We cannot know for sure. That is why it is called faith. Each religion claims they are the one true religion. Members of that group have faith that their religion is the right one. Personally, I tend to believe they are all the right one. Perhaps it is man that has the equation wrong. Maybe God didn't intend for there to be all these different religions. Many groups believe in the same God. Although there are fundamental differences, many religions share common beliefs.

God's religion is love - love for all people; love for the world and all life in it; love expressed through living a life of respect for all creation; love reflected in treating others with justice and compassion; love demonstrated by caring for all that we have been given so it can be passed on to others.

Different faiths have different specific expressions of this love and different ways of explaining how this lifestyle was taught or demonstrated or presented as the "right" way of life, but it all comes down to love.

I agree with post 4.  Who's to say that despite the many differences in religions, we are not all talking about and to the same God?

Perhaps we're not all listening to the same God, but in many ways, I think all religions are ultimately attempting to reach the one and only, and perhaps many of them actually are.

We don't. If religion is a path or mechanism by which to know God, it stands to reason that God, in fact, has no religion. After all, God does not need a pathway or mechanism for knowing himself. Many mystical traditions ( including Sufism and Gnostic Christisnity) acknowledge the legitimacy of different paths, claiming that one is not necessarily better than the other. I agree with litteacher8: what's important is finding a path that makes sense to you, and to live with a sense of integrity and wonder.

God question! Each religion claims to be the one, and some even claim that followers of the other religion will be condemned to some kind of fiery afterlife. However, I think we each have to find a way to worship God that makes sense to us, and not claim that we know.

There is no way we can possibly know this.  If we could know for sure, wouldn't we all follow the religion that God sent us?  All religion is inherently subjective.  It is completely a matter of opinion and of faith.  We will only know what God wants after we die.

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