spdk1 on 06 July 2011
I don't actually believe in Exclusivism, I buy into Pluralism. Why else would Jesus travel to the east and talk with people that very well could have been Buddhists and learned thier ways. By all accounts he didn't roll in trying to convert them to Judaism, he took a lot of their views into account and came out with a slightly Buddhist slant to his teachings. One thing that I need to make clear is that as a Gnostic Christian I do not believe the acts of religious intolerence in the bible such as 1 Samuel and Joshua were directed by God. First century Christians did not think this way either, it was only after the Orthodox branch took over that anti-semitism and huge waves of persecutions ruled the day. I believe that these people that run the church are true heretics and have misguided the true teachings of Jesus.
