An acquaintance teaches at a local seminary on, among other subjects, world religions and cults.After briefing his students on the various religions and religious groups, he either takes them to their buildings for a visit or, invites a representative to speak in his class.
It is interesting to me that the right wing, and they are right, aren't they (?), is so afraid of comparisons. I believe it was Caroline who spoke to the personal realization of "truth." Paul did the same in Romans 14:4, didn't he?!!! The reason why we cannot fear comparisons is the truth found in Caroline's analysis and the observed truth as present in 14:4 --- it is before our Master that we stand or fall and stand we will for He will make us to stand.
Over and over again, we find this fact expressed in scripture -- it is the slow and arduous revealing of "truth" as a result of the relationship we have with the Christ that is more important than "truth" (statements and equations) itself. At least two of the men illustrated in Romans 14 were conceptually wrong. They were doctrinally off base. Mistaken. Believing in a teaching that was not biblical --------------- but all, in that passage, were made to be right.
How's this for a book title : Made To Be Right ---- By Another. (the story of man as he searches for truth). This would be a tale of one who spends a lifetime searching for truth, and in the end, not finding truth, discovers that along the, while looking for the keys to that which is healthy and wise, he was made Right by Accident (understanding that accidents don't just happen, of course.)
Jd
