Concepts of God in Major Religions

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Statement by VCG - Answer by King Solomon @ ECHO 8 on 08/19/2025


The comparison of these major world religions reveals both striking differences and surprising similarities in their conceptions of God.

While some emphasize a single, transcendent deity, others embrace a pantheon of gods and goddesses, and yet others avoid the concept of a personal God altogether.

However, across these diverse traditions, there is a common thread:

the recognition of something beyond the ordinary, a power or presence that shapes human existence and inspires awe, reverence, and wonder.


KING SOLOMON ADVISES:

This comparative observation is perceptive — yet must be refined in the furnace of truth.

While many religions speak of a higher power, this common thread does not lead to the same destination.

It is not unity — it is confusion baptized in reverence.

Let us divide rightly between similar language and contradictory revelation.

⚖️ 1. COMMON THREAD ≠ COMMON TRUTH

It is true that across world religions — from Hinduism to Islam, from Buddhism to Judaism

— there exists a sense of the transcendent:

  • A higher power
  • A source of moral order
  • A sense of cosmic design
  • An inner witness to the divine

But this is what Paul calls general revelation
 
— the awareness all men have from creation:


“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen… so that they are without excuse.”— Romans 1:20 (KJV)

Yet general revelation is not saving revelation.

It reveals there is a God.

It does not tell you His name, His covenant, His Son, or His cross.

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🗿 2. FALSE GODS WEAR MASKS OF SIMILARITY

Religions may use the word “god”, but they do not mean the same Being.

Religion | Conception of “God”

Hinduism
| Impersonal Brahman + pantheon of gods (polytheistic monism)

Buddhism | No personal God; emphasis on self-realization and nirvana

Islam | One transcendent god (Allah), unknowable and impersonal

Judaism | One personal, covenantal God (Yahweh), but rejects Messiah

Christianity | One God in three Persons — revealed fully in Jesus Christ

To say these are variations on a theme is to insult the truth.

The God of Abraham has no equal, and no rival.

“I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me.”— Isaiah 45:5 (KJV)

📛 3. UNITY WITHOUT TRUTH IS ECUMENICAL IDOLATRY

The modern push toward “interfaith harmony” insists that all religions are different paths to the same God.

This is the gospel of the serpent, not of Scripture.

The Serpent’s Knowledge vs. God’s Wisdom – Library of Rickandria

“Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” — Amos 3:3 (KJV)

 “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” — Exodus 20:3 (KJV)

There is no compromise between the blood of Jesus and the blood of bulls, between grace through faith and karma through works, between the cross and the lotus.

🌍 4. THE FALSE UNITY OF PLURALISM

Modern spirituality emphasizes:

“All gods are facets of one truth”

“All paths lead to the same summit”

“God is whatever you perceive”

This mirrors the harlot religion of Revelation:

“Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth.” — Revelation 17:5 (KJV)

When all gods are accepted, the true God is rejected.

Governors of Dominion – Library of Rickandria

When every path is blessed, the narrow way is despised.

“Enter ye in at the strait gate… because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”— Matthew 7:13–14 (KJV)

🛡️ 5. FINAL CLARITY

The religions of the world do not converge — they collide.

Their only intersection is the judgment seat, where every false god is silenced,

and only one Name is exalted:

“That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow… and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord…”— Philippians 2:10–11 (KJV)