Gay pride = Sign of end times. Read this solemn warning:
America and the rest of this evil world is doomed.
The Rapture is months away, pray that you are part of God's Elect (Ephesians 1:3-6). The true believers will simultaneously zap into heaven.
Judgment begins the day of the Rapture.
For the unsaved, 5 months of earthquakes and calamities await. An earthquake so great will cause the corpse of every dead person to splatter around the earth. At the end of the 5 month period, the Lord will destroy the world with fire (Revelation 9:5)
The Unholy Trinity:
Obama = 1st beast in Revelation 13 (go ogle "Obama head scars" - recent discovery that match the description of the beast in Revelation 13, in addition to rising out of a sea of troubled humanity and promising to save the world, etc)
Pope = 2ND beast (the whore of Babylon described in Rev 17-18. Pope seeks to change times and laws, etc) Google Ellen G. White + her 19Th century discovery that the pope's title "Vicarius Filii Dei" adds to 666 in the Roman Numeral Form
Satan = their father
Signs of the times: Gay pride, Euphrates river drying up, increase in wickedness & apostasy, nations that have forgotten their God, upheavals in the Middle East (Israel is next), increase in violence, economy in shambles, weird weather, natural disasters, etc
1948 Israel Declaration of Independence = Beginning of the end
Church age ended in 1988
From the yrs 1988 to 1994 Harold Camping teaches that no one was saved.
Noah knew. We can too.
God told Noah that He would destroy the world in 7 days (Genesis 7:4).
In 2 Peter 3:6-8, we are told to not be ignorant of one thing (concerning what God said when the Flood happened) - that 1 day is as a thousand with the Lord.
4990 BC (Noah's flood) + (7 times 1000) = 2011 AD. We don't count the year 0.
7000 years after the seventeenth day of the second month of the year in 4990 BC (February 17Th, 4990 BC) in the Jewish Calendar as Genesis tells us is exactly May 21st 2011 in our calendar.
As long as you have accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour and do not worship the same things as Buddhists do, (i.e. Moon god) then you can still be a Christian
Perhaps, but I don't think a Christian can adhere to Christian beliefs and actually be a Buddhist. The concept of a eternal place of suffering is against Buddhist principles.
Personally I don't see why not. But I think some Christians would think this is blasphemy since this is another religion. I don't see the harm since some of the more popular forms of Buddhism doesn't even involve a deity.
Sure. In the U.S., at least. We have Freedom of Religion. I can worship anyway or anything I want. Or NOT worship anything at all. Which is what I choose to do.
No and here is why: Buddhism teaches that one can be enlightened by seeking inside ones self. Christianity teaches that man is flawed and needs to seek out God to reach his ultimate fulfillment.
These two concepts can not exist together and both be right.
Exodus 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. This is the first command, and is opposed to the polytheism of the Gentiles, the Egyptians, from whom Israel was just come, and whose gods some of them might have had a favorable opinion of and liking to, and had committed idolatry with; and the Canaanites, into whose land they were going; and to prevent their joining with them in the worship of other gods, this law was given, as well as to be of standing us to them in all generations; for there is but one only living and true God, the former and maker of all things, who only is to be had, owned, acknowledged, served, and worshiped as such; all others have only the name, and are not by nature gods; they are other gods than the true God is; they are not real, but fictitious deities; they are other or strange gods to the worshipers of them, that cry unto them, for they do not answer them, as Jarchi observes: and now for Israel, who knew the true God, who had appeared unto them, and made himself known to them by his name Jehovah, both by his word and works, whom he had espoused to himself as a choice virgin, to commit idolatry, which is spiritual adultery with other gods, with strange gods, that are no gods, and this before God, in the presence of him, who had took them by the hand when he brought them out of Egypt, and had been a husband to them, must be shocking impiety, monstrous ingratitude, and extremely displeasing to God, and resented by him; and is, as many observe, as if a woman should commit adultery in the presence of her husband, and so the phrase may denote the audaciousness of the action, as well as the wickedness of it; though, as Ben Melech from others observes, if it was done in secret it would be before the Lord, who is the omniscient God, and nothing can be hid from him: several Jewish commentators, as Jarchi, Kimchi, and Aben Ezra, interpret the phrase ?before me?, all the time I endure, while I have a being, as long as I live, or am the living God, no others are to be had; that is, they are never to be had; since the true God will always exist: the Septuagint version is, ?besides me?, no other were to be worshiped with him; God will have no rivals and competitors; though he was worshiped, yet if others were worshiped with him, if others were set before him and worshipped along with him, or it was pretended he was worshipped in them, and even he with a superior and they with an inferior kind of worship; yet this was what he could by no means admit of: the phrase may be rendered ?against me? (c); other gods opposition to him, against his will, contrary to obedience due to him and his precepts: this law, though it supposes and strongly inculcates the unity of the divine Being, the only object of religious adoration, yet does not oppose the doctrine of the trinity of persons in the Godhead; nor is that any contradiction to it, since though the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, there are not three Gods, but three Persons, and these three are one God, 1Jo_5:7.
That depends entirely on who you ask. If you ask a Christian, the answer will more than likely be no. If you arks a Buddhist, the answer will probably be yes. From what I understand; while there are some Buddhist sects that have deities, there are many that don't. For the most part it's simply a way of life, and not a worship system. But many Christians think (for whatever reason) that Buddha is a deity to Buddhists, and so they feel that you would be serving two masters (or something along those lines).
A Buddhist can practice Christianity and still be a Buddhist though. Buddhism is a philosophy more than a religion and it embraces the paths and ways other people act compassionately and relieve the suffering of others as well. The Buddhists embrace Christ, as well as other religions holy people, because the message of compassion is essentially the same and the message, followed by true action, is what matters.
Buddhism is in fact a religion, which is obvious if anyone reads the straws or visits actual Buddhists at temples (either in the US or Asia). While it can be treated as just a philosophy, that is not how the Buddha intended it (as simply an intellectual endeavor) and not how it is in Asia.
However, one can certainly extract many ideas and methods from Buddhism that are neutral insofar as religion goes. The practice of mindfulness or insight meditation ('passing' is what it is called in Pali) does not demand that one either worship or not worship anything. Worship is besides the point. Clearly observing how things actually are is something that anyone can do without regard to religious beliefs (unless those beliefs demand that one not directly perceive reality).
However, I do not think a Christian could take the Three Refuges (in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha) and still really be a Christian. Nor could a Christian accept the Buddha's teachings (in the Pali Canon and Mahayana straws) regarding karma and rebirth and the existence of the Vedic deities and nature spirits. Nor could a Christian remain a Christian and come to believe that heaven and hell are both impermanent and that one cannot be saved simply through faith in a Supreme Being as Buddhism actually teaches (again both in the Pali Canon and Mahayana straws).
I don't believe so Even Lord Jesus said we can't follow two masters
To become a Buddhist is to take refuge in the Three Jewels, also called the Three Treasures. The Three Jewels are the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha.
The formal ceremony of Ti Samana Gamana (Pali), or "taking the three refuges," is performed in nearly all schools of Buddhism. However, anyone who sincerely wants to follow the Buddha's path may begin that commitment by reciting these lines:
I take refuge in the Buddha.
I take refuge in the Dharma.
I take refuge in the Sangha.
The English word refuge refers to a place of shelter and protection from danger. What danger? We seek shelter from the passions that jerk us around, from feeling distressed and broken, from pain and suffering, from the fear of death. We seek shelter from the wheel of Samara, the cycle of death and rebirth.
Taking Refuge
The meaning of taking refuge in the Three Jewels is explained somewhat differently by the various schools of Buddhism. The Theravada teacher Bhikkhu Bodhi said,
"The Buddha's teaching can be thought of as a kind of building with its own distinct foundation, stories, stairs, and roof. Like any other building the teaching also has a door, and in order to enter it we have to enter through this door. The door of entrance to the teaching of the Buddha is the going for refuge to the Triple Gem ? that is, to the Buddha as the fully enlightened teacher, to the Dhamma as the truth taught by him, and to the Sangha as the community of his noble disciples."
Buddhism rejects the truths that Jesus is God and Messiah. So Buddhist beliefs lead to hell. They cannot be brought together.
Jesus loves you! Jesus died on the cross for our sins, and then Jesus rose from the dead! So to be in heaven, believe in Jesus, who is God and Messiah! Jesus is the only way to heaven
Can a christian practice buddhism and still really be a christian?
