The Jesus Christ as seen or taught by other Faiths

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Darryl_B said:
Maybe science can help instead.
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In that it can describe, in a tentative way, obviously, the way that God’s creation ‘works’ it might provide insights into some aspect of God but those insights would be a ‘woven web of guesses.’

I would suggest that attempting to ‘understand’ God, beyond statements at a ‘God would appear to be logical’ sort of level, is the road to man creating God. That’s idolatry.

The discernment of how we are to lead our lives is another thing altogether.
 
Kaninchen said:
In that it can describe, in a tentative way, obviously, the way that God’s creation ‘works’ it might provide insights into some aspect of God but those insights would be a ‘woven web of guesses.’

I would suggest that attempting to ‘understand’ God, beyond statements at a ‘God would appear to be logical’ sort of level, is the road to man creating God. That’s idolatry.

The discernment of how we are to lead our lives is another thing altogether.
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Then we are all guilty of idolatry.
 
Servant19 said:
Sticking to our guns for the last 3000 years without exploring new possibilities has only resulted in unhappy endings

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Or, on the other hand, it’s the exploring new possibilities that has resulted in the unhappy endings.

This could be followed by what might, in the UK, be described as a ‘Pantomime debate’ of "Oh, no it wasn’t!/Oh, yes it was!’ but we’ll not bother, will we?
 
Kaninchen said:
Or, on the other hand, it’s the exploring new possibilities that has resulted in the unhappy endings.

This could be followed by what might, in the UK, be described as a ‘Pantomime debate’ of "Oh, no it wasn’t!/Oh, yes it was!’ but we’ll not bother, will we?
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I would agree if the new paradigms causing unhappiness were only ever from non-religious communities…

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Servant19 said:
It’s a question.

What is the recipe for an unhappy ending?

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Ignorance. I don’t need the ‘new’ because I would then have to assign history to ignorance, and I cannot do that to history, since all history comes from them.
 
Servant19 said:
I would agree if the new paradigms causing unhappiness were only ever from non-religious communities…

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What is the paradigmatic basis for discerning that naughty non-religious possibilities are more naughty than naughty religious possibilities or is it that non-religious possibilities are never naughty while non-religious possibilities are always naughty? Or could it be that non-naughty religious possibilities are, in some way, still less naughty than non-naughty non-religious possibilities?
 
Kaninchen said:
What is the paradigmatic basis for discerning that naughty non-religious possibilities are more naughty than naughty religious possibilities or is it that non-religious possibilities are never naughty while non-religious possibilities are always naughty? Or could it be that non-naughty religious possibilities are, in some way, still less naughty than non-naughty non-religious possibilities?
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That’s some impressive poetry there sister 🙂

The point stands. Separating ourselves by colour, race, sex or “religious affiliation” has been the tried and tested paradigm which has failed to bring a happy ending to the world today.

What do we need for today, right now. All that history, all those learnings can all be utilised and with a humble posture we can collectively see what has worked and what has not.

Let’s build on what has worked.

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Darryl_B said:
Ignorance. I don’t need the ‘new’ because I would then have to assign history to ignorance, and I cannot do that to history, since all history comes from them.
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Why do you assume that any new paradigm would involve ignorance?

One cannot ignore the mess our historical supposed “non-ignorance” has created today.

Should we carry on?

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