Other Beliefs Compared with Christianity

1st Internet Question: WHAT IS THE JEWISH BELIEF AS COMPARED WITH THE CHRISTIAN BELIEF? >From a Jewish website I've determined that the Jewish belief is as follows: A Messiah will come at the end of time and will never die, this will be when all the Jews will receive redemption and be united, everybody will recognize this person as the true Messiah, all the dead will be raised up, the 3rd Temple will be built, sacrifices will return, all will be saved, no more sickness and death, and we will all live on this earth in peace forever. Jesus was just an ordinary Jew and not the Messiah becaus he died and his followers killed Jews. Being imperfect had nothing to do with Salvation. God could accept us as we are as long as we ask Him for His forgiveness for our transgressions, and to do this, we don't need an intercessor. 2nd Internet Question: WHAT IS THE MUSLIM BELIEF AS COMPARED WITH THE CHRISTIAN BELIEF? >From a Muslim website I've determined that the Muslim belief is as follows: The Black Muslims are not true Muslims because according to the Muslims, Mohammad is supposed to be the last and greatest prophet that ever lived, but in the Black Muslim religion they recognize a later prophet. The Muslims believe that Jesus was only one of the many prophets that existed before Mohammad. Muslim's emphasize the oneness of God as the foundation of their religion, and surround this with a number of regulations, such as worshipping Him at appointed times (5 times) a day, giving generously to charity once a year, fasting for 30 days during the month appointed by Him and sometimes many rigid restrictions for women. Muslims also believe that a person's sin is only between God and that person and that person has to confess that sin before God and ask for forgiveness and promise not to do it again. Muslims do not believe in inherited sin. They only believe in individual sins. There is no Intercessor here. Muslims believe all Muslims will be saved, but some would have to be purified more thouroughly in a purgatory after they die, especially the suicide bombers. Suicide is against the Muslim religion, but if the suicide is for the purpose of defending one's homeland, this would be different. All non-Muslims would never be saved, if they heard the Muslim message and rejected it. This is especially true for the Christians,since the Muslims believe Christians worship more than one God. 3rd Internet Question: WHAT IS THE HINDU BELIEF AS COMPARED WITH THE CHRISTIAN BELIEF? >From a Hindu website I've determined that the Hindu belief is as follows: A Hindu believes that we all have an immortal soul, and that originally we were all perfect, just as God is, and that in some way we lost our purity and became, in effect sinners. Now we should all strive to get this back through meditation and yoga, but this is going to take a long time. In fact, most likely, it will take many lifetimes. This is where reincarnation comes in. We have to improve ourselves a little each lifetime. In other words, when we die our immortal soul enters another body to improve a little bit more, until we reach a point where we can become like God again. Of course, we can always backslide, but eventually we all will find salvation in our own perfection. Now this belief would hold true for Hindus and non-Hindus alike because this belief does not depend on what another person believes. 4th Internet Question: WHAT IS THE BUDDHIST BELIEF AS COMPARED TO THE CHRISTIAN BELIEF? >From a Buddhist website I've determined that the Buddhist belief is as follows: The Buddhists feel that their belief is not a religion, but a philosophy, or a way of life. Buddhists believe that God is really an unknowable so why concern yourself about Him. A Buddhist believes that the only time that is important is the present, the here and now, and the future is something that one shouldn't worry about. Just concern yourself with the present and try to improve yourself at that point of time through meditation and yoga. Take one step at a time and death is only one of those steps. So only concentrate on the step you're taking at the time. The goal of all this is to eventually reach perfection all on your own. It's really a focus on your way of life in the present with no concern for your life in the future. 5th Internet Question: WHY DO SOME PEOPLE REJECT A BELIEF IN GOD OR CHRISTIANITY ACCORDING TO SOME RESPONSES FROM SEVERAL CHRISTIAN WEBSITES? >From Sarah 1) What is the use of a God who never appears, or does anything supernatural where people can all see and benefit. 2) What use is a God who watches the sparrows fall and never catches them. 3) Why believe in a supernatural being when sooner or later science will explain everything. 4) How can there be a God when people are suffering, and dying, and evil people are able to do horrible things - shouldn't a God do something to stop it. 5) People can live good, decent, honest lives without being attached to a religion. 6) You meet an awful lot of so-called "Christians" who are cruel, intolerant, and fear-ridden. Who would want to join them? 7) The three in one idea makes no sense. 8) Wine into blood and bread into flesh sounds like cannibalism. 9) There are so many religions in the world - how can you be sure Christianity is the one. 10) There are so many versions of Christianity - surely if it was real they'd all agree. >From others 1) "Believe in what I believe or you're going to hell" theory. 2) Blind faith is a turnoff. 3) I have never seen any of the extraordinary events that occurred in the Bible. 4) Biblical contradictions. (seemingly) 5) They never met a Christian or they have met one. 6th Internet Question: WHAT ABOUT DEVELOPING A WORLD RELIGION? SOME RESPONSES FROM 2 CHRISTIAN WEBSITES 1) Albert says: My personal view is that it would cause even more problems. Can you imagine the difficulties of trying to persuade the different faiths that a World Faith would be an advantage to all concerned. Can't see it happening myself. 2) Corbin says: This would be very difficult to do, especially when two of the religions (Christianity snd Islam) preach exclusivity. But the Bahai Religion is trying to do just that. 3) John Says: Yes, when all mankind has knowledge of who Jesus is, and the followers of Jesus live up to the calling of Jesus, there will be a one World Religion. 7th Internet Question: HOW WOULD LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS AFFECT YOUR FAITH? In summation, from 2 Christian websites, it seems that all feel it wouldn't affect one's faith if it tended to be liberal, whereas if it tended to be more conservative it could. For example, if life were discovered on other planets, would this mean 1) that we should send spaceships on interplanetary missions to convert the aliens, 2) even if we did this, would they have souls, or even be aware of a Supernatural Being, 3) if they would be, would they be fallen creatures like us, or might they have been able to pass their own version of the Adam and Eve test and remained perfect, 4) if not, how would God deal with their Salvation, 5) would they have their own "Jesus/Savior" in the form of their own species, 6) or maybe Jesus covers them too in that maybe an earth-based spirituality would cover them as well and 7) is their spiritual mentality higher or lower than ours, and how would this affect on how we or God would deal with them.