[Mycernius]

Originally Posted by Someday

I am a Christian. That post that you referred to was simply why I chose Christianity over the myriad systems of belief in the world.
On this thread, I am not saying that all religions are equal in my opinion. I am saying they all have truths, and they generally agree with one another in the wider philosophical picture, but they do not agree on how they get there. Different means for different cultures. But ultimately, in this world or the next, the way is through Christ.

No it isn't, not for two thirds of this planets population. It is what your religion believes and you follow that. It doesn't devalue anyone elses beliefs, as theirs don't, or rather shouldn't, devalue yours. The position is one of religious arrogance.

Ultimately I believe completely that Jesus alone among men taught the most complete form of Truth that we have now.

Exactly, it is what you believe, note believe.

I'm not a pluralist, I am a Christian. The fact that I focus on the similarities between my faith and other faiths does not mean I am going to follow Buddha, or Mohammed , or Krishna, or Joseph Smith, or Charles Taze Russell, or any other religious teacher.

I don't expect you to do anything different.

Reading the Vedas, or the I Ching, or Genesis, or the European Myths are all valuable to glean how ancient cultures made sense of God. As I said on another thread recently, even the Old Testament was a strong record of people misunderstanding God. More times than not, they got God completely wrong. Even Moses who had direct dealings with the Holy Spirit didn't get it. He was banned from the Promised Land because of it. It also records how many times the prophets received a message to deliver to someone and the prophets modified the message to their own liking. The content of the original message comes to pass, but the parts that the prophets modified do not. Sometimes prophets were eaten by lions for their disobedience, sometimes they were not. Some prophets intentionally lied, or fled instead. King Solomon, the wisest of all men, who was permitted to build the first Temple on the site of a threshing floor his father purchased got into big trouble with God.

They didn't get god "wrong". Only that your beliefs think that they got god/gods/goddesses wrong. 1800 years of christian arrogance say they had it wrong. There is no right or wrong. Your beliefs are wrong to Muslims, Hindus, Buddhist etc. and they think they are right. There is no way to say I am right and they are wrong. It is just the arrogance of each religion to proclaim that they are the best. Like salesmen pushing a product, they want you to buy into their beliefs, and you did, christianity.

I believe that Jesus alone understood God, and the emptiness of His tomb is one strong indication of this.

What, just because someone nicked his body? Or maybe the other lost gospels and buried christian writtings that show that he didn't die on the cross. There is no strong indication of any of it. There isn't even a strong indication that a Jesus existed, but then again it is your belief and I expect you to back it up to the hilt with the biased teachings of Christianity. Objectivism is not really something anyone of any religion is good at when dealing with their own beliefs.

One of His messages was that those who were experts in holy scripture and thought they knew God didn't know a thing about God. That is why the Sanhedrin despised Him after all.
I believe in Jesus.

Blessings

And he did of course?