{"id":325,"date":"2010-05-06T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calebmotupalli.me\/?p=325"},"modified":"2011-05-22T14:18:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T08:48:17","slug":"many-ways-or-one-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agapekingdom.org\/agapeambassador\/many-ways-or-one-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Ways or One Way?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rosemarie Buxton of Episcopal Divinity School wrote in response to Professor Stephen Prothero’s book (God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World–and Why Their Differences Matter)<\/em> and his article (Separate Truths) <\/em>in the Boston Globe on April 25, 2010:<\/p>\n

According to Karen Armstrong, the difficulties arise when one religion sets itself apart as the one religion and chooses to do anything to defend itself, a sin that many religions have been guilty of throughout history.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Coming from the pen of a Christian Divinity school graduate, i am very disappointed at the above statement.<\/p>\n

Mankind is but one-kind. And so is creation-kind. Can an offspring say that he has two fathers or two mothers? That is not only vulgar but also foolish. That there is but one God, the creator of heaven and earth transcends any sort of debate.<\/p>\n

Now, there are a lot of injustices that are going unpunished by the government(s). The socio, economic, political, environmental crisis we are seeing today is testimony of that fact. Justice is not being meted out to all. That is why the Bible stresses on the Day of Judgment, when the Lord of lords and the King of kings will be seated on the throne and render justice to the nations.<\/p>\n

Now for this justice to be rendered with equity, there needs to be one law that is self-evident and transcends all other laws.<\/strong> This Law is the Law of Agape Love<\/em><\/strong> that Jesus kept and “exceeded the righteousness of the Pharisees” of His time and went and sat at the right hand side of God to judge the world.<\/p>\n

“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for His friends”<\/em><\/strong> ~ Lord Jesus Christ (John 15:13). How much more “self-evident” and transcendent can you get.<\/p>\n

To say that there are other ways or back-doors to God is an affront to the living God who is Jehovah Jireh–the One who provided this Way–an excruciating death for His son the Lord Jesus Christ only in order to fulfill the transcendent AND self-evident truth in John 15:13 as stated above. If there were indeed other ways then God was a stupid fool to take His son through this excruciating death. So excruciating that the Lord’s sweat turned into blood well before He was going to be crucified because He knew what kind of pain He will have to suffer.<\/p>\n

So, i believe, after the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Bhagavad Gita’s reference namely:<\/p>\n

“As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take, through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

“Whosoever comes to Me, through whatsoever form, I reach him; all men are struggling through paths that in the end lead to Me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

apply to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself–all streams have to end up with Him. In other words, at the Judgment Seat of Christ!<\/p>\n

For more on these lines, please read this article especially tailored for an Agnostic or one who is secular: http:\/\/truthunleashed.org\/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rosemarie Buxton of Episcopal Divinity School wrote in response to Professor Stephen Prothero’s book (God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World–and Why Their Differences Matter) and his article (Separate Truths) in the Boston Globe on April 25, 2010: According to Karen Armstrong, the difficulties arise when one religion sets itself … <\/p>\n

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