Mammamel
05-21-2008, 06:58 AM
The book:
But Don't All Religions Lead to God? By Micheal Green.
Mr Green wrote this book as a comparison study between Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam.
I knew some things about each of these but not really much about any other than Christianity.
The differences are vast, the biggest, none but Christianity gives you communion with God. In the others, God is a willful creature that makes no promises, at least none He must keep. Your salvation, well in Hinduism and Buddhism, there rally seems to be no point but to live life over and over atoning for our mistakes (in various forms) until we achieve what seems to me to be the grand state of nothing . In Islam every thing is based on allah's choice at the moment, it is very sensual, a complete opposite of what Christ taught. Violence, subjugation and fear seem to have large roles to play. And, even if you faithfully follow the book, you are not guaranteed salvation, allah will decide that later.
All in all it was an interesting read, and I now somewhat better understand the other religions. I have read part of the koran, and have found it as Mr. Green describes.
The one point we disagreed on, I feel the lake of fire is a real place, where he feels it is "separation from God".
The best point in the whole book though is this:
what makes Christianity so different, is our leader is not dead. We as Christians continue living His life, because He is in us. It made me think, if I am a carrier of Christ, then every thing I do reflects on Him, simply because I wear His name.
Interesting thought.
But Don't All Religions Lead to God? By Micheal Green.
Mr Green wrote this book as a comparison study between Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam.
I knew some things about each of these but not really much about any other than Christianity.
The differences are vast, the biggest, none but Christianity gives you communion with God. In the others, God is a willful creature that makes no promises, at least none He must keep. Your salvation, well in Hinduism and Buddhism, there rally seems to be no point but to live life over and over atoning for our mistakes (in various forms) until we achieve what seems to me to be the grand state of nothing . In Islam every thing is based on allah's choice at the moment, it is very sensual, a complete opposite of what Christ taught. Violence, subjugation and fear seem to have large roles to play. And, even if you faithfully follow the book, you are not guaranteed salvation, allah will decide that later.
All in all it was an interesting read, and I now somewhat better understand the other religions. I have read part of the koran, and have found it as Mr. Green describes.
The one point we disagreed on, I feel the lake of fire is a real place, where he feels it is "separation from God".
The best point in the whole book though is this:
what makes Christianity so different, is our leader is not dead. We as Christians continue living His life, because He is in us. It made me think, if I am a carrier of Christ, then every thing I do reflects on Him, simply because I wear His name.
Interesting thought.