Originally posted by karoly aczel
Well I enjoyed reading your post, Vishva, despite not agreeing with it in its entirity. I'm afraid you generalize and put down too much to be taken seriously by the other posters here so far.
I'll just raise this one objection to your post for now. You say the other religons are false.
And you say that to think all ways lead to the same place is fan ...[text shortened]... -conciousness ,referred to in the bible, and the universal godhead that the vedas talk about.
Christ consciousness means consciousness of Jesus. ( Messiah)
Means thinking of Jesus.
Means wanting to be like Jesus.
Means wanting to follow Jesus.
But the Bible has turned the man Jesus into a God. (error 1)
Worship of the man Jesus is not worship of God.
Worship of Jesus is nice, because Jesus was a spiritual person of great character, but God must be acknowledged and understood in his correct position.
The Vedas say the perfection of life comes from being God conscious.
Being God conscious will ultimately return one to their spiritual home.
The bonafide spiritual life will have the person develop all spiritual qualities.
When all spiritual qualities have been accessed, then one becomes qualified to return home back to Godhead.
Being Christ conscious, does not give one all spiritual qualities, therefore one does no achieve the goal of returning back to Godhead.
One should develop God consciousness by taking instruction from the Vedas and respect Jesus as well....
One should respect all bonafide spiritual teachers.
We do not have today all the pure teachings of Jesus, and much of what Jesus spoke has been changed and fabricated to turn Jesus into a God.
We have many wise quotes from Jesus.....but wise quotes will make a man wise, but we need to be God conscious and have correct knowledge to do that.
The Bible has incorrect knowledge, and misdirects people into living less than spiritual lives.
The Bible also has many wise and thoughtful verses......but there is still too much error that gives an incorrect description of God and Gods instructions, that is detrimental to spiritual growth.
The wisdom in the Bible has come from wise men.......(not from God)
When the Bible tells us that God is speaking to Moses.... it is not God at all, but words from mens tongues.