We all believe in God. But in what?

We all have great respect for the noble messages of non-Christian religions. We admire the intense desire for salvation and surrender.
Eternal in Buddhism. In Hindu asceticism and meditation, we admire the effort to connect with the deity, Taoism, in turn, immersion in incomprehensible and unbiased love and Islam. We value the values ​​of faith. And yet, sometimes we can be embarrassed to meet with ecumenism, which in addition to emphasizing the sacred the need for mutual respect and love would like to diminish the radical novelty of the Christian message. Our faith has, in very deeply in common with the “old man.” all sorts of “religions.” Also, when it comes to religions worshiping only one God, we are convinced that “Monotheism is not an everyday basis on which beliefs differ, albeit by their rites and certain practices but essentially the same “(Natanson).
We believe that Christianity is “different” that God, which he declares is really “absolutely DIFFERENT.” All this convinces us of what we have already said about the damage done by theism, about the contradictions of the “god of philosophers,” and about all the attempts by which man he wanted to introduce God. We think that “Jesus’ actions and words are always completely different as what is expected of a god made by human hands.” (Natanson). This God, Martin Luther recalls, has acquired all the qualities that have been in people’s understanding for a long time. In contrast to the deity: Humanity, infirmities, stultified, sinfonia,, humility. . . (humanity, weakness, ignorance, disgrace, distress, death, humility …). Jesus’ God is fundamentally different from human creations: no, it is in vain that faith confesses that man needed “revelation” to know him. Respect and fraternity between religions have nothing to do with the comfortable (and dishonest) ecumenism of a kind of “know, yet we all believe in God. ” Yes, but in what God? When the day of the exam comes we ask what happens when scientific criticism attacks non-Christian religions with aggression characteristic of West?
When Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and all those other isms to which statistically more than two-thirds of the world will be subjected to a historical survey of their origins and when judging the value of their message, as has happened with Christianity? Christianity (as we tried to prove on all pages of this book) – objectively speaking.
– survived all the storms. On the contrary, we don’t see them falling
its historical foundations seem to have been strengthened by scientific criticism. His message did not lose its validity, but even modern feeling gave it new strength. Of course, we will state this without succumbing to any triumphalism. Instead, we mention it biblically
“with fear and trembling,” and we strive not to forget the mysterious and disturbing words of Christ in Luke: “But he will find Son of man on earth faith when he comes? “(Luke 18: 8). But what will happen to the ancient, venerable religious systems of Asia and Africa, if necessary undergo the same test of fire, at the level of the broad folk masses and not just the elite groups of scholars? In Japan, China, partly in India, and in some Islamic countries have already experienced such a clash. They’re falling apart often, without seeking defense, religious messages that the United Nations, formed worldviews, and shaped art and literature for millennia. They fall apart even without the intervention of those giant hammers assembled by the West for “science and reason” to knock down Christianity. The gust of new times, the generalization of culture, critical spirit, and political ideology dry up the mighty religious
Afro-Asian forest.

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