One right religion?

[Elijah674]

I think the same. I wonder, though, are there any people who practice Judaism and believe that Jesus was God's son? Is that even possible?

Even the Gentile ones of Rom. 2:14-15 who have had no other opportunity to know God's Word (Christ) than by His NATURE, will be saved by having Christ's Letter 'Epistle' in their hearts. What more could the Holy Spirit [REQUIRE] of them than to [LIVE] all of the Truth that He had LED them to have? Rom. 8:14

--Elijah

PS: That kind of tel's us that we are not quite as important as some ones think, huh? It is God ALONE that giveth the INCREASE! And ones LOVING WORK IS A PRIVALAGE!

 

[Mike]

Yes, they are called "Messianic Jews". I have a personal friend that is a Messianic Rabbi. They follow many of the Jewish laws and traditions, but only do so voluntarily. They accept Jesus the same way we do, and receive forgiveness and salvation through Christ the same way we do. More informally, I have heard them referred to as "Completed Jews".

I believe Igor has been spot on with each post. Those that do not claim Christ, fully God, as the Savior are false religions, and there are many solid truths that separate Christianity from every other religion, IMO.

I will say, when Jewish traditions are not mandated, they are beautiful in their expression. I can only admire Messionic Jews who have this rich tradition AND were brought to faith in Christ.

 

[francisdesales]

How can anyone ask Mary (or any other dead person) to pray for them without praying TO her? She is no longer alive to ask personally in the way Paul was asking people to pray for him.

Isn't the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob the God of the living? Isn't it true that NOTHING can separate us from Christ, even death?

And isn't the prayers of the rightoues truly effective? So from this, doesn't it follow that prayers asking for intercessions from those who have entered eternal life a pious thought, esp. considering the practice precedes even Christianity, and is well documented historically in the first and second century?

Also, where are we told in scripture that we are to ask dead people to pray for us instead of going directly to God himself? However, there are several passages instructing us to pray directly to God the Father.

Jesus also tells us to ask HIM, correct?

Praying for another person is not even remotely related to praying to a dead person and asking that dead person to pray to God for us.

The prayers of a righteous person are truly effective. Aren't the saints in heaven righteous enough for you?

I'm not trying to bash Catholics here. I have many good friends that are Catholic. And if I am just not understanding scripture, I am open to having that shown to me. But it has to be shown from scripture, not from just what someone says. I just don't see worship and veneration of saints anywhere in scripture.

That's because you are not familiar with the concept of honoring those whom God has blessed, who have come before us and have walked the walk.

We don't worship saints as God, we venerate them because God HImself veneratges them.

Regards

 

[Alabaster]

Isn't the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob the God of the living? Isn't it true that NOTHING can separate us from Christ, even death?

Death separates the brethren.

 

[TRUTH over TRADITION]

The pagan concept of souls staying alive beyond death has nearly totally corrupted the christian religion. Buying into the lies of death being a separation of living eternal soul (no such thinng BTW) and fleshly body is agregiously wrong. When one realizes that death is death annd NOT the beginning of life on another plane, then the gospel will make more since and its true power will be clearly seen.

 

[Alabaster]

When a believer dies, his spirit does enter another plane--the heavenly plane. This is in keeping with the word of God.

 

[essentials]

The pagan concept of souls staying alive beyond death has nearly totally corrupted the christian religion. Buying into the lies of death being a separation of living eternal soul (no such thinng BTW) and fleshly body is agregiously wrong. When one realizes that death is death annd NOT the beginning of life on another plane, then the gospel will make more since and its true power will be clearly seen.

I am not a Pagan, but I would just like to point out that a lot of the rituals in Christianity were adapted from Paganism, not to mention the customs at Christmas and Easter...

 

[francisdesales]

Death separates the brethren.

Those in Christ are still linked to each other through Christ. There is not another Christ in heaven and one here.

Regards

 

[Scotth1960]

Do any of you believe that there is one "right" religion?

We have so many denominations nowadays, how do we know which one to follow? For the most part, it seems that most of them follow the bible but interpret it in a different way.

I know that some religions practice and teach unbiblical doctrines. Do you think that would affect their salvation? For example, the Catholic pray to Mary and saints. In the bible it teaches we should only pray to Him. What are your thoughts on this?

Dear friend, I believe true Christianity is not a religion, but is three holy

persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the Holy Trinity. Christianity

is a relationship with the Trinity through the Church that Christ founded

(Matt. 16:18), a living encounter with Jesus Christ incarnate in His Body,

the Church, and in the sacraments and life of prayer of the Church. It's

a relationship between Orthodox Christian believers and each other in

Christ, a relationship with Jesus Christ amidst each other as fellow

believers and members of the Body of Christ, the Church (Eph. 4).

In Erie PA Scott R. Harrington PS Christianity isn't something we

can do for God, it is what God does for us in Christ, by His mercy (cf. the

epistle of St. Paul to Titus).

In Erie PA Scott R. Harrington

:nod

 

[TRUTH over TRADITION]

I am not a Pagan, but I would just like to point out that a lot of the rituals in Christianity were adapted from Paganism, not to mention the customs at Christmas and Easter...

Here's a shocker, christianity as a religion is itself pagan! There is no biblical mandate for the organized religious "babylonian" system that calls itself christianity. What it actually is is a "hodge-podge" of cherry picked scriptures and old pagan religious rituals.
Now, christianity as a way of life is a different animal. It is not a ritualistic religion, but instead a way of living that acknowledges in the lifestyle of the practicioner that the individual has a God above him who is sovereign that requires man to practice righteousness. It acknowledges that the best way to do this is to love one another by esteeming others as more important than themselves.

 

[Alabaster]

Those in Christ are still linked to each other through Christ. There is not another Christ in heaven and one here.

Regards

Death separates the brethren. We cannot communicate with the dead. We are warned about it in the OT, as an occultish act.

 

[mamre]

Do any of you believe that there is one "right" religion?

We have so many denominations nowadays, how do we know which one to follow? For the most part, it seems that most of them follow the bible but interpret it in a different way.

I know that some religions practice and teach unbiblical doctrines. Do you think that would affect their salvation? For example, the Catholic pray to Mary and saints. In the bible it teaches we should only pray to Him. What are your thoughts on this?

Hi Nicole,

This is a critical question for a truth seeker.
If you are indeed looking to find the "right religion" consider this:

The "right religion" IS the true religion of God. If you are sincere in your search there is only one place you should look. There is only one person you should ask. And that person is Father in Heaven. You and anyone sincerely looking for the right religion should look for the religion that will truly take you to God, literally.

Isn't logical that if one wants to follow the religion that can really take you to God, should ask God Himself?

I can tell you that there is such a religion today on the earth.

If your question is not simply a rhetorical question just to fan the discussion, but a true search for the true religion, then if you ask Father in Heaven with all sincerity and humility, real intent, in the name of Christ, the Father will lead you to the right religion.

I know that there is a religion that has been indeed established by God Himself upon the earth today. And you can find it if you ask Him.

Looking for the true religion is looking for God Himself and you should not take anyone's word for it. You should go straight to your Father in Heaven if you are indeed serious about that question.

Only the true religion of God has the power to save you.
Think about it, anyone with good intention can read the bible and start a religion. But will that religion have power to save? How can you know that that interpretation is the right one?

Ask Father in Heaven where to find the right religion, He will show you.


have a great day,
mamre

 

[Zyrenah]

I have never been the kind of person to believe that there in only one 'right' religion. I have tried to believe this, but can't. I don't mind what people want to believe, or even if they believe that it is the only one that it true, but what I do mind is when people try and force that onto others who do not believe the same way.

 

[farouk]

Let's stick to the Bible, rather than to ppl's opinions. John 14.6: 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life'.

Read the whole chapter to profit further.

 

[Zyrenah]

Let's stick to the Bible, rather than to ppl's opinions. John 14.6: 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life'.

Read the whole chapter to profit further.

That might be well and good to stick to the Bible, but like the OP said - there are many denominations who interpret the Bible is vastly different ways - so how can you know which is the right one?

 

[Elijah674]

That might be well and good to stick to the Bible, but like the OP said - there are many denominations who interpret the Bible is vastly different ways - so how can you know which is the right one?

Just this one TEST is needed.;)

Isa. 8
[20] To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

The Eternal Covenant is the only thing that God Himself wrote, (in two tables of stone & then also in only the Born Again heart & mind) and the testimony are the 66 books that Godly Inspired men penned in their own discriptive words. Any who has any 'light' in them must comply with the above! All else are in membership with satan. Rev. 17:1-5

Another good N.T. testing verse to 'double' this up with Eccl. 3:15, (and back this up) is over in 1 John 2:4 calling these 'lightless ones' liars + 'havingNO Truth in them'.

---Elijah

PS: Seems that there are just two ways to go there, huh? That leaves one with what? Either Christ or satan. Matt. 6:24 are Christ's Words Himself.

 

[francisdesales]

Death separates the brethren. We cannot communicate with the dead. We are warned about it in the OT, as an occultish act.

Are those who have died alive in Christ?
Are those alive on earth alive in the same Christ?
Are those who have died aware of what happens here?
Are the prayers of those alive in Christ effective?

The math seems clear...

Regards

 

[Alabaster]

Are those who have died alive in Christ?
Are those alive on earth alive in the same Christ?
Are those who have died aware of what happens here?
Are the prayers of those alive in Christ effective?

The math seems clear...

Regards

No one knows if those in heaven are aware of Earth's events. I don't think they think about it. They are too busy worshiping Jesus and beholding God the Father.

You are merely wishing. There is no biblical teaching on praying to dead people. If you do so, you are violating scripture concerning the dead. Rationalizing it away as not prayer is futile. You cannot talk to a dead person and not call it prayer. Therefore it crosses over to idolatry.

 

[Sam21]

I have never been the kind of person to believe that there in only one 'right' religion. I have tried to believe this, but can't. I don't mind what people want to believe, or even if they believe that it is the only one that it true, but what I do mind is when people try and force that onto others who do not believe the same way.

Life is pretty much of a mystery,those who have it all figured out are just fooling themselves. The most sensible thing to do in my thinking is to forget religion and go directly to God and use the bible as a guide.
The bottom line is that people are saved when God says they are saved,not because they say they are saved. I suppose that there will be people who expected to find themselves in heaven who will instead find themselves in hell, we can make choices while here on this earth but our final destination is determined by God.

 

[francisdesales]

No one knows if those in heaven are aware of Earth's events. I don't think they think about it. They are too busy worshiping Jesus and beholding God the Father.

You are merely wishing. There is no biblical teaching on praying to dead people. If you do so, you are violating scripture concerning the dead. Rationalizing it away as not prayer is futile. You cannot talk to a dead person and not call it prayer. Therefore it crosses over to idolatry.

You apparently are unaware of the Book of Revelation, which tells us that the saints in heaven are indeed aware of what is happening here below. Your idea of what happens in heaven is pretty superficial. A person united to God takes on the same Will as God. Thus, a saint mimics the will of God, who desires men to be saved. Saints here are concerned about others around them, and so do the saints in heaven. They are even MORE concerned about what happens here, since they ALSO will that "GOD'S KINGDOM COME, ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN".

Talking to someone is not idolatry, by the way. Worshiping something above God is. No Catholic I know places any saint above God.

Regards