Why Some Religious Beliefs Differ

Here is an interesting reason why, with one God,
there are so many different religious beliefs.

At this time in our evolution, we are trying to identify spiritual reality
using our material understanding.
If God, or spirits are asexual,
we still have a need to asociate them as male or female, or father,
or something that is familiar to what we know.

Different cultures interpret God in different ways.
I have no doubt that any monotheistic religion originates from Source Spirit,
but we are understanding from different personal,
cultural understandings, and points of view.
Troubles have traditionaly arisen when we have interpreted it's roots
with our own agenda rather than finding it's true essence.

Studying Eastern philosophy, I gained a very high respect
for the intelligent interpretations of the philosophers of India.
Here two examples of how Hindus would explain these phenomenonae.

We are all of one Source. We are all connected.
Quantum Scientific "Strings of Energy" theory confirms this.
We are connedted in spiritual energy.

Understanding “The One and the Many Principal.”
Although we Westerners have trouble seeing it this way,
a material something can be one and many at the same time.
I know that I have 5 fingers,
but you are insisting that I am holding up only one hand.
We are likened individually to fingers of God's hand.
We are all one and we are many at the same time.

The following Indian story of the six blind men
offers a metophorical analogy:
A group of six blind men are permitted to approach an elephant.
The first blind man walks right into the side of the elephant
and proclaims “The elephant is so very like a wall.”
The second feels a sharp end of the tusk and says,
"oh, no, I can feel that the elephant is very like a spear."
A third grabs the trunk and says
"I understand the elephant is very like a snake."
The fourth feels the knee and says it is very like a tree.
A fifth has both hands on each side of the elephant’s ear
and proclaims that "elephants are very like a fan".
The sixth grabs its tail and says
"Ah ha, the elephant is very like a rope."

Analogies aside, we may not actually "see" God as a Spirit,
but what we get are sensations of the manifestations of God.
With quiet meditation, we can hear that still small voice,
and tuning in, we can be guided toward happiness.