The Morally and Ethically Superior Way
By ghettopriest
@ghettopriest (78)
Jamaica
July 28, 2007 2:02pm CST
I'd like to put a new spin on matters of the choice of Christianity over other religions. There are many who get very grainy when it comes on to this issue and there is much talk of dialouge and eccumenicalism. There are not many ways to ultimate reality. Ultimate means ultimate and the very idea of multiplicity of ways flies in the face of the etymology of Ultimate. Not every road will take you to ultimate reality, there can be only one way. Jesus is the way the truth and the life. There is one fact in all of the discussion, a fact of history that cannot be explained away: The resurrection of Jesus. Discovery channel made a feeble attempt with their documentary, carefully timed and released just around easter of this year, which claimed that an ancient burial site had been found in Israel wit four ossuaries (coffins) containing the remains of Jesus and his family. The experts themselves discredited the authenticity of the documentaary. There will always be those who try to blow the resurrection to smitherins because they know that Christianity as the superior and ultimate way rests on that fact, that incontrovertible fact of history.
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@Chiang_Mai_boy (3882)
• Thailand
30 Jul 07
I came to this discussion after reading the title. I expected a pithy discussion of morals and ethics and instead find the tired old tale of the resurrection which is only Paganism retreaded.
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@Chiang_Mai_boy (3882)
• Thailand
31 Jul 07
I don't think that I have missed the point at all. You state;
"Why should my morality and ethic be guided by some deity that is a mere lifeless object?"
I did not say that morality should be based on any deity. If we can find morality only in religious teachings than we are in big trouble. There is a basic goodness in humankind that can not be denied. Morality and ethics must come from within. If they are based on the teachings of one religion then we can not deal ethically with people who do not follow that particular religion. Much evil has been done in this world in the name of religion because of the justification that it is OK to victimize others that do not share the same beliefs. Everything from the Holocaust to the murders in the mid-east today are justified by the belief that somehow people that do not share our beliefs are subhuman and do not deserve humane treatment because they defile our vision God.
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@ghettopriest (78)
• Jamaica
30 Jul 07
You see friend you have missed the point. We cant talk of moral and ethics without a reason for holding a morality or ethics that is based a shaky foundation. The foundation has to be solid. Why should my morality and ethic be guided by some deity that is a mere lifeless object? So before we get to a pity discussion we have to make the tired old point, which is tired and old because of its relevance. How do you justify describing the resurrection as pagan?
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@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
29 Jul 07
The problem is that for people of other religions, the resurrection of Jesus doesn't mean anything. Even if Jesus was resurrected, even if he is the son of some God I don't follow, that doesn't change my own beliefs or my own loyalty to the Gods I do follow.
So that "fact" you are speaking of, even if it were a fact, wouldn't change my beliefs any.
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@ghettopriest (78)
• Jamaica
30 Jul 07
Well you see an essential component of religion is the concept of the after life and the matter of man's ultimate destiny. Some offer an endless cycle of reincarnation, a constant effort to shake off bad karma and have more good karma. The essential element of salvation. Christianity is the only faith with a risen saviour. A saviour who is alive. How does a lifeless idol or object get to the place of being a savior?
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@gloria777 (1674)
• India
6 Aug 07
Really agree with you. Science & Historian have tried their level best to prove wrong about Jesus's resurrection, but they had failed tremendously. He is the way,truth and the life.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
28 Jul 07
I have noticed even it speaks of Jesus, people are more able to believe a lie. For instance, in Matthew 28: 11 to 14 it speaks of those who witnessed Jesus with his disciples and that they went to the high priests who persuaded them to lie and say his disciples stole his body. It speaks of Jesus rising into heaven in the presence of at least his twelve disciples and possibly more. In I Corinthians 15; 3 to 6, it speaks of Christ appearing to 500 at once, so it is possible that many of these were witness to his resurrection. So all this talk of burial sites is just another way to disparage the truth that Jesus is LORD over all and sits at the right hand of God, doesn't it? Or perhaps it was because many of the witnesses were not relatives of Caesar, the Roman nobility, or were of the Jewish elite, that the fact of the resurrection was not believed, do you think so?
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@ghettopriest (78)
• Jamaica
28 Jul 07
Quite so. The enemy has been trying from that very time to hide the truth. They knew how dangerous that truth would be to them and their murderous plot. So its nothing new. Once again it is the elite that are trying to distort the truth.
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@lani0529 (1722)
• Philippines
1 Aug 07
Hello there!(",)
I don't usually answer to discussions like this because although I'm a a believer of Christ, I share Jesus in a differently way. I noticed, that discussions on religion can only ignite debate and misunderstanding rather than unity and understanding. I know its hard for others to accept the fact on the resurrection of Christ that's why to those who understand hope you will live by it so that others may see Jesus in us, and will finally have the desire of knowing Christ.
Being a model of a Christ-like character is a good way of sharing Jesus to others.(",) Let us always be open-minded to this discussion while still holding on to our own faith.
Great day everyone!(",)
@Galena (9110)
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5 Aug 07
in your opinion.
you forgot to add there.
I don't think that in terms of proveability, Christianity holds any more water than the next religion.
the resurrection can't be proved or disproved.
I beleive that Jesus existed, and was a remarkable man, and a charismatic Spiritual leader.
any human remains from the time are more likely not to be him than to be him, and that's just statistics.
people of other religions don't beleive Christianity is superior. or why would they beleive something else.
when people belittle my beleifs, I don't turn around and say, oh you're only saying that because you know my beliefs are right and best.
I beleive they are right. I beleieve they are true. but if people don't beleive in what I beleive in I don't jump to such a childish theory that they are doing it because they know I'm right.
they don't beleive I'm right. I beleive I'm right. no one has proof, or could be expected to prove it.
people don't beleive in different things out of childish jealousy, but because people beleive in different things. nothing wrong with that.
