Lizbeth
Well-Known Member
Please don't miss the point. The point is Ghandi wasn't following Christ as you are saying, but Hinduism.The narrow way in Christ doesn't mean being narrow minded. You are missing the bigger picture...and are remaining blind to your true condition before God.
God allows for different colours of skin, ethnicities and even religions. This world is a testing ground for eternity.
Just as judging ALL God-fearers among the Greeks is a mistake...since some became the first Gentile Christians...so it is wrong to judge someone as unrighteous because of their ethnicity or religious affiliation. Sure some God-fearers continued to be pagans (thus allowing religious bigots to write them all off.). But God looks at the heart.
It's not so much about what we accept as doctrine...as what it is doing to us. Doing good to others is NEVER wrong. Fearing God is NEVER wrong. Receiving a righteous man as a righteous man is wise, irregardless of his doctrinal leanings. Of course that doesn't extend as far as one who blasphemes God on the holiness level. We are limited...and there are limits as to what we can accept on the level of human attitude.
The Samaritans were seen as heretics among the Jews. And Jesus got people like you in a big snit when He used a Samaritan to teach the Jews how to do the will of God. Of course because you read in the bible how things are seen...you will deny you would have done the very same thing as religious people did at that time. So you are not progressing at all in the faith.
It's like using Gandhi to explain selflessness.
And the bigots and shallow hypocrites won't see what they are doing....so focused are they on a self-righteous appraisal of their own doctrinal correctness.
Brother I'm afraid you're very deceived and are bringing a gospel that is not the same as what Jesus and the apostles taught and preached.
What you are essentially saying is that God allows for sin, because the idolatry of false religions is sin. While the Lord longsuffered this until the cross, now He calls for all men EVERYWHERE to repent of their sin and idolatry and turn to Christ.
The parable of the two sons that you mentioned are referring to those who actually ARE His sons. First to the Jew, then the Gentile. To the Jew it was talking about his son Israel who only practicing an outward religion but whose hearts were far from Him at that time, telling them that His other son the Gentiles IN CHRIST, would do His will and produce the fruits in keeping with repentance. Then to the Gentile.....to believers in Christ after the cross it is talking about those in the church who would likewise give the Lord lip service but again not producing the fruits. After the cross you actually need to have the spirit of adoption before He calls you a son. Gospel 101. Jesus is the first born of many brethren...only His brethren according to the spirit are sons. I pray the Lord will rescue you out of the deception you're floundering around in there.....you've fallen down a rabbit hole.