RE: Why Did Uzzah Die For Touching the Ark?
July 5, 2015 at 9:10 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2015 at 9:11 pm by Metis.)
(July 5, 2015 at 8:50 pm)popsthebuilder Wrote: They are the same. Same stories, same morals, same names. Where Christianity gets lost is; most think you cannot be saved, go to heaven, go to paradise, or be added to the collective spiritual good upon physical death unless you accept Jesus. It also claims that there is no unforgivable sin. These two things are nonsense if Jesus returned to the source then why must you refer to it as Jesus specifically?
Also if I am a true believer and do not speak the truth I will be damned. There is no repentance for that.
But are they the same? Within pre-Rabbanic Judaism it is perfectly fine for me to take multiple wives, but a sin within Catholicism for me to do so. Within Islam I have a duty to wage the lesser Jihad in some form against non believers in most theologies, within Jainism I must remain a pacifist at all times.
The Bible does teach there is an unforgivable sin, not beliving in the forgiveness of the holy spirit and most Christians would say Jesus is the source as he is a person of the trinity.
I personally admire the intent behind universalism, but many religions have very different ideas of what constitutes goodness. Within Fundamentalist Mormonism a sign of a holy man is one with a giant harem and hundreds of children, within Orthodoxy it is a reclusive introverted humble celibate who is the paragon of virtue. Both would call the other an infidel and a pervert so I am unsure how they could be reconciled.