JMP@VMS.BRIGHTON.AC.UK (John Pickett (pharmacy)) (02/12/90)
>Date: Fri, 9 Feb 90 13:33:00 EST >From: "The Golden Rule: He who has all the Gold makes the rules." < > PDBROYLES@EARN.OWUCOMCN> >Subject: RE: Is it blind faith when... >>>I really wish that people would research their >>>subject out before condemning something on blind faith. >>Like I implied above, real Christians don't have "blind" faith. >I feel perfectly justified in saying that MAKS was acting on blind faith. >Let me explain, he was taking something that he heard from the 700 Club >and presenting it as fact without first having checked into the validity >of those statements. If somebody wants to attack anothers religion, they >have that right to do so, but I do ask that they know what they are >talking about before doing so!!! MAKS criticism was biased, it only >looked at the negative side of Hinduism, and it was uneducated If, which *I* believe, Hinduism is a false religion then it can only lead to ultimate destruction - it doesn't warn its adherents to flee from the wrath to come - it gives them a false hope of another chance on the next round of reincarnation. But what if their adherents find themselves standing before the judgment seat of Christ at the next reincarnation (day of resurrection)? That religion would then prove to be entirely "negative." Sure many Hindus are 'nice' people - 'wouldn't hurt a fly' types - but what's the good of being nice guys if salvation requires believing on the Lord Jesus Christ as taught in the Bible? >>One thing >>I know, that whereas I was born blind, now I see. God Himself has opened >>my eyes of faith and I know Whom I have believed (2 Timothy 1:12). I side >>with MAKS here. I know that he has seeing faith too. He knows the truth >>of the Christian Bible. Anything that opposes it must, per se, be wrong. >>We do not need to "research" other religions before we can pronounce them >>false if they are clearly contrary to the Word of God revealed unto us >>in the Christian Scriptures. >I wish that I could say the same, but I can't. Yes, I wish you could too, so I pray to the Lord Jesus Christ that you will some day - soon! >I've seen how Christianity >works and I've seen how Hinduism and Buddhism work and they are not as far >off as they might appear. And I do call it a blind faith that will not >allow one to research another religion openly and unbiasedly---if >Christianity is so correct then what have you to fear from exploring other >religions? 1) Nothing! I have read on other religions - not merely accounts by people converted from, say, hinduism. I can see how hopeless and useless are religions other than true Christianity. 2) A lot! Lest I be led astray by the error of the wicked. So in reading about other religions I must must pray that God will give me discernment between right and wrong: between truth and error. >>And what's more - we have the witness of >>the Holy Spirit of God within us. That's why our faith is real and not >>blind! >And how do you know that other religions don't have the Holy Spirit in >them? How do you know that it isn't "say Satan" who hasn't deceived you? Because of the witness of the Holy Spirit Himself who has been given to every true believer (John 14:17,26; 15:26; 16:13) >How do you know that Satan didn't infiltrate the ecclesastical ranks a >millenium ago---Oh yeah, I forgot, because God wouldn't allow that to >happen--- Sounds like something the Pharasees would say about Jesus: "No, >he couldn't be the Messiah, God wouldn't allow that to happen without >telling us." Sounds like something one of Job's neighbors might have >said, "No, God wouldn't allow something like that to happen unless you >were really bad...." Oh, but he did! Not just 1000 years ago! Read the epistles and how they warn about being led astray after false gospels. "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. "And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you; whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not." (2 Peter 2;1-3) Yours in Christ Jesus, John Pickett