Are There Two Or More Communications From God?

The Search for God Page 5.5

So once again we are searching for an all-knowing, eternal, timeless being. In this section, we are narrowing down any religion that does not claim to have at least two communications from such a being. 

Communication from God.

The first elimination is simple, atheism and agnosticism’s claim to knowledge is humankind or lack of external evidence. For Zoroastrianism, there was one prophet at a time. Traditional Chinese religions are really more philosophies like Confucianism or Taoism.

While I loved reading the Tao Te Ching, it is an eastern philosophy akin to Plato or Socrates, not a religion claiming God spoke. The challenging one here is the catch-all ethnic religions, in which Judaism and Hinduism are both included on the Wikipedia page.

When I began my search, I did not consider a small localized ethnic religion in this day and age, unless there was also a clear well-distributed written tradition. If anyone can point to a religion in the ethnic religion category that I don’t have here that meets our current criteria, please let me know.

I included Buddhism, even though there is a single person, Buddha, the attachment to Hinduism made me consider the evaluation for completeness’ sake. In addition, Buddhism does have a larger following. Even though I did not include a large following as a criterion, a large following seemed like a rational criterion, so I added Buddhism back.

So by this point we are left with four religions that meet the criteria we have laid out.

• What is the crucial concept?
  • I would expect an all-knowing, eternal, timeless being to communicate at least two times with humankind if he exists
• Why is that significant?
  • We eliminated additional religions to be left with four.
• If you agree, the next steps.
• If you disagree, please consider reading.
  • What Signs Should Communication from God Display?
  • Why Do Multiple Communications from God Matter?

• Wikipedia – Confucianism
• National Geographic – Taoism
• The Library of Consciousness – Tao Te Ching
• Wikipedia – Hinduism and Judaism