Is cultural loss a consequence of evangelization?

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I want the whole world to believe in Jesus, but at the same time i wouldn’t want Buddhists to stop building their temples and learning about Buddha, for Jews to abandon their idiosyncratic religious rites like Torah study/interpretation, for Muslims to stop going to the Kaaba and so on. What do you guys think?
 
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Why? If they had been converted from their old way of life and religion to Christianity and was convinced that Christ was the Way, Truth, and Life, why would some old Indian dude or a black box in saudi arabia matter to them?

To phrase differently, I used to be dating Sue. Then I met Pam. I love Pam with all my heart- she completes me as a human being, we’re perfect together, etc etc. We eventually get married, and live happily ever after.
Why would I get back with Sue?
 
But if you had the habit of playing chess with her, you could continue doing so, provided the breakup wasn’t bitter, just like accepting Jesus doesn’t have to mean a bitter rejection of previous beliefs
 
I mean, the Church rejects nothing that is good and holy in these religions.
But, why cant the former Buddhists build Christian churches about Jesus?
Why can’t the Muslims visit Rome, or Jerusalem, or Bethlehem?

These things are cultural, but they are deeply religious as well.
 
They should, I just wouldn’t want Buddha to disappear into some footnote in a textbook
 
No disrespect was intended. I am simply describing those things matter-of-factly
 
He’s not wrong though. A chunk of meteorite is just a chunk of meterorite. They erroneously consider it holy. It’s just a rock.
 
They would say a piece of bread is just a piece of bread and we erroneously consider it holy. “It’s just a piece of bread”. Disrespectful and arrogant.
 
Except we know the Eucharist isn’t just a piece of bread, and that it’s the true body and blood of Christ, the 2nd person of the Godhead.

It’s no more arrogant than to say the cargo cults that sprang up in the pacific erroneously thought building mockups of cargo planes would make them return.
 
That’s my point. You think that about the bread. Whether true or not, don’t you think if someone referred to it in a dismissive way it would be disrespectful?
 
I’m secure enough in my faith I don’t get mad or offended if someone mocks it.

I don’t think it’s the truth. I know it to be. I pity the ones who reject it, but I won’t pretend to hold their “holy” objects that aren’t, as equal to what is.
 
Curious11 said:
I want the whole world to believe in Jesus, but at the same time i wouldn’t want for …Jews to abandon their idiosyncratic religious rites like Torah study/interpretation…and so on. What do you guys think?
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Paul was a Jew, and from all the evidence, continued to observe his Jewish faith after he became a Christian.

Jews who become Christians call themselves 'completed Jews"


It is also true that the Gospel message transcends all cultures and faiths. We can see from the Scriptures and the Early Church documents how Christianity spread to all the known world and encountered people of all language and culture.

That being said, one must also be aware that there are certain cultural/religious beliefs. Sacrificing children, for example, may be part of a person’s religion and culture, but is not consistent with God’s expectations for mankind.

http://christ.org.tw/bible_and_theology/Bible/Burnt_Offering_of_Children.htm
Curious11 said:
But if you had the habit of playing chess with her, you could continue doing so, provided the breakup wasn’t bitter, just like accepting Jesus doesn’t have to mean a bitter rejection of previous beliefs
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Maximilian75 said:
a black box in saudi arabia matter to them?
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What IS that?
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A chunk of meteorite is just a chunk of meterorite. They erroneously consider it holy. It’s just a rock.
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It seems to me that, when it comes to respecting the beliefs or cultures of others, if they believe a chunk of meteorite was sent by God, who are we to say it was not? Did not God create the universe? Could He not have allowed such a chunk to land where it did for a reason?
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But if you had the habit of playing chess with her, you could continue doing so, provided the breakup wasn’t bitter, just like accepting Jesus doesn’t have to mean a bitter rejection of previous beliefs
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Playing chess is a leisure activity - a game. And though it may be an important part of a persons’ identity ( I know some people for whom it is), but it is not on par with a religious belief. Religious beliefs transcend culture, which includes leisure. As long as such activities do not contradict the faith, they are not a problem.
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I’m secure enough in my faith I don’t get mad or offended if someone mocks it.
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Ok, but what would you think about a person who was mocking that which you considered Holy?
 
the “black box” i referred to I believe is called the Kaabaa…?
 
I hear it all the time. My Protestant and atheist friends laugh at my belief in the true presence in the Eucharist. I can’t make them believe it, and getting mad or offended won’t change anything. So I shrug it off.
 
Silly, The world is, exactly as God intended it to be.

Voluntary change is the point. With guidance from Truth, friendship and so many other things.

Just sit back and enjoy everything that has been created. There’s so many prettyful things to learn and see. 😇
 
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