The New World Religion – Part 10

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The New World Religion – Part 10 – A Vain Undertaking

As demonstrated in our last few articles, Robert Muller and Bishop William Swing together have become important facilitators for the UN, the Vatican, and the Gorbachev Foundation in establishing the new religious order. Greatly deluded, they are convinced that they are somehow fulfilling God’s plan by merging the world’s religions. Muller and his allies (those who are supporting the United Religions Initiative) are basing their ideas on the false premise that all religions are pathways to immortality.

Building on this faulty foundation, they reckon that since all religions contain some truth, they can draw certain ideas from each of them to create a new synthetic religion. Arguing his case for the new spirituality, Muller states:

The world’s major religions in the end all want the same thing, even though they were born in different places and circumstances on this planet. What the world needs today is a convergence of the different religions in the search for and definition of the cosmic or divine laws which ought to regulate our behavior on this planet. World-wide spiritual ecumenism, expressed in new forms of religious cooperation and institutions, would probably be closest to the heart of the resurrected Christ.

He adds,

Peace will be impossible without the taming of fundamentalism through a United religion that professes faithfulness only to the global spirituality and to the health of this planet.

Muller contends that religions claiming to “have the total truth” missed the real point of Jesus and the other religious “emissaries.” He rationalizes:

The truth that was given by Jesus, by Mohammed, by these emissaries from outer space, they were really basic truths. And they were so great that the cosmos almost incarnated itself. This is why Jesus said, “I am the incarnation of the divine.” And the Indigenous people, they called it “Great Spirit.” So there was always this fighting to get the message from the outer universe to give us confidence and to tell us how to behave. This is why practically all the religions have a great contribution to make to the mystery of life…The only trouble is that their followers, the disciples, they created around these spiritual messages a religion.

Muller’s belief—that each religion provides part of the truth, and that collectively, the core of the world’s religions contain the complete truth—has unfortunately gained wide­spread acceptance in New Age circles. Proponents conveniently overlook the logical in­compatibilities among the religions, especially between Christianity, which teaches that salvation is a gift from God to all who believe in His Son, and pantheism, which teaches that man achieves immortality through his own works and reincarnation.

By building a new religion on the foundation of interfaithism Muller is in open conflict with the very words of Jesus Christ, including His all important profession that He is the only way of salvation (John 14:6). Jesus said in no uncertain terms: “Whoever believes in him [Jesus] is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son” (John 3:18, NIV). One must either accept Christ’s teachings or reject them. There is no middle ground on this matter. Standing before Pilate, awaiting crucifixion, Jesus drove home his message one final time, proclaiming, “Everyone on the side of truth listens to me” (John 18:37b, NIV).

One of the problems with interfaithism is that it offers a false unity, not a unity based on truth. God’s truth is absolute and cannot be modified for the sake of achieving a particu­lar goal. If unity becomes the main pursuit, truth is sacrificed, and participants end up believing a lie for the sake of their cause. True unity comes from God and is a natural by­product of seeking and believing His truth. It is never an end unto itself.

Clearly, other religions are not pathways to God. To claim that they are is accusing Jesus of being a liar. Moreover, if all religions were inspired by God, everyone’s eternity in Heaven would have been secure apart from Christ. One could gain entrance to Heaven by embracing Hinduism, Buddhism, or any other religion. There would have been no need for Jesus to come and pay the penalty for our sins. God would have sent His Son and con­demned Him to death for nothing.

But this was not the case. God sent His Son to intervene on our behalf because He loved us, and our sin had to be dealt with. He made a way where there was none. No other religious figure was able to take away our sins—not Buddha, not Zoroaster, not Confucius, nor anyone else. Only Jesus Christ could do so because only He, as God’s Son, was perfect. God’s justice required a perfect sacrifice to blot out man’s sin. John the Baptist accurately said of Jesus, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). May we not reject so great a salvation!

For complete documentation and more information on this vital subject, you are en­couraged to obtain Gary Kah’s eye-opening book The New World Religion (330 pages, including over 50 exhibits and 350 footnotes). Visit Gary Kah’s website at www.garykah.org

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