Judge not, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven. (Luke 6:37)
“Receiving Christ” does not always necessarily mean “receiving” him verbally. You can do this also with acts: turn to your Muslim, Hindu or Jewish brothers. If you can establish proper correspondence and Love, then you are in harmony with God’s desire. Is this what God wants, or do you think it is rather something else?
God exists. Unfortunately, religious groups strive for a certain social hierarchy, which often includes the desire to seize power and control others. There have already been some efforts to unite all religions, to unite all people. Unfortunately, this idea is not very acceptable to most Christians, Jews, or even Muslims. However, Muslims have a Bahai religion (http://www.bahai.org/), which says that all religions have a source of Truth and it is a kind of Islam in Islam: they have their own martyrs and are persecuted even today. in countries like Iran.
The Truth is not very visible. It is due to many obstacles. One of them is the purpose of the mainstream media or society to brainwash us all the time: you never listen to certain things (like information about the Bahai religion, for example). Therefore, apart from the fact that Islam is made up of various sects and ideas, the media gives us only one image: Islam is bad. They never publish information about the British colonization of India or Australia, or about slavery… Thus, the artificially developed opinions become “a truth” that only some people in this world are bad.
The sinister engine of brainwashing works in such a way, for example, that publishers look for books that sell most profitably. This does not mean that a win is bad, but of the two conditions: “least money” and “highest win”, only the latter is chosen. Thus, the Truth hardly reaches the media environment. This tragedy also happened to the film industry: the more guns you see, the more money actors and producers have in their pockets. Perhaps it’s because most people like amazing stories and media managers think that showing an in-depth religious debate on television, for example, would force viewers to change the channel.
Around 1992 I bought a book “Nostradamus Prophecies Deciphered”. I read it carefully, but unfortunately I can only now confirm that none of the “deciphered prophecies” actually happened. I understood that the purpose of the book was just profit and brainwashing.
Do we really know our history that well? White Australians were shooting Aborigines like in the games. It was his sport. Have you ever seen the atrocities of the British colonizers (India, America, Sri Lanka…) or the American “warriors”? Or have you ever heard of the Arabs who saved Jews in World War II? These are historical facts: some Muslims helped Jews escape Nazi extermination. The media talks mostly about Russians (as KGB agents) and Arabs (as terrorists)… The US supported terrorism during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan (now they have turned against the US) and now some Albanians in Kosovo receive great support from the West, which strongly condemned Jiri Dienstbier (a member of the government of the former Czechoslovakia) who said that “it is a tragedy to condemn terrorists on the one hand and support them on the other; such a policy cannot bring any rewarding results.”
Unfortunately, we live in the world without many values, or with values but those that belong to society (a career, a good university degree, an artificial smile) and not to God – everyone wants to earn a lot of money and build their houses even on top of a cemetery.
So, if you understand, most of the media and society in general also work this way and the “truth” they convey to us, whether electronically or visually, is based on the principle of making the most of it. We all know that money is necessary, but surely not at the expense of other “truths” that we hear few, very few times. There is much quality psychological research that confirms the bad influence of the media on us. Do you think that killing a man without showing compassion – something we see every day on our television screens – does not “infect” us with an artificial behavior model whose message is that compassion is actually something that degrades us?
In this chaos, many religions behave mindlessly and beyond God’s directions. Our soul is immortal, that’s for sure, but a good belief does not require a perfect knowledge of every text of the Bible, it is enough to look at the Ten Commandments and that’s it.
So here is a question: which is better? To condemn people like us, who think that the Truth is lost in the mainstream environment (in the mainstream religions, in the mainstream society…) and hypocritically keep the Commandments and become quite xenophobic and alienated from anything that is just a little different? Or love all people without differentiating their “religious labels” (or national) and seeing them rather in a simple light as Christ did?
For about three years I taught an American group of Christians here (our mother tongue). They used me as an agent to help them in various situations like going through customs etc. I also helped them with the move from Vienna airport. They all stayed here for a couple of years, some just for a couple of months, but airfreight (from the US) of old furniture at a cost of $30,000 I did several times for them (say, $90,000 altogether) was a waste of money (the whole truckload of old furniture). If you believe in God in the right way, this is a good example that faith can also have wrong directions, whether you worship Christ, YHVH or Buddha. Although they talked all the time about Jesus, it was difficult for them to become a little more insightful – here you can buy old furniture for about 2,000 dollars… Ninety thousand dollars is the money that can be used, in countries like Sri Lanka, much more efficiently, and in Kenya or Uganda with miracles. Do you know that many people, including children, die in this world every minute or second? Which Christ do you want?
Transporting old furniture, as expensive as it may be, is not the only thing you do when you waste money. If a religion is misdirected, even missionaries’ salaries and time go in the wrong direction.
God is one, but people are somewhat degenerate and they keep coming here, from time to time, in the form of Rama or Krishna, Buddha, Jesus or even Mohammed. These ancient legacies contain only one main idea: the preservation of dharma (good order, the preservation of justice, etc.) and the promise of the Kingdom of God. Now the situation is that many Christians are like the Pharisees in the time of Jesus: they are almost like them and nothing has changed, only the system (means of social rules, different bureaucracy, etc.) and technology…
Replacing one God with another is a mistake people are tempted to make. You must not kill innocent people, you must not lie, you must not destroy nature, etc. This has nothing to do with the fact that one god is better than the other – the right path follows the direction of how you really want to live with God and how you understand His wish – and His wish is only one – let us all live in harmony, in peace, without selfishness, lies, wars, etc.
Most religious people forget to differentiate between the color of a religion or a denomination and the will of God. We also live in times where our sources to God are hard to trace, not because we have the Bible or the Gita, but because there is no visible authority that says God’s will is more important than interdenominational disputes. Real truth seekers learn Hebrew or Sanskrit; they don’t see the da Vinci Code. The Bible itself is not exactly translated, as the original Hebrew did not write vowels, so a good example is (when scholars don’t even know the proper vocalization of YHVH) that some written words in the old Bible could give us as many as 10 meanings (or words) depending on the vowel in the middle. The tendency of Christians to explain the Bible word for word and to condemn others who have a different opinion only proves that they, or most of them, are totally confused in concepts, in what is good or bad, and in many other things.
It is better to talk to people about God than to preach about various details of the Bible and fight over words (Jesus says: DON’T FIGHT OVER WORDS…). There are certain things you should never do. If a prisoner gets out of prison and you meet him from time to time, you will not condemn him or explain to him that doing certain things is the wrong way: that there is a God, you help save someone else’s life in the future. This means receiving Christ in the right way. But contrary to this “Christianity”, most Christians condemn even people like me simply because we don’t have the “same style”.
Christians have strayed from God and selfishness controls them. It is wrong if white people go to the Amazon and preach the gospel there. The Indians who live there are part of the Amazonian ecosystem and preaching there is like when one race annihilates the other. Do we want a life without crocodiles and birds? It is also about how the values of God have been continually disappearing throughout our history and have been replaced by artificial social patterns, which use various forms, condemnation being one of them, by oppression, and with only one purpose: make us all part of this world of sorcerers, or part of its evil aspect, I could say, and support it. The greatest sin is the incorrect use of weapons, but almost never does anyone say, also in Christian political parties, that Love is the greatest weapon…
It is difficult to believe in God and simultaneously uphold pan-human principles, on the one hand, and be condemned, on the other, just because you refuse to accept certain prescribed formulas of dogma. And when someone reminds us of a biblical commandment: “You shall have no other gods before me”, he never thinks of other “gods” such as career, money, success, etc. to all of which these bow every day without the ability to understand that many names can sometimes mean ONE (depending on their content), and that “no other god” often seems to go to church unaware of the hungry and lonely. My experience with the American group of Christians mentioned above only confirmed this. They think that Muslims cannot be saved because they did not receive Christ. If a Muslim behaves towards you as towards your brother, he already has Christ in his heart. All believers must take care of themselves: it is up to God to decide who will be saved.
There are certain principles like loving your neighbor, believing that God exists, believing that Christ has risen… but when you get to the point where most religious people realize that, with opinions like the one I present here, you are not “good” enough for most of them; they want to “strip” you of your natural particles. Followers of Christ often condemn people who believe in Him just a little differently. Is this what Christ wanted?
Those who received Christ in the right way behave in the right way.
