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Lynxdk
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You have an odd attitude for someone who claims to be “Roman Catholic”. Do you even know what the definition of the word Catholic, means? Or are you just here to troll?
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~Mercy callin you out.~
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tonyfish58
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ggarcia19 - I think that you have a good question.
I also believe that all the Great Religions are from God. That we are all to be united as the Human race and that we are here to Know and Love God
May God guide us all in His Love
Regards Tony
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Judas_Thaddeus
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All great religions (guess you mean major religions), are of God . . . despite contradictions. Youggarcia19 - I think that you have a good question.
I also believe that all the Great Religions are from God. That we are all to be united as the Human race and that we are here to Know and Love God
May God guide us all in His Love
Regards Tony
know I never hear on this forum the Baha’i excuses for Buddha, Krishna, Zarathustra, it’s always
about Jesus, Abraham, Moses, Muhammad, like the prior set of prophets is like some skeleton
in the closet. I keep bringing K, B, & Z to the Baha’i here, somehow that is always ignored, yet
they love saying the words “ALL religions” and things like that.
We can link the Old Testament and the New Testament, but somehow we can’t get them to the
Qur’an, Bhagavad Gita, Avesta, etc. Where’s that? We can trust the Bible because it is consis-
tent, but it just can’t happen that way with the other religions, even Christianity to Islam.
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onemangang
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What is the criteria to be considered a great religion?ggarcia19 - I think that you have a good question.
I also believe that all the Great Religions are from God. That we are all to be united as the Human race and that we are here to Know and Love God
May God guide us all in His Love
Regards Tony
The fullness of God’s revelation to man subsist in the Catholic Church, all truths that are professed, are Catholic, those supposed truths that contradict Catholic Dogma, fall short of truth!
The Catholic Church, She is the pillar and bulwark of truth, the manifold wisdom of God, (Jesus Christ) continues to be revealed through her!
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tonyfish58
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IgnatianPhilo
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Are you saying Jesus was a liar?
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joe371
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Well, if for example, God established the Christian religion as well as the Muslim religion, then God is behaving in a contradictory way - right? Why would God tell Christians that Jesus is God (second divine Person) and is the only way to the Father, and at the same time tell Muslims that Jesus is not God, but a mere prophet? Only one can be true, logically speaking. Your thoughts?
Either one of these religions is from God, or neither of these religions are from God…
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ggarcia19
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I feel a powerful un welcoming spirit whenever I hear different churches talk bad about each other. As a child , I watched many Pentecostal preachers teach that the Catholics are idol worshippers and a false doctrine but when I was driving the city bus the Jehovah witness would tell me that the Pentecostal church was full of fools because all the shouting and worship was just ridiculous and that I don’t know how to read the Bible but then it never ends…I am just happy that I’m a strong bible reader, I’ve had Mormons and Jehovah Witness try to convert me but my skin is to thick.
I have heard a few churches say that there congregation was the truth and everyone else is and was wrong.
I have noticed that it has become a strategy to convert non believers into a religion by telling others that they are the only correct church and everyone else’s is false.
I have heard a few churches say that there congregation was the truth and everyone else is and was wrong.
I have noticed that it has become a strategy to convert non believers into a religion by telling others that they are the only correct church and everyone else’s is false.
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Darryl_B
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Early 1800 America was characterized by an advent of the “cult of self”. The general appeal of those religions was “what I am going to get out of it”. The extended promise was this earth, this land, and its all yours, and no one else’s apart from a few other faithful so there is therefore more land for you.
There is no such thing as non-denominational, I tried that for 20 years, and it doesn’t work. Non-denominational is a denomination in it’s own right (not rite). Since you read the Bible, you will notice one important thing in the NT that is the word “one”. There is only one God, only one Lord Jesus Christ, only one baptism, faith, hope, and it goes on and on.
There is only one Truth, and there is only one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.
That is not morally wrong, unless God is morally wrong?
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tonyfish58
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I would like to offer a comment on this aspect of your thoughts if I may
IMHO There is indeed one God and one Purpose and God does not have to be Morally wrong for it to be so.
The greatest understanding we can have about God is that He does as He wills!
This is the most great bounty to us, to which is a very different subject that would take away from this thread.
To find the One God in all the Great Religions could be one easy step, that is to look with the eye of oneness.
In all the scriptures of all the religions where we may see no evidence of unity, we might only have to slightly change our mindset and a new meaning can tie them all together.
It could be as simple as Man not quite getting the meaning of scripture right! Gods purpose never changes, His Love for us, that is every person, is always there
Why then do we try to separate and use God exclusively just because we think scripture says so?
Well worth the thought - God bless - Regards Tony
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Skadi
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If all religions are interpreted allegorically yes then this is possible. But fundimentalist religion is almost inherently exclusive (except Budhism) so people don’t tend to like this idea.
I simply decided to only worry about my religion. Other dietys may exist but I have mine and that’s what I’m concerned with.
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Contarini
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No, it hasn’t “become” a strategy. It is much less common now than it used to be. The remarkable new development is that many churches don’t do this.
Catholicism takes a somewhat different approach than the one you’re used to as described in your examples: it’s not that other churches’ (or religions’) beliefs and practices are bad or worthless, but that what is good and true in them is ultimately reconcilable with the teachings of the Church. That’s still, of course, a very tall order in our pluralistic age. I can accept it in the following form: Catholicism has preserved the divine revelation given in Jesus, and none of its formal, binding teachings and practices contradict that revelation. Hence, no beliefs or practices that contradict the dogmatic teachings of Catholicism are true. However, many things may appear to conflict to us which really don’t, and many of the less formal, less binding beliefs and practices of Catholicism may need a lot of enrichment from other sources.
But the bottom line, in terms of your OP, is that you don’t have a basis for making the dogmatic claim that no “one true” religion exists. Ironically, that puts you in the position of having the “one truth” and being able to judge that all existing claims are false.
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Judas_Thaddeus
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Aside from being self-contradictory.
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aragonjohn1
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I would like to offer a comment on this aspect of your thoughts if I may
IMHO There is indeed one God and one Purpose and God does not have to be Morally wrong for it to be so.
The greatest understanding we can have about God is that He does as He wills!
This is the most great bounty to us, to which is a very different subject that would take away from this thread.
To find the One God in all the Great Religions could be one easy step, that is to look with the eye of oneness.
In all the scriptures of all the religions where we may see no evidence of unity, we might only have to slightly change our mindset and a new meaning can tie them all together.
It could be as simple as Man not quite getting the meaning of scripture right! Gods purpose never changes, His Love for us, that is every person, is always there
Why then do we try to separate and use God exclusively just because we think scripture says so?
Well worth the thought - God bless - Regards Tony
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yes, if there is one God one truth then everything excepting sin contains at least a fragment of truth and real love and therefore one belief namely theif understanding you correctly every belief, love, etc… must seek the one love one truth? if
one believes that two or more religions are the truth that is the old lie of contradictory
indifference /lukewarmness. Sacred Scripture is God’s love story to all with every word
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infinite interpetation and truth in His love. so, hope ya continue to find truth form our God.
God bless
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Adamski
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I was a member of a non denominational church and after I read the bible it was very obvious to me that jesus stated that there is only one true church, that it is visible and he started it, the versus are endless supporting this
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RosslynV
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Benny Hinn has the truth. (Just kidding!)
The Catholic Church was set up by Christ as the one true holy and apostolic Church. All other religions are therefore false.
For a good laugh on youtube type in " Benny hinn let the bodies hit the floor".
The Catholic Church was set up by Christ as the one true holy and apostolic Church. All other religions are therefore false.
For a good laugh on youtube type in " Benny hinn let the bodies hit the floor".
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ggarcia19
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Peter Popoff and his miracle spring water is worst.
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tonyfish58
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aragonjohn1 - Thank you for the Thoughts
I believe in the One True God and His Truth can be found in all the Major World Religions.
I agree with this 100% - “Sacred Scripture is God’s love story to all with every word containing infinite interpretation and truth in His love”.
Why do we then Limit it to exclude others?
God has only revealed the One Truth through different Messengers, it is man that has concluded they are different messages. All the Messengers delivered to mankind what they were capable of understanding at the time. But in all the Words of God can be found the Truth about the Oneness of God.
In the Time of Moses the ultimate Truth was what Moses taught, in the Time of Jesus it was He that taught the ultimate Truth, the same for Muhammad and Krishna etc! that is why you have passages such as “I have more to say Unto you”.
Every one of these Messengers are the way the truth and the Life for the age and time that the Message was applicable. Gods way is not our way
Regards Tony
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Judas_Thaddeus
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Well God’s ways, certainly, are not contradictory.Gods way is not our way
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Darryl_B
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The Bible does not teach that. The Bible teaches that God in these last days, spoke through His Son, God manifest in the flesh, where he said “I am the way the truth the life no man comes to the Father except through me”.aragonjohn1 - Thank you for the Thoughts
I believe in the One True God and His Truth can be found in all the Major World Religions.
I agree with this 100% - “Sacred Scripture is God’s love story to all with every word containing infinite interpretation and truth in His love”.
Why do we then Limit it to exclude others?
God has only revealed the One Truth through different Messengers, it is man that has concluded they are different messages. All the Messengers delivered to mankind what they were capable of understanding at the time. But in all the Words of God can be found the Truth about the Oneness of God.
In the Time of Moses the ultimate Truth was what Moses taught, in the Time of Jesus it was He that taught the ultimate Truth, the same for Muhammad and Krishna etc! that is why you have passages such as “I have more to say Unto you”.
Every one of these Messengers are the way the truth and the Life for the age and time that the Message was applicable. Gods way is not our way
Regards Tony
The revelation was complete, the work was fulfilled. There is no extension, there is no new messenger. This is the Word of God. There is no need to seek another.
All those other world religions are trying desperately to comprehend good and evil, judgment and righteousness, but they fall well short of Truth and always have, because God’s way of viewing us is not the same as our way of defining God.
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