My goodness, that’s an awfully large number of religious traditions. I wonder which of these is the one true faith? TGO
Refer to information below. Source: Wikipedia
Ancient (before AD 500)
| Name | Religious tradition founded | Date |
| Naram-Sin of Akkad | first known ruler to impose an imperial cult | 22nd century BC (short chronology) |
| Ur-Nammu | built the Ziggurat of Ur to Nanna | 21st century BC (short chronology) |
| Abraham | Blood-right of inheritance for Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and more recently Baha’i | approx. 2000 – 1800 BC |
| Akhenaten | Atenism | 14th century BC (conventional Egyptian chronology) |
| Moses | Judaism | approx. 12 century BC |
| Various Rishis | composed the hymns of the Rigveda foundational to historical Vedic religion | second half of 2nd millennium BC |
| Solomon | Israelite king who built the first Temple in Jerusalem to the God of Israel. | 10th century BC (For Solomon’s historicity, see Tel Dan Stele) |
| Parshva | The penultimate (23rd) Tirthankara in Jainism | 9th c. BC |
| Zoroaster | composed the gathas foundational to Zoroastrianism | c. 11th to 9th c. BC |
| Numa Pompilius | Roman king who codified and organized the Roman religion | 717 BC – 673 BC |
| Laozi | Taoism | 7th c. BC |
| Nebuchadnezzar II | built the Etemenanki, established Marduk as the patron deity of Babylon | 6th c. BC |
| Mahavira | The final Tirthankara in Jainism | 6th c. BC |
| Siddhārtha Gautama | Buddhism | ca. 5th c. BC |
| Confucius | Confucianism | 551 BC – 479 BC |
| Pythagoras | Pythagoreanism | fl. 520 BC |
| Mozi | Mohism | 470 BC – 390 BC |
| Ezra | established Second Temple Judaism | fl. 459 BC |
| Leucippus | Atomism | fl.440 BC |
| Plato | Platonic realism | 427 BC – 347 BC |
| Epicurus | Epicureanism | fl. 307 BC |
| Zeno of Citium | Stoicism | 333 BC – 264 BC |
| Patanjali | Raja Yoga | 2nd century BC |
| St. John the Baptist | Mandeanism; Proto Founder of Christianity | ca. 6 – 5BC – ca. 27 AD |
| Jesus of Nazareth | Christianity | ca. 5 – 4BC – ca. 30 AD, |
| Paul of Tarsus and Simon Peter | Pauline Christianity, Roman Catholic succession | 1st century |
| James the Just | Jewish Christianity | 1st century |
| Judah haNasi | Talmudic Rabbinical Judaism | 2nd century AD |
| Nagarjuna | Madhyamaka | 150–250 |
| Plotinus | Neoplatonism | 205–270 |
| Marcion of Sinope | Marcionism | 110–160 |
| Mani | Manichaeism | 210–276 |
| Arius | Arianism | 250–336 |
| Pelagius | Pelagianism | 354–430 |
| Nestorius | Nestorianism | 386–451 |
| Eutyches | Monophysitism | 380–456 |
Medieval to Early Modern (500–1800 AD)
New religious movements (post-1800)
Frank Buchman of the Oxford Group and Moral Re-Armament movement is on this list. Bill Wilson is said to have patterned the 12 Step movement in the US after him. Should Bill Wilson be on this list?
TGO – just think about your statement: ‘True faith is NOT based on facts’. So, according to you, on what is based “true faith”? And the way to measure true faith was simply and clearly stated by Jesus Christ in Matthew 12:33.
True faith is based on nothing, it’s simply a person’s belief, more than likely because this is what was taught to them.
A person can truly believe in something which is completely false. I really don’t know what is so complicated? Faith is belief in a thing (object), concept or idea not resting on logical proof or material evidence. What is it that is so difficult to understand.
For example, the Earth is round, this is a fact. It is not flat as once upon a time believed. Just because countless people once believed the Earth was flat didn’t make it so, therefore their belief was false, untrue and incorrect. Since it is a fact that the Earth is a sphere, we don’t need to say: I have faith that the Earth is round as the word faith is superfluous. If a person has faith in something that doesn’t make that something factual, it just means that he or she believes in it. I could have faith that elephants can fly, but that doesn’t mean they can.
You are obviously a Christian, therefore you believe in the Bible and Christian God. But there are a billion Muslims in the world who believe just as strongly as you do I’m sure in the Koran and Allah. Now, at least one group (if not both) is definitely WRONG. Yet you both have faith in your respective ideologies. The same is true of Jews, Mormons, Hindus, Buddhists, Scientologists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, etc.
I hope I’ve answered your question.
Mr. Great One… To each follower, for all intents and purpose, in each humans perspective reality, respectively their faith is the “true faith”. Since “a faith” and “a truth” are two different constructs with faith being the conceptual belief of that construct, my curiousity then would be: Which faith’is closest to the truth?
Buddhism…. It is in fact, all an illusion!
I will prove it to you, oh, Great One..On March 30th, 2031,
I will say to you, “Do you remember the illusion you had 20 years ago, this very evening, when you read a comment by GhostRider”. You will say, well, let me not put words in your head or this illusion.
Love and Peace
GhostRider – true faith is based on facts, realities and conviction – that is the definition of biblical faith – Hebrews 11:1. All other “faiths” are based on credulity and superstition.
If I may “jump in.” True faith is NOT based on facts. Faith is belief without evidence. Your belief that yours is the “one true faith” because the Bible says so doesn’t make it a fact. The Koran says the same thing about Islam. And in fact, the Old Testament, in your Bible, says that the Jews are God’s chosen people, and Jews don’t even believe in the divinity of Jesus. Now you tell me, how is it that your faith is the “one true faith” (factual) while all others are based on credulity and superstition?
GhostRider, there is no way to measure which faith is closer to the truth, and the fact is that it wouldn’t really matter. 2+2 = 5 is closer to the truth than 2+2 = 945,678,905,343,276,708,740,084,717; but it is still false. Therefore, there is no “value” in saying that 2+2 = 5 is “close” to the truth. Statements (beliefs) are either factual or they are not. A woman is either pregnant or she isn’t; there is no middle-ground there. Your lack of logic is astounding.
Your last paragraph is complete gibberish.