Joshua King
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[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]There remains an unsolvable dialema to Jewish, Catholic, Athiest, Satanist, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, New-Age and other faiths in and of themselves. This may seem biased, coming from a Christian, however it is not just of my theological convictions, but of logical reasoning. Many of these religions share spiritual parallels with Christian belief (Judaism, of which Christianity is a branch, through Christ). Yet there remains several problems for each of these aforementioned religions.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]My hope is that the reader may sincerly and open-heartedly read on in prayer to the Father of Spirits[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif](Jehovah) who gives wisdom.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]CATHOLIC: Catholic means “universal†and truly there is one universal Church of Jesus Christ, however, some doctrines in Catholicism (the man made traditions and doctrine) deceive the laymen to accepting the authority of a priest over his conscience and faith, in place of the one mediator between God and man (Jesus Christ) (1 Timothy 2:5). Therefore the Catholic laymen can forfeit his personal relationship with Jesus Christ if He does not discern by the Holy Spirit (in him), whether the priest is teaching according to the word of God.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]ATHIEST: The athiest, though professing athiesm actually has a self-ego[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]god/man mindset, believing that there is no God, he actually worships his own belief, and though not being able to prove the non-existence of God, he presumptiously assumes he knows there is none (even though non-existence is truly improvable). The athiest professing no belief in a divine being, he obviously assumes he himself is divine (if he can know what is in the outer depths of space, or not). How can the athiest have any standard for universal morality or law? Athiest dictators often use a selective form of Jewish law (10 commandments) to create their society's legislation, yet ignorantly persecute the Jews whose law they partly enforce. If Athiests don't believe in God, why get angry when man tries to play God through religion? For truly the Athiest expects the same conformity to his lack of belief in a Sovereign God. This shows the athiest's religion, in expecting man to love his neighbour as himself and to not oppress his neighbour.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]SATANIST: The Church of Satan, so often walks contrary to its confession.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]While stating, the Satanist is to do what they will to do, they get angry when a Christian does what they will to do and not what the Satanist wants. If the Christian is then a lying hypocrite, why does the Satanist get angry, because the false Christian wouldn 't they then be glorifying Satan by their lie , as Satan is a liar. If the Satanist therefore has moral standards that are in line with the Christian (don't bear false witness), why do they get angry when the Christian does what a Satanist is supposed to do (lying, evil, hypocrisy)? This just proves Scripture even more “For if the truth of God abound more through my lie, to His Glory, why am I yet judged as a sinner.†(Romans 3:7) also, “For we can do nothing against the truth but for the truth†(2 Corinthians 13:8).[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]ISLAM: Like the Jew, the Muslim is even more wedged in humanist theology.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The Muslim is to believe the Koran (written by the supposed prophet of God, Mohammed). If this is true, how can the Muslim know this? They do not profess to know who Allah (God) is, nor does he speak anymore (Mohammed was the last). How can the Muslim know what truth is, without a personal encounter with God? Like Judaism and Catholicism, it puts man in the place of God.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]HINDUISM: Hinduism does have some spiritual similaries with Christianity, as Scripture tells us “For of Him and through Him and to Him are all thingsâ€(Romans 11:36). Also, “For in Him we move and live and have our being†(Acts 17:28). Therefore, if God is through all of His creation, He can manifest Himself through any means, a donkey, Jesus, Moses, Pharoah-Necho, Cyrus (Persian ruler). Yet God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) is also the head of all principalities and exists eternally, before creation. He is to be worshipped above all creation, because He made all things and they exist because of Him and through Him. Hinduism of itself does not bring the glory back to the self-existent Creator God, if Sheva is to be worshipped, but promotes the worship of demi-gods.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]BUDDHISM: While teaching about inner-enlightenment, Buddha did not[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]claim belief in God. Therefore all the moral teachings would be subject to relativity and does not answer why we are here. In Buddhism there is still no real purpose to existence, other than what one views it as.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]NEW-AGE: The new-age beliefs often speak about the believer being God, and while God is in them, morality would be subject to relativity, without belief in a Sovereign God/Creator law-giver and Judge. This may leave people vacant of conscience when idolatry or adultery, etc is committed, or their need to ammend one's convictions.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]My hope is that the reader may sincerly and open-heartedly read on in prayer to the Father of Spirits[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif](Jehovah) who gives wisdom.[/FONT]
- [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]JEWISH: The Jew is required of the Law (according to common Hasidic belief) to keep the 613 Mosaic commandments of Torah (the Law of Moses). Yet, as the temple is required to keep many of these laws and statutes, some statutes have to be forfeited, even though the Law warns of a curse on those who do not continue to do all the commandments contained in the Law. Regarding man's relation to God (Elohim), it remains a problem for the Jew who is now not keeping all of the Law, as to what He is to do and who he is to believe. The Rabbi's, for the past 1931 years have obviously told their followers that God will accept them, even though the temple sacrifices are not in operation. So the Jew obviously has a conviction that faith in God and acceptance with God is not dependant on the sacrificing of animals, nor of keeping all of the requirements of the law. Many in the Hasidic community are teaching that Messiah will not be God, but a prophet who will bring justice and peace. Yet Isaiah 9:6 tells us that A Son is born to Israel who will be called Everlasting father, the Prince of peace, wonderful, counsellor, the mighty God. Micah 5:2 states that out of Judah will come a governor whose days are from everlasting (eternity). How is a Jew supposed to discern whether the Rabbi's are telling the truth, or whether the prophets are telling the truth? They clearly need to have a personal revelation from God, otherwise their religion is being dictated by the interpretation of a man, and even if that man would be telling the truth, a spiritual truth stands that “a man can receive nothing accept it be given him from aboveâ€(John 3:27). This means that God must not only be in heaven, but also in the heart and mind of the believer, to give them understanding. King David was convinced that God's Holy Spirit was upon him. This is the message of Jesus, that the Kingdom of God is within you (Luke 17:21), Paul also let the Colossians know the mystery of godliness, which is Christ in you (us) the hope of glory. Yet the law of the Jew is for the most part written in the conscience of man (when tested). Therefore the Jewish law is at least in part, inseperable from civil law and man. As God is omni-present and unable to truly show all the life, function and power of his being at one point in time, He must express himself through some channel or vessel. Which the letter of Hebrew tells us that Christ is the express image of His (God's) person. Job 19:25 tells us that his redeemer lives and His feet shall stand upon the earth in the latter days. Isaiah also received a vision of the Lord (Isaiah 6:1-2). If Isaiah saw the Lord, then this is a problem for the Jew. As God is omni-present, how can He be limited to a body or a finite being to be worshipped or beheld? (2 Chronicles 6;13) How did Moses see God's back parts? The Jew would find himself either having to be like the Hindu in worshipping all things as God (yet in a monotheistic slant), to behold the magnificence of His life and power through all of His creation, or they would believe, based on their own prophetic writings that God is able to manifest himself and speak through a similitude, while still upholding all things which the New Testament confirms that He has through Jesus His Son, who in Spirit is actually one with the father, but had to and must limit displaying His fullness to even communicate with man.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]CATHOLIC: Catholic means “universal†and truly there is one universal Church of Jesus Christ, however, some doctrines in Catholicism (the man made traditions and doctrine) deceive the laymen to accepting the authority of a priest over his conscience and faith, in place of the one mediator between God and man (Jesus Christ) (1 Timothy 2:5). Therefore the Catholic laymen can forfeit his personal relationship with Jesus Christ if He does not discern by the Holy Spirit (in him), whether the priest is teaching according to the word of God.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]ATHIEST: The athiest, though professing athiesm actually has a self-ego[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]god/man mindset, believing that there is no God, he actually worships his own belief, and though not being able to prove the non-existence of God, he presumptiously assumes he knows there is none (even though non-existence is truly improvable). The athiest professing no belief in a divine being, he obviously assumes he himself is divine (if he can know what is in the outer depths of space, or not). How can the athiest have any standard for universal morality or law? Athiest dictators often use a selective form of Jewish law (10 commandments) to create their society's legislation, yet ignorantly persecute the Jews whose law they partly enforce. If Athiests don't believe in God, why get angry when man tries to play God through religion? For truly the Athiest expects the same conformity to his lack of belief in a Sovereign God. This shows the athiest's religion, in expecting man to love his neighbour as himself and to not oppress his neighbour.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]SATANIST: The Church of Satan, so often walks contrary to its confession.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]While stating, the Satanist is to do what they will to do, they get angry when a Christian does what they will to do and not what the Satanist wants. If the Christian is then a lying hypocrite, why does the Satanist get angry, because the false Christian wouldn 't they then be glorifying Satan by their lie , as Satan is a liar. If the Satanist therefore has moral standards that are in line with the Christian (don't bear false witness), why do they get angry when the Christian does what a Satanist is supposed to do (lying, evil, hypocrisy)? This just proves Scripture even more “For if the truth of God abound more through my lie, to His Glory, why am I yet judged as a sinner.†(Romans 3:7) also, “For we can do nothing against the truth but for the truth†(2 Corinthians 13:8).[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]ISLAM: Like the Jew, the Muslim is even more wedged in humanist theology.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]The Muslim is to believe the Koran (written by the supposed prophet of God, Mohammed). If this is true, how can the Muslim know this? They do not profess to know who Allah (God) is, nor does he speak anymore (Mohammed was the last). How can the Muslim know what truth is, without a personal encounter with God? Like Judaism and Catholicism, it puts man in the place of God.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]HINDUISM: Hinduism does have some spiritual similaries with Christianity, as Scripture tells us “For of Him and through Him and to Him are all thingsâ€(Romans 11:36). Also, “For in Him we move and live and have our being†(Acts 17:28). Therefore, if God is through all of His creation, He can manifest Himself through any means, a donkey, Jesus, Moses, Pharoah-Necho, Cyrus (Persian ruler). Yet God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) is also the head of all principalities and exists eternally, before creation. He is to be worshipped above all creation, because He made all things and they exist because of Him and through Him. Hinduism of itself does not bring the glory back to the self-existent Creator God, if Sheva is to be worshipped, but promotes the worship of demi-gods.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]BUDDHISM: While teaching about inner-enlightenment, Buddha did not[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]claim belief in God. Therefore all the moral teachings would be subject to relativity and does not answer why we are here. In Buddhism there is still no real purpose to existence, other than what one views it as.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]NEW-AGE: The new-age beliefs often speak about the believer being God, and while God is in them, morality would be subject to relativity, without belief in a Sovereign God/Creator law-giver and Judge. This may leave people vacant of conscience when idolatry or adultery, etc is committed, or their need to ammend one's convictions.[/FONT]
