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Originally Posted by Voice  Yet Jesus did teach this, as have all master teachers. So Christianity does teach it (and often ignores it.) There is a reason for this - it is the truth. |
Excuse me, but: "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" (Genesis 1:27). By simple definition, one cannot be the same as one's creator. There is creator, and there are the created, the Bible is very clear in this. Please go back and read the rest of my quote which you cut out in your reply. I said that Christianity teaches that we were
created by God, which as I alluded to is then directly opposed to the idea of our being "one with God". We are, according to the Bible, God's people, not gods.
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Originally Posted by Voice I view your understanding of religions as shallow. For one, you seem to lack the ability to discern the core, original teaching, from layers later added by politicians. |
View my understanding however you wish, but do not tell me what I am able and unable to do. If you believe I am incorrect, please show me my fallacies. As I can tell you do have some spiritual investment, you should know that I have absolutely none. This does not, however, heighten or lessen my understanding of these matters, it just makes me more skeptical and in some cases cynical towards them.
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Originally Posted by Voice This is not unusual and I am not putting you down. It is hard to discern until you have your own spiritual experience. Then, the teachings make sense, and the genuine core of them stands out. This is not something I can impart to you. But I believe when you arrive there, you will see the dissimilarities as shallow, and the similarities at the core. |
The teaching always make "sense", regardless of whether or not one has had a spiritual experience. Most of these writings were done for a populace who had scarcely any education. Yet, if the dissimilarities are shallow, why were millenia worth of religious wars fought? Why are many militants to this day claiming a religious war against the US? I do understand - contrary to your belief - that the core values share similar attributes. However, they are all starkly opposed in how to practice these values, and their application of them. It is these dissimilarities which have caused so much strife, and are quite a bit deeper than you imagine them to be.