| I would not be so sure if orgainzed religion can lead anyone to God, by whatever name that religion might have. Perhaps it can help you imagine that such is the case.
But let's look at a garden, we have many different kinds of flowers, different shapes, designs, and colors. But all the different kinds of flowers are reaching for the same sunlight, and reaching for the same water and other things in the soil. All the different flowers are consuming the same air.
So it is with religions, they are all reaching for truth and understanding. And truth has but one source. Buddha said "truth comes from truth and evil comes from evil". Each religion speaks of that one Light which is like a sun that gives life to all. And the need for belief. Even science shares that common goal.
Jesus repeated that concept when he said " I AM the truth, (and so forth). You must remember that the term "I AM" was used back then as one of the many names used by the Jewish religion for God. ( I AM that I AM). That name was also used in Eqypt with the same meaning. So if you translate that saying correctly you get "God is the turth, the Light, and the Way and none come unto God except by God" as Jesus was speaking in what we call the 3rd party. A common manner of writing then and now, because he did not speak his self but it was God speaking through him.
I am sorry to report that often organized religions lead people to the dead letter of the word and not to the spirit of life. Allow me to give you an anology - the tree lives directly from the light of the sun, but the green moss lives on the darkside of the tree, and lives off the life of the tree, and never comes into the light of the sun for its life. A few people live directly from the light of revelations and then they make books (life a tree makes bark) and other people then live off those books but always remain on the darkside and never come into the Light of life. Religions often are that darkside.
That is you bible study for today
Technosoul., |