Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!njin!paul.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: smithjh@argus.CS.ORST.EDU (Jeremy Smith) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: On Daoism, Buddhism & Confucianism Message-ID: Date: 8 May 91 07:45:14 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Oregon State University -- Math Department Lines: 18 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article dhsy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: > > This is a interesting observation. Would any of the true Christians > here explain this: can we worship, pray and idolize our ancesters and > the same time be a christian? For example, pray to Jesus and Confucious > (or one of the ancesters of our specific root) for help at the same time > when we have a problem? I don't see why we can't. > Sure, you *can* do anything you want. However, if you want God to respond you must "..keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight." I John 3:22. Praying to Confucious, Mary, Paul of Tarsus, Buddah, or anybody beside Jesus the Christ cannot elicit divine response. Indeed "There is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ" I Timothy 2:5. Praying to anyone beside Jesus Christ is at best a waste of time. I would be concerned about demonic worship in all other cases.