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Originally Posted by kalisto_911
A brief background on myself: I am very confused spiritually, but I don't consider it necessarily a bad thing, I think there are defenitely some wierd forces acting out behind the scenes but I don't think any of the major or minor world religions have explained it completely....
anyways I was talking with my Uncle the other day and he was explaining the split in the catholic/christian church and all that and I asked him, "were buddism and hinduism just off doing their own thing during all of this?" and he said yeah pretty much, and he also commented that they, or maybe just hinduism, were forms of satanic worship. Now my uncle is preparing to become an ordained Greek Orthodox priest so I knew I wasn't going to get an unbiased opinion out of him but I am just curious if anyone knows where he is coming from with that statement.
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My view is that all religion is like a school (just an example, so if you don't like, no problem!): different teachers have come from God over the ages and to different parts of the world, each teaching what is appropriate to the age and people they come to. The prophets of the Adamic Cycle brining teachings that are appropriate for the time and place they came from, Native American prophets bringing understanding that is appropriate to the peoples of that time and place, far eastern/asian - same thing. Are they wrong for coming to a new place/time?
Is it possible that when the teacher in kindergarden/1st grade teaches a young child that you can NOT divide an odd number by an even number, or you get a number that doesn't work; or that you can't take a small number and subtract a larger number; that perchance the teacher might know that at some point in the future, these same children will come to understand the concept of fractions/decimals, and even negative numbers and be able to grow in their understanding?
My feeling is the coming of these teachers from God are like the teachers in school - they all come from the same source, (an Unknowable Essence if you don't feel comfortable with the label of "God") and that they are teaching humanity things that it can handle at the time when that prophet/teacher came. When Christ came 2000 years ago, it wasn't not possible for Him to talk about the unity of the world, as most of the world, as we know it today, was not discovered. Christ himself said he would return in the Glory of His Father to teach us things that we could not bear to learn at that time. My reading of this is: next grade! The world has changed, and we are ready for a new Teacher!
Enough for now, and ask if you have questions.