Our world is shrinking!
There are eluxury louis vuitton handbags so many religions, lifestyles, and philosophies to choose from nowdays, what’s a person to do? Can one religion say to all the rest, you don’t count, yours isn’t the right approach, you’re not following the truth? Who has a market on the truth? There may be eluxury louis vuitton handbags only a dozen or so major religions in the world; however, there are eluxury louis vuitton handbags thousands of smaller ones. Do we discount a religion because it’s not in the top ten numbers-wise? Does a religion have to have a half billion followers before it’s credible? One billion? How do we deal with such divseristy?
Let’s lay all other religions aside and focus only on Christianity!
So, what can Protestants learn from Catholics? What can Catholics learn from Protestants? We in the West got our roots from the same place as those in the East did- when eluxury louis vuitton handbags it comes to Christianity. After the Roman Empire made Christianity the eluxury louis vuitton handbags state religion, and even earlier, things were going in different directions. The Byzantine part of the Roman empire (East) focused on the divinity of humans. They were more into the eluxury louis vuitton handbags spirit and spirituality of our life. Those that took the religion West focused on two enirely different things: sin and forgiveness.
I am glad I’m forgiven, but I can’t but think how much we’ve missed the spirit of man.
Unfortunately the West has focused most on sin! Forgiveness seems like a eluxury louis vuitton handbags one time thing, or maybe here and there, while sin is eluxury louis vuitton handbags what hounds us every hour of every day. We can’t forget our sins because we’re reminded of them every Sunday. What happened to the Good News?
But in the eluxury louis vuitton handbags midst of such diverse religions, what can we learn of our own various shades of Christianity? Consider the social driven nature of liberation theology along side the quiet mysticism of Asian Christian mystics. Christian mystics who embrace Hindu and Buddhist methods. If your eluxury louis vuitton handbags theology is that of the fundamentalist pursuasion I just lost you eluxury louis vuitton handbags on that last sentence. Did he say Christian mystics? 
What can North American Christians learn from Latin American Christians?
Worse yet is this question posed by Bradley P. Holt, “Has God given wisdom to other religious traditions? If so, how can eluxury louis vuitton handbags Christians value and learn from them without diluting the integrity of their own traditions.?
How do you answer that?
And can eluxury louis vuitton handbags you do so in love, humility, compassion, understanding, and esteeming others more than eluxury louis vuitton handbags yourself? Dealing with the eluxury louis vuitton handbags diversity of the worlds religions will test yours: test your love and eluxury louis vuitton handbags true compassion. And then when you think you have it down, take it eluxury louis vuitton handbags out for a test drive. Engage a New Ager on spirituality. Talk to a Hindu about reincarnation. Discuss peace and serenity with a Buddhist. Talk about light and darkness with a Zorastrian. Ask a Muslim why they pray as they do.
Then you can tell others how to deal with diversity.
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