jonathan_206 said:

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What do they teach in church about other religions, beliefs?

I have a woman, who is a converted christian, next to me at my office. Everyone now and then someone in my office, mostly a Hindu, would visit a temple and distribute sacred offerings (prasadam they call it) to their colleagues. But invariably she wouldn't take it. In fact, once she took it by mistake and she went and spit it out. what's wrong with taking these offerings? Why do they shun other deities?

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Because Christians don't believe in other deities.

for a Christian to knowingly consume something like that would be to give the impression to others that consuming such a religious sacrement is acceptable and could cause others to stumble, who see her comsuming it and feel that it must then be acceptable, or stumble in some other manner. It gives the impression that the other religion is respected and acceptable.

Christianity teaches they are not acceptable and does not respect them, and I have a hard time understanding why so many people do not grasp this concept. It is one of the most repeated aspects of Christianity and the Bible.

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Icelander said:

Any intelligent Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Jew, Christian or whatever Knows that God is ONE.

  Here's a picture of the "one"

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All hail Hanuman!

Icelander said:

Home is where we are. Those who fear living in this chaotic world need to create a fantasy where all the rules for living are laid out on some stone tablets and they won't have to think for themselves and take the consequences. As I said it's a failure of nerve. It's the undoing of our species. If it isn't religion then it's politics, or your team, race, or peer group. All needing someone to tell them how and where to go.

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Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth the man, but that which cometh out of the mouth defileth the man.

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Ever see the Ten Names that Kabbalism drew from the Jewish repertoire of Divine Names? Probably why certain Fundies around these parts deny (without any knowledge of Jewish history) that Kabbalism is not Judaism.

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Modern judaism is a lot different then what it was 2000 years ago. Back then people would have cried heretic about it.

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Silversoul said:

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Modern judaism is a lot different then what it was 2000 years ago. Back then people would have cried heretic about it.

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Really? It seems the Essenes were quite a mystical bunch. The roots of Kabbalah can be found in the mysticism surrounding Ezekiel's vision(the merkabah). Even if Kabbalah as we know it today did not exist 2000 years ago(though simply going by the date a text is written often ignores the oral tradition that goes back much further), its roots go much, much deeper.

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Silversoul said:

Have you ever noticed how perfectly the Lord's Prayer follows the pattern of the Tree of Life? I suspect that Jesus was a master Kabbalist.

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