Re: All paths to One God
During a tafseer session, once the orator was explaining an ayah (I currently do not remember which one). That particular ayah was talking about the same thing but the context was totally opposite on the other side of the 180 degree angle.
Somewhere in Quran, it is truely said that the Original and only religion was One Islam, but then people deviated and formed their own religions with the wrong mixture of beliefs that lead to WRONG paths. So, yes all religions other than Islam are the deviated ones and once were the right path in themselves but not anymore.
I can only recall one ayah at the mo which may fit somehow in the above explanation:
16:22 **Your Allah is one Allah. as to those who believe not in the Hereafter, their hearts refuse to know, and they are arrogant. **