Hi folks,
I'm a Buddhist, but I'm interested in understanding other faiths. I was reading the Quran today and have also looked a little at the Unitarians and the Christadelphians? (Hope I spelt that correctly.)
It seems to me that the non-trinitarians are not far from the view of The oneness of God in Islam.
Having read some of what Jesus said in the gospels... do they have a point?
When somebody called Jesus good, he rebuked them and said there was none good but God. He said we should love God with all our hearts... Maybe Paul got a bit too overenthusiastic in how he saw Jesus?
Are those who reject the Trinity correct?
Jesus is God manifest in the flesh, which some people do not believe it because God is bigger than that so how can a human manifestation be God.
God manifest in the flesh means that God manifest all His attributes to the man Christ Jesus, which He is the fulness of the Godhead bodily, and has the Spirit without measure, and it pleased the Father that in Him all fulness should dwell.
And the Spirit in Christ is still connected to the omnipresent Spirit of God for He cannot be separated.
Which the man Christ Jesus does not have His own personal Spirit that moves around with Him, for there cannot be a double portion of the Spirit in one place, and an empty space where the Spirit is not at, but the man Christ Jesus walks though the Spirit, and wherever He is at the Spirit is there, for the Spirit does not have to move for the Spirit is already there.
So Jesus is God, and human, and the man Christ Jesus the personal human body of God, which He laid down His life for us, and purchased the Church with His own blood, and reconciled the world unto Himself in the person of Jesus Christ, God and man in harmony.
So Jesus could speak according to Him being God or man, and some people approached Him according to His deity, and some according to His humanity
The man that called Him good approached Him according to His humanity, and the man Christ Jesus gave glory to God by saying He is doing good for God is causing Him to do good, which He was always led of the Spirit of God so He would always be in accordance with true love, and caring about people, and God's holiness
But a person cannot believe in any God and say they are all compatible, and the same God, for without the truth of that God and displayed differently it would not be the same God.
No religion has better morals than Christianity, and hypocrites do not change Christianity, or void it out, but Christianity is the same regardless of how people act, and Jesus said the hypocrites do not belong to Him.
Islam does not put forth morality like Christianity in the Bible, nor does any other religion.
Which the Bible says love works no ill towards their neighbor, therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
And God said in the New Testament wars do not come from Him, but from people, and in the Old Testament He only went against those that would try to pervert Israel from the truth, or wipe them out, or if a nation, or kingdom, was too cruel against other people, and perverting His truth that extended too far, He would allow other nations to take them down.
Which if God had not intervened in the Old Testament more people would of been hurt, and killed, and people perverted from the truth.
God puts down a 1000 to save 10,000, and it is man that is cruel, not God, which is what king David said that God has mercy even when He punished Israel, but people do not.
Christianity is like no other religion, and no other religion compares even if they think they do, which we can see they do not, and not even Buddhism compares to the morality of Christianity, and like I said hypocrites do not belong to the Church, for only people that act like Christ are a Christian.
There is no such thing as a hypocritical christian, for a person cannot be a Christian and a hypocrite at the same time.
Christianity is to only go by their needs, and not their wants, and to help the poor and needy if possible.
Love your enemies, and feed and clothe your enemies.
When physically abused do not fight back physically, and when verbally abused do not fight back verbally.
Islam does not even compare to the God of the Bible, so they are not following the same God, for it is the characteristics that define God, not because people say they follow God, and then have different characteristics about him in which Islam believes in fighting for their religion.
Christianity does not need to fight physically for their kingdom is not of this world, which when they went to take Jesus He said He could call down 12 legions of angels to get Him out of the situation, for if His kingdom were of this world He would have His servants fight for it, but it is not so no need to fight for it, and God is in control, and the saints have spiritual life after this physical life, so they do not need to fight for this world is not their home.
The Roman Catholic Church, as well as others made the mistake of fighting physically for the kingdom of God, and persecuting, but they will only bow to save their skin, and not really mean it so it does no good.
1Ti 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
1Ti 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
1Ti 4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
1Ti 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
1Ti 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
The new age movement that has a false interpretation of the Bible based on the occult, and evolution, and believe people can still evolve to be greater, and spiritual, and Jesus is not Lord and Savior, but a good teacher in spiritual enlightenment, and the evolutionary process, and love, and ascended master, and avatar, but not the final teacher, but the New Age Christ is the final teacher who will cause them to be greater, and spiritual, who honor the God of forces, or the power of nature as their higher power.
The nations will come together and try to establish peace on earth, and it will be international law that a man and woman cannot marry for population reduction, and to be a vegetarian.
2Ti 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
The new age movement is the future for this sinful world in which they will rebel against God, and go against all people that go by the truth of the Bible, and then God will fight for them and end this sin business on earth.
The new age movement interprets all religions the same according to evolution including Buddhism.
They want people to believe that all religions have a compatible truth, and that they follow the same God, to get the world to harmonize to come together, for they do not believe the New Age Christ will appear until the nations come together as one to try to establish peace on earth, and harmonize.
In other words for the world, it is the beginning of the end, and God will fight like He did in the day of battle when they rebel against Him.
And God is love, and the world will think they are winning against Christianity, and will say where is your power, and where is your God, but they do not understand that God is allowing them to rebel, and allowing them to persecute the saints, which the New Age Christ by peace shall destroy many, and shall destroy the mighty and holy people physically.
God has allotted mankind a certain amount of time to take a people out of the world that chose to love God in the truth, and then He will put down the world, and end this sin business on earth, and salvation is offered no more.
And the time is close, and Jesus is the Savior of the world, for only a sinless man can reconcile the world unto God, but no man is sinless so God manifest Himself in flesh, and reconciled the world unto Himself, God and man in harmony.
