Why are there so many religions? For the same reason that there's so much diversity in art, architecture, philosophy, language, poetry, and music. "Religion" as such is just another facet of human culture. It's an expression of man's desire to know the unknown and see the unseen. It grows out of his longing to touch the mysterious world that liesbeyond the veil of visible reality. The problem is that, since the fall, human beings have had to pursue this quest in darkness (Genesis 3). After the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11), they were also obliged to do it in isolation from one another. As a result, they've come up with many different answers to the same basic questions. Those answers include everything from ridiculous to sublime.
It's a bit like the old Hindu parable of the blind men and the elephant. One blind man touched the elephant's trunk and came to the conclusion that an elephant is something like a snake. The second felt a leg and decided that an elephant must be some kind of tree. The third laid his hand against the elephant's side and pictured a creature resembling a wall. In one sense, each man was right. But in another, they were all completely wrong because they did not have eyes to see the truth in its fullness.
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