For this article, we’ll be rewinding the clock really far back. Long before Joseph Smith founded the Mormon Church and even well before the time of Jesus Christ. Let’s go back even before the Biblical prophet Abraham. If we go back far enough we come to a time before faith in the supernatural and religious dogma. At this time humans didn’t poses such creative imagination to invent much beyond their reality.
The human population was much smaller at this time, but our innovative ability to survive, adapt, and migrate had our species living on nearly every continent. Regional groups across the globe began to develop different cultures, languages, and technologies. Even physical genetics began to slightly drift. At this time, communication over long distances was essentially impossible so groups developed independently.
All these different populations came to a point of becoming curious about the unexplainable and unknown. They wondered about divine powers and the meaning of existence. They pondered and meditated. They looked to the heavens in awe and pleaded to know the greatest answers of life.
This brings me to the real head scratcher of this thought experiment. Let’s assume there really is only one true God. We can even assume this deity to be the Christian Yahweh referred to in the Bible. Being an omnipresent God, he would be able to recognize the plea for truth from all these different populations all over the world. It’s safe to assert that if this were the case, then every righteous and sincere group would independently come up with the exact same religion despite the inability to communicate with other regions. One God benevolently answering all the prayers the same one true way. But that’s not what happened.
Given the fact that religions developed differently with relation to the region of origin, there is only a couple of possibilities. Perhaps there are many different Gods who each revealed a different religion according to the population of the area. However, many religions preach specific monotheism thus disproving this possibility. Maybe Lucifer deceived some people into created false religions, but I would imagine a more powerful God would still persuade the majority to the truth. One possibility is that each population developed comforting myths to help explain the unknown and all religions are false. I consider the latter to be the most plausible.
Now back to the present, we see a world with easily accessible information and interconnected communication. We can thoroughly and unbiasedly study all religions to find the flaws in each faith, including one’s own. Science continues to discover and explain our place in the cosmos debunking the religious myths of the past. The future looks even more promising with more verifiable intellect and less reliance on imaginary fables. More people than ever are abandoning faith in favor of the truth of our reality; there is no one true God.
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