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I am aware that christ diesw for our sins and for our forgivness

based on the snippets i have read fromshri mataji on this site, but i

do not understand those statements. I wanted to know what does Shri

mataji mean by " he dies for our sins " as well as the forgiveness

part? Shri jesus is the universal savior, anotehr statement i do not

understand and would like some clarification, but if i sins were not

forgiven until his death and ressurection, then what did that mean

for the people who lived before him in terms of the life death,

rebirth/sin cycle? As you can tell i have no idea what to make of

these statements of fact and don't understand the scope of that

suffering shri jesus went through for us, or what it actually means

in reality and in a practical manner. If you could jagbir, help shed

some light on these things, i would be greatful. Thanks.

 

Kyyan

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shriadishakti , " v_koa " <v_koa> wrote:

>

> I am aware that christ dies for our sins and for our forgiveness

> based on the snippets i have read from shri mataji on this site,

> but i do not understand those statements. I wanted to know what

> does Shri mataji mean by " he dies for our sins " as well as the

> forgiveness part? Shri jesus is the universal savior, another

> statement i do not understand and would like some clarification,

> but if i sins were not forgiven until his death and resurrection,

> then what did that mean for the people who lived before him in

> terms of the life death, rebirth/sin cycle? As you can tell i have

> no idea what to make of these statements of fact and don't

> understand the scope of that suffering shri jesus went through for

> us, or what it actually means in reality and in a practical

> manner. If you could jagbir, help shed some light on these things,

> i would be grateful. Thanks.

>

>

 

Dear Kyyan,

 

Whatever you have asked about Shri Jesus dying for our sins has also

puzzled me:

 

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" There is a verse in the Bible, that says that when Jesus was put on

the cross, he said " My God my God why has thou forsaken me? " Jesus

asks God why are You leaving me my God? Please my God help me, I am

in trouble.

 

Well!! every time I ask some of my friends that " OVER HERE JESUS IS

NOT EVEN WILLING TO DIE FOR OUR SINS " If he was willing to die for

our sins, he should have said that " Myself, I am ready to die for

the sins of the whole mankind. " He would have used " myself " coz he

is a God according to Christianity. When we ask them about such

things, they reply to us that " You just have to believe it " , close

your mind, and accept Him. "

 

 

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Did He Die on the Cross for our Sins? Is Everyone a Sinner?

 

We see in the Gospel, the word *righteous* means pure and sinless.

As the two words *righteous* and 'sinner' are always opposite each

other in the New Testament. Furthermore, Jesus is described as

righteous, therefore we know that the word means: without sin.

For example; 

 

" My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.

And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus

Christ the righteous: " {1 John 2:1}

 

Now that we see righteous means sinless, let's see what Jesus

says about humans:

 

" I say unto you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one

sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine righteous

persons, who need no repentance. " {Luke 15:7}

 

It is very Clear from this verse that Jesus did not come to die for

the sins of All humans because according to Jesus, some humans *did

not need to repent* because they were ~righteous~

 

" But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not

sacrifice : for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to

repentance. " {Matthew 9:13}

 

Again Jesus is saying he did not come for everyone, Jesus only came

for a particular group. Jesus clarifies that there are two

groups, " the sinners and the righteous " not only one group of

sinners as modern Christians claim.

 

" And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the

commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. " {Luke 1:6}

Here, even God sees that some were without sin, because they

followed the commandments.

 

" When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have

no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call

the righteous, but sinners to repentance. " {Mark 2:17 } 

 

Again Jesus is making the distinction that some are sick (sinners)

and some are not sick (the righteous) Jesus does not say " I came for

All because all are sinners " Jesus says he came for *MANY* {Mark

10:45 } not all. Many could mean 10 people, big difference from

saying " ALL " .

 

" I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. " {Luke

5:32}

 

Important words, verifying that Jesus did not come to all those who

were righteous, but the many who were sinners. 

 

" but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to

sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened

round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. " {Matthew

18:6}

 

Jesus is saying that the little ones are without sin because anyone

who causes them to sin, the result would be deadly.

 

" Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth

righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. " {1 John 3:7 }

 

Here Jesus is saying that there are righteous, sinless people and do

not let anyone tell you that everyone is a sinner because there are

righteous people.

 

We also read (John 9:31 ) " We know that God does not listen to

sinners, but if any one is a worshiper of God and does his will, God

listens to him. "

 

This automatically clarifies that Abraham, Moses, Hagar, and all

those God directly communicated with, are _not_ sinners because God

does not listen to sinners.

 

Then 'Paul' _again_ contradicts the teachings of Jesus saying

[Romans 3:10 ] " As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not

one: "

 

If God and Jesus *Declare* that some humans are Righteous, why do

Christians believe 'Paul' more then Jesus and God?

 

In conclusion, Jesus did not die for our sins, Jesus was saved from

the cross, not all are with sins and sins are easily forgiven. As

Jesus says: " Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not,

and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;

{Luke 6:37 }

 

Each individual is responsible for their own sins " If you forgive

the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any,

they are retained. " {John 20:23}

 

http://www.mlife.org/Jesus/die_on_cross_fo_sins.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

So Kyyan, i still have no proper understanding of Shri Jesus dying

for our sins. There are a number of Christians beliefs i don't

understand and this is surely one of them. The more you question the

more confusing they get. Shri Jesus never said that He will die for

the sins of humanity just as He never claimed to be God Almighty. i

believe Christianity to be most difficult to understand. Even Shri

Mataji has said the Bible is enigmatic because so many people have

added their stories to it.

 

Some of these stories are truly disturbing and make no sense, even

cause us to lose faith. There is one particular story in the Bible

where two daughters take turns fornicating with their drunk father

after they escaped the destruction of Sodom. Apparently his

daughters taught that they were the only three humans left on Earth.

After their escape from Sodom, Lot and his two daughters took refuge

in a cave. It was there that another controversial chapter in Lot's

life occurred, although the record states that he was an unknowing

participant:

 

" Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains,

for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in

a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, " Our father

is old, and there is no man around here to lie with us, as is the

custom all over the earth. Let's get our father to drink wine and

then lie with him and preserve our family line through our father. "

That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older

daughter went in and lay with him. He was not aware of it when she

lay down or when she got up. The next day the older daughter said to

the younger, " Last night I lay with my father. Let's get him to

drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him so we can

preserve our family line through our father. " So they got their

father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went

and lay with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or

when she got up. So both of Lot's daughters became pregnant by their

father. The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab; he is

the father of the Moabites of today. The younger daughter also had a

son, and she named him Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites

of today. " (Genesis 19:30-38)

 

And when the bible says that 'god' did not mind this incest for the

sake of saving the human race from extinction, you know something is

very wrong. But has anyone really questioned if it is physically

possible for two daughters to take turns making love to their drunk

father and become pregnant ................ without the father even

realizing all this fornication!?? Is this the infallible word of God?

 

But i have utmost respect for the Savior despite all the strange

tales in the Bible that confuse more than enlighten. It is Shri

Mataji who has truly made me understand the nature of this great

incarnation. No matter what religious background one comes from it

is only after listening to Her that we begin to grasp Shri Jesus'

relationship with humanity. Even if one had not believed in Christ

prior to joining Sahaja Yoga and meditating on the Shakti, one will

embrace Him after listening to Shri Mataji's speeches over the

years.

 

From the very onset of Her advent in 1970 Shri Mataji has always

insisted that we humans must believe in Shri Jesus who truly resides

at the Agnya Chakra, the Gate to the Kingdom of God (Sahasrara

Chakra). Without accepting Him there is absolutely no salvation for

any human being. All SYs have accepted Him because Shri Jesus is

indeed Alpha, (the Beginning as Shri Ganesha) and Omega (the End as

Shri Kalki). Shri Mataji is indeed the Comforter because only now

SYs know all that Jesus was unable to preach two millennia ago. That

is why we are able to understand the Last Judgment in detail and

have faith that it promises all believers, irrespective of their

inherited religions, the right to eternal life.

 

Shri Jesus is indeed the Savior because He too is entrenched, just

like the Adi Shakti, in the great religions of Hinduism, Judaism,

Christianity and Islam. All who believe in God Almighty and wish to

take part in the Last Judgment and Resurrection are left with no

option but to embrace all religions, scriptures and messengers. You

can only understand the Savior, His proclamation of the Kingdom of

God within, and the Good News of the Last Judgment through the

Comforter, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, sent in the name of the Father

(God Almighty/Brahman) as He had promised two millennia ago:

 

And Jesus spoke again unto the eleven and said, " Grieve not

because I go away, for it is best that I should go away.

If I do not go away the Comforter will not come to you.

These things I speak while with you in the flesh, but when the Holy

Breath shall come in power, lo,

She will teach you more and more, and bring to you remembrance all

the words I have said to you.

There are a multitude of things yet to be said; Things that this age

cannot receive because it cannot comprehend.

But, lo, I say, before the great day of the Lord shall come, the

Holy Breath will make all mysteries known —

The mysteries of the soul, of life, of death, of immortality, the

oneness of man with every other man, and with his God.

Then will the world be led to truth, and man will be truth.

When She has come, the Comforter, She will convince the world of

sin, and of truth of what I speak,

And of the rightness of the Judgment of the just; And then the

prince of carnal life will be cast out.

And when the Comforter shall come, I need not intercede for you; For

you shall stand approved,

And God will know you then as he knows Me.

The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ 162:4-11

 

This is the Divine Message that will reach all nations and peoples

of many tongues, so that the Comforter may convince the world of

sin, and of truth of what Jesus spoke.

 

" But there will be many who will resist the truth of the new era.

They may try at first by playing upon the sense of self-doubt that

lies within each of us. Self-doubt exists only because we have

allowed others to define our reality for so long that we no longer

know what is real anymore. When we look inside and catch the first

sight of what is real and it does not concur with what those around

us have said and are saying at the moment, we discard it. We doubt

ourselves because we have allowed others to tell us what truth is.

But as we reach deeper into the New Age, we will reach deeper inside

ourselves for the truth. And as we learn the truth, we will no

longer need or want others to interpret it for us. This will cause

friction with those who defend the institutions they feel

comfortable with, the institutions they cling to like a security

blanket in a world they really aren't comfortable with at all.

 

Those who cannot, or do not dare, to look inside themselves for the

truth will be the ones who will resist the rest of us the most. They

will be the ones who challenge the rest of us the most. They will be

the ones who try to make the rest of us think that we are wrong

because they want desperately to believe that they are right, and

they know that once their faith is shaken, they have nothing left to

cling to. But be wary of anyone who demands that you have blind

faith in what they are saying. If they will not allow scrutiny, it

is possibly because their beliefs cannot stand up to scrutiny. And

when those who hide within the institutions because they do not dare

to look inside themselves feel that they are losing their grip on

the rest of us, they will fight. " (Walter Mercado, Beyond The

Horizon)

 

So Kyyan, you have to leave your religious baggage behind because it

will slow you down to a standstill with doubts and unsolvable

questions. Of all religions Christianity is the most confusing by a

wide margin. You can never understand Shri Jesus by going to a

church. You can only understand Him by meditating on the Holy Spirit

(Adi Shakti/Ruh) in the Kingdom of God within and taking part in the

Great Event ordained for humanity.

 

jagbir

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shriadishakti , " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org> wrote:

>

> Some of these stories are truly disturbing and make no sense, even

> cause us to lose faith. There is one particular story in the Bible

> where two daughters take turns fornicating with their drunk father

> after they escaped the destruction of Sodom. Apparently his

> daughters taught that they were the only three humans left on

> Earth.

>

 

LOT AND HIS DAUGHTERS

 

Following Yahweh's destruction of Sodom and other cities of the

Jordan plain (see SODOM[Y] AND GOMORRAH), Abraham's nephew Lot and

Lot's two daughters--formerly residents of Sodom--find themselves

living in a cave. The older daughter expresses to the younger her

fear that, for lack of a mate, they are now to be childless. " Our

father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto

us after the manner of all the earth. "

 

Her words suggest that this story originally involved a world

cataclysm, with Lot and his daughters, like Noah and his family in

the flood story, being the only surviving humans. But the suggestion

is academic, as her words make sense either way. These daughters

have had a bad time. First they lose their married sisters in

Sodom's supernatural fall, then their mother is lost--turned into a

pillar of salt--in the flight from the scene of destruction. They

then flee with their father from the city of Zoar--where according

to Yahweh they were supposed to be safe--apparently because the

destruction has spread, engulfing virtually the whole Jordan plain.

Now languishing in their mountain cave, Lot's daughters might easily

be excused for assuming that, save the old man, the rest of humanity

has been wiped out by the wrath of God.

 

In any case Lot's daughters take action. " Come, let us make our

father drink wine, and we will lie with him, " says the older

one, " that we may preserve seed of our father. " So they get Lot

drunk on successive nights, with the firstborn lying with him on the

first night, and the younger one on the second night, with Lot

remembering nothing about either occasion. Impregnated, the two

daughters bear Moab, the father of the Moabites, and Benammi, the

father of the Ammonites.

 

Thus Genesis, in the story of Lot and his daughters, pulls a rather

sly little trick. It matter-of-factly presents two troublesome

neighbors of Israel--Moab and Ammon, lying east of the Jordan River--

as children of incest, without passing any judgment on the three

incestuous Hebrew parents.

 

http://www.hobrad.com/andl.htm#LOT

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shriadishakti , " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org> wrote:

>

> So Kyyan, you have to leave your religious baggage behind because

> it will slow you down to a standstill with doubts and unsolvable

> questions. Of all religions Christianity is the most confusing by

> a wide margin. You can never understand Shri Jesus by going to a

> church. You can only understand Him by meditating on the Holy

> Spirit (Adi Shakti/Ruh) in the Kingdom of God within and taking

> part in the Great Event ordained for humanity.

>

>

 

 

CHRISTIANITY

Table of Contents

 

I. INTRODUCTION

II. THE CHURCH AND ITS HISTORY

1. The essence and identity of Christianity

1) HISTORICAL VIEWS OF THE ESSENCE

i) Early views.

ii) Medieval and Reformation views.

iii) Modern views.

2) THE QUESTION OF CHRISTIAN IDENTITY

2. The history of Christianity

1) THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH

i) The relation of the early church to late Judaism.

ii) The relation of the early church to the career and intentions of

Jesus.

iii) The Gentile mission and St. Paul.

iv) The contemporary social, religious, and intellectual world.

2) THE INTERNAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH

i) The problem of jurisdictional authority.

ii) The problem of scriptural authority.

iii) The problem of theological authority.

iv) Early heretical movements.

3) RELATIONS BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT AND THE

HELLENISTIC CULTURE

i) Church-state relations.

ii) Christianity and classical culture.

iii) Apologetics.

4) THE EARLY LITURGY, THE CALENDAR, AND THE ARTS

5) THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN CHURCH AND EMPIRE

6) THEOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES OF THE 4TH AND 5TH CENTURIES

i) Western controversies.

ii) Eastern controversies.

7) POPULAR CHRISTIANITY IN THE LATE EMPIRE

8) LITURGY AND THE ARTS AFTER CONSTANTINE

i) New forms of worship.

ii) Historical and polemical writing.

9) POLITICAL RELATIONS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

10) LITERATURE AND ART OF THE " DARK AGES "

11) MISSIONS AND MONASTICISM

12) THE PHOTIAN SCHISM AND THE GREAT EAST-WEST SCHISM

i) The Photian schism.

ii) The great East-West schism.

13) FROM THE SCHISM TO THE REFORMATION

i) Papacy and empire.

ii) Medieval thought.

iii) Reformation.

14) MODERN CHRISTIANITY

15) THE MODERN DENOMINATIONS

i) Roman Catholicism.

(1) Doctrine.

(2) Liturgy.

ii) The Eastern churches.

iii) Protestantism.

(1) Lutheranism.

(2) Anglicanism.

(3) Presbyterian and Reformed Churches.

(4) Free churches.

(5) Other churches and movements.

3. Christian doctrine

1) THE MEANING OF DOGMA

i) Importance to Christian doctrine and later implications.

ii) Orientation of the Western churches.

iii) Orientation of the Eastern churches.

2) GOD THE FATHER

i) Characteristic features of the Christian concept of God.

ii) The specific concept of God as Father.

iii) The belief in the oneness of the Father and the Son.

iv) The revelatory character of God.

v) God as Creator, Sustainer, and Judge.

vi) Modern views of God.

vii) The view that God is not solitary.

viii) Satan and the origin of evil.

3) GOD THE SON

i) Different interpretations of the person of Jesus.

ii) The Christological controversies.

iii) Messianic views.

iv) The doctrine of the Virgin Mary and holy Wisdom.

4) GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT

i) Contradictory aspects of the Holy Spirit.

ii) Conflict between order and charismatic freedom.

iii) The operations of the Holy Spirit.

5) THE HOLY TRINITY

i) The basis for the doctrine of the Trinity.

ii) Introduction of Neoplatonic themes.

iii) Attempts to define the Trinity.

6) THE DOCTRINE OF MAN

i) What it is to be human.

ii) The human as a creature.

iii) The human as the image of God.

iv) Human redemption.

v) The problem of suffering.

vi) The resurrection of the body.

vii) Progressive human perfection.

viii) The justified human.

ix) The " new man " : The human being in the light of Christ.

x) The " reborn human. "

xi) Human liberation.

xii) Joy in human existence.

xiii) The charismatic believer.

xiv) Christian perfection.

xv) Fellow humans as the present Christ.

7) THE CHURCH

i) Normative defenses in the early church.

ii) Evolution of the episcopal office.

iii) Authority and dissent.

iv) Creeds and confessions.

v) Organization.

vi) Episcopacy in Anglican and other Reformation churches.

vii) Liturgy.

viii) New liturgical forms and antiliturgical attitudes.

ix) The sacraments.

x) Tradition.

xi) Scriptural traditions.

xii) Veneration of places, objects, and people.

xiii) Monasticism.

xiv) The saintly life.

xv) Art and iconography.

xvi) Theology of icons.

xvii) Missions.

8) LAST THINGS

i) Expectations of the Kingdom of God in early Christianity.

ii) Expectations of the Kingdom of God in the medieval and

Reformation periods.

iii) Expectations of the Kingdom of God in the post-Reformation

period.

iv) The role of imminent expectation in missions and emigrations.

v) Eschatological expectations and secularization.

vi) Concepts of life after death.

4. Church year

1) ORIGINS OF THE CHURCH YEAR

i) Religious times and seasons.

ii) Jewish background.

iii) Formation of the church year.

2) THE MAJOR CHURCH CALENDARS

i) Eastern churches.

ii) Roman Catholic Church.

iii) Protestant churches.

3) HISTORY OF THE CHURCH YEAR

i) Sunday.

ii) Advent.

iii) Christmas.

iv) Epiphany.

v) Pre-Lent.

vi) Lent.

vii) Easter.

viii) Ascension.

ix) Pentecost.

x) Pentecost or Trinity Season.

xi) Saints' days and other holy days.

4) LITURGICAL COLOURS

5. Canon law

1) NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE

i) Historical and cultural importance of canon law.

ii) Problems in the study of canon law and its sources.

2) HISTORY

i) The formative period in the East.

(1) Eastern churches.

(2) Independent churches of Eastern Christianity.

ii) Development of canon law in the West.

iii) The Corpus Juris Canonici (c. 1140-c. 1500).

iv) From the Council of Trent (1545-63) to the Codex Juris Canonici

(1917).

(1) The end of decretal law.

(2) Law for the missions.

v) The Codex Juris Canonici (1917).

vi) The Eastern churches in union with Rome.

3) THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL AND POST-CONCILIAR CANON LAW

i) Vatican II.

ii) Post-conciliar legislation.

iii) Revision of the Code of Canon Law.

iv) The new Code of Canon Law.

v) The Eastern churches.

4) ANGLICAN CANON LAW

III. ASPECTS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION

1. Patristic literature

1) THE ANTE-NICENE PERIOD

i) The Apostolic Fathers.

ii) The Gnostic writers.

iii) The Apologists.

iv) Late 2nd to early 4th century.

2) THE POST-NICENE PERIOD

i) The Nicene Fathers.

ii) The Cappadocian Fathers.

iii) Monastic literature.

iv) The school of Antioch.

v) The schools of Edessa and Nisibis.

vi) The Chalcedonian Fathers.

vii) Non-Chalcedonian Fathers.

viii) The post-Nicene Latin Fathers.

ix) Later Greek Fathers.

3) THE CHARACTER OF THE HERITAGE

2. Christian philosophy

1) HISTORY OF THE INTERACTIONS OF PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY

i) Influence of Greek philosophy.

ii) Emergence of official doctrine.

iii) Aristotle, Aquinas, and Descartes.

iv) Other influences.

2) FAITH AND REASON

3) CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY AS NATURAL THEOLOGY

i) Arguments for the existence of God.

(1) The design (or teleological) argument.

(2) The cosmological argument.

(3) The ontological argument.

(4) Moral arguments.

(5) Arguments from religious experience and miracles.

ii) The immortality of the soul.

4) CONTEMPORARY DISCUSSIONS

i) Influence of logical positivism.

ii) Evidentialist approach.

3. Christian mysticism

1) HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM

i) Early church.

ii) Eastern Christianity.

iii) Western Catholic Christianity.

iv) Protestant Christianity.

2) STAGES OF CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM

i) The dying to self.

ii) The union with God.

iii) The readjustment.

3) FORMS OF CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM

i) Christ-mysticism.

ii) Trinitarian mysticism.

iii) Negative mysticism: God and the Godhead.

4) SIGNIFICANCE OF CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM

4. Christian myth and legend

1) CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRISTIAN MYTH AND LEGEND

2) HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN MYTH AND LEGEND

i) The early church.

(1) The ages of the world.

(2) Messianic secrets and the mysteries of salvation.

(3) The Magi and the Child of Wondrous Light.

(4) Relics and saints.

ii) The Middle Ages.

iii) Renaissance magic and science.

iv) Christian practice in the modern world.

IV. THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY AND THE WORLD

1. The relationships of Christianity

1) Historical views.

2) Church, sect, and mystical movement.

3) CHURCH AND STATE

i) The history of church and state.

(1) The church and the Roman Empire.

(2) The church and the Byzantine, or Eastern, Empire.

(3) The church and Western states.

(4) Separation of church and state.

ii) Church and state in Eastern and Western theology.

(1) The views of Eusebius of Caesarea.

(2) The views of Augustine.

(3) Later developments.

4) CHURCH AND SOCIETY

i) The problem of slavery and persecution.

ii) Theological and humanitarian motivations.

5) CHURCH AND EDUCATION

i) Intellectualism versus anti-intellectualism.

ii) Forms of Christian education.

6) CHURCH AND THE ARTS

7) CHURCH AND SOCIAL WELFARE

i) Curing and caring for the sick.

(1) Healing the sick.

(2) Care for the sick.

ii) Care for widows and orphans.

iii) Property, poverty, and the poor.

iv) Pastoral care.

8) CHURCH AND MINORITIES

9) CHURCH AND FAMILY

i) The tendency to spiritualize and individualize marriage.

ii) The tendency toward asceticism.

10) CHURCH AND THE INDIVIDUAL

i) Love as the basis for Christian ethics.

ii) Freedom and responsibility.

2. Christian missions

1) BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONS

2) THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS

i) First transition, to AD 500.

ii) Second transition, to AD 1500.

(1) Western mission.

(2) Papal mission.

(3) Eastern and Nestorian missions.

(4) The rise of Islam.

iii) Third transition, to AD 1950.

(1) Roman Catholic mission, 1500-1950.

(2) Protestant missions, 1500-1950.

(3) Orthodox missions.

iv) Fourth transition, from 1950.

v) Scripture translations.

3. Ecumenism

1) THE BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE

2) THE HISTORY OF ECUMENISM

i) Early controversies.

ii) The schism of 1054.

iii) The Reformation.

iv) Ecumenism in the 17th and 18th centuries.

v) 19th-century efforts.

vi) Ecumenism in the 20th century.

4. The Christian church and non-Christian religions

1) CONFLICTING CHRISTIAN ATTITUDES

2) MODERN VIEWS

5. Bibliography

1) General works:

2) History of the Christian Church:

3) Major traditional doctrinal issues: (The meaning of dogma):

4) Church year:

5) Canon law:

6) Patristic literature:

7) Christian philosophy:

8) Mysticism:

9) Christian myth and legend:

10) Roles of Christianity:

11) Missions:

12) Ecumenism:

13) The Christian Church and non-Christian religions:

 

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shriadishakti , " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org> wrote:

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> From the very onset of Her advent in 1970 Shri Mataji has always

> insisted that we humans must believe in Shri Jesus who truly

> resides at the Agnya Chakra, the Gate to the Kingdom of God

> (Sahasrara Chakra). Without accepting Him there is absolutely no

> salvation for any human being. All SYs have accepted Him because

> Shri Jesus is indeed Alpha, (the Beginning as Shri Ganesha) and

> Omega (the End as Shri Kalki). Shri Mataji is indeed the Comforter

> because only now SYs know all that Jesus was unable to preach two

> millennia ago. That is why we are able to understand the Last

> Judgment in detail and have faith that it promises all believers,

> irrespective of their inherited religions, the right to eternal

> life.

>

 

know_yourself_sy

" Sahaja Yoga " <yogasahaja

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:55:46 -0000

HWP for Tuesday, February 1, 2005

 

 

" This is the thing you have to rise above. Christians have to rise

above this Christianity and has to understand that its such a great

thing that was Christ who came on this earth who was the incarnation

of the principle of Ganesha. Ganesha becoming Mahavishnu is a very

big thing which one should try to understand. Ganesha is the Son of

Shiva. Shri Ganesha is the one who was first created before creating

anything, any atmosphere, anything. Because He is the Omkara and the

Omkara is the first breaking of Adi Shakti from Shiva, that sound of

Omkara. From there started Omkara and He is the one who is the

embodiment of that Omkara. So the sound is Shri Ganesha. His power

was created first, foremost thing just to create holiness. "

 

Ganapatipule, India.

December 25, 1990

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