Posted on 10/30/2005 11:05:55 PM PST by Coleus
Your Jesuit link is yet another piece of evidence that, once and for all, the Jesuits should be suppressed as an order.
There ARE precedents! ;-)
Can McDonalds and Buddha coexist?
but truth is truth. >>
Amen, and only through Jesus, who is the thruth, is the way for Christians to be saved.
and for non-Christians the CCC says this:
847 This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church:
Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience - those too may achieve eternal salvation. 337 LG 16; cf. DS 3866-3872.
So, if Jesus and Buddha were brothers, and Jesus is the Son of God, wouldn't that make Buddha also the Son of God worthy of equal worship? That is heresy.
The operative phrase. And he's a tough master, that Jiminy Cricket. He's jumping around trying to get some people to even read the Gospel.
LK,12:51_"Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law."
It's pretty plain that Christianity is some kind of a warrior religion where the adherents are called to fight and take up the sword for Christ.
Christ brought the war in heaven to earth. The fight between Satan and his half of heaven and God the father and his half of heaven is now the affair of all mankind.
MT,10:34__Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword."
Too many confuse the peace of Christ and the peace of surrender and abnegation.
Maybe we should think twice before listening to a Jesuit whose name is Robert Kennedy . . . .
No Buddhist worships Buddha. Buddha didn't call himself G-d and would have been repelled by such a comparison. He founded a school of philosophy, not a religion. The religion came afterwards but it doesn't resemble any other religion. There is no worship, it is only a struggle with the self and it's existence on earth
Umm...lemme think about this....NO!!
Hate to "gotcha" like this but, Jesus Christ is a divine person with a human "nature."
It would be more exact to say, "Jesus Christ in his humanity is a son of Adam --- in his words, the Son of Man --- and as such is a brother to all men."
Inclusive meaning of man/men.
8-P atcha sideways.
And as somebody once said, "Duh, Christianity and Buddhism are, duh, real similar. Especially Buddhism."
Yes, that would have been better phrasing.
Wonderful. Sounds just like the "center", between solid ground and the deep end.
Coleus,Bump.
<snicker>
With all due respect, this just isn't true. Please don't misunderstand this post, none of what I'm saying is an attempt to portray Christians as wimpy pacifists who won't defend themselves. Of course Christians have the absolute right to defend themselves from attack and oppression, which was the reason for the Crusades against islam, and is the reason for the battle against islamic terror today. These are the evilest people in history, and I believe they must not only be stopped, but crushed.
When Peter tried to defend Jesus with the sword, Jesus warned him:
"Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.
Christ did not call us to fight against nations or people, but to battle evil, Satan and his (fallen) angels. "Sword" was Jesus' symbol for battle, but the battle He spoke of was the one we wage against Satan for our souls, it is against darkness and evil.
"And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell." (Mathew 10: 28)
"For our fighting is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places". (Ephesians 6:12) .
Throughout the New Testament there are references to the sword and the armor being prayer and faith in Christ.
"Therefore take the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day,----Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ----taking the shield of faith, with which you can quench all the flaming darts of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Pray at all times in the Spirit,---. (Ephesians 6:14 - 18)
"Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light". (Romans 13:12)
"Christ brought the war in heaven to earth. The fight between Satan and his half of heaven and God the father and his half of heaven is now the affair of all mankind."
God does not control 'half of heaven', but all of Heaven and all of His creation. There is no war in Heaven. In Heaven there is nothing but eternal life, perfect peace and harmony, and eternal bliss.
"And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away." (Revelation 21: 2 - 4)
Jesus was referring to dividing the wheat from the chaff with His winnowing sword in this verse. In the Old and New Testaments the word 'winnow' shows up frequently, and it refers to a harvest, in the literal separating of the chaff from the wheat. A winnowing tool could be anything from a pitchfork to a machete, anything that could flail wheat from the stock. Jesus spoke of "bringing a sword" in the euphemistic sense; meaning His laws and doctrines would separate His own flock from the Devil's followers.
I agree with you, Christians are being taught a strange sort of 'Christianity' today; it's a liberalized 'Christianity' that confuses 'loving our neighbors' with "tolerating everything", which is just nonsense. We don't have to embrace and exhalt homosexuals, we don't have accept legalized abortion as the finalized law of the land, we need to fight to change that horrendous law. We don't have to accept the suppression of all Christian symbols and references in public places as if they are somehow 'repulsive', and we certainly don't have to accept the bearded maniacs of Islam trying to rule the world through fear and terror. May God grant us complete victory over these bloody barbarians once and for all, and bring peace to the earth.
He's not the only Christian who has glimpsed that...
Why doesn’t God reveal Himself to you? ... He cannot witness to you, but He instantly witnesses to His own nature in you.We are inclined to mistake the simplicity that comes from our natural commonsense decisions for the witness of the Spirit, but the Spirit witnesses only to His own nature, ...
Amen to that!
To put it more simply; Christianity requires a belief, Buddhism is a way of living.
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