One Church, one God................ (Jesus, Creator, choice, hell, churches)

[Master Vigil]

I feel that there is one church, just not everyone likes it because of our stupidity as human beings. I also feel that some religions are closer to god than others, and the ones that aren't are more man/nature-focused with fantastic philosophical applications. I don't see one as "better" than another, just more effective.

[OutOfTime]

there's a modern danger with this. you guys know of 'globalization' yeah? it's all about making everything into one of each? it sounds nice on paper but in reality it's fascism and makes everything easier to control?

if this does happen, then that's what i'd suspect. also if you have only one church, and that church is 'infiltrated' or whatever word you wanna use, maybe corrupted, then all churches would be. slowly the religion would start to change. no one notices the subtle changes but after a while, it could end up being a satanist church for all we know.

[Yid613]

I know that christianity and Islam both have a message of one world religion and unity but in looking back at the roots of both those faiths (Judaism) we can not find anywhere where it points to a single religion as being the "right one".

A strange statement from someone called NoahideHiker and lists them self’s as a Bnai Noach. What about the seven laws given to Noah after the flood. These apply to all mankind.

[a_student]

Interesting. It seems all religions have their denominations. Christianity has different sects whose basic principles differ (i.e. the Divinity of Jesus Christ). Muslims have Sunnis and Shiates. It all comes down to perception and interpretation of the scriptures we read. One interesting thing I learned recently is that all Jehovah’s Witnesses (at least as told to me by a Jehovah’s Witness) have the same interpretation of the Bible. I was amazed at this because we are all individual people and therefore all think differently. If 2 people agree on everything, then only 1 person is doing the thinking. We all have different opinions on basic things like personal hygiene, how can we all think the same about as abstract as The Creator? So in conclusion the “1 G-d, many paths” seems to be the most logical, or at least the most “pleasing to everyone” answer.

[.lava]

Originally Posted by michel

Why not ? - that is how it was meant to be.........

What a great shame that politics, different languages, and different cultures have contributed to us all slitting up in groups.......

What way can any of you see in uniting Churches (maybe smaller groups to start with), and then the "big stuff" .

if you don't mind me asking childish questions but how many Bibles out there? we have just one Qur'an yet still there are many groups how about one world, one love, one God?

that's a lovely idea btw



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[Starfish]

Originally Posted by michel

Why not ? - that is how it was meant to be.........

What a great shame that politics, different languages, and different cultures have contributed to us all slitting up in groups.......

What way can any of you see in uniting Churches (maybe smaller groups to start with), and then the "big stuff" .

I'm not sure what differentiates little stuff from "big stuff". But it's a nice idea. However, to unite, means someone has to give up their beliefs and accept another's. Not likely, I'm afraid.

But still, it's a nice idea.

[oldcajun]

Originally Posted by michel

Why not ? - that is how it was meant to be.........

What a great shame that politics, different languages, and different cultures have contributed to us all slitting up in groups.......

What way can any of you see in uniting Churches (maybe smaller groups to start with), and then the "big stuff" .

God knows now who belongs to Him and who doesn't. If you united all the churches it wouldn't make any difference because people would still have different perspectives in their beliefs.

[Lucian]

I believe there is only one Church, which is Holy and Catholic, and that will never change, not even with a thousand anathemas thrown against others. We can't dictate who does and doesn't belong to it, since that is ultimately up to God, we can only aspire to be parts of it ourselves and help others become parts of it. It's not a registered organization or anything like that (although there are or have been such which represent it), but rather the collection of all Christians/Believers/Elect/Flock/Temples of the Holy Spirit, or whatever term you want to use, forming the one Body.

[Jaiket]

Originally Posted by Victor

I'm a firm believer that one thing that must be in place is something that can put a stop to various interpretations/relativism.

I recommend machine guns, they worked a treat for the Bolsheviks.