How you will recognise God..if you see

[brijesh]

If nobody has introduced you beofore, how you will recognise God if he visits you?? or passes through near by you??

[link removed] your personal tour guide in north india

[brijesh]

Intrestingly!!! I am very happy to see that, about 20 peoples have been visited this but non has replied..

If someone will call people to fight in the name of God, thousands of crowed will be gathered but on the very basic there is .........

[Thomas]

Originally Posted by brijesh

If nobody has introduced you beofore, how you will recognise God if he visits you?? or passes through near by you??

"God," my Moslem friends are wont to say, "is closer to you than your jugular vein", but no man can know God, unless God reveal Himself to him.

"I am the good shepherd; and I know mine, and mine know me" (John 10:14) That about sums up my experience.

God bless

Thomas

[brijesh]

Originally Posted by Thomas

"God," my Moslem friends are wont to say, "is closer to you than your jugular vein", but no man can know God, unless God reveal Himself to him.

"I am the good shepherd; and I know mine, and mine know me" (John 10:14) That about sums up my experience.

God bless

Thomas

A helpless God....., who needs to introduce himself. I do not know how to varify god's claim.

Second paragraph belongs to some John 10:14, do not claim your experience...Junk dealer

[radarmark]

The moment of Meeting just is. You will know.

[wil]

If you meet the Buddha on the street ....kill him.

Look neither high nor low.....we are in the midst.

Hear the cry of a newborn baby? Listen to G!d.

See the concern and love on the Mom's face.....see G!d.

G!d's expression is everywhere, in the dandelion surviving in the crack of the sidewalk, and the wave temporarily rising up out of the ocean saying hello, making a splash, and returning from whence it came.

If you see G!d walking down the street, shaking hands and gathering followers...I wouldn't kill him, but would pray for the folks that fall for it.

[Amica]

According to my religion (Islam) if one is looking to "see" God SWT as His creation itself, he/she will not see Him because His creations are not equal to Him. God SWT is above all! However, if you look at the creation as a manifestation of His Power, then you will get to know something about Him.

[Thomas]

Originally Posted by Amica

According to my religion (Islam) if one is looking to "see" God SWT as His creation itself, he/she will not see Him because His creations are not equal to Him. God SWT is above all! However, if you look at the creation as a manifestation of His Power, then you will get to know something about Him.

My religion (RC Christianity) says much the same thing.

God bless,

Thomas

[Thomas]

Originally Posted by wil

If you meet the Buddha on the street ....kill him.

And yet, would you go round killing the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the prisoner? (cf Matthew 25:35-36), because that's where we meet Christ.

Indeed, according to the Fathers, where your neighbour is, Christ is there also ... so by your logic, kill your neighbour?

God bless,

Thomas

[wil]

What you have done to the least of these you have done to me?

great contemplation....

leaves us all lacking.....

[Thomas]

Hi Wil —

Originally Posted by wil

What you have done to the least of these you have done to me ... great contemplation ... leaves us all lacking ...

I think you've missed the point.

I don't think it's a case of 'lacking', but confusion. You can't apply Buddhist aphorisms to Christianity, or vice versa, and removed from context, they become merely "spiritual soundbites" — really deep, really cool, really meaningful ... but absolutely no use whatsoever.

If you meet an apparent bodhisattva on the road, then OK, appearances can be deceptive. If, however, you meet an actual bodhisattva, and kill him, then you've messed up pretty bad ... (but then, in Buddhism, you know what signs to look for).

As for meeting Christ on the road, then contemplate the meeting detailed in Luke 24:13-35 and, as the tradition has it, you are the other, un-named disciple.

So I would advise you not to employ that aphorism in Christianity — if you meet Christ upon the road ... in fact, in Christianity, if you meet anyone on the road, you meet Christ ...

If you want to discuss how spirits can be deceptive, or rendering unto Caesar, that's another matter, but the 'if you meet' Buddhist aphorism has no place in the Christian hermeneutic.

God bless,

Thomas

[wil]

ah but we meet Christ on the road every day....if we are to only look.

The Christ is in all of us, tis upto us how much we let it shine, and to the degree we let our Christ light shine is the degree we see it in others. Paul indicated I die daily, to the old material self and implored us to put the mind of Christ in our mind, to not just contemplate daily but to live it daily.

Now the Dali Lama says, "You know you are enlightened when everyone you see you see as enlightened." We call it the Christ, he calls it enlightened....knowing oneness with all. If you can't see the Christ in what the Dali Lama says....that has nothing to do with the Dali Lama, nor me.

[Thomas]

Originally Posted by wil

ah but we meet Christ on the road every day....if we are to only look.

But are you going to kill him, as per your advice ... that was my point.

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Originally Posted by wil

We call it the Christ, he calls it enlightened....knowing oneness with all.

The old 'all religions say the same thing' thing? No, that's not quite right. It's a quite modern notion, founded on a false sense of sentimental egalitarianism.

Have you ever noticed that the only people who say that are those who really don't know?

God bless

Thomas

[radarmark]

I dunno THoma, seems to me Yogananda, Ueshiba, Ham Suk Han, AN Whitehead, CT Hartshorne, and Rufus Jones may disagree with you. And they (if anything) are pretty doggone smart.

[wil]

Thomas, I was referring to a book title of the same name...

Radar you forgot Thay....