ego.

But they are not the same - they each are individually making a truth claim - and they can't all be true.

If in fact, any are true....Personally I do believe.

@MissConductUS

When I say one planet, I'm referring to the earth which mankind (as we know it) of all religions inhabit.

So Allah created Sun, moon and planets in Islam
Brahma created the universes in Hinduism
God created the universe in Christianity.

Too simplified to say only one of these is true or they all are because the creator is the same?

God/Allah/Brahma are the same being. Just a different name for him/her/it.

As far as I know, Christianity, Islam and Judaism all believe in the same God, the God of Abraham. I'm not very knowledgeable on it and don't want to offend anyone, but think most other major religions have a completely different basis (Hinduism-multiple gods?, Buddhism different again?)

The earth evolved, there is no god.

Christianity is the only one that says 'paradise is for all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord'

That's not what Jehovah's Witnesses believe, and before you say, 'they are not Christian', well they consider themselves to be.

Messianic Jews are an interesting group, they consider themselves Jewish but by many measures are Christian.

Islam, Judaism and Christianity all believe in the same God, they have different takes on Jesus. Hindus have many Gods all under a central God.

I think any religious experience of God is the same God I access in my religion.

Different names, different traditions, same cause, same outcome.

Outside of religion all humans experience the same moral imperatives which seems God given to me.

Buddhism I take as an enlightened form of atheism. If it works for Buddhists then it would seem to be a good thing.

Am not very clued up on all religions but am not into judging. It's an individual journey.

I think there is only one truth and lots of people try to describe it from the particular perspective of their own interpretation of their individual experience.

If their was some 'supernatural' truth about the earths origins, then over time peoples understanding of it would converge closer towards one truth. However we find the opposite is happening, everyones understanding is diverging into increasingly different 'beliefs'.

The reason is that the question is flawed. Instead of suggesting asking about the earth being 'created', you should be asking, 'did the universe have a beginning?", "did the universe have a cause?" & if so "what process caused the universes existence".

If all you want to know is what process caused the 'earth' to form then all you have to do is pick up a science book, its well documented, we can 'see' it happening all over the universe.

If their was some 'supernatural' truth about the earths origins, then over time peoples understanding of it would converge closer towards one truth. However we find the opposite is happening, everyones understanding is diverging into increasingly different 'beliefs'.

Surely this assertion would be as true for a physical material truth as much as a supernatural one? People would observe the material reality and understanding would converge. What is more, I would assert this assertion would be more likely if you are talking about a material physical reality as it would be observable and predictable whereas the supernatural, by it very nature, is not material, unpredictable and not readily observed.

So what does that tell us regarding the progression of our understanding?

Interestingly, according to Christian belief there will, eventually be unity in understanding.

I don't think a Christian can believe there are many paths to God, because Jesus very specifically says in the Bible that He is the only way.

I imagine the Abrahamic Creation stories are pretty similar, but Christians believe the Holy Spirit and Jesus were involved. As for other religions, I don't know what they believe - but they can't all be true.

The idea of universalism, that all gods are one and all religions are paths to the same truth is, in my view, very dangerous. It pretends to be tolerant but it is a lie. When you believe you can pick and choose who God is, you set yourself up as a god.