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Originally Posted by Liminal Chris  If this is the case, why haven't they dropped the labels and recombined as one unified group (with the obvious understanding that the ways in which they worship may be different)?
Why identify yourself with a label if you realize this? |
Don't get me wrong. No labels would be better. Jesus said the world would know us by our love and good deeds. There is really only one church (or body of Christ) that is made up of the members who do His will no matter where they gather to worship.
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Originally Posted by Liminal Chris If the people running these religions are so smart, why haven't all religions already done that already: budhism, hinduism, islam, chritianity, etc if every religion is just a different path to the same summit? |
We have no head of the world's religious people to do this. I'm not trying to sell you an idea, just explaining something. Because what I believe about heaven and hell and the end times, and all that, isn't going to change what's really going to happen, I don't spend a lot of time speculating on that theology. Whatever happens, I am going to be with Him and that's what matters most to me.
What you have just described, I believe, is what the Bible says will happen at the end of the world. A man will appear and take the lead and save us. He will begin by bringing us together to solve all the problems of the world and stop wars. It might start out with something good like, "What causes most war? Religious differences. And at the root of those differences? Beliefs." So to end wars we have to have no beliefs or a set of generic beliefs everyone can agree upon...a worldwide religion. And a one world system with no country divisions or rights.
Anyway, sounds like a good idea until he declares himself to be God since he led us to world peace when no other religion or God himself couldn't (or didn't override our free will to do it). He kills or starves everyone that hasn't opted in and taken the mark for the sake of maintaining peace. And then the end comes when Jesus comes back to finally put an end to all rebellion against God and reveal Himself to the whole world at once.
I know it may seem like a fable or something but every sane person knows this world is coming to an end one day, either by volcanic earthquakes or meteor or the sun exploding (Jesus said all three and more). I mean the Bible may seem unnatural to some but so does the reality of spinning around on a rock suspended in the middle of nowhere.