Kimball Weaknesses

One of the biggest weakness in Kimball’s book is the distinguishment between the “authentic” religion and “unauthentic” religion. This is a weakness to Kimball’s book as by this differentiation Kimball claims that good religion is true, this therefore when a religion has become “unauthentic” as it has become unprogressively. This a weakness to Kimball’s book as it is it takes a very subjective understanding of a good and bad religion. Many scholars such as Dr Charles Selengut argues that, there is no such thing is a good or bad religion (Selengut, C., 2008). Selengut argues that all religion is powerful and therefore is dangerous due to its power(Selengut, C., 2008). Selengut argues that the western media and western academia have become secular,
Kimball has taken a narrow worldview of religion as he chosen to focus on the negative aspects of world religion, rather than having a balance. This is a weakness to Kimball’s work as it is subejctive to his moral understanding. Furthermore a further weakness is the fact that Kimball uses these five signs of evil and applies it in all world religion. This is also a weakness to Kimball’s work as his work is not very culturally relative to different religions, rather he attempts to cluster all religion into these five
All religion today entitle the importance of truth, righteousness and claim the right path to heaven. Therefore all religion indicate the importance of the five significant signs that Kimball claims to be evil. Qur’an 10:37 explains that “this Quran could not possibly be authored by other than God. It confirms all previous messages, and provide a fully detailed scripture. It is infallible, for it comes from the Lord of the universe, obey” (Ali, M., 2011). This is an important sign of absolute truth. Furthermore the bible also indicates absolute obedience when Jesus claims that “I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one comes to father, except through me” John 14:6 (bible, 1984). Within the Buddhism the word Satya which means absolute truth, explains that everything that exists for-example all the material gods are empty of essence but worshipping is the ultimate essence and truth to an everlasting life. These three examples all share the absolute truth of obeying God with the claim that their God is the only God who will lead his people to