Thoughts on the World Religion on "Animism" 
1.  If Animists are worried about "offending local spirits" they will 
not be contritely focused on fearing the Blessed and Holy Trinity, or 
contemplate their own sinful nature in light of the Bible's teaching of 
total depravity and radical corruption!
2. Animists believe that God us unknowable, but if what the Bible 
teaches is true and God's people can really know Him in a personal 
relationship in holiness and godliness and faith and repentance?
3.  I recommend to Animists in a spiritual sense to trust the Blessed 
Trinity, but what if they want to trust their "spirits"?  There needs to
 be an spiritual awakening to Christ and His Word.  If you do not know 
Christ, you have a stoney heart of unbelief.  You need a new heart of 
felt need for Christ to trust Him alone.
4.  Animists should know that God's people are His children, justified 
freely by His grace, freed from damnation, secure in God's love, holy 
and blameless, free from spiritual slavery and sealed by God's Spirit.  
If you fear the "local spirits" you are actually worshiping them, but 
you ought to fear God alone: His name is Jehovah and He is one God 
revealed in three distinct persons: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Thoughts on the World Religion on "Buddhism"
5.   Have you considered the God of the Bible concerning those who 
follow "Theravada Buddhism"?  That is, the God of the Bible is a 
personal God who is self-existent not abstract!
6.  Have you thought on the God of the divine Word instead of an abstract void (that is Nirvana) and the "Buddha essence" instead of the personal God of the written Old and New Testament?
7.  Do you realize that the spiritual solution concerning the "Theravada
 Buddhist" is not the illusion of self but we suffer because of the 
consequences of sin?
8.  The "Mahayana Buddhist" thinks the same as the "Theravada Buddhist" 
concerning the "spiritual solution" of man's spiritual nature, but don't
 you realize through a simple "introspection" that we have rebelled 
against a holy God?  Surely God's goodness can be seen in His glorious 
creation!  We have sinned against a holy God and have provoked Him to 
anger, but it is only through Jesus Christ as the only God-man that rescues us from spiritual sin.
9.  Why do you trust in "self-reliance" rather than on God and 
total reliance on Him alone?  I suggest to you that you have a nature of
 rebellious idolatry and arrogance!  That is, your own heart has led you
 astray and the master of the fallen ones who is Satan.  You ought to 
repent of your own personal sin of "self-reliance" and accrue karmic 
merit, meritorious rituals, emptying of the mind, understanding the 
Buddha-essence within and resting on the merits of Bodhisattva.  You
 have been misled!  You ought to trust the unified merit of Jesus Christ
 alone as your only Savior and Lord.  I suggest to you that there is no 
other reliable or credible merit than that of Jesus the great and awesome God and Redeemer!
10.  Why didn't Buddha claim to have a unique relationship with God like
 Jesus if he is to be trusted?  Why don't you consider that Jesus has a 
special and unique relationship with God?  Jesus considered the 
existence of God essential because He intercedes on behalf of the 
sinner, but Buddha did not consider God's existence important or 
essential.  Buddha believed God's existence did not believe God's 
existence would give him the spiritual ability to be rid of human 
suffering.  If we are to understand human suffering, we ought to turn to
 the only God-man!  Jesus suffered in behalf of all His people alone.  
There is no better example to comprehend human suffering than to behold 
King Jesus.  He suffered for redemptive purposes alone!
11.  Do you understand that Buddha and Jesus cannot be compared as 
spiritual equals?  We ought to already know that Buddha claimed to 
"point to the way" of escaping human suffering and entering into 
enlightenment, but Jesus claimed to be the ONLY WAY to have everlasting 
life!
12.  Buddha taught that a person had to take away the desire of 
suffering to eliminate suffering, but Jesus taught that a person should 
have the right desire to eliminate suffering.
13.  We ought to understand that there is multiple "bodhisattvas." 
However, don't you understand the divine Word that there was a single 
incarnation of God the Son in the Person of Jesus Christ alone?
Thoughts of the World Religion on "Confucianism"
14.  Why do you think man's nature is morally good when the infallible 
Scriptures say that man is "not good" and "not righteous"?
15.  If there is a "transcendent root of man's goodness" why did Jesus say that no one was "good" but God alone and not man?
16.  Why shouldn't we be rooted in a personal God who cares about human 
suffering?  I suggest to you that our suffering is because of our 
rebellion of moral laws.  However, suffering is also sometimes the 
displayed work of God to manifest miracles through His divine and 
awesome Son.
17.  If no one can know God, why did Jesus explain the theology behind 
God?  If no one can know God, how did Jesus Christ pray to the Father in
 behalf of the apostle Peter so his faith fail not?
18.  If God is impersonal, how did the Second Person of the Trinity become man in Jesus Christ as God Incarnate?
19.  If God is silent why does He have a written Scriptures of special 
revelation?   It is true that God concerning spiritual salvation or 
redemption is silent in terms of His Son in general revelation (that is,
 His glorious creation) but He is not silent about the holy matters of 
God in the Old and New Testaments.
20.  If you have a conscience you understand that you have "bad 
thoughts" in your minds, and doesn't that tell you that you are no 
good?  If humanity is good by nature, how it is that he steals?  How it 
is that he murders?  The inspired revelation of the divine Word says 
that if you have broken one commandment of God in His Word, you have 
broken them all.  Does this not speak to your "mortally woundedness" in a
 spiritual sense?  God had to destroy all mankind because they were 
totally corrupt in ancient history regarding Noah's global flood!  I 
suggest to you that a simple investigation of your own heart will tell 
you that you are not good.  If you "feel" good it does not mean you 
necessarily are "good."  People that do what seems to be "good" is a 
"civil righteousness."  That is, man's alleged "goodness" is corrupted 
with sin!  Sin is a total and spiritual offense against God.
21.  If Confucius never saw someone love another, how can man be good by
 nature?  I suggest to you that Jesus is Somebody who loves His own to 
the uttermost!  Jesus proclaimed that we love our neighbor and to love 
our enemies.  I have to say that the reason why Confucius said he could 
not attain to love was because he was not born from above!  I suggest to
 you that the only way to love is to be born from above.  It is true 
that the reprobate love their own, but this is of the sinful nature and a
 display of "civil righteousness."  Civil righteousness will never make 
anyone right with God in our broken relationship.
22.  If the mind falling into evil does not mean man is not good, how 
can you change your evil if you once embraced whether it is "forced" or 
"allowed"?  If we are by nature good, why do the Scriptures give us the 
Golden Rule?  We have a goal to do good but we can't carry it out.  I 
suggest to you it is because we are made in the "image of God."  
However, we have spiritually rebelled against a holy God.  We need 
reconciliation and redemption and salvation.   We do not have this by 
nature because we are no good.  We need Jesus' forgiveness and cleansing
 and divine grace!
23.  We have a "broken" relationship with God because of the fall of 
Adam.  That is, we are in "original sin."  It means we have a corrupt 
nature. We make evil choices.  The only way to restore our "spiritual 
relationship" with God is through a divine Savior, Advocate and 
Mediator!  It cannot come from "human effort" but through God's merciful
 call.
24.  The God of the Bible is a God who speaks.  That is, He speaks in 
His written Word alone.  He reveals His special revelation to us that 
Jesus is the Savior and Lord whereby we are right with God.  It is only 
through His imputed and accounted righteousness in His unified merit 
through faith alone that we will stand right with God.  Confucius did 
not offer forgiveness.  However, Jesus offers forgiveness through 
Himself alone.  Will you turn to Jesus now and be forgiven?  Be 
reconciled to God!  It is through and in Jesus!
25.  No one can save themselves through personal goodness.  No one is 
saved through humanity's goodness.  We are in need of the divine 
righteousness of Jesus Christ alone.  You ought to trust Him by faith 
alone because of grace alone.  We can't be right with God by our own 
attempts.
26.  It is true that God is silent in general revelation and in special 
revelation He is a speaking God.  This may help the "Confucian" to 
understand the two theological concepts.
27.  We proclaim a humble declaration that you can be right with God 
through Jesus as Savior in a personal relationship with God. 
28.   If you understand that God is both transcendent and immanent, why 
don't you seek to understand the God of the Christian Bible?
29.  If you practice ancestral worship, have you not considered it 
idolatry in light of God's "holiness"?  I suggest to you that if you 
understand the absolute holiness of God alone as "set-apart" you will 
give up worshiping spirits because it is contrary to the special and 
unique holiness of God alone!
Thoughts of the World Religion on "Hinduism"
30.  How can God be "impersonal" as the nature of Braham if the one true
 God of the Bible is personal?  Have you not read that God is a personal
 God?
31.  If we have a divine nature in the law of karma, why does the inerrant Word of God say that you are a man and not a god?
32.  If reincarnation is true, how did Jesus Christ rise from the dead and enter heaven?
33.  If being "liberated" is realizing that the self is an illusion and as Halverson says concerning Hinduism "that only the undifferentiated oneness of Braham is real" (pg. 90), why does the infallible Scriptures say that being "spiritual free" is to know God and His only Son?
34.  If karma does not affect our relationship, have you not considered 
that sin has caused a spiritual wall between you and God? 
35.   Why do you embrace the "law of karma" if it does not truly offer
 forgiveness?  Jesus says "come to Me" in Matthew's Gospel of chapter 
11: why don't you come to Jesus?  He offers complete forgiveness.
36.  God is three persons and one God.  That is, His person can be 
realized in the human mind of a sinner.  Sin is the rejection of the 
holiness of God and alienation to Him.   You need to confess your sins 
to God and be forgiven through Jesus alone to enter into eternal 
fellowship with Him.
37.  Gandhi said to study the life of Jesus and to not study His life 
was "incomplete."  I would recommend to the Hindu to read the Gospel of 
Luke and John.
38.  Why don't you look to Jesus and focus on Him alone?  He will save 
you if you ask Him.  He is gracious and He will "cast out" none who come
 to Him by faith alone?
39.  I suggest to the Indian that Jesus can be your Savior and you may 
be proud of your national heritage.  You may suffer because you know 
Jesus, but you will join a great cloud of witnesses.
40.  If there are many paths to God, why does Jesus say that He is the 
only way to the God the Father?  I suggest to you that other ways to God
 is unacceptable in a spiritual sense, because only Jesus is spiritually
 and divinely credible and reliable to believe.
41.  If Jesus is not unique, how did He perform various miraculous signs
 that is divinely preserved in John's Gospel?  Jesus is not the same as 
Mohammed or Zoroaster, but He is the unique Son of God.  A former Hindu 
sees the profound and unmistakable separation between Jesus and other 
teachers.
42.  If you must pay for your own karmic debt, have you not read that 
Jesus pays the spiritual debt of all of His people through the Cross 
alone? 
43.  There were not "ten incarnations" concerning animals and humans, 
but Jesus is God's incarnation alone!  This would be a divine between 
"Vishnu" and Jesus.
44.  Why trust the Vishnu if the history is not essential?  Why not 
trust the divine historicity of Jesus in the OT and NT of the Christian 
Bible? 
45.  If the Vishnu's incarnations was the ruin of evil-doers, have you 
not considered the divine love of Jesus to seek and save the lost?
46.  Why would you trust an avator that pointed to a way, when Jesus 
pointed to Himself as the only way?  I suggest to you that Jesus is the 
divine Son of God.  You ought to trust Him alone!
47.  Have you not considered the unique resurrection of Jesus Christ in 
comparison of the avators?  The avators in the Vishnu died, but Jesus 
rose from the dead and destroyed death.  Hinduism does not teach a 
bodily resurrection, but Jesus defeated death through His triumphant 
resurrection.
48.  If you are a Hindu and have a problem with the violent death of 
Jesus, have you considered that it happened because of the "wages of 
sin"?
Thoughts of the World Religion on "Islam"
49.  If you deny the Holy Trinity, have you not read that it is taught 
in the inerrant Scriptures?  If God is a singular unity why is He 
displayed in the OT and NT as three persons almost on every page?
50.  If humans are good by nature, why do you mistreat women and murder 
innocent people?  I suggest to you that the Bible declares that human 
beings are radically polluted and evil continually.  You have not obeyed
 the "law of God" but you have disobeyed it.  You solely need the 
complete righteousness of Jesus Christ alone through faith alone.
51.  If sin is simply rejecting right guidance, why has sin caused 
spiritual death?  Why has sin caused rebellion against God?  Do you not 
realize that you are desperately wicked and who can understand your 
wicked heart?  I suggest to you this is the Bible's teaching in its 
special revelation.
52.  If the standard of spiritual salvation is someone's good deeds, how
 you not considered that your good deeds are completely tainted with 
sinfulness and depravity?
53.  If Jesus is merely a major prophet, how do you realize the Bible's 
teaching of Jesus as God the Son?  I suggest to you that the only way to
 heaven is through Jesus Christ alone.  It is not enough to simply honor
 the virgin birth and miracles of Jesus.  You must explicitly trust in 
Him alone for spiritual redemption.
54.  The Quarn is filled with errors, but the Bible is divinely inspired.
55.  I don't mean to be critical to Islam, but I want to share with you 
the Gospel of God.  It is all about forgiveness, grace and divine 
righteousness.  I suggest to you that you need a divine covering for 
your sins.  Doing good works will not save you.  You need the 
righteousness of Jesus alone.
56.  You can trust the Bible because the Quarn says you can!  It says 
"the Book" is "authoritative" and credible "revelations" from God (Surah
 2:136; 4:163).
57.  We do not worship three gods, but one God revealed in three 
distinct persons. The Trinity does not consist of the God, Christ and 
Mary (Surah 5:116, Ali).  The Holy Trinity is the teaching that God is 
one in unity and three in person.  That is, God is the Father, Son and 
Holy Spirit.
58.  God did not have physical relations with Mary to "beget a son" 
(Surah 19:34-35).  Ironically this is the teaching of Mormonism that the
 Father had physical relations with Mary, but it is not a teaching of 
biblical Christianity.  Jesus is eternally begotten of the Father which 
means He is the eternal Son of God.
59. If you reject the Cross of Jesus, you also reject the divine remedy 
by which you are spiritually saved.  The Cross of Jesus paid the 
spiritually debt of God's people alone.   
60.  The Quran does not deny that Jesus was crucified but only by the 
Jews (Surah 4:157-158).   However, Muslims deny His crucifixion and 
believe God took Jesus to heaven.  But the Romans killed Jesus, and we 
also see that ultimately God crushed His own Son to bring about 
redemption.  
To preach, defend and teach the whole counsel of God according to God's written Word alone. John Calvin use to preach everyday despite health problems. It is an old reformation tradition. I hope to preach the divine Scriptures everyday for edification in a "humble" attempt to imitate Calvin's ambition through Luther's disputations by preaching because I am seeking a "great reformational awakening" of the sons and daughters of Adam in a ungodly time to the apostolic gospel.
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