assorted religions and environment influence
i meet with 5 good friends of mine once a week for a bible study. we have been getting together for over a year now, which is cool. we have studied the book of Philippians, a book called "Celebration of Discipline" by R.J. Foster, and 1 Kings. after we finished up 1 Kings, we decided to delve into the discussion of other religions/cults and their differences from Christianity. now we have 9 guys in the group, and hopefully we will continue to grow as more people add more opinions, idealogies, and make for more complete discussions. there are two huge differences between Christianity and other religions that surfaced rather quickly:
1. in most other religions, man must do a given number of tasks (sometimes very specific) to earn salvation, or sometimes just the possibility of being eligible for eternal life. in Christianity, one must believe that Jesus Christ was God, that he came to die for the sin of mankind, was resurrected, and because of this act we can follow/believe in Him and be saved. the huge difference between the two ideas: in other religions we must earn our way and do things to bridge our sinful nature to God, in Christianity God came to us because we cannot do this on our own.
2. most other religions were founded after Christianity (judaism being one exception, there may be others) and were found by one person's unwitnessed, unverifiable vision or revelation from an angel or other supreme being. the bible is a historical account, written by several people over hundreds of years, some writing about the same events without knowing each other were writing, thus making it much more verifiable and historically accurate.
when discussing other religions it becomes more and more evident that religion in most cases is a biproduct of environment/heritage. so i ask the question, if you were raised in a Muslim home, would you be Muslim right now? if you were raised in a Jewish home, would you be Jewish right now? if you believe the religion you practice is the truth, when do you think you would have come to that realization if you were brought up in a home or environment of one of the other religions/cults?
posted by mikeandtim @ 8:50:00 AM
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...if I therefore was growing up in another home, in this so propositioned hypothetical..."Otherhome place", then I therefore would not therefore be the same self that God so loves.
But since I hereby am the same self-same person I love...
...I like to ponder these hypotheticals....
If I was but another person...(whose birthday is it byTheWay?)..then this self same question would easily be fragged into an asynimcal irrelevantude of perpetosity-laden overanalytical crapshot....
...For then this question would not still be in my mind, because I would not be this hypothetical person, because as Christ Jesus persists, I am, I was, and always will be in the Master's Tyme, always as the Master Knows, none other, and it is frugally-reaking to even perpetuate such thoughts (interesting as they may appear to be)....because Yn the End, I will always have been me, and I look forward to be even more of my Self in the Fortuitous Future....
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