No 1160 of Living Life Series 1
The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨sets out in 1969 in Singapore to correct the thinking of men the world over with regards to salvation - the saving of souls through all religions.
He is not here to change people from one religion to another. He starts no new one. He favors none. He wants men to be better in the religion or culture they are in.
But men go for the easy way out. They undo the good work put in place by the pioneers of religions. What is the easy way out?
In religion, over time, people invariably have developed and will continue to develop the Messianic complex that they just have to believe and be saved.
Some even go to the extent to vouch that no amount of good or purification of the spirit can save the soul and only belief in a saint will do that. This of course will encourage unintended inaction.
There will be less incentive to do good, avoid bad and to purify the mind. Saints like Jesus and Ji Gong 济公 are aware of this risk. They want us to go for the Doctrine or Word that they stand for and not go for them.
Ji Gong 济公 says that what matters is not what goes through the gut or what one does but what is in the heart and goes through the heart. Jesus wants men to know that God is the Word and the Word is God.
The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 puts it bluntly when he says that the near may be far. Those who have faith but not the Word are far though near.
He also says that he who knows and sees the Word knows and sees him. He who knows not the Word sees not and knows not the saint even if the saint is near to him.
He adds that the Word is him and he is the Word.
That echoes what religions have to say about God. God is the Word. The Word is God. Only by knowing and living in the Word can one be truly saved in the long run.
The Messianic syndrome has caught up with men. Men go for saints as their messiahs. This is good but if they get carried away and do no more than worship and know not, let alone live in the Word, they are swallowed up by the Messianic complex.
They become lame ducks. They just stay put, believe and hang on to the saint. Everything to them depends on the saint as the messiah.
They are just like the men who depend on the government of the land for all the problems they have instead of the government depending on them to be good men to make the management of the country easier.
We need a father figure when young. But we have to grow up and we cannot depend on the father all the time. The father's wish is for us to be independent and be able to be on our own. But there are some who depend on the father beyond the grave.
He is not here to change people from one religion to another. He starts no new one. He favors none. He wants men to be better in the religion or culture they are in.
But men go for the easy way out. They undo the good work put in place by the pioneers of religions. What is the easy way out?
In religion, over time, people invariably have developed and will continue to develop the Messianic complex that they just have to believe and be saved.
Some even go to the extent to vouch that no amount of good or purification of the spirit can save the soul and only belief in a saint will do that. This of course will encourage unintended inaction.
There will be less incentive to do good, avoid bad and to purify the mind. Saints like Jesus and Ji Gong 济公 are aware of this risk. They want us to go for the Doctrine or Word that they stand for and not go for them.
Ji Gong 济公 says that what matters is not what goes through the gut or what one does but what is in the heart and goes through the heart. Jesus wants men to know that God is the Word and the Word is God.
The good lord Lord Bo Tien 武天菩萨 puts it bluntly when he says that the near may be far. Those who have faith but not the Word are far though near.
He also says that he who knows and sees the Word knows and sees him. He who knows not the Word sees not and knows not the saint even if the saint is near to him.
He adds that the Word is him and he is the Word.
The Messianic syndrome has caught up with men. Men go for saints as their messiahs. This is good but if they get carried away and do no more than worship and know not, let alone live in the Word, they are swallowed up by the Messianic complex.
They become lame ducks. They just stay put, believe and hang on to the saint. Everything to them depends on the saint as the messiah.
They are just like the men who depend on the government of the land for all the problems they have instead of the government depending on them to be good men to make the management of the country easier.
We need a father figure when young. But we have to grow up and we cannot depend on the father all the time. The father's wish is for us to be independent and be able to be on our own. But there are some who depend on the father beyond the grave.
