Msg #1517 The Eastern Religions

April 29, 2015, Pastor Rice, Uncategorized,

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

When God makes a move, Satan makes a counter move. In 2350 BC “it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth” (Gen 6:6). A hundred years later, in 2250BC, after Noah’s descendents said, “Go to, let us build a city,” God said, “Go to, let us go down, and there confound their languages” (Gen 11:4,7). Four hundred years later, in 1850 BC, the LORD secured his promised land to Isaac. At the same time, Satan appeared to a Persian named Zoroaster and revealed himself as an equal twin of the LORD. Zoroastrianism is the basis for the eastern religions. In 1492 BC, less than 400 years later, while God was giving his Law to Moses on Mount Sinai, Satan was developing his precepts in the religious culture of India. Hinduism has a triune godhead; ‘Brahma‘ as Creator, ‘Vishnu‘ as Preserver, and ‘Shiva‘ as Destroyer. The father of lies always twists the truth of the LORD God. His true trinity was revealed to the Hebrews, from the line of Seth. Hinduism and Indian culture also supposed that the ‘most holy people’ sprang from the head of ‘Manu‘, the first created man. ‘Rulers and warriors’ came from his hands, ‘craftsman’ came from his legs, and ‘base servants’ came from his feet. To move up this caste system you must do yoga exercises and maintain good karma in your present level. Then, after death, perhaps you will be reincarnated into an upper level; eventually reaching the ultimate Nirvana, where your soul is emancipated from ignorance. Satan always counterfeits God, but the caste system was such a cultural blunder, that in 500 BC, Satan sent an ‘enlightened one’, or ‘Buddah‘ to reform the whole complex cynical thing. Thus Buddhism spread on further to the East. I’m glad I’m in Christ.

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Msg #1517b The Eastern Religions Cont.

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan’s Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

While Satan was occupied trying to destroy the seed line of the promised Messiah, the Christ, things seemed to proceed in the East driven only by the depravity of man. For almost a thousand years, from Mount Sinai’s giving of the Word of God in 1492 BC, to the Assyrian dispersion of Israel in 721 BC¹, and then the remnant of Judah being carried into the Babylonian captivity in 597 BC², Satan was preoccupied in God’s promised land. The nations of the world were spreading from the 2250 BC Tower of Babble debacle, and some crossed the Himalaya Mountains. Across that isolating barrier the Chinese became a most barbaric people. There are accounts of barbarous slaughterings of 60,000 and even 400,000 men women and children; it was an immoral society, in need of reformation. The rise of an enlightened one named Confucius, brought in a humanist moral code. For centuries Confucianism had no hallmarks of a religion: it taught of no creator, worship, or afterlife. It did not deal with the questions “Where did I come from?”, “Why am I here?”, and “Where am I going?”: these are the subjects of God’s revelation, and thus the subjects of a true religion. Steering away from these subjects reveals who gave the light and insight to Confucius, “and no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light” (2Cor11:14). One more Eastern Religion which sprang from this traverse through the Himalayas is Shintoism. The nation which escaped through the barbarity of China settled on an Island called Japan. It is thus conceivable why they worship their homeland. Thus the core of Eastern Religions, Hinduism and its protestant reformation of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shintoism, did not come from the revelation of the LORD God.

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