Something small and round

[Andres]

I never really understood this argument. When a Christian claims to know 'the truth', it is not because they discovered it of their own merit. It's not because we see ourselves as spiritually more pure, or more moral, or more clever than anyone else. Instead, it's because of the regeneration which Christ worked in us. Everything is attributed to God, and nothing to ourselves.

How many "different types" of Christians are there?

Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants, Jehova, etc, etc.

All of them attribute their truth to God and say that the other "truths" are mistaken.

With what authority does one type of Christians say that their version is the right one and the others are mistaken?

How humble is it to claim that you are the one who interpretes Gods' word right and the others are mistaken. If you do so, then you are claiming to know what God meant. That's not humble, that's arrogant. Only God knows what he meant, not humans. Sure, you can be convinced that you are right, but you have no right to tell others they are mistaken.

That's also why I don't understand the intolerance towards other religions.

After all, the only one who truly knows Gods' message is God himself, not humans who have to rely on text written by humans and interpretations given by humans. For all we, humble humans know, text and words are probably not sufficient to get Gods' message across.