Originally posted by stellspalfie
ahh, see your at it again, veering off on a debate tangent.
my aim as you probably well know, is not to point out which religion is the most probable. im happy for arguments sake to say yours is the 'greatest example' and the most probable. but as you also well know being the most probable answer isnt always the correct answer. so bearing this in mi ...[text shortened]... sibility no matter how small you think it is, that your religion is not the 'true' religion.
My answer is yes, we do have the true religion. We are not saying it is a perfect religion and one needs to grasp that truth.
Here is a thought for anyone here with interest:
"LIGHTHOUSES have saved an untold number of lives. To a weary traveler, though, a light seen in the distance does more than warn of dangerous reefs. It also announces that his destination is near. Paralleling that, Christians today are nearing the end of a long journey, one that has led them through a bedarkened, spiritually dangerous world. In the Bible, mankind in general—the masses alienated from God—are likened to “the sea that is being tossed, when it is unable to calm down, the waters of which keep tossing up seaweed and mire.” (Isaiah 57:20)
God’s people are surrounded by such an environment. Yet, they have a bright prospect of salvation, which is for them a figurative, reliable light. (Micah 7:8) Thanks to Jehovah and his written Word, “light itself has flashed up for the righteous one, and rejoicing even for the ones upright in heart.”—Psalm 97:11."
This is a great explination of the progression of God's people and of the "light" of spiritual knowledge that would get "brighter and brighter" as time went on and the nearer the end of this system would get.
If one were lost in the world of spiritual darkness as the Bible clearly explains the world is in but then they were to see a light or truth in the far distance and was working to get to the light, it is easy to understand that with that little far off light or truth, that one would not have a clear picture of all things around them until they eventually got to that light. There would be wrong turns, mistakes, and not always the right decisions made.
And there would be some that would abandon ship because of lack of faith that the ships stewards were indeed correct in their course.
So yes some mistakes and misjudgements in the course of this organization have happened and will happen again.
But this by no means we are to be ignored. We are imperfect as any other human on this planet.
If one is looking and expecting a religious group of imperfect humans to be perfect if they claim to be used by God, that will never happen.
So how would one identify if a religion was indeed being used by God. Jesus said it would be by their "fruits".