In religion, a lot of things are beyond our human comprehension let alone arguing on facts, the right or wrong choice of words used, correct interpretation or translation of the Books, the degree of depth and complexity in their teachings etc in an effort trying to rationalize a believer's faith. Having said that, the process however does serve as a foundation in due course for one to dig further and move on to explore more about a particular religious belief. Winning an argument or finding and pointing out errors in the secret books of other religions do not make your religion more superior or having more truth than them. Many times we have to observe how the believers' life is being changed, transformed, walking the talk and subsequently you must personally experience God yourself in order for you to affirm the faith you want to be in.
When I was in Taiwan in year 1990, it was Christmas day that I was baptized as a Christian formally in spite of after my almost 20 years of exposure in Chrisitanity, be it while I was studying in missionary schools or having many of my classmates who are pastors and Phd holders in theology studies. I remember very well how I argued with Pastor Peter Wen on the definition of " Son of God!". I told him that I was willing to be baptized as a Christian based on the condition that Jesus Christ was not the biological son of God; instead He was so close and intimate to God that there is no other more appropriate word to describe the relationship therefore "Son of God" is thus chosen for the purpose.What I mean here is that God never had sex with any woman on earth that a son, by human definition was born. At later part, the simple truth that there is no human that is good enough to redeem our sin is a totally different perspective to reflect the most Godly and perfect nature of Jesus Christ. The very new and almost next to impossible-to-understand concept of Trinity that explains in a overly simplified manner God exists in different forms analogous to ice, water and steam under different temperature condition is just mind boggling!
In two separate incidents under different denominations of the churches I was told almost point blank that my cold winter baptizm by sprinkling of water instead of a full immersion was invalid. I was fairly upset if not angry of such trivial details over just a past ritual; and I questioned the rationale of carrying out a full immersion water baptizm in a freezing cold winter. The Holy spirit worked on me and I submitted in a few years later and that was a long process that I learned on how to obey God. I was baptized again the 2nd time by immersion in the sea of Langkawi island by Pastor Philip of FGA Kulim. In our walk with God, learning to become humble and to obey God whole heartedly is not easy. Our attitude should be, if God said to us do not eat pork, then stop eating pork and not to question the reasons why! That is called obedience!
If you ever experience the Holy Spirit then you would be able to get a glimpse of what the spiritual realm is about. The Pentecost incident is real and the Holy Spirit that dwells within us shall serve as a counsellor that takes us to an entirely different level of our daily walk with God!
I pray that Almighty God to open our eyes, enlighten us with all the knowledge for us to know you more. May Thy spirit come to guide us in our everyday life for every decision we make. Amen!
There are only four big books that were claimed to be DIVINE. Psalm(Zabur) to David, Torah (Taurat) to Moses, Bible(Injil) to Jesus and Koran (Al Qur'an) to Muhammad..
ReplyDeleteThe reasons for people to check for errors..are because they believed Books from The Almighty should not be containing errors or the sentences/facts should not contradict each other.
As there are only two places to go in our(yours and mine) beliefs ..paradise or hell.. then there can be only two ways about it.. right and wrong... there has not been any in-between!!.
As we are given the faculties to differentiate.. it is all up to us..
There were many who had checked for errors in Koran as well..
As to personally experience God.. it is still up to us to experience.. we have our sufis who people claim to have that kind of experience.. not to forget, one Ayah Pin also claimed to have similar experience..
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I agreed with what you said mostly, and I always could not be bothered with those people who try to find errors in Koran or Bible and argue over who is right or wrong. Chapters from King David and Moses form part of the Old Testament. Psalm is a very popular divine book that Christians in general like to emulate the words used or quote when they pray to God and Psalm versus are frequently extracted as lyrics of many hymns and songs. The laws of Moses are basic principles that guide the life of all Christians! The life and teachings of Jesus were all recorded in New Testament. Perhaps Koran should be more appropriate to be referred as the Last Testament whether it is acceptable to other different believers is another story!
ReplyDeletePrecisely there is no such thing as in-between middle road belief that everyone claims that they are the absolute truth. I only see it from the perspective that the co-existenace of Koran and Bible which refers to the same Abrahamic God, in the midst of constant conflicts and differing views further reinforce the existence of one God for us all!
God inspires humans in the form of spirit. God's good spirit is the Holy Spirit while the dark side spirit is the evil spirit which is satanic! They co-exist until one day when our victorious God will cast Satan forever into Sheol and Hades