Isaiah 40-41

(December 31, 2014)

                We see, nowadays, the argument that the claims of one religion are suspect because other religions make similar claims or because other religions through history have made mistakes.  It isn’t really fair that we members of the Church need to defend the Mountain Meadows Massacre, but it makes at least a little sense.  What doesn’t make sense is when we are expected to defend the Inquisition or the Crusades or Galileo’s trial.

                This is nothing more than a continuation of the same thinking that Isaiah and the Lord are speaking against.  Just because false religions believe or do something doesn’t mean that other religions are untrue (just as the fact that one believer does something bad doesn’t mean that all believers are evil or wrong).