How many times have you seen that bumper-sticker that says “coexist” spelled out in different religious symbols?
It sounds like a good idea, but none of the religions represented by those symbols are called to coexist.
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In the Torah, God tells us that we are to be holy, as he is holy; I would give the biblical references but, frankly, there are too many of them so you can just take my word for it.
Being holy doesn’t mean acting like some saint or being sinless (since no human being can be sinless), all it means is to be separate.
And what should we be separate from? Why, the world, of course.
The idea of coexisting is fine with most Judea-Christian religions because we allow others to have the freedom to practice their religion without constraint or prejudice.
However, without naming names, let’s just say that not everyone is willing to do that.
In reality, it’s pretty stupid to think that anyone is ever going to hold hands with a member of another religion that wants to destroy them and sing “Kumbaya“.
Get real, people- it ain’t gonna happen!
As for Israel, my spiritual homeland, I really wish they would stop trying to please the UN (which should be renamed to the United Nations Against Israel) and just wipe out the enemies that are attacking them, once and for all.
Joshua screwed-up by not eliminating all the enemies of God that he was told to eliminate, and that is why Israel is having so many problems, today. We need to learn from that mistake and not repeat it, which (sadly) is exactly what we are doing.
We know what the Bible says about the Acharit HaYamim (End Days) in Revelation, and also from many of the prophets, which is that the whole world will come against Israel before the return of the Messiah. And when he comes he will kick butt… and there won’t be any names left to take!
For those who may not be familiar with the adage, “Kick butt and take names“, the kicking butt part is easy to understand; for the ones whose butt you couldn’t kick, you take their name and send someone back who can kick it.
The truth is there is one God and he doesn’t have a religion, only his instructions for how to worship him and how to treat each other (that’s the Torah, God’s “User Manual for Righteousness”) and I don’t think he really doesn’t want to hear anything about any other way to do things.
People have free will, a gift from God, that no one should interfere with. That means anyone can practice any form of worship they want to without anyone forcing them to worship any other way. That ideal is a two-way street; in other words, you can do what you want and I can do what I want, but neither of us can force the other to do something else.
In Israel there are Jews, Christians and Muslims, and they all get along together, but in the rest of the world we see one religion (or political system) after another forcing conversions and torturing or killing those who remain faithful to their own beliefs.
The idea of different religions getting along is something that history has shown can’t happen, so get rid of the bumper-sticker and replace it with something that simply says, “In God, we trust” or maybe just leave the bumper clean.
Respect everyone’s right to choose for themself, and let them be- we all have enough to worry about regarding our own eternal condition.
Thank you for being here and please remember to comment and share these messages with everyone you know, even non-believers. Hey, after all, you never know how fertile the soil is until you plant a seed in it.
That’s it for today, so l’hitraot and Baruch HaShem!