Continues from
previous post -
Mathew 3:6-10,
shows that John the Baptist wanted to give this oath for goodness
only to Jews and did not favor giving it to none Jew converts to
Judaism from other races such as Parsees and Sudanese. Jesus had
never baptized a non-Jew in his life. That may be taken as there
teachings were primarily intended to benefit only Jews. Obviously
since, that teaching was to improve Judaism and not to create any new
religion.
There
is one other example in this regard and that is of Prophet Mohammad
who refused to convert none Arabs to Islam but in later period,
during Umayyad period, Arabs began to convert none Arabs. Roman
Catholic Church did not practice this restriction of John the Baptist
and Jesus and began to convert all people they came across. This was
due to St. Paul as he began to convert non-Jews to Christianity by
baptizing in Europe. When Jesus told his companions to preach his
teachings to nations, he meant by nation, tribe or community. The
word nations had a different meaning in those years. Mohammad also
talked of Arab nations that mean Arab tribes. Today the meaning of
this word has changed therefore, the confusion. We should take to the
meaning of words as per time and place to understand it properly.
Today
we see that in teachings of these Churches there is not much
importance given to this principle of goodness but more to devotion
to God and obedience to the papal order and power. By this principle
of goodness, those who do not remain honest to principle of goodness
are the sinners. Today Church more talks of pardon from this sin than
insist to obedience to goodness. This shows that now the Church is
more interested in increasing the hold of its power on its followers
than trying to make them practice goodness or true teachings of
Jesus. As if, Church wants people to indulge in not practicing
goodness and become sinners and then they will be redeemed by the
grace of Church. This behavior of the church is contrary to the very
ethics of Christianity of Jesus. This also clearly shows that
Christianity of Church is more interested in having as many sinners
as possible so that they can talk of redemption. Jesus wanted his
followers to be not sinners in the first place; whereas, Church wants
faithful to be sinners. This is the measure difference in the two
approaches.
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