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.

Religion	Year Founded	Written Tradition	Two + Communications
Judaism	Approx 3700 BC	Yes	Yes
Hinduism	Approx 2000 BC	Yes	Yes
Jainism	Approx 800 BC	Yes	Yes
Ethnic religions excluding some in separate categories	Approx 1000 BC	Varies	Varies
Buddhism	Approx 600 BC	Yes	No/Hindu
Chinese traditional religion	Approx 1000 BC	Yes	No, philosophy
Secular/Nonreligious /Agnostic/Atheist	Very Old	Yes	No
Zoroastrianism	Approx 1000 BC	Yes	No

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