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What are some reasons why Christianity cannot be blended with other religions?
Austin replied 5 months, 2 weeks ago 33 Members · 32 Replies
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To begin, one cannot blend Christianity and other religions because other religions are false. God is holy and set apart. In addition, Christianity is at odds with the doctrines of other world religions as other religions seek to contradict the reality of the Gospel. Christianity presents an accurate view of human nature and man’s desperate need for a Savior, and affirms Christ as the only way. John 14:6 makes this clear: “Jesus said unto him,’I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.'” In this manner, Christianity is both the most exclusive (and most inclusive) “religion” known to man. There is only one way–Christ, but that way is open to everyone. No other religion can truthfully make these claims.
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Jesus Christ is the only agent of salvation. He is the Lord. So He is the one that brings us to God.
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All religions do not agree that God and his ways are revealed to us in the Bible and that Christ our Savior and Lord , the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, the cross of Jesus is necessary and crucial to salvation.
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1. Christianity has very different core beliefs to all other religions. It can’t be blended because however that was done, it would be a doing of man. The core beliefs of Christianity are; creation, the fall, redemption and restoration (as was taught in the first lesson in this series). No other religion has that combination of core beliefs, and we would compromise our conscience if we blended Christianity with another religion.
2. Although some religions have a belief in man as a created being, no other religion views man as a fallen being, or that Jesus rescued us from ourselves. Buddhism does not have the concept of heaven.
3. Man is not a god as the pantheists believe. We are fallen beings who need a saviour. We are separate from God.
4. Blending our Christian beliefs would make our faith useless and powerless. -
I once had a student who wrote an essay that I could not understand. He knew he wasn’t allowed to plagiarize and in effort to avoid this, he copied an article from NASA and replaced every third word with a different word. He didn’t use synonyms, or even replace nouns with nouns… it was absolute gibberish as the words he chose were just random scientific sounding words. I called him on it before grading it – because I really didn’t know what was going on. He explained that if he combined the article with other “science words” then it would be his own writing and he wouldn’t be plagiarizing – “it’s all science stuff.” Blending religions is like mixing up a bunch of science words and expecting it to make sense. The complexities and contradictions between them all make for an interesting but incomprehensible story.