How do you know your religion is true and your neighbor's isn't?

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I grew up christian, and although I still wholeheartedly believe in a higher being( i guess that makes me agnostic or something?) I can no longer say that I know without a doubt the bible is fact. I mean, there are so many gaps and contradictions. And then there are so many religions. When I was 13 I "accepted Jesus as my savior" and felt "the holy spirit" fill my body. It felt really warm and the more I believed the more it seemed true and flawless. I have always been a person to analyze though, and after talking to people of other beliefs(without revealing my experimental intentions) I discovered that pretty much everyone feels the same about their religion/faith. The more they embrace it, the truer it reveals itself to be. When I asked my bible study leader why that happens, they said, "demons" and "satan is playing with their mind." Now considering all the evil and blatant hypocrasy of the early catholic church, the fact that Constantine put the bible together and threw out hundreds of holy books that didn't fit what he wanted in a religion, and we are expected to believe that the bible is the unaltered word of God....dare not question it...and many other religions pose the same attitude....it would seem to me the only "demons" at work here are the ones who made all the religions separate to cause us all to fight. I still pray and talk to God, and everyday my life is blessed and prayers are answered, but I don't go to church and I don't close my mind to new ideas, i just know if its BS I'll know its BS. But how can a person just accept what's been put before them by a flawed human and not wonder why their neighbor accepts another idea without saying it must be demons...if everyone is saying that about everyone else, and none of our various"Gods" have decided to come down and say, "I'm the real one!" How can we keep persecuting over this?
Okay to those of you who are taking this like I am saying Jesus was a hoax, I did not say that.
All our scriptures of his life though, we would not have was it not for the catholic church. Christians were a small group with no one book to go by for their religion Pre constantine. They had hundreds of scrolls and books they considered true or holy and the emperor picked the ones he thought were fitting and put them in a book. He incorporated pagan holidays into the religion and now if you don't celebrate chirstmas its because your not christian when really christmas is a pagan holiday. I am saying our account of it has no gaurantee of truth. I am not saying the disciples made anything up, I am saying how do we know those books haven't been altered omitted or even added to later on? The protestant bible comes from the catholic one and stuff has been added and taken out many times. That is what I am saying.
 
No one knows the truth, and honestly, we never will. It's as simple as that.
 
To accept a true religion, you must interiorize it - accept it as your own by seeing the intelligibility of its teachings.

In religions education, the reasons for the things being taught should be given, and all honest questions answered.
 
Everyone can have a perfect faith as they grown towards a fuller knowledge of God. We are absolutely wrong to make fun of or disrespect someone else's fervent experience. However, as far as who the true God is, by the time that it unmistakably clear, it will be too late. That's why Christians get so shrill about it. They don't want their friends to die.
 
I dont. I dont try to convert anyone and i dont listen to people who want to convert me. I will be Jewish forever because thats my life choice.

and i dont believe Judaism is the only true religon, I think anyone who follows the Noahide laws is good in the eyes of G-D. There are many ways to G-D
 
I was never taught that Catholics were the only true religion. I know for a fact that is not the teaching of the Church.

It is not my place as a Christian to say who is right and who isn't. It's my place to love all people as my brothers and sisters in Christ, not judge them.
 
Good point.

One should keep changing until he finds the genuine truth.
 
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