Pastor Elio Marrocco's "Christianity And Comparative Religion" sermon at New Life Christian Church on April 25, 2014. You can learn more about New Life Christian Church here: http://www.newlifecc.ca

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“He who never visits thinks mother is the
only cook.”

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“It is quite likely
that the whole of Western culture
may become increasingly
influenced by Eastern ideas.”
R. D. Clements

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DO ALL RELIGIONS LEAD TO GOD?

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“My position
is that all the great religions
are fundamentally equal.”
Gandhi

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“Truth is one:
sages call it by various names.”
Krishna

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“The heart of so great a mystery
cannot be reached
by following one road only.”
Symmachus

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“If all religions lead to God,
how come most of them,
having been given a thousand
years at least,
haven’t yet arrived?”
Gordon Bailey

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H. P. Owen
‘So far the transcendental (Spiritual) truth
claims of religion are concerned the question
of objective truth remains. Thus divine reality
cannot be both personal and impersonal.
Also it cannot be validly interpreted both in
theistic (God Creator) and monistic (All is
God) terms…

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H. P. Owen
… To look at it from the human side, our final
bliss cannot consist both in the attainment of
Nirvana and in eternal fellowship with a
personal God of love.’

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‘Faith must be based on fact:
sincerity and love
must be grounded in truth.’

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“It is not enough to worship God:
we must worship the God
who really is.
Otherwise we are not really
worshipping God at all.”
Brian Maiden

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‘Unless a religion squares with the facts
of history and human experience; and
unless it agrees with the truth of God
which is the underlying reality of all
things, that religion, however sincere its
followers may be, is not good enough.’
Dr. Vernon Grounds

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‘‘It is not that Christians are narrow-
minded or uncharitable about other
faiths. But if Jesus is indeed, as the
resurrection asserts, God himself come to
our rescue, then to reject him, or even to
neglect him, is ultimate folly.’
Michael Green

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‘If all religions contradict one
another, there are only two logical
choices: either they are all false, or
there is only one true religion.’

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Professor Zarhner
‘To maintain that all religions are paths
leading to the same goal, as is so frequently
done today, is to maintain something that is
not true…

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Professor Zarhner
‘… Not only on the dogmatic, but also on the
mystical plane, too, there is no agreement. It
is then only too true that the basic principles
of Eastern and Western, which in practice
means Indian and Semitic, thought are, I will
not say irreconcilably opposed;…

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Professor Zarhner
… they are simply not starting from the same
premises. The only common ground is that
the function of religion is to provide release;
there is no agreement at all as to what it is
that man must be released from. The great
religions are talking at cross purposes.’