Ah, see it is not that I personally am trying to syncretize (?) different religions and adjust my own faith to them. I am not.
Personally I am Christian. And yes, of course there are contradictions in different religions. However, I believe that the Bible was written by human beings and even if it had not been it would still be interpretted by human beings with our limited capacity to understand, our limited lnowledge, our limited ability to see another's point of view. Essentially I believe that no denomination and no religion really gets it all right. Now personally I follow Christianity, because that is my faith, and my best understanding of what God wants us to do.
However, I believe only God is all knowing and God is probably looking at all the different religions and saying, you all cannot get along because you believe that you are right and the others are wrong, but only God knows what really is right, and all humans can do is have faith that our best understanding of God's will gleaned from religious texts and prayer/meditation and/or doctrine is in some way a close enough approximation to the Truth. However, I believe it is arrogant for humans to believe that they are more right than other faiths. It is of course likely that some faiths are much more right than others:
personally I believe that there is only one God and that he was incarnate as Christ and that he is among us as the Holy Spirit, and that the Bible is the closest humanly written and interpretted by humans understanding of a lot of truths. However, what if I am wrong?
I acknowledge that I can be wrong, and that the Buddhists may be more right than me on some key issues. I believe that every major faith has a kernel of truth, gets some things right and others wrong, and only God knows what, and I believe we will luckily be judged someday by a God who is all loving and all understanding and is not biased and thus will not hold it against us that we were confused and misguided, but rather will judge us based on effort - how much effort we put into being the best we could be given our limitations.
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