Is the "mountain analogy" of God true. Where God is pictured at the top of a mountain, and humanity at the base. Religeous man is carving his way up the mountain,.Some take a direct route, others wind their way up, but eventually everyone reached the top in their own way.
After all aren't there many 'good' religeons out there, and aren't there
good intentioned people who are part of those religeons, brought up in those religeons. What about them? Is Christianity the only true way? Are not all other religeons describing the same God in differing ways?
Is there really a vital difference between Islam, Buddhism, Judaism Millions claim these religeons to be valid.
But looking a little more closely at Religeon's claim to truth... .I see
that all religeons contradict Christianity in many important ways.
It becomes quite clear that both cannot be true.
Briefly.... because I am not over interested in them
I found that Buddhism teaches that the ultimate goal is what is called 'Nirvana' where all pain and suffering exist no more. And the way to reach this Nirvana is by following the 8 fold Path to Enlightenment, and then you reach a place of
total nothingness........
In Hinduism the ultimate goal is also 'Nirvana' , but Nirvana is different....Instead of being snuffed out like a candle in the Buddhism faith 'Nirvana' for a Hindu is being reunited with Brahm, an all pervading force of the universe.
And the way to achieve this union with Brahm, this 'Nirvana' is through
re-incarnation, after death. Depending on how you have lived your life determines whether you move up or down in creation
.
In Islam, heaven is a paradise of wine, women, and song. And the way to achieve this blissful paradise is to, ironically, abstain from these things in this world. In addition a Muslim must follow the five Pillars of Islam to achieve paradise
Judaism denies that Jesus is Lord. Jews believe that it is through the
following of theJewish Law that one obtains eternal life. And Jesus he was merely a human teacher or prophet at best. But he is not the Messiah.
All these claims to truth, these ways to God, or to paradise, completely contradict Christianity.
They may be close, but remain wrong. Nearness is not enough. Almost but lost.
Let me give you, a picture that I believe shows the stark contrast
between Christianity and all other religeons. Picture a father and his 3 year old daughter. The daughter wants her father to pick her up, to embrace her... to carry her,to hold her close. That is all the little girl wants.....to be in her father's arms. And so the little girl lifts her hands up to God and desperately reaches for his father neck so that she can be lifted up. She reaches and reaches...and urges her father to pick her up. But she is never quite able to
reach up high enough. That is a picture of the desperation many find in trying to reach up to God through religeon...but never quite reaching high enough.
World religeons are a system of rules, pious commandments which may perhaps bring comfort .......but that is all......No Salvation No testiumony of the grace of God.....No song about Amazing Grace
Thinking now of Christianity picture a father and a 3 year old daughter. The child reaches up to her father to be lifted up, and held in his arms. But instead of just looking down at his child, he lovingly reaches down to where the child is, and with compassion and strength lifts the child up into his arms and draws the child close to himself.
That is what makes Christianity different from all religeons. God came
down to us in the form of Jesus Christ, and made a way for us to be lifted up to God....Jesus is the WAY to the arms of God.. Jesus came to save us, so that we could come to Him, and have fellowship with Him.
After all aren't there many 'good' religeons out there, and aren't there
good intentioned people who are part of those religeons, brought up in those religeons. What about them? Is Christianity the only true way? Are not all other religeons describing the same God in differing ways?
Is there really a vital difference between Islam, Buddhism, Judaism Millions claim these religeons to be valid.
But looking a little more closely at Religeon's claim to truth... .I see
that all religeons contradict Christianity in many important ways.
It becomes quite clear that both cannot be true.
Briefly.... because I am not over interested in them
I found that Buddhism teaches that the ultimate goal is what is called 'Nirvana' where all pain and suffering exist no more. And the way to reach this Nirvana is by following the 8 fold Path to Enlightenment, and then you reach a place of
total nothingness........
In Hinduism the ultimate goal is also 'Nirvana' , but Nirvana is different....Instead of being snuffed out like a candle in the Buddhism faith 'Nirvana' for a Hindu is being reunited with Brahm, an all pervading force of the universe.
And the way to achieve this union with Brahm, this 'Nirvana' is through
re-incarnation, after death. Depending on how you have lived your life determines whether you move up or down in creation
.
In Islam, heaven is a paradise of wine, women, and song. And the way to achieve this blissful paradise is to, ironically, abstain from these things in this world. In addition a Muslim must follow the five Pillars of Islam to achieve paradise
Judaism denies that Jesus is Lord. Jews believe that it is through the
following of theJewish Law that one obtains eternal life. And Jesus he was merely a human teacher or prophet at best. But he is not the Messiah.
All these claims to truth, these ways to God, or to paradise, completely contradict Christianity.
They may be close, but remain wrong. Nearness is not enough. Almost but lost.
Let me give you, a picture that I believe shows the stark contrast
between Christianity and all other religeons. Picture a father and his 3 year old daughter. The daughter wants her father to pick her up, to embrace her... to carry her,to hold her close. That is all the little girl wants.....to be in her father's arms. And so the little girl lifts her hands up to God and desperately reaches for his father neck so that she can be lifted up. She reaches and reaches...and urges her father to pick her up. But she is never quite able to
reach up high enough. That is a picture of the desperation many find in trying to reach up to God through religeon...but never quite reaching high enough.
World religeons are a system of rules, pious commandments which may perhaps bring comfort .......but that is all......No Salvation No testiumony of the grace of God.....No song about Amazing Grace
Thinking now of Christianity picture a father and a 3 year old daughter. The child reaches up to her father to be lifted up, and held in his arms. But instead of just looking down at his child, he lovingly reaches down to where the child is, and with compassion and strength lifts the child up into his arms and draws the child close to himself.
That is what makes Christianity different from all religeons. God came
down to us in the form of Jesus Christ, and made a way for us to be lifted up to God....Jesus is the WAY to the arms of God.. Jesus came to save us, so that we could come to Him, and have fellowship with Him.
