LostLamb said:
Again i tell you that God never forces any body. You are again specifying 'Hindu' etc. Lord Jesus never speak of religion, since He was above religion, only petty human beings stamp religion on Jesus. In bible itself Lord Jesus tells to pray to heavenly Father for sending more messengers into the world, also He tells that such messenger should be recognized from His fruits or preachings. Also He tells that one who recognize a prophet and care for Him then one will get the reward for that. Also Jesus emphasis on how much spiritual effort one has to put to overcome the worldly bonds. All these are nicely given in bible.
God is only to be found in 'Son of God' who comes to this world. No other way.
Did you even read my post? Please read my posts before replying. For I am sorry, but I feel you completely missed the point of what I was saying. This is a Christian Forum which has members of various religions...yes, religions which as you said is not what Christ looks into. He does indeed judge the heart. That is something we ARE in agreement on. At the same time, as I have said before there are members here of Catholic beliefs, Christian beliefs, and even an atheist or too. So please do not go telling people they are wrong because they are not in agreement with you.
For is that not in an essence what all religions do that tends to drive people away from God rather than toward? With that being said I will bow out of this topic for I feel it is far too one sided and not really open for discussion.
May God Bless You
Danielle
When one loves each other above religion then only one pleases the heavenly father.
If a Christian loves another Christian as his brother, there is no greatness in it. Similarly, there is no greatness if a Hindu loves another Hindu as his brother. The greatness lies if a Christian loves the Hindu as his brother and vice-versa. A true Christian must love a true Hindu as his brother and should treat a wrong Christian as an outsider.
Similarly a true Hindu must love a true Christian as his brother and must treat a wrong Hindu as an outsider. Suppose you are in white dress. An outsider is also in the white dress, but your own brother is in blue dress. Based on the colour of the external dress will you treat the outsider who is in the same colour of the dress as your own brother?
Will you treat your own brother as an outsider because the colour of his dress is different from your dress? You are recognizing your own brother not by the external dress but by the internal body in which your own parental blood is flowing. Similarly, you are recognizing the outsider as the outsider based on the point that his inner body contains some other parental blood.
Therefore, you must recognize your real brother not by the external religion but you must recognize your brother by the internal spirituality. If the spiritual values and levels are coinciding to your stage, such a devotee is your real brother whether he is a Hindu or a Christian or a Muslim or a Buddhist. For example take the spiritual value of speaking the truth. Any person belonging to any religion must be your real brother if he speaks the truth.
You must treat a person as an outsider even if he is belonging to your religion if he is a liar. The spiritual value is the real parental blood i.e., descending from the original Godfather. When this is achieved the universal spirituality becomes meaningful and alive. Therefore, analyse and judge the spiritual values of other person to make friendship with him irrespective of his nationality, language, caste, sex, age and religion.
God will be immensely pleased if this attitude is developed. The main aim of our Universal Spirituality is only to establish such angle of view in the world. The religion is only external culture, which is related to language, habits of dress, habits of food and habits of regional styles of life.
