It's good to see you don't imply, insinuate or accuse others...
My faith is immutable; therefore I do not feel uncomfortable to discuss any religion.
What are you suggesting here? That I feel uncomfortable and don't want to discuss? You've made quite a few of these random comments. Who you are talking to, Im not sure. Maybe you're addressing the general public. Maybe you're not addressing me. That's fine. I thought this forum was designed so that you respond directly to the OP and not confuse the issue with general points of your own choosing.
You've made other comments including:
- It was not my intent to cloud your faith; I thought it would be helpful rather than just have a blind faith;
- If you need to protect your faith by not lessening, seeing similarities or discussing other points
- I will leave you with a quote from Mother Teresa (If you consider her a Christian or not is up to you)
- I refuse to let people put me or Christianity in a box with a label, I believe is a kind of attack on other Christian people who didnt believe or interpreted the Bible the same way they do, that behaviour to me is fundamentalist
- if we look at what we have similar instead of what separate us, we may be able to be more tolerant
I don't understand the need to make such comments. I don't believe I've given any indication that my faith is blind, that Im not listening, that I don't consider Mother Teresa to be Christian, that Im attacking people for asking their denomination, that Im fundamentalist, that Im not looking at other religions or that Im intolerant.
I also don't know who your audience is.
Universalistic Thoughts I am flatted to be compared with Jesus thougths, after all I am trying to copy his Universalistic Thoughts
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations
(Matt. 28:19-20)
That to me means teach all nations about Jesus and the real God, not just accept other religions thinking we have the same God and we all end up at the same point.
Unless we have the wrong ideas about universalism. Im going off the WIKI entries and other entries which has the idea that we all basically worship the same God and are trying to achieve the same goal. ie, the view that we are all going up different sides of the same mountain.
Teaching all nations the truth about Jesus Christ and God is fundamentally different to suggesting we have the same God.
Love your neighbour as yourself (I consider this also an universalistic thought, unless of course Jesus was meaning next door neighbour literally)
I have never said we shouldn't love our neighbour, but loving our neighbour doesn't mean we should accept everything they do. Our neighbour may be a sinner. To love them IMHO means we are there for them and support them.
Yes to me it does. What I call God, becomes God to me, what you call God, becomes God to you, regardless of what you called or I called, the Principle Substance is One. Williams may be Bill to you Will to me and Wills to others, still the same person, just different people call him different derivatives of his name, he does not change because of that.
Ahh, but that's not necessarily the right way of looking at it. You're looking at it as two people being known by different names. Whereas it could just as easily be the two different people of the same name. They're not the same person whichever way you look at it.
Are we going up different sides of the same mountain, or different mountains?
As this is completely off topic now, I might ask you to take this to private message if you would like to discuss further.
You could answer the question if you can explain in direct terms how we have the same God if you are of the belief that Jesus Christ is the literal son of God who came for our salvation and Islam believes something different. (note once again, im not suggesting dialogue should be cut off for anyone and im not promoting intolerance)
Cheers
Simon