But in reality, this world is not as confusing as you think.
It's not as confusing as you think.
Some people just think, oh, there's so many different religions, I'm confused.
It's really not that confusing.
Let me just break it down to you.
First of all, understand that there are today approximately 7.4 billion people in
the world.
So there are 7.4 billion people in this world, and out of those 7.4 billion people, 2.3 billion
of them claim to believe in Jesus as their savior.
They would say, I believe that Jesus is my savior.
Now obviously, this encompasses all branches and all types of Christianity, a lot of which
is a false teaching and a lot of it's a counterfeit.
I'm not getting into that.
I'm just saying people who would claim the name of Christ, therefore Christianity, quote
unquote, is considered the largest religion in the world, 2.3 billion people.
The second largest of the organized major world religions would be Islam with 1.6 billion
people, which would make about 22%.
Then we have Hinduism with 1.1 billion people, which is about 15% of this world.
Then we go to Buddhism, which has about a half of a billion or 500 million adherents,
or about 6% of the world's population.
Now here's the thing.
Once you go past Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, the numbers drop dramatically.
The fifth organized religion is Sikhism, which has only 26 million adherents.
Even though 26 million people is a lot of people, it's less than a half a percent of
the world's population.
Less than half a percent, so it's a very tiny minority of people in this world.
Then if we go to Judaism, it's not even in the running, it's one-fifth of 1%.
Even though it's front and center on Google as being a major religion, right there in
the middle, it's actually one-fifth of 1%.
Then you go beyond that, it gets even tinier, Baha'i, you're down to like 6 million
people, or less than one-tenth of a percent, I mean it's minuscule.
Really major religions that actually have followers all over the world, or a large number
of followers, you really could narrow it down to five big religions.
You know, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism.
Sikhism is much smaller, and so these five right here, these are your top five that
are even close to being 1% or more of people that even follow these religions.
So there's not just all the, oh it's just thousands of religions, hundreds of religions,
I'm so confused.
No, no, you've got five major world religions, okay?
But here's the thing, you can simplify it even further than that.
Because of the fact that these three, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, are almost the same.
They're all spin-offs of Hinduism, you know, they're all involving reincarnation,
the cycle of death and rebirth, transcendental meditation, cremating the dead instead of
burying them, you know, those three have a lot in common, and they're just variations
or spin-offs of Hinduism.
And then if you take the first two, Christianity and Islam, you have to understand that Islam
is just a perversion of Christianity.
All it is, is a guy who came along and said, oh I'm following in the footsteps of
Jesus Christ, except I'm the next prophet, and you guys got Jesus' message wrong, and
so I'm going to come and bring a greater revelation.
It's just a cult or spin-off from Christianity, much like Mormonism.
So it's really not that complicated, whether you're pretty much going to follow Hinduism
or it's spin-offs, or Christianity and it's spin-offs, and then once you look at Christianity,
it shouldn't be that hard to figure out who's actually believing the Bible, and who's
just putting on a funny hat, and sprinkling poo-poo dust everywhere, and going through
a bunch of weird traditions and rituals that have no basis in the Bible.
It's not that hard to figure out folks, and the Bible says, ask and you shall receive,
it says seek and you'll find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Everyone that asketh receive it, everyone that seeketh find it, everyone that knocketh
to him it shall be opened.
And so this world is not as complicated of a place as the atheists or the world would
want you to think it is.
Really it's pretty simple, there's our rock, and then there's their rock, and when you
actually hold our rock up against their rock, you will see that their rock is not as
our rock.