We pray and hope that this article will help you better understand this question that many have.
IV) Why do the religions of the world contradict each other, if they all come from the LORD God?
Well, the simple answer is ── they do not all come from the LORD God.
The religions of this world are demonic in nature and are from Satan the Devil ──
“They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger. 17) They sacrificed to demons, not to God, To gods they did not know, To new gods, new arrivals That your fathers did not fear.” – Deuteronomy 32:16-17.
This world’s religions, which DO NOT live by the entirety of the living word of God, are demonic in nature.
“And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. 15) Therefore it is no great thing if HIS MINISTERS also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.” – 2 Corinthians 11:14-15.
Millions in this world are considered perennialists. Perennialists are followers of the Perennial Philosophy (also called Perennialism), a worldview and educational philosophy that holds that all authentic religious and philosophical traditions share a single, timeless truth or “Primordial Tradition” revealed from the divine. 1 Thus, no one religion is better than the other and that all should be “respected” as basically equal before God. Also, a great many who are considered “New Agers” have been pushing this interfaith and ecumenical movement—including the Vatican, many of the Eastern Orthodox, the Hindus, and many Moslems. You might have seen a Coexist bumper sticker on a car lately. This is absolutely wrong ── and against God’s living word.
We must consider ──
“’ God is Spirit, and those who worship Him MUST worship in spirit [through the Spirit of God, aided by the mind of our Lord Jesus] and truth [that being the truth of God].’” – John 4:24.
There is only one true God family ── the Elohim, God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
“’ Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one [Hebrew, ‘ehad]!’” – Deuteronomy 6:4.
“’ I am the LORD, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me. …’” – Isaiah 45:5.
“’ I and My Father are one.’” – John 10:30.
“For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.” – 1 Timothy 2:5.
Let us also notice ──
“ …the LORD Himself is God; there is none other besides Him.” – Deuteronomy 4:35.
“But the LORD is THE TRUE GOD; He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth will tremble, And the nations will not be able to endure His indignation. 11) THUS you shall say to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.’” – Jeremiah 10:10-11.
Yet, sadly, this world’s religions worship ── either knowingly or unknowingly ── Satan the Devil and his demons.
God’s living word refers to Satan as “the god of this age” who has blinded the minds of men, “who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.” – 2 Corinthians 4:4.
God’s living and relevant word WARNS us ──
“’ When the LORD your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land, 30) TAKE HEED to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that YOU DO NOT INQUIRE AFTER THEIR GODS, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.’
31) You SHALL NOT worship the LORD your God in that way; for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
32) Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.’” – Deuteronomy 12:29-32.
God’s living word also teaches us ──
“For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and AWESOME, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe.” – Deuteronomy 10:17.
“Oh, give thanks to the God of gods! For His mercy endures forever. Oh, give thanks to the Lord of lords! For His mercy endures forever.” – Psalm 136:2-3.
Yet, sadly, a growing number of people within their “modern morality” equate the LORD our God with what they call “the Jewish God ── who is nothing more than one god among a pantheon of gods.” But that is absolutely WRONG!
There is soon coming a time when all of mankind who have worshiped false gods ── and who do not repent of the works of their hands, the worship of demons, idols of gold and silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk ── will come to realize what they had been doing all their life ──
“’ Behold, I [the LORD God] will send for many FISHERMEN [the resurrected saints of God],’ says the LORD, ‘and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks [see: Revelation 6:15; Isaiah 2:19-21]. 17) For My eyes are on all their ways; they are NOT HIDDEN FROM MY FACE, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes. 18) And FIRST I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and ABOMINABLE idols.’” – Jeremiah 16:16-18.
Again, God’s living word is crystal clear that there is only ONE God family ── the Elohim, which at this time consists of God the Father and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ ── The God of the Old Testament was the One we now know of as Jesus Christ ──
“’ To you [O’ House of Israel] it was shown, that you might know that the LORD Himself is God; there is none other besides Him.’” – Deuteronomy 4:35.
“’ Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, 10) Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure.’” – Isaiah 46:9-10.
Indeed, Isaiah 46 here declares to us God’s absolute uniqueness, but when you dig into the Hebrew grammar throughout Scripture, like the word “Elohim” being plural in nature, it reveals to us this beautifulness that supports the Father-Son relationship. This wonderful chapter comes from the “Book of Comfort” that was written around 700 BC ── about 150 years before Babylon’s conquest. It contrasts Babylon’s false gods of Bel and Nebo with YHWH, showing that these idols would be carried away as spoils when Cyrus the Great conquers Babylon in 539 BC.
It greatly saddens me to know that there are people who consider our great and mighty LORD God ── YHWH ── simply a regional deity in a pantheon. Yet, John 1:1 makes it crystal clear that all things were made through our Lord Jesus, and Colossians 1:16 says by Him all things were created. The Word ── the same God that speaks here in Isaiah 46, “’ For I am God, and there is no other,’” who spoke to Moses is the Word who became flesh!
Also, and it’s important to point this out. The Hebrew word ‘ehad for “one” as in Deuteronomy 6:4, “occurs 960 times as a noun, adjective, or adverb, … It is closely identified with yāhad “to be united” … It stresses unity while recognizing diversity within that oneness.” 2
Also, our LORD God within the New Testament warns us from incorporating pagan practices into the worship of our great and mighty God ──
“What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything? 20) RATHER, that the things which THE GENTILES sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. 21) You CANNOT drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you CANNOT partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.” – 1 Corinthians 10:19-21.
God’s living word in the New Testament warns us, as true Christians, not to be connected in any shape or form or belief with the religions of the world ──
“Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 15) And what accord has Christ with Belial? [literally, Satan the Devil] Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16) And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? FOR YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD. …
17) Therefore ‘Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you. 18) I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the LORD Almighty.’” – 2 Corinthians 6:14-15, 16, 17.
So, again, the religions of this world are demonic in nature and are from Satan the Devil. □
Sources:
1 Wikipedia contributors. "Perennial philosophy." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 21 Apr. 2026. Web. 7 Jun. 2026.
1 Wikipedia contributors. "Perennial philosophy." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 21 Apr. 2026. Web. 7 Jun. 2026.
2 Harris L. R., Archer, L. Gleason, Jr., and Waltke K. Bruce. Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, 1980, #61, pg. 30.
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