Other Religions.

[White Knight]

I was wondering, if the other religions out there, can be misinterupated Christianity? like their versions of it and all, Because there are simlairities, but they aren't the same thats a fact.

Alla is not God
Budda is not God
Vareria is not God
Beasts are not God
[b]Jesus Christ (IS) the One True God[/b]


But my question is, is it possible that Buddism and Hudduism are misinterupated versions of Christianity? What does the Church think? along with other religions, being misinterupated Christianity.

[Apotheoun]

While the Catholic Church recognizes that there can be good things in other religions, she also condemns any form of indifferentism that holds that one religion is as good as another. Christ is the sole savior of humanity, and the Catholic Church, by Christ's own intention, is the sole ordinary means for coming into communion with God.

Salvation is a gift of grace from the Triune God through Christ's mystical Body, the Catholic Church; therefore, no man is saved because he is a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or a Muslim, etc., but if he is saved, he is saved by the grace of God, which necessarily flows to him from the Catholic Church, even if he is invincibly ignorant of this fact.

[Donna]

Good answer.

[White Knight]

Anyone else have any comments? btw [b]Apotheoun[/b] "Nice, Detailed, and Interesting Post"

I did research on other religions, Buddism, Hinduism, Islam, and even some cults, so I was wondering what the TCC has on their few towards these other forms of worship in a particlaur religion, I forone am very considered about the Catholic Church's view on this issue, even though I'm not a Catholic, Islam, Hindu, Buddist, or Cultist, I'm a Believer in Jesus Christ [b]I'm a Non-Denominational Christian[/b] If anyone wants to know, but I'm really thinking hard about the Catholic Faith and such.

[Mrs. Bro. Adam]

Misinterpreted?

No...Man-made religions? Yes.


I don't believe that other religions are "misinterpreted Christianity".

The morals that each hold to it is impossible that they are 'misinterperted'.

[Oik]

I think that man kind has failed mostly to embrace God through out history, until Catholicism. All other religions would only go so far. Anything after Christianity though, is the fault of men and thier own reservations, misunderstandings, and protests.

[Norseman82]

I suggest reading the Catechism paragraphs 839-848.

[Oik]

Right on Norseman!

[Oik]

Here's the [url="http://www.nccbuscc.com/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art9p3.htm"]CCC [/url] link that norseman is talking about.

[jasJis]

[quote name='White Knight' date='Sep 15 2004, 08:58 PM'] I was wondering, if the other religions out there, can be misinterupated Christianity? like their versions of it and all, Because there are simlairities, but they aren't the same thats a fact.

Alla is not God
Budda is not God
Vareria is not God
Beasts are not God
[b]Jesus Christ (IS) the One True God[/b]


But my question is, is it possible that Buddism and Hudduism are misinterupated versions of Christianity? What does the Church think? along with other religions, being misinterupated Christianity. [/quote]
White,
The answer is Yes! Other religions are misinterpreted [b]and[/b] [u]incomplete[/u] Christianity.

God is [u]all[/u] Good. There is no Good outside of God, seperate from God's Will, derived without the Grace of God. Good is impossible without God. There isn't neutral, only Evil apart from God. Universalists "sort of" recognize this. Any Good that any religion or philosophy recognizes or encourages is at least a [u][b]partial[/b][/u] response to God's Grace. Note it is partial. It is not a complete response. It may be correct, but only in a limited perspective. God alone judges the completeness and correctness of humanity's response.

Because of sins of pride, arrogance, indifference, impatience, etc., humanity fails to respond completely to Grace. [u]The Catholic Church alone [/u]is the opportunity for a FULL and COMPLETE response to God's Grace made possible through Jesus Christ our Savior. Other religions are at best a partial response, even all other Christian religions. People, because of the disorder brought into this world by the sins of heretics and schismatics (and encouraged by Satan) find it difficult to learn of and respond fully to God's Grace calling us all to complete unity in the Catholic Church. Even Catholics fail to respond to all the Graces that Jesus makes available in His One Catholic and Apostolic Church. (That's what the Sacrament of Reconcilliation is about and why most Christians recognize the need to continually repent and recognize our shortcomings).

With that being said, that is why "non-denominatinoalism" is one of the most dangerous belief systems that is crippling many Christianities. Humanity is weak and prone to failure. Humanity is more than individuals, we are society as well. We are orgainic in the sense the parts are viable parts as individuals, but we become more when we are together as a whole (The Mystical Body of Christ). Non-Denominationalism is a direct attack and fight against this Unity. Instead of 200 large parts (different Christian religions) you get 20 billion small parts of individual Christians and small groups of believers. In a quest to avoid error or failure to respond to Grace, they limit the opportunities of Grace. It's like in the parable of the Talents the Master gives to His servants. Non-Denominationalists are the servant who buries his talent so he won't lose it. What God really wants is us to get with all the other servants and work all together so that if one talent is lost, it's loss if offset by the gains made with investing the other talents. When we remain as individuals, we alone are responsible for all our losses, and we alone are responsible for any gains. When we work as One Body, we have All the Talents together, we all share in the losses and gains, and because the Master is helping us, we always will have a profit. Jesus Christ, the Son of God is the Wealth that deposited Grace in the Master's Bandk (Catholic Church) where all the Talents (Graces) came from. These Talents are real on earth as Grace by the power of the Holy Spirit. How we respond to the Graces made available to us is what God the Master will judge. We are at most risk when we beleive it's supposed to be an individual response all alone. It's really our individual response to work with our fellow servants, bringing all our Talents (Graces) together to benifit ourselves and each other together.
Other religions (including other Christian religions) are failures to recognize that all the Talents (Grace) to respond to Good come from God and are really found completely in the Catholic Church. NOTE: This is NOT saying the Catholic Church is diminshed because it's graces are in other relgions and will only have complete Graces when we have all the Talents depostited back. The value of these Graces always remain and is available in the Catholic Church. The value and worth of God is not divided, but these others have value because the Graces are all deposited in the Catholic Church.

[carrdero]

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
– H.H. the Dalai Lama


“It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.”
– Thomas Jefferson

"Here I say to YOU that ALL religions are human-made. No human-made religion is “the TRUE religion.” Each organization has a little bit of TRUTH here, a little bit of good there. But none are complete."
-GOD

[Guest lundercovera]

that's not what my God says. that is what your false god said.

[carrdero]

“One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.”
– Robert A. Heinlein

[White Knight]

Religion is Man maded, Jesus Christ is the Real thing.

Even though, Jesus was a Man, he was also God. So there ya go.

[cmotherofpirl]

If you are a Christian, you believe religion is God made, since if you read the Old Testament, God did lay down what was acceptable and what was not.