Is "Christ" the only way?"
if we follow Jesus we are a man of light lighting up the whole world (Saying 24) like a city built on a high mountain (Saying 33)
we should be exclusively committed to the truth like the fisherman (Saying 8)
And he said, "The man is like a wise fisherman who cast his net into the sea and drew it up from the sea full of small fish. Among them the wise fisherman found a fine large fish. He threw all the small fish back into the sea and chose the large fish without difficulty. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."
Jesus alone reveals the truth so the listener must obey him and serve him exclusively (Saying 38)
Jesus alone reveals the truth so the listener must obey him and serve him exclusively (Saying 38)
(38) Jesus said, "Many times have you desired to hear these words which I am saying to you, and you have no one else to hear them from. There will be days when you will look for me and will not find me."
no one else has the truth (Saying 39)
no one else has the truth (Saying 39)
Jesus said, "The Pharisees and the scholars have taken the keys of knowledge and have hidden them. They have not entered nor have they allowed those who want to enter to do so. As for you, be as sly as snakes and as simple as doves."
anything outside of the Father will be uprooted (Saying 40)
Jesus said, "A grapevine has been planted apart from the Father. Since it is not strong, it will be pulled up by its root and will perish."
The Pharisees (clergy) have nothing to offer us (Saying 41)
Jesus said, "Whoever has something in hand will be given more, and whoever has nothing will be deprived of even the little they have."
Jesus is the cornerstone (Saying 66)
Jesus is the cornerstone (Saying 66)
Jesus tells us we must worship the Father (Saying 15 and saying 27)
Jesus' teachings is the only way to overcome the precondition of sin, judgmental reasoning, and therefore, is a practical path to a higher civilization in the new millennium.
We must also make Jesus' teachings religious principles a global reality. Love is the answer and his teachings are the only way to a higher civilization based on reasoning lovingly.
Christ Jesus is the ONLY way to the Father. Don't be angry, don't be upset; figure this out through the fine tune and see the pattern narrowing down to one.
Christ is NOT divide.
God created both good and evil; light and darkness.
God KNOWS Jesus is the ONLY way you come INTO the Father's presence. If there was two ways, he'd say yet what confusion would there be in two when we know there is only one. Two ways out of this world, one leads to life the other to death. One is the narrow way the other the broadway.
"They will stand at rest by being solitaires."
A. Joining with other religions is not God’s way
Only one way, is narrow, few find it. Eph 4:4-6; Mt 7:13, 14
Warned that false doctrine contaminates. Mt 16:6, 12; Ga 5:9
Commanded to be separate. 2Ti 3:5; 2Co 6:14-17; Re 18:4
B. “Good in all religions” is not true
Some have zeal but not in harmony with God. Rom 10:2, 3
Badness spoils what else might be good. 1Co 5:6; Mt 7:15-17
False teachers bring destruction. 2Pe 2:1; Mt 12:30; 15:14
Clean worship demands exclusive devotion. De 6:5, 14, 15
Good in all religions is true because in every religions, we can find sparks of the Logos who is Christ, as actually the Catholic Church agrees with (since Vatican 2, which is actually close to the thinking of early christian like Justin Martyr, or Clement of Alexandria).
ReplyDeleteJoining with other religions is a way to discover aspects of Christ that christianity enclosed in just one culture (the western on) make us difficult to see.
Joining with other religions is interestin to seize, to harvest the seeds of Christ, and the sparks of Holy spirit that God threw there.
God has permitted all religions to exist. However, now, in our generation, the situation is altogether different. Why? First Corinthians 10:11 answers: “Now these things went on befalling them as examples and they were written for a warning to us upon whom the accomplished ends of the systems of things have arrived.” Yes, we have arrived at the foretold “time of the end,” the day of reckoning for all systems, political, commercial and especially religious. All are on judgment before God. Those not good enough in His sight will not survive this generation, but will be eternally cut off. Only that which is good enough before God will survive the end of this world. Speaking of these critical last days, Jesus warned: “All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another.” What of those who meet with his displeasure? Jesus added: “And these will depart into everlasting cutting-off, but the righteous ones into everlasting life.”—Matt. 25:32, 46.
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