{"id":36559,"date":"2022-09-13T13:01:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-are-there-so-many-different-religions\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:01:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:01:03","slug":"why-are-there-so-many-different-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-are-there-so-many-different-religions\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are there so many different  religions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>There are many religions because <strong>God is not presently trying to teach the world the truth<\/strong>. Jesus said He was not sent to convert the world. &quot;That seeing they may see, and <strong>not perceive<\/strong>; and hearing they may hear, and <strong>not understand<\/strong>; <strong>lest<\/strong> at any time <strong>they should be converted<\/strong>, and <em>their<\/em> sins should be <strong>forgiven <\/strong>them,&quot; Mark 4:12.&nbsp;\u200b<\/p>\n<p>When Christ establishes His earthly kingdom, then God will teach everybody the one, true religion. Isaiah 11:9, &quot;the <strong>earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD<\/strong>, as the waters cover the sea.&quot;&nbsp; Jeremiah 31:34 (CSB), &quot;No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, &lsquo;Know the LORD,&rsquo; for<strong> they will all know me<\/strong>, from the least to the greatest of them&rdquo; &mdash; this is the LORD&rsquo;s declaration. &ldquo;For I will forgive their iniquity and never again remember their sin.&quot;\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Any religion which is not based on the Bible is false. Satan, the father of lies, presents lies as truth. He doesn&#039;t want men to know the wise, just, powerful, and loving God of the universe. 2 Corinthians 4:4, &quot;whose minds the <strong>god (<em>Satan<\/em>) of this age has blinded, who do not believe<\/strong>, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.&quot;&nbsp;\u200b<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, all these lies will end when the kingdom is turned over to the Father and Satan is finally destroyed. 1 Corinthians 15:24 (ESV), &quot;Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father <strong>after destroying every rule and every authority and power<\/strong>.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many religions because God is not presently trying to teach the world the truth. Jesus said He was not sent to convert the world. &quot;That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-are-there-so-many-different-religions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why are there so many different  religions?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}