Why & why not?
I don't, but I believe there are many paths to Jesus, the intermediary between mankind and God.
Jesus said to seek and you shall find. I believe that is honestly seeking God. And that there are many ways to do that. Jesus is the Door.
Oprah Winfrey, believes there are many paths to the Christian God. That is only true if the paths are seeking Jesus.
2007-03-17 05:06:26 · 16 answers · asked by LottaLou 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oprah was talking to a Christian lady and she said. "... There are many paths to your God. What about the people who are helping others yet never heard of Jesus..." This isn't exactly, but what I recall her words.
2007-03-17 06:15:28 · update #1
rwlistaken,
thanks for your great answer, but it isn't NT law that woman can't teach a man, etc... That wasn't Jesus Words & commandment. That was a word for that particular Church and culture. Same as women need to have hair covered. Where this isn't the custom, it isn't the law.
In Christ Law, Love & love others. God is not a respector of face, sexes, colors, nations, etc... And their are many anointed of God women teachers.
2007-03-17 06:25:43 · update #2
Every time you do good you are on the right path, every time you give to a beggar you are on the right path, every time you forgive the one who did you wrong, you are on the right path.
God looks at the heart of man, this is all over the Bible, it is repeated, Jesus was so humble he didn't want people to call him "good", Jesus taught us to put everyone else first, bring yourself down if you want to see the whole picture, don't boast about your little deeds for you will have received your reward already.
So regarding your remark about Oprah, did she really call God the Christian God like there are more than One?
2007-03-17 05:16:09 · answer #1 · answered by Neptune2bsure 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
John 14:6 (Bible) - "Jesus said unto him, I am THE way, THE truth and THE life; no man cometh unto the Father but by me."
Notice He did not say I am one of many ways!
Acts 4:12 - The apostle Luke speaking of Jesus Christ says,
"Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name, under Heaven, given among men whereby we MUST be saved."
Notice it is imperative - "Must be saved."
There is no other way.
2007-03-17 05:54:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are all children of the Creator.
WOULD EVERYONE who died before a missionary told them of Jesus go to hell?
Does that sound like a just God to you?
I don't think so.
The Creator proclaims Himself in every sunrise, rainbow, flower. He speaks to us everyday--all you have to do is look around and wonder in awe at the beauty of the universe.
I believe God wants us to be/reflect:
Inclusive instead of exclusive.
Love begetting Contentment instead of dogma begetting disillusionment.
Humble piety instead of egotistical hubris.
Service instead of slavery.
Awe instead of fear.
Appreciation instead of entitlement.
Freedom instead of anarchy.
Forgiveness for the unintentional sin and judgment for the intentional sin.
Responsible instead of wasteful.
Selfless instead of selfish.
Thoughtful reverent respect instead of thoughtless irreverent disrespect.
The Holy Spirit unifies what the flesh divides.
Passive instead of aggressive.
LOVE AND RESPECT-given to EVERY human.
LOGIC AND FAITH-both in harmony.
EVERYTHING IN BALANCE.
Do unto others as you want them to do unto you....the golden rule---
God offers forgiveness amid confusion, man offers judgment amid absolution.
God has infinite faith in mankind’s desire to love Him but mankind has finite faith in God’s love for ALL mankind.
God watches hopefully for evidence of perfection in humanity; man searches hopelessly for the evidence of imperfection in God.
Jesus was the lamb,-the sacrifice--needed to give all mankind a chance to understand mercy forgivenness and gain true happiness--but really if Jesus and God are but parts of the whole why would acknowledging the sacrifice of Jesus but "just" worshiping God be less acceptable?
GOD'S RULES
1-love GOD
2-love EACH OTHER
I hope this gives you something to think about.....
Women by New Testament law can not teach men nor can they wear mens clothing or makeup or jewelery of any kind.....
Specific details of how to treat a slave are in the Old Testament-does that mean slavery is ok?
Do you follow the Hebrew dietary requirements spelled out in the New Testament?
Why?
Have you ever disobeyed your parents--you should have been stoned according to the Old Testament....
Peace
2007-03-17 05:45:43 · answer #3 · answered by rwl_is_taken 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. As Muslims we ask Allah(God) to guide us on the right path the path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor. Not the Path of those upon whom Your wrath is brought down nor of those who go astray. Ameen
So, you see that the homosexual path is not a good path to be on.
2007-03-17 05:20:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I think it's true. But there are other paths then just paths to Jesus. I follow a Hindu path.
2007-03-17 05:16:18 · answer #5 · answered by Nagaraja 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The bible tells us in the four gospels that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. There is only one way and that is Jesus. He is the door to salvation and eternal life.
2007-03-17 08:36:23 · answer #6 · answered by princess 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are many paths to God but only one road to go down.
2007-03-17 05:09:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
“Speaking of mountains reminds me of my favorite analogy. Many roads lead up the single mountain of religion to God at the top. It is provincial, narrow-minded, and blind to deny the validity of other roads than yours.”
The unproved assumption of this very common mountain analogy is that the roads go up, not down; that man makes the roads, not God; that religion is man's search for God, not God's search for man. C. S. Lewis says this sounds like “the mouse's search for the cat.”
Christianity is not a system of man's search for God but a story of God's search for man. True religion is not like a cloud of incense wafting up from special spirits into the nostrils of a waiting God, but like a Father's hand thrust downward to rescue the fallen. Throughout the Bible, man-made religion fails. There is no human way up the mountain, only a divine way down. “No man has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, He has made him known.”
If we made the roads, it would indeed be arrogant to claim that any one road is the only valid one, for all human things are equal, at least in all being human, finite, and mixtures of good and bad. If we made the roads, it would be as stupid to absolutize one of them as to absolutize one art form, one political system, or one way of skinning a cat. But if God made the road, we must find out whether He made many or one. If He made only one, then the shoe is on the other foot: it is humility, not arrogance, to accept this one road from God, and it is arrogance, not humility, to insist that our man-made roads are as good as God's God-made one.
But which assumption is true? Even if the pluralistic one is true, not all religions are equal, for then one religion is worse and more arrogant than all others, for it centers on one who claimed, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no man can come to the Father but by me. “
2007-03-17 06:35:54 · answer #8 · answered by Ask Mr. Religion 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
other way.
there are many wide ways and pleasant paths to Hell and the Devil and eternal pain but theres only one way to Jesus and God. its narrow, bumpy and hard.
2007-03-17 05:25:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think there are many paths to God, and jesus might be one for some, but usually its a path to selfishness if you go that route... If it's not selfish, why should everyone have to go to one dead guy to get to god?
2007-03-17 05:18:20 · answer #10 · answered by XX 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋