If a Mongolian is building a cart, he knows some math skills. Whether he labels the numbers "1" or "&," he still knows some math.
That same Mongolian may have never heard of Jesus or, more importantly, the mounds upon mounds of stories that surround him.
If knowledge is truly universal, why must one learn these through education versus contemplation? If one were to sit under a tree, like Buddha, and dissect everything that passes through their mind, they will arrive at the same spot.
However, Christianity, in particular, does not work this way. If you sat under a tree, you would never know that the Earth was formed by a God (leads to more questions). That human life started from 2 people. This would only lead to more questions if you truly dissect it.
My question is, how Universal is Christianity when it cannot be contemplated by an African and Australian producing the same results? Why would they be completely different?
No Bible quotes because that just proves my point
2007-09-23 05:11:08 · 7 answers · asked by Corvus 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If something can be argued beyond belief, is it truly universal since it can be dissected further?
An atom was once the smallest thing but this was dissected and more was found within. Everything can be dissected again and again until you arrive at 1 spot and it is not God as God is a thing can, therefore, can be dissected
2007-09-23 05:13:14 · update #1
Umm, did you read my question poster number 2? Buddhist do not believe in God nor do Atheists. Those are 2 large sections of people.
You do not understand my question
2007-09-23 05:21:57 · update #2
Grannie Annie, knowledge is not unverisal? uhhhhh you better go check in on that because there are some religious leaders and mathematicians (i know, you hate them with a passion because they enjoy evidence and are skeptical like a NORMAL HUMAN IN GODS IMAGE is) who won't agree with your statement
2007-09-23 05:27:48 · update #3
You are right. If we are looking for what is right, one religion will not have a patent. I believe all religions have the right stuff but we ignore some dastardly interpretations and and omissions. Unfortunately this encourages the non believers.
I think that if we try to put together what is right without competing and from a position/feeling of holiness, with our heart, that we would gain wisdom faster than most clergy people. I believe this is an answer to our religious conflicts.
We need to sort out what is right and wrong for ourselves but with the help of knowledgeable religious leaders. It is a difficult and impossible task. We will never get there. We must just relentlessly pursue this. That is likely our purpose in life. To make ourselves the best that we can be so that we would fit into a perfect society if there were to be one.
2007-09-23 05:25:36 · answer #1 · answered by len b 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A) You equate fact with faith. BAD logic.
B) You ask that human beings, each so unique, should think, believe and act at all times as if they were all clones. Self evidently false to fact. We're all as different as chalk and cheese.
C) Knowledge is NOT universal. Only reality is universal and then it has to be understood by all in order to become universal knowledge. Don't nobody know it all, not nohow, not noway, and probably not ever.
D) Christianity can be universal because it can speak to the innermost, deepest parts of human needs and desires. That is not to say it already IS universal, merely that it has the capability of becoming such.
E) Contemplation is another word for thought experiment. Ask a mathematician what THAT'S worth. If'n it won't translate into reality, it ain't worth spit!
F) No need for Biblical quotes.
2007-09-23 05:22:31 · answer #2 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is universal as it is cryptic and open to interpretation. It attempts to be a catch all.. As you study the bible you feel that you are learning. However it only gives examples that can be related to your questions and not difinitive answers. So you continue to read and follow the rituals
Hence you go to church.. the priest is sure to now.. but he too is studying and has a superior... this hierarchy goes on right to the pope etc. So he explains that it is only by following the faith that the answers will be revealed...
It is very unviersal in the sense that we all have questions and we all like the convenience of someone else having the answers to those questions for us.
Thats a lot of collection plates! and until recently a lot of pwer too.
2007-09-23 05:21:33 · answer #3 · answered by Wayne Kerr 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we are hardwired to know God. He is called by many different names and assigned many different qualities, but human beings know Him.
why do humans, universally, perform rituals when someone dies? (no other animal on this planet does this) because we know that there is something else outside of our current level of understanding. it has taken man thousands of years to achieve the contemplation of God, known as Christianity, why should you worry that an african or an australian have different degrees of understanding? they know God...it's just a matter of time before they arrive at a full understanding...
2007-09-23 05:17:49 · answer #4 · answered by chieko 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good question my Brother in Truth !
Yes, our Universe Creator Jesus Christ Michael and as One with and as our Universal Father-Infinite I AM on infinite Paradise, has freely bestowed HE the Spirit of ALL TRUTH of God and Reality upon ALL flesh. (all Humans worldwide and many more universe-wide)
When my family and I were over in Madagascar (my NASA work) for over 6 years, we noticed that the mostly uneducated natives of 17 different tribes were nice, doing the fruits of the Spirit of God persons. -- I would rather (then at least) have slept out in public overnight in that big city than in any big city in the USA --much safer ! (Minor side note: Those mixed race Malagasy-French-Indians are often very beautiful bodies. Now a few hundred from the USA are also mixed in there -- will that be better? Hopefully)
Returning back to the USA, and having two profound Spirit transformations in 1976 and AD1977 -on, I then saw this universal Truth that God is no respector of persons; and that He sends to all humans the same free Spirit Gifts ! Later, I saw in some museums the colorful (some very old) African war shields; and the graphic symbols on there were VERY God-conscious (I could relate to those Universal Two as One Fire symbols { { oO } } of infinity here upon and within us.
The genius Blaise Pascal could well elucidate (in writings) some of these profound Truths of Reality-Being; and the simple natives also live in Him and do have his driving soul power. Atheists and agnostics here have the same Spirit Gift and shortly then will see the Light too. All will submit freely to our loving Father or Father-Mother-Son One GOD Who makes and sustains us all.
Note that in Madagascar and in old Africa, almost none of those beloved Humans intellectually knew that Jesus is our saving Lord God ! But they do well in HIS SPIRIT HERE !
Later, we should also reach them and teach them well to have Christianity in mind as they do now have Pure Spirit Jesus in their souls !
Is a Rose, by any other name, less a Rose?
JESUS -- (called Allah, Buddha, Christ, Deity, Elohim, Father, God, I AM, Jehovah, King, Lord, Master Michael, Noetic Reality, OM, Perfect Parent, Quinity, Reality, Savior, Truth, Uncaused One, Vision Giver, Wonderful Counselor, X-Ray super Light, Yahweh, Zoroaster Light, and many thousands of other sincere names) -- does lovingly receive all prayers and worship and then instantly and perfectly Spirit remake-upgrade them to pure form to go to the Paradise Deity and Deities and many lesser universe Sons of God and Angels as needed to best do the will of God !
This One A-Z GOD in Spirit says: "LOVE YOUR (so-called) enemies." You will have to relate with them and be friends with them forever up in the many ever higher Heavens.
(some may wonder Who or what "Quinity" is. Three in Two as One augmenting Trinity awareness here; my coined term. Personality IS a Primal Reality and IS transmissible. I am of I AM and in I AM ...)
Peace and progress,
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2007-09-23 06:00:00 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Universality of Christianity lies in the path that Master Jesus walked and not in doctrine or dogma!
2007-09-23 05:16:23 · answer #6 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This explains it in detail. Read it when you get some free time.
http://www.christian-thinktank.com/hnohear.html
2007-09-23 05:27:53 · answer #7 · answered by D2T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋