WISE QUESTION 11 : What kinds of religion are there and what are its characteristics?

 

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What kinds of religion are there and what are its characteristics?

 

In the east, there are three main paths–Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. There are many sub-religions which have broken off from these three paths but have similar teachings.

 

The way these three religions–Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism–have expressed themselves in different time periods may differ, but it is, in essence, referring to the same thing and, in this sense, is one religion.

 

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The text for Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism contains a record of what people heard and saw from a divine being, but no one has been able to understand the meaning of it until today.

 

There are other religions such as Islam, Hinduism and Calvinism, but the founders of these religions were not people God had chosen and appointed.

 

They sought for God out of their own will, and with a religious mindset they received and recorded revelation from heaven; but no one knows its meaning.

 

For example, Buddha started to walk on the path of religion because he wanted to know why people were born only to grow old, become sick and die. He received revelation and recorded it, but he could not understand its meaning. What he did know was that a Savior would come.

 

He said that when this Savior comes, he would teach like a lamp without oil, and he predicted through his writings that the Buddhist way would come to an end after five hundred years. Jesus came approximately five hundred years after Buddha. Even though Buddhism continued to exist after Jesus came, it had become nothing but a lamp without oil.

 

What kind of spirit would be reigning amidst this darkness?

There is a saying, “Devils move at night.” The Zen Master Seongcheol said he met Buddha in hell, and in 1987 on Buddha’s Birthday, he made the following confession in a Buddhist literary text:

 

“Satan, welcome. I respect and worship you. You were originally Buddha,”

 

[Choseon Ilbo 23 April 1987 p. 7, Gyunghyang News 23 April 1987 p.9, The Librarian’s Office of the Supreme Patriarch of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism (Keunbit Chongseo 1) Seoul Sashiyeon,1994, p. 56-59].

 

The words of the Zen Master Seongcheol are correct. He did not say this because he had become senile. Why do Buddhists continually follow this religion even if they know this fact?

 

The people of Judaism killed the messengers sent by God (Mt 23:34-47; Acts 7:51-53; 1 Th 2:15). God sent his son Jesus, but they killed him as well because he was the heir.

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1Thessalonians 2:15

 

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to all men

 

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The reason why they killed him was so they could keep the church to themselves (Lk 20). How can there be grace and salvation in this kind of situation?

 

This is the characteristic of religion.

The Bible says true salvation lies with the promised pastor and the twelve tribes, which is created once again at the time of the Lord’s Second Coming.

 

 

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