Perspective: "Religions"

The question is, “where did all the other religions come from”? It is a question that comes up often by inquisitive youth and elderly alike in Christian circles. The answer is linked to the tower of Babel and the flood of Noah much as cultures, skin colors, and languages also are linked to those events; I thought it would be interesting to go over. We should begin by remembering that between the flood of Noah and the tower of Babel all people on earth were derived from the line of Noah’s family and Noah himself was a godly man. (That is in fact why he alone was found righteous in all the world.)

From the “fresh start” after the flood, all people should have been instructed to worship God by the patriarch Noah, but the bible tells us that Noah’s descendants quickly turned to themselves and their own ability over a generation or two, creating the tower of Babel and the empire surrounding it. God eventually confused all the people around by making them speak different languages and so they gathered with like-speaking people and migrated away; forming the cultures and eventually defining the physical features in those cultures we see today.

As the newly separated people groups (cultures) pass their history through the generations they hold fragments of truth which can still be seen today. (For example most cultures still have a flood account that resembles the flood of Noah and most of these cultures also have an account o the tower of Babel as well.) However, they also had turned their hearts from the God of Noah and in doing so began deifying and worshiping both nature and themselves, which is a practice seen in all but a few religions today. The bible tells us in dozens of places how people who refuse the true God and their true history only grow in futile thoughts and confusion. Turning from God they worship the wrong things and end up making creation out to be god when that is not the truth (Romans 1:25). So with the historical account of the bible we have a witness of actual history that accounts for the fall, the flood, and the tower (most of which are all found in most world religions) and that allows us to know that the other religions are in fact warped views of history created by a series of fallen people groups post-Babel.

This is only a summary version of the whole answer of course, but consider how muddled and confused people are when they try to guess at historical events, be it recent or long ago; like having a few pieces to a puzzle and deciding to draw in the missing pieces by inference. Instead, why not use the written accounts God has painstakingly passed down to us? The bible is more than a set of spiritual lessons, it is our history. If applied, the answers are easily found. Give that old tome a chance to speak and it may tell you more than you imagine.