click this title: Exclusive Religion. When will the penny drop?

When will the penny drop?
..And when YOU have the revelation…: “ah Jesus means......; I understand…So, it's not all about ME. “When I totally surrender self to Jesus, the son of God, who died to save me, I will inherit eternal life and at last will come home. By His grace, I will know the real reason to why I am here – it is all for a person, Jesus.”
Instead you say” you are too arrogant to me. You are saying you are better than I am. You worship an exclusive God. You say, you have superiority over me. Why can't you accept what I believe; accept MY name - that I do it MY way?”
I can UNDERSTAND this and I don’t blame you for not trusting Jesus. Look at what the gospel says – study it for yourself. Hear Jesus’s words, not mine. Go to the book of 1 John.
You may have heard the idea about all beliefs stemming from the same source (I think the Bahai’s may support this) –The picture of a mountain where the same water comes down in different streams, all round the mountain – from one source. The mountain picture demonstrates all religions do this. So, people naturally assume that if different religions believe in what they want, keep to themselves and care for their own, this is okay, and no one will get hurt and have mutual respect. But to have this picture and believe this must be correct – assumes you can see every stream, BUT you claim to see from God’s perspective! Look, you are not God! Don’t you see that a secularist is every bit as self righteousness as a moralist? Sooner or later it leads to division. Each group looks down their nose at the other.

Religion is a set of beliefs in the fullest sense – a set of answers to the big questions. Why are we here – what is right and wrong, what will fix the human race – what are the most important thing to be doing. Everyone can not prove the answers are right – so it is by faith..

Take Issues in the public domain like: – Education, Poverty, Divorce laws… social issues... You cannot leave your religious beliefs when you come into the public domain. You can not keep them out. It is hypocrisy to think the law can suit all on each issue. The laws that work depend on what your perception is on that particular issue – for instance, divorce. Whose needs are important? The family’s? The individual? The group? People have different views.
Everybody has a set of exclusive beliefs.
So, perhaps we ought to ask ourselves, which set of exclusive beliefs can produce peace loving, inclusive, reconcilable behaviour?
One strategy that deals with the divisiveness of ‘religion’, is to look at the things about the Christian gospel that are unique to Christianity.
A Christian’s belief is different from ALL other religions. It is unique. Three things this text tells us in John 1. It will take you into being an agent of peace.
1 The origin of Jesus’ salvation.
Every Christian spirit acknowledges that Jesus has come in the flesh and is from God (Not ‘born’ but ‘come’ – he was somewhere else before he came into the world. In Jesus, God came into the world.) Jesus is God.
2 The Purpose of Jesus’s Salvation
Other religions want to liberate you from the flesh. At birth – Jesus received the body. God redeemed him from the body. Transformation of this world – the is biblical vision is unique – we become a new person in Christ, when we are saved.
3. Method of Grace. Other religions say you have to be good, to perform the truth, love God etc. If God sees this then He will bless you and save you. The gospel does not say this. He loves us.
Not that we love God, but He sent His son to suffer for those who don’t love him, who aren’t virtuous. He came to die, and we are not saved by our performance.
Jesus is a saviour who died the death we should have died. Lived the life we should have lived.

Another argument you may have, what about love? – isn’t it important that we just LOVE one another – You say: "let’s not talk doctrine and the resurrection" .. but, sooner or later you will come up against a barrier, a conflict, a division. So you want LOVE to your stream flowing from the love mountain? – Unless your religious impulses, confess these unique distinctiveness of Christianity mentioned above, your spiritual impulses may enslave you and turn you to hate other people.

If you accept 1,2, and 3 above, you will turn into the agent of reconciliation and peace, that is for all mankind. Surrender to Him and the miraculous will happen. It won’t be easy, but it will be right – because He didn’t make us right, but declared us right by what He did on the cross.

It is all in the bible. Ask Jesus. He will help you by His spirit to know the truth.