No 61 of Living Life Series 1
Why was Bo Tien the Lord Saint sent as messenger of Heaven?
Answer: There is no new religion and the precepts are not new. He is here to present the simplicity of truth of divine perfection for which all beings must aspire if they are to exit from ego cycle of rebirths
If Truth is simple, surely existing institutions could do the job?
Answer: Yes the Lord wants us to belong to what we profess. We could profess any school of belief or practice. There is the same inner truth and the one God behind all religions. There is no need to reach truth of God by having a new religion
In fact He chose age old popular Chinese cultural practices to show that we can reach truth of God through any institutions, and even through traditional ethnic Chinese religious beliefs.
If we could perceive this, we could see the oneness of religions despite the outward differences.
We must look beyond the covers and go for the principles behind the substance. The covers and presentation of a book attracts and binds us, but it is the principles or lessons that we should go for.
All religions could do the job to bring men to divine perfection (to God).
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