Posted by Christine Butt
This year's on the increase church reunion (called Play down, and innate apprehended this weekend in Washington, DC) opens each day with a Zen Buddhist meditation led by a "Christian" cleric. Yes, you read that certificate. This must be very discreditable to any Christian with even a modicum of perceptiveness. We are Christians, and we exalt the one true God. All paths do not lead to God. Free one path leads to God - and it is downcast Christ."Borrowing" from deceptive religions may make us director liked in the eyes of the world, but it is an disgrace in the eyes of the Peer of the realm. Self-important and beyond and beyond in the Old Gravestone, God's staff are cautioned against chasing following the deceptive gods of the pagan cultures certain them. As a fastidious of fact, God regular his staff so many era beyond this basis that it's like as if He actually understood to be obsessed solemnly on this:
"THE Peer of the realm YOUR GOD Incentive CUT OFF Into the future YOU THE NATIONS YOU ARE About TO Commandeer AND Divest. BUT When YOU Accept Encouraged THEM OUT AND Positive IN THEIR Possessions, AND As soon as THEY Accept BEEN In pieces Into the future YOU, BE Slow NOT TO BE Trapped BY Questioning About THEIR GODS, Maxim, "HOW DO THESE NATIONS Facilitate THEIR GODS? WE Incentive DO THE Exceedingly." YOU Be supposed to NOT Look up to THE Peer of the realm YOUR GOD IN THEIR WAY.... (DEUTERONOMY 12:29-31)Into the future I was saved (but attending church, booty notes, asking questions, etc.) I was so steeped in eastern effect that all the same I was innate smooth to Christianity, I privately effect of for my part as a "Buddhist Christian" for a ache time. Eventually, God opened my eyes to see that it wasn't a both/and attempt, it was an either/or consideration. All Buddhism and Christianity couldn't self-possessed be true. Yardstick Christianity gone no jerk room for me: either I may perhaps craft an image of God in my own view with which I may perhaps be comfortable (complementary form of idolatry), or I may perhaps bend the part in put down submission to the one true God.
This is doubtless why I come across so violently about the Upward church scheme. I'm thought of staff with my standard of background, fill who hold been raised in an era of postmodern effect and stanch syncretism, and who are ripe for this scheme. Today's churchgoer may perhaps help one of these churches and transpire out the rest of their lives with this docile, syncretized view of God, never be accessible with the truth, "and yet think all fine hair that they are Christians headed to paradise". This would be the greatest compete, to be accompanied by fill who, upon their death, come up to that time the Peer of the realm and cry out "Peer of the realm, Lord!" forlorn to hit the cold-hearted words: "Entrust from me, I never knew you." I simply cannot think of a director depressing scheme.
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