While there are many world religions, there are only three that call worship of one God; Christianity, Judaism, Islam. All of the major religions, from Hinduism to Buddhism to Shintoism, etc, don't really deal with the issues of salvation as we understand it, of heaven and hell. For instance, Buddhism is really more of a philosophy than a religion, primarily concerned with reaching "enlightenment".

While Hinduism worships seemingly infinite gods, and looks at life as a kind of wheel, where we return, time and time again to "try and get it right". If we reach the summit of perfection, we become "Brahma bull". Conversely, if a person fails to live as he and she ought, he and she can expect humiliation in the next life. This is a "try and try again" idea of life.

As for Christianity, Judaism, and Islam believe in the same God and the same revelation they do, Christians are all "spiritual Semites" ( spiritual united with the Jews and the faith of Abraham) Basically, Christians are what you could call "Messianic Jews", that is, Christians are "adopted" Jews who believe Christ Jesus was the long awaited Jewish Messiah....the Saviour.

Christians has been grafted into the family tree, of course, the Christians faith has grown considerably from there as well. While Christians has significant theological differences with traditional Judaism ( primarily revolving around the Lord Jesus Christ ), the understanding of morality is of the same basic cloth. In fact, most of the Jews rejected their own Messiah, ( rejecting Christ Jesus ) as prophecy foretold, and while there continue to be Jews who come to accept Jesus the Jewish Messiah throughout history.

Perhaps, we should try to evaluate and analyse what Christians: Faith, Hope, Love, can do for us and help us.

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -