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...hm, was that the case with Current? Didn't dig too deeply.
Yeah, I guess you could say I got a burr under my saddle about it...perhaps not the best use of my day off...we'll see.
They try to say that Christ realized (in both senses) what Buddhism teaches, that Buddhism is really what Christ modeled and what he taught--"he achieved a higher consciousness that we too can attain; he realized he was really God, and so can we."
It's just another form of gnosticism, which Scripture and the church have soundly rejected from the outset. Genesis 1 does not allow for a gnostic worldview without simply rejecting it.
I guess Buddhism and gnosticism can't stand on their own merits. They have to borrow Christ for their cause. Smh.
For what purpose did He say he came?
For what purpose did He say he died?
For whom did He pray--and for whom did He not?
Put down the Alan Watts and pick up the Scripture--take your own advice and go to the source.
Listen to what Jesus actually says, not what is said about him by Alan Watts.
>Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
[Colossians 4:6](https://www.esv.org/verses/Col4:6), for one example, but there are others.
No, that is not what he meant, and we know this because of the other things he said. It's fine to reject what he actually said if you choose (I hope you won't) but what we must not do is put words in His mouth.
Yes! Like this: [John 17](https://esv.org/John+17), ESV
Want to know why?
Machen, [Christianity and Liberalism](https://amzn.to/3tCEMjK).
Seriously. The flood is coming. Get on the bleeping boat--which is Christ--while you still can. "There is no alternative."
Christ is the ark for the Soul.
Why would you die?
Thankful for #grace. Without it I'd be utterly lost.
Even if this particular point is fruitless, perhaps we can simply fall back to having common cause in liberty, bitcoin, nostr, etc. I would rejoice to become full allies but I am content enough to be co-belligerents in this space. I've said my piece.
What's insufferable, if I may say so, is that our Creator has gone to such enormous lengths to speak to us, to persuade us, to call us back to himself, and yet people are like "yeah, I'm still not buying it." He became one of us, brought Truth, Light, healing, spoke words of comfort, then died on the cross *for us*--and STILL people are like "nah, still not convinced."
"Longsuffering?" I'd say so.
Our Redeemer calls you to come home. Stop running, stop fiddling about with hocus pocus manmade "All is One" nonsense and just come home before the opportunity passes.
Faith is not wishful thinking or presumption. It is confidence based on evidence. All knowledge involves some element of trust and assent.
Do you *know* that your mother is who she says she is--your mother? Or do you merely "believe" her? If not, do you *know* that she treasures you or do you only "believe" her when she says it? You're driving too large a wedge between knowledge and belief and trust.