On Jim Carrey...
~During the interview at his home, he invited 60 MINUTES cameras to one of his most beautiful and private spots, his "center of the universe," where he goes to escape the world and where he tells Kroft his feelings about God. "This is where I hang out with Buddha, Krishna...all those guys," says Carrey about a lean-to adorned with candles and a bed built high on his hillside property in Brentwood, Calif.
"I'm a Buddhist, I'm a Muslim, I'm a Christian. I'm whatever you want me to be...it all comes down to the same thing," he tells Kroft. Carrey says he believes they are all the same God and it is this conviction and spirituality that make him happy.~
Now wait a minute... all the same? Buddha never claimed to be God, which Jesus certainly did, Islam is avowedly VIOLENT against people who don't believe what it believes. Both Christianity and Islam belive in one GOD whereas Buddhism believes in no gods, Krishna... don't honestly know to much, but the same thing really... Buddhism at its core is trying to disassociate the believer from the world, because the world is a painful place, and Christianity is trying to get its followers to realize that life is painful, but that makes us grow and mature, and that heaven will be a place of no pain, but Buddhism has no heaven...
The idea that you can say that all religions are basically the same is, frankly, stupid. They are so OBVIOUSLY different at VERY important levels... As G.K. Chesterton said, the open mind needs to finally close around something!
Pray for Jim Carrey. Eventually he will discover that not all religions are the same, only one is true... and lets hope it isn't too late.
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While I agree 100% with your conclusion (there is only one God and there is one way to him - Christ) let us keep in mind that this is not an entirely horrible way to begin your search for God. It is logical if God has placed the desire for Himself into man's hearts, that most religions are an attempt to search for God and some may actually be misguided attempts to take a shortcut to Him. (Buddhism as originally practiced seems to me to be an attempt by the philosopher to shortcut his way to God. Annihilate the self, and you are left with what? The creator who can not be annihilated.) Buddhism as practiced now of course, is largely worship of the various "enlightened ones" and thus is as much idolatry as anything else. (Or such is my understanding from my reading, feel free to correct me.)
Any search for God is a good search, so long as it is an honest one. "If you seek me, you will find me" God indicates in scripture. A man can well start out looking down the various paths and conclude there is ONE GOD. This is a good start. Let us just hope that the search does not end there. Knowing OF God is not enough. God wishes to be known HIMSELF.
"Any search for God is good, as long as it is an honest one."
What if I wanted to search for God by submerging myself into drugs and the crime world. What if I honestly thought I could find God there? What if I honestly could? I think your key word here, Nomad, is "honest." Things can be honestly good and honestly bad. There is only one truth - one clean and honest way - to God. No short cuts. No roundabout ways. Jesus said He was THE way, THE truth and THE life. There is no other way. It's *the* honest way.
Thus, I shall disagree that all ways are good ways. Jesus didn't say it therefore I have no reason to believe it.
I think we could probably agree that scripture is the best thing to stand on. We have to have a standard of some sort. If that is our standard, and if we believe it is honestly true than we have no other way to God than the one that He gave us - Jesus.
The rest is, shall we say, bunk? And therefore holds no relevance of any sort.
Hmm, maybe Carrey really is schizophrenic, or whatever the heck that personality is that is so uniquely his.
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