Why are there so many religions, and why are there so many religions? With Muslims we are descendants of the same Father, Abraham: why does God allow so many religions? God wanted to allow this: the Scholastic theologians referred to the voluntas permissive of God. He wanted to allow this reality: there are so many religions; some are born of culture, but always look at the sky, they look at God. But what God wants is fraternity between us and in a special way - here is the reason for this journey - with our brothers children of Abraham like us, the Muslims. We must not be afraid of the difference: God has allowed this. We must be frightened if we do not work in fraternity, to walk together in life.
According to the Old Testament, Bergoglio was wrong by saying that God wanted to allow for different kinds of religions. Below are selected passages from Exodus 32-34 [2], quoted without references:
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’
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So Moses went back to the Lord and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold. But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”
The Lord replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book. Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”
And the Lord struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.
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Then the Lord said: “I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the Lord, will do for you. Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles. Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
According to chesnuthouse.wordpress.com, Abraham is Moses' ancestor [3]:
The genealogy goes like this: Abraham fathered Isaac (Gen. 21:1-3), Isaac fathered Jacob (Gen. 25-21-26), Jacob had 12 sons, including Levi (Gen. 35:23), Levi had three sons, including Kohath (Exo. 6:16), Kohath had four sons, including Amram (Exo. 6:18), and Amram had two sons – Aaron and Moses (Exo. 6:20). [Emphasis original.]
This blogger is of the opinion that God did not sacrifice His only Son so that man can have his choice of beliefs, but that it is man who by his Free Will has chosen his religion, even after he knew that Christ suffered and died for his sins.
In the New Testament, God through the intercessions of His Son Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, has become more forgiving than the Old Testament God.
The question as to what God thinks now of the different kinds of religions, below is an answer given by Jesus when Segatashya asked Him during an apparition. It is from the book The BOY who met JESUS, Segatashya of Kibeho [4] [italics and ellipses original]:
But I have one more question, Lord. I hear people refer to God by many names. Some people call God "Jehovah," others call Him "Allah" . . . in Rwanda they call Him "Imana," but in Zaire they call God by the name "Mungu." Now I'm talking to you, Jesus, but I'm also hearing about your mom, the Virgin Mary . . . and then there is Judas and Satan. It gets very confusing for me. Whom should I love and respect most?
Whatever you do my child, do not love or respect Judas or Satan.
Then of all those other names, whom should I love?
Of all the others you mentioned, if you love any of them sincerely with your heart, you have succeeded in fulfilling my messages of cleaning your heart for my return. Calling upon one name among the ones you mentioned will lead you to another, and all of them will lead you to love and truth. And anytime you find yourself in need, you may call upon any of those names, and they will bring you what you need. My Blessed Mother will lead you to me, and to the Father, and to the Holy Spirit, for we are one, we are not many.
The words of Jesus seems clear. Jesus did not say that any of the names mentioned would lead Segatashya to Him, but that they would lead Segatashya to love and truth, and bring him what (not Who) he needed. Jesus, however, did say that His Blessed Mother would lead Segatashya to Him, the Father and the Holy Spirit.
On second thought, the words of Jesus are not so clear. This blogger wants to know whether the words "love and truth" used by Jesus are synonymous to the Holy Trinity. If so, then the aforementioned names would lead one to the Son, the Father and the Holy Spirit. Since there is a degree of uncertainty, it is therefore best to call upon and rely on the Blessed Virgin Mary Who will intercede on one's behalf and lead one's soul to Her Son and to the Father and to the Holy Spirit.
[1] http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2019/04/03/0280/00564.html
[2] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+32-34&version=NIV
[3] https://chesnuthouse.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/how-many-generations-from-abraham-to-moses/
[4] Immaculée Ilibagiza with Steve Erwin, The BOY who met JESUS, Segatashya of Kibeho, (Carlsbad, California, Hay House, 2011), 111.
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