[Shincheonji Answer 11] Characteristics and Kinds of Religion

[Shincheonji Answer 11]

Characteristics and Kinds of Religion

 

 

Religions have expressed themselves in different time periods, may be different;
but it is in essence referring to the same thing and in this sense, it is one religion

• Mr. Lee Byoungchul, Question 11th.

What kinds of religion are there and what are its characteristics?

• Shincheonji Answer 11th.

Religions have expressed themselves
in different time periods, may be different;
but it is in essence referring to the same
thing and in this sense, it is one religion

In the east, there are the three paths–Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. There are many religions which have broken off from these three paths but have similar teachings. The way these three religions–Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism–have expressed themselves in different time periods, may be different; but it is in essence referring to the same thing and in this sense, it is one religion.

The text for Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, is a record of what people heard and saw from a divine being, but no one has been able to understand the meaning of it until today. There are other religions such as Islam, Hinduism and Calvinism, but the founders of these religions were not people God had chosen and appointed. They sought for God on their own will and with a religious mindset, they received and recorded the revelation from heaven; but no one knows its meaning.

For example, Buddha started to walk on the path of religion because he wanted to know why people were born only to grow old, become sick and die. He received revelation and recorded it, but he could not understand the meaning. What he did know was Jesus would come. He said when Jesus comes, what he taught would be like a lamp without the oil, and he wrote the path of Buddhism would come to an end five hundred years later. Jesus came approximately five hundred years after Buddha. Even if Buddhism existed after Jesus came, it had become nothing but a lamp without the oil. What kind of spirit would be reigning in the midst of this kind of darkness? There is a saying: “Devils move at night.” The Zen Master Seongcheol said he met Buddha in hell and in 1987 on Buddha’s Birthday, he made the following confession in a Buddhist literary text: “Satan, welcome. I respect and worship you. You were originally Buddha,” [Choseon Ilbo 23 April 1987 p. 7, Gyunghyang News 23 April 1987 p.9, The Librarian’s Office of the Supreme Patriarch of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism (Keunbit Chongseo 1) Seoul Sashiyeon,1994, p. 56-59].

The words of the Zen Master Seongcheol are correct. He did not say this because he had become senile. Why do Buddhists continually follow this religion even if they know this fact? The people of Judaism killed the messengers sent by God (Mt 23:34-47; Acts 7:51-53; 1 Th 2:15). God sent his son Jesus, but they killed him as well because he was the heir. The reason why they killed him was so they could keep the church to themselves (Lk 20). How can there be grace and salvation in this kind of situation? This is the characteristic of religion.

The Bible says true salvation lies with the promised pastor and the twelve tribes, which is created once again at the time of the Lord’s Second Coming.