[lit-ideas] "Grace" taught in all religions?
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:28:59 -0800
All religions teach grace? Hmmmm. Grace is a characteristic of
Christianity, but what other religions emphasize Grace? In Judaism and
Islam you get to heaven by means of what you do, don't you? If you do good
works, you make it. If you don't, you don't. Conservative Catholic and
Protestant Christianity teach that you don't get to heaven by means of what
you do but by trusting in Christ for you salvation. You are saved by the
grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
Hmmm . . . I recall a form of Buddhism that would involve what we could
call Grace, Amitabah Buddhism. If memory serves me, one is able to get to
paradise by calling on the name of Amitabah before one dies -- which strikes
me as a form of grace. I'd be interested in hearing from Peter Junger on
this.
Lawrence
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Yeah, well there's the problem of "I'm righter than you are and you're going
to suffer much more than I am after you die because of it".....
One of the biggest problems with organized religion is they all forgot all
about Grace.
Which is what all religions originally purported to teach.
But whaddo I know.
Julie Krueger
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JK: Churches serve a purpose. They comfort and strengthen many who look to
them for hope. So live and let live
If only those freaking religiosos would follow that, I'd have no problem.
p
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