Most religions believe that in the time of our direst need a supernaturaly empowered saviour will come to our aid.
Some native americans believe in the rainbow warrior, many europeans awaited the returned reign of king Arthur, the christians await the second coming, the jews the messiah, the sunni believe in the mahdi and the shia in the hidden imam, some buddhists even believe a great buddha will reincarnate and the hindu believe the Creator will at one time visit us in a human body again.
Will the Creator chose to satsify each of these groups seperately or will He provide us with one physical manifestation which will satisfy all?
2007-11-02 09:53:27 · 12 answers · asked by han_ko_bicknese 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Creator will return as Christ and Scripture says that finally "every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord."
In other words, Jews will realize He IS the Messiah. Europeans will realize Christ IS the fulfillment of their expectations. Buddhists and Hindues will also finally see there is one God.
So to answer your question, we will all see the same vision and will all be satisfied because the Truth resonates in every human heart.
Pax Vobiscum+
2007-11-02 09:57:35 · answer #1 · answered by Veritas 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think the real quandary at the heart of this is why humanity even seeks a messianic figure to save us, to deliver us from our man made evils.
It is purported that the last dying words of the Buddha was, in effect, not to deify him as some saviour and to espouse his teachings in ritualistic form but for humanity to actively save themselves.
Jesus Christ also encouraged humankind to be autonomous and not to be dogmatic about scripture but to freely be a pious person, spurred by their own code of ethics.
We must be self-reliant to a large extent, and exercise our own free will rather than cry to the heavens in vain for a saviour, a liberator to redeem us. Salvation is within us, humankind's capabilites are limitless if we empower ourselves to do so.
2007-11-02 17:11:32 · answer #2 · answered by mickey_lindsay 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Faith is like a mountain, religions are like the many ways to the top of this mountain. A man who follow one way can see only his way and, eventually, the ways that are to his right or left, but a fleeing bird can see that there are many ways and all of them arrives in the same place - the top. These fleeing birds are those who work for God ("saviors" - how you named them)
Then...........if a bird can see that.....so much more can see and understand God that IN THE END, SOONER OR LATTER we all climb towards the same place.
2007-11-03 17:55:24 · answer #3 · answered by Claudia A 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard that "some native americans believe in the rainbow warrior," far as I can figure that junk is wannabe, hippy, nonsense.
2007-11-02 17:44:28 · answer #4 · answered by Indigo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you don't need anything; you were given the gift of choice ; to choose to believe or not; why does man let ego and arrogance get in the way of thinking that we know everything ; such snobbery; the universe works in harmony without the input of man on a daily basis; the earth works in harmony with no assistance from again man in fact man is more of the destruct from corruption, greed, ego and arrogance; our own bodies we can't figure out and we live in them ; they don't need our input for our heart to beat all day long; you can't intellect your heart to stop etc; and when it the spark of life is removed once again we have no say; we can't figure out why the dinosaurs are no longer here ; theory after theory and they are just theories; the most that man has gotten was a handful on the moon after so many years; and yet man thinks that he can figure out God; figure out your own being; what we think we know changes day by day ; we are provided with everything that we need to survive and live; not by accident and surely not by arrogance.
2007-11-02 17:01:44 · answer #5 · answered by sml 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Buddha was non theistic.
The belief that ones religion is right while all others are false is common. Ethnocentrism among cultural religious belief isn't anything new. But it's boring.
2007-11-02 16:58:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is only one. His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. "Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
2007-11-02 17:07:07 · answer #7 · answered by Averell A 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The healing of the nations is God's gift of salvation.
2007-11-02 16:57:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Pan is Greek for many. So there can't be one pan-religious saviour as pan = many
2007-11-02 16:57:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
unfourtunately, there is no evidence to support any supernatural force at all, so there are none
2007-11-02 16:57:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋