Ive heard so many conflicting religious stories. How can they all be right?
Look at this question from the perspective that every one of us has a vision of the truth, but none of us has the complete truth. We get into trouble when we claim our piece of the truth is the complete and only truth. We become like the three blind men in the Sufi story about examining an elephant. One blind man, while touching the the elephant’s side, declared that an elephant was like a wall. The second touching its leg, declared an elephant was like a tree, and the third blind man, while holding on to it’s tail declared an elephant was like a snake. All three were correct, and, at the same time, all three had very distorted perspectives of an elephant. Please note that the significance here is not in what each blind man said about the elephant. The significance is in what they didn’t say. If you continued this elephant analogy, you could probably come up with several dozen more equally limiting ways to describe an elephant. When you substitute God for elephants in this analogy, the
