"If all the religions of the world are equally true, logic requires that they all are equally false: The conflicting doctrines would cancel one another!
Erwin W. Lutzer
Christ Among Other gods
Moody Publishers 1994
p. 49-50
Logically, Lutzer explains, all religions of the world may be false. But logically, they cannot all be true.
I beg you to think this through. Christians believe in one God. Hindus believe in thousands. Many religions believe Jesus was a great man; a great prophet. He is all that and more. He is God! "When the Parliament of the World's Religions issued a Global Ethic, it did not even use the word God because some Buddists would have been offended." (Lutzer/p.48)
We are not talking baptism by sprinkling or immersion, here. We are not talking about tongues or not tongues. We are not discussing whether Saturday or Sunday is the appropriate Sabbath; or what constitutes dishonoring that Sabbath. We are talking about God's first commandment: "You shall have no other gods before Me."
In the name of tolerance and diversity . . . maybe in the name of Minnesota Nice, I feel "required" to accept everyone's religion. I'm required to appreciate their culture, their beliefs. We have much to learn from one another and all religions, after all, have similar results--peace, love of mankind . . . and all the more so when agree.
I can appreciate. I can learn. I can love; and I do. Oh, my goodness, I encounter incredibly special people every day!
I cannot agree. Scriptures forbid that I do. I, at this point, have to choose --to please man or to please God. Because I have grown to love my Creator, my companion, and my Savior; and because this God holds eternity in His Hands, I choose to please Him.
By His Strength,
Lonnie
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