One
World Religion
There are thousands of Religions, Cults, Sects, Denominations... Is there a chance to have One World Religion?... all men and women in the world practicing the same only one Religion?. Today it is an utopia... only God can accomplish such impossibility, because for God nothing is impossible.... but always God have used men and women to accomplish impossibilities. For a "Jew", only "Judaism" can be the only One World Religion. For a "Muslim", only Islam can be. For a "Christian", only "Christianity"... for a Hindu or a Buddhist, only Hinduism or Buddhism...
Attempts of One World Religion: There have been many attempts of One World Religion, others than the founders of the great Religions: Abraham, Jesus, Muhammad, Lao, Buddha... "Freemasonry", tried it with the principles of the "fatherhood of God" and the "brotherhood of men", and it failed! (p. 529). "Baha'ism" tried it with the principle "the earth is but one country and mankind its citizens", advocating a One World Religion, a universal language, a world confederacy of nations, the establishment of world peace... but it failed! (p. 520). The "Unification Church" of Moony tried "to unite all Christendom and all people under God", and it failed (p. 451). The Unitarian-Universalist Church and the Unity Church also failed (pp. 464, 471). The Sikh failed to unite Muslims and Hindus (p. 130). Now a days the "New Age Umbrella" and the "New World Order" are fostering a One World Religion, one monetary system, with no boundary of nations... without any good results as yet (pp. 554, 568). Some of the Great Religions are still waiting for a "Messiah" to establish peace and love on earth, with One World Religion: - The Jews, for the Messiah. - The Christians, for the Second Coming of the Messiah (the Christ in Greek). - The Muslims by the Iman Mahdi. - The Hindus by the reincarnation of Krishna. - The Buddhists by the Lord Maitreya. - Benjamin Creme, in England, attracted much attention announcing the coming of the Messiah, "Lord Maitreya" by 1982; when Maitreya failed to appear, Creme's popularity quickly died (pp.171, 572).
MY "PRINCIPLES", for a "One World Religion": 1- To honor God, and give Him thanks: This is the way St. Paul puts it, talking about the "atheists" and "idolaters": "What can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it them. Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they have no excuse; for though they have known God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless minds were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools; and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a human being or birds or animals or reptiles" (Romans 1:19-23). So, St. Paul calls the atheists and idolaters "fools", "senseless", "futile", and "inexcusable"... and I agree on that!. The New Ager or a Mormon or a Hindu are "fools" when they believe that "men" are God: No man can do a star, nor an atom, nor the eye of an insect, nor even one of the million leaves of the trees of my town... who made your feet, or hairs, or liver?... who gives you the air, or the sun... ask the beasts!: Who made the feathers of a bird, or the nails of a cat, or the teeth of a lion?... Really it is a "fool" he who thinks that men are God!... and this is what many New Age people are saying, and many Mormons, and many Hindus and Rosicrucians... you are fools!.
2- The "fatherhood" of God: God made your eyes and mine... I am a Medical Doctor, and I couldn't make not even the hairs of my children... God made them, using me... but God is really their "Father", and your Father, and my Father... I had a deaf patient. A little piece of his skin was placed in his middle ear to substitute a destroyed bone of the size of a grain rice, and now he can hear... the Hospital charged him $25,000 for the surgery... how much will it cost to replace the whole middle ear?... $100,000?... well, go to the Church or to the fields, pull one of your ears and give thanks to God who gave that whole ear, $1 million!... then pull the other ear and give thanks to God for the other ear... and for each eye... would you let your right hand to be cut if I offer you $1 million for it?... give thanks to God for your both arms and legs, and for the air you receive freely every second from God, and for the light and warmth of the sun... and for each petal of a flower that no man can do... and for the oceans, and the stars, and the birds, and plants and animals, and for your parents and wife and children and neighbors that are also free gifts from God... To honor God, to adore him, to give him thanks every second of the day is a high honor and duty of every man and women on earth... and he who doesn't do it, is a "fool". To honor God, giving thanks to him every minute of the day, is one way to pray constantly, and it is the secret of happiness on earth for any man or woman of any religion or cult. If you don't give thanks to God every second of the day, "for" everything, and "in" any circumstance, you are going to be unhappy on earth, even if you are a dedicated nun, or a monastic Buddhist, or a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Moony, or a Mormon, or a Hindu, or an atheist...
3- The "brotherhood" of men: God made you and me, so, you and I are really "brothers", made by the same Father. The same Father who made the eyes of a Jew, made the hands of a Muslim and the feet of a Christian... so, a Muslim is really a "brother" o a Muslim and of a Christian... not an enemy!... And the same God who made a Hindu made each Buddhist, and each Confucionist, and each Jehovah's Witness, and each Astrologer, and the heart of each Spiritist, and the eyes of each atheist... we are all "brothers", really "brothers"!, my brother. No more "religion" excuses to star wars!... We have to love each other because we are all really brothers in our Father... never to hate someone because he is from another religion or race or sex or nationality... the same God who made the white made the black, and the European, and the African...
Love "in justice": We have to love our neighbor, not only because he is our brother in God the Creator, our Father, but also we have to love him or her "in justice": Our neighbor is not only the criminal we see on TV or radio or the newspapers... our neighbor does a lot of good things for us: I don't know how to make cars, the one I have was made for me by a neighbor that I don't even know... ... And you?: Maybe you don't know how to make dresses nor shoes nor underwear... the ones you have were made to you by a neighbor... were it not by our neighbors we would not have roads, nor houses, nor apartments, nor bread, nor fruits, nor chairs, nor tables, nor drinks, nor watches... ... Our neighbors do so many good things for us, and we have to love our neighbor "in justice", because he loves us, giving us many wonderful things... practically everything we have and use was made by a neighbor of us!... ...Were it not for your neighbor you would not even could have a "cup of coffee": Your neighbor planted it for you, another one collected it, another put it in can, another sold it to you... another one made sugar for you, another made the cup and spoon that you don't know how to make... just for a simple cup of coffee!: You couldn't have it without many neighbors doing so many good things for you to have just a cup of coffee.
4- "Forgive" our neighbor: The first sign and fruit of love is "forgiveness": Your neighbor is not perfect... nobody is perfect!... you and I are not perfect, your spouse and children are not perfect... we all make mistakes, or may have errors!... all!. If we don't forgive the mistakes of our neighbor, we will have a miserable life, and we will make miserable the lives of others. Even the secret for a happy marriage, are two persons who know how to forgive!... because your spouse is not an angel, he is human... if you don't forgive his or her mistakes or bad deeds, you will never make it!. And we have to forgive like my hand forgives my eye: If a speck gets into my eye when I am in a hurry, my hand don't hit my eye, rather my hand caresses my eye to get out the speck and to get a little comfort to the injured eye... the speck, the fault in the eye, is rather the occasion for my hand to love and caress my eye... my hand really loves my eye!... ... And if I have a sickness in the stomach or the heart or a broken bone, the rest of my body won't punish the organ with the fault, rather it is the occasion for the rest of my body to take good care of it, and caress it... A lady said to me: How can I love and caress my husband when he gets drunk?... do you love him?, I asked her... try to love him when he is drunk!... and she tried!: Instead of a dispute, the next time the husband came drunk, she was waiting for him well dressed, received him with nice words of love, like in their honeymoon... and they had a little honeymoon that night!... and the next night, and the next... and that husband who was not going to church for 20 years now goes every day, with her wife!... and drinks no more!... Try it with your jealous wife, or with your rebel child... don't argue with them, just love them more because they have a "problem", treat him or her with more kindness, just as you take better care of your stomach when it has a "problem", a "sickness"... You catch more flays with honey that with vinegar!... And do the same with your neighbor who has a serious fault... it should be the reason to show him more your love, to treat more kindly his problem, like you do with your own heart who is with problems, sick, you take better care of it!... That's love!... ... And one thing more: "Forgive" and "forget"... don't keep reminding your husband the bad deed he made 20 years ago!... please!...
5- "Respect" our neighbor: The first and most elemental quality of love is "respect": We have to respect and accept our neighbor just as he is... ... If you were born in America, you are an American... but if you were born in China or Africa, now you would be a Chinese or an African, and that would be perfectly all right for you!. ... If your parents are Christians, most probably you are a Christian... but if your parents would have been Jews or Muslims or Hindus, most probably you would be now a Jew or a Muslim ora Hindu... and that would be fine with you!. The most elemental of love is to respect our neighbor just as he or she is: With his good qualities, and with his bad habits, with his lovely face or with his ugly one, just as he or she is!... tall, short, intelligent, stupid, gracious, with vulgarities, a gentleman, a criminal... just as he or she is!... he or she is still our brother or sister!. ... When there is no "respect", there is nothing, even in marriage!...
6- The "Greatest Love": This "Greatest Love" may look contradictory to "Respect", but it is not. To live in "error" in religion is to have "a cancer in the heart"... it can ruin the life on earth, and the eternal life after death... and the "Greatest Love" for a neighbor is to try to eradicate that error from his or her heart, even if it hurts. I am a Medical Doctor, and when I see a patient with cancer, I love the patient but I hate his cancer, and I try my best to eradicate it from him, even if it hurts... injections and surgery hurt!... and I "respect" the patient, even if what I do to him may hurt!... he wants it!... he pays me for it!. A huge barrier in Religion is to think "I am right", it is the old trick of Satan of Gen 3:5... but the fact is that none of us is "infallible" in our beliefs... you and I can be wrong!. If you feel I may be wrong in Religion, please help me, try to eradicate my error, even if it hurts... it is the best expression of your love for me... it is the "Greatest Love"... ... If I feel you may be wrong, it is my duty to try to eradicate it from you, it is the best expression of my love for you, even if you hate me for that!. God respects us, he loves us the way we are, but he loves us too much to leave us the way we are... He "whispers" to our ears giving us the sun and air and flowers, but we don't listen!... so, he "talks" to us through his Church, but we don't listen!... and, when he can't do anymore, he "shouts" to our ears sending us pains, and suffering, and old age... the "trumpets" of Revelation!... they hurt, but they are the greatest expression of his love for us, trying to purify us... the sufferings are the injections that God puts to our souls... and sometimes the radical surgery that our spirit needs... they are the "Greatest Love" of God for us... and with respect for us!. The "missionary work" is the Greatest Love for your family or your neighbors... it is the most you can do for your wife or children, or for your friends or enemies... it is the "Greatest Love" to heal the heart, even to lay down on's life for one's friends... that's Jesus on a Cross!.
7- "Nobody can love"... only...: We all want to love, and to have joy and peace... but none of us can love, because we all are "selfish", we love ourselves!... and "selfishness" is exactly the opposite of "love", which is "to give ourselves to others". Love is like a "smile": You don't have it until you give it!. And here comes Religion: For a Christian, if God is in me, then I am going to give bread to the hungry, and water to the thirsty... but it is not me, it is Christ who lives in me!... and that's love... my hands are now the hands of Christ... and my feet the feet of Christ, who are going to visit the sick, and to run to help the needy... and my heart is the heart of Christ, who is going to teach the ignorant, and to help those who are in error... but it is not me, it is Christ in me!. ... And I am not God, but God lives in me, in Jesus Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit. I am a temple of God!. To be a Christian is easy: Just believe in Jesus Christ, and do what he tells you to do: Get baptized in his only Church, receive the daily bread of his body and blood in the Eucharist... simple!... and you will have "love"... and the joy and peace that only God can give!... here on earth, right now!... a love and joy and peace that nothing and nobody can take it away!.
8- An "altar"... a "sacrifice"... a "priest": The essence of any "Religion", even the pagan ones, is an "altar", a "sacrifice" to offer to God, and a "priest" to offer it. a- Judaism: There are essentially two kinds of Judaism: 1- Judaism with an altar, sacrifices, and priests, the one of Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah... 2- Judaism without altar, sacrifice and priests, which is the actual Judaism, the "rabbinic Judaism" of today, with morals and teachers (rabbis), but without the essence of Judaism: Without altar, sacrifice, and priest... ... If Mosses or David would come today to Israel or New York, they would not recognize Judaism. The Holy Scriptures prophesied that when the Messiah comes, the altar, sacrifices, and priests will be abolished... and that's what happened when Jesus the Messiah came (the Christ in Greek). b- Christianity: Like in Judaism, there are also essentially two kinds of Christianity: 1- Christianity with altar, sacrifice, and priests... the one of Catholics and Orthodox. 2- Christianity without altar, sacrifice and priests... the one of most Protestants and Cults. Jesus prophesied that when the Anti-Christ comes, the first thing he will do will be "the abomination of desolation": To abolish the altar, sacrifice, and priests (Matt.24:15, Daniel 8:11, 9:27, 11:31, 12:11).
9- The "One World Religion": The "One World Religion" is got to be one with altar, sacrifice, and priests. I am a Christian, and of course, for me Christianity is the only one religion who can be the "One World Religion"... but there is a huge problem: Jesus never promised it on earth, but in Heaven!... Jesus, is the only one founder of the great religions who claimed to be God... Abraham, Muhammad, Buddha, Confucius, Lao-Tze, never claimed to be God Jesus is the only one founder of the great religions who was "prophesied": The Bible prophesies 300 times his first coming, and 500 times his second coming... Abraham, Muhammad, Buddha, etc. never were prophesied. Jesus is the only one who made "miracles"... Abraham, Muhammad, Buddha, etc. never made any miracle. Christianity is the only religion to offer full expiation of sins, of bad karma, in this life.
Shame and glory of Christianity: The greatest "shame" of actual Christianity is the many branches, denominations, cults... but it is also its greatest "glory": It is the fulfillment of the prophesies of Jesus, who repeated 3 times ib his srermon of the End of the Worl: "Many impostors, false prophets, will arise and will deceive many, and they will perform great signs and wonders, enough to deceive even the elect, if that were possible" (Matt.24:5,11,24). The prophesies of Jesus are really been fulfilled right now... and I pray that you and I are not one of those "many" to be deceived by the many false prophets... But the same Jesus made also another prophecy: "and there will be only one flock, one shepherd" (John 10:16)... and this prophecy will also be fulfilled to the letter!. Praise the Lord!. Will this "one flock" be on earth?:
10- The "Kingdom of God": Jesus came to preach and establish the Kingdom of God, or the Kingdom of Heaven... and he cried out: "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand"... "the Kingdom of God is among you", or "the Kingdom of God is within you" (Matt.4:17 Luc.17:21). This Kingdom is the reign of God among men; it is the actual rule of God over men that would be brought about through the Messiah, long awaited and expected by the Jews. This Kingdom, "his Church", has two phases: On earth, and in heaven.
1- The phase on earth: It has two aspects: Internal and external: a- Internal: It is Jesus in the Christian, and the Christian in the Mystical Body of Christ. b- External: The external Church, with its human structure, with the purpose to produce the internal reign of God over men. In this phase on earth, a Christian may be in the Church, but if he is in sin, he is still in the Church, but like a death branch, or like a gangrene on it! (Jn.15, 1Cor.12). ...And Jesus explained in parables: In this Kingdom there will always be good fish and bad fish... and even in each Christian there will be wheat with weeds (Matt.13).
2- The phase in Heaven: This will be the second and final phase: For each man, after death. And in general, in the second coming of Christ, when Jesus will return in glory, not to save, but "to judge", and to judge every human being since Adam to the last man on earth: "All the nations will be gathered before him... Then the king will say to those at his right hand: Come, take possession of the Kingdom..." (Matt.25:31-46).
In conclusion: The Kingdom that Jesus offers, in its final phase, will be in Heaven... not on this earth... but it is reached through the gradual establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth. Jesus repeated twice: My Kingdom does not belong to this world" (Jn.18:35,36)... ... And indeed, the Kingdom that Jesus preached is so great, that all this world compared with the Kingdom of Heaven, is like a drop of water compared with the Ocean. In other words: There will not be a "One World Religion" on earth... it will be in Heaven... and forever and ever. Amen.
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