Spiritual?

[QuiltAngel]

I posted before I read your reply. So he is saying that whatever faith one chooses is good, such as Muslim, Budhist etc?

Yes he is.

 

[DaRev]

Yes he is.

Does he not realize that all of these 'faiths' contradict each other?

 

[filosofer]

Good quote from Kolb/Arand:

Amid the distractions and discouragement of daily life in a sinful world, believers ought not to abandon themselves to their own thoughts and feelings. It is the devil who turns people from the external Word of God to "spirituality" and their presumption that they can make contact with the Holy Spirit through such inner movements of the soul.

The Genius of Luther's Theology: A Wittenberg Way of Thinking for the Contemporary Church, Robert Kolb and Charles P. Arand. Concordia Publishing House, 2008, p. 184.

 

[QuiltAngel]

Does he not realize that all of these 'faiths' contradict each other?

Obviously not. He apparently picks and chooses what he likes about each one.

Thanks for that quote Filo.

Please keep he and his family in your prayers that they return to the Christians faith. He thinks he is still Christian. Makes me very sad.

 

[Jim47]

My previous Pastor summed up the "world religions" well, they all believe that man must save himself. So in essence they are all the same, just different covers on the book of lies by Satan.

How thankful we can be that our Lord has called us to faith

 

[Aibrean]

I have a friend that has that listed. She doesn't know what she is or what she believes.

 

[PreachersWife2004]

In some ways, I view those who have "spiritual" listed as being like Pharisees. Most of the people I know who use it use in the context of "I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual" and it's a slam of those of us who hold dear to the context of the bible. They are the ones who screech about Christians being unloving because we preach eternal punishment. They believe in the historical Jesus but they don't believe in His sacrifice, or they believe that it's not just Jesus who gets them into eternal glory. They hold this over "religious" people as though they're better people. "I don't limit myself by the misogynists teachings of the man-written bible" is usually their attitude.

It's sad. Bottom line? You either believe in Jesus Christ wholly or you don't believe at all, and these people just don't get that. Jesus wasn't joking around when he said "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

 

[QuiltAngel]

So true Beckie.