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![WHAT IS THE TAOIST (OR, DAOIST) BRANCH OF BUDDHISM ALL ABOUT? [3 of 6] Followers of Taoism vary in beliefs and practices, but among those are biblically abominable necromancy (contacting the dead) and Roman or Egyptian-type polytheism (worshiping many gods—Scripture also calls them idols). Taoists tend to worship mostly on their calendar’s religious holidays, setting food out as a sacrifice to the gods or the spirits of their departed ancestors. The Bible’s Deuteronomy shows us that God has some harsh condemnation for these Taoist practices: "When you enter the land that the Lord, your God has given you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter into the fire, who practices
divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft or
casts spells, who is a medium or spiritist, or who consults with the
dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord. And because these are detestable practices, the Lord, your God will drive out those nations before you. You, though, must be blameless before the Lord, your God.” Obviously, God detests the practices of those who communicate with dead people. Why is that? Well, once dead, if we were Christians, we instantly go to heaven to be with God. But non-Christians suddenly find themselves in hell. From that point, we remain in either place. Thank God we do not get kicked out of heaven, but hell is also permanent. Either way, we don’t travel back to have a chat with living friends or relatives on earth. There is no second chance and we can’t communicate with the living. That said, I believe people who say some spirit entity showed up and communicated with them, but the Bible is clear about what that is: it is not your loved one, no matter what kind of familiar, luminescent, friendly, or helpful demeanor the deceiving entity portrays.
Scripture warns that those are “familiar” spirits, just the same old demons that
have been duping people for thousands of years. Yet, the religion of Taoism
promotes these extremely dangerous encounters. | image tagged in taoism,daoism,buddhism,god,bible,hindu | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5ynfgv.jpg)
![WHAT IS THE HARE KRISHNA BRANCH OF BUDDHISM ALL ABOUT? [3 of 4] Becoming a member of Buddhism’s Hare Krishna movement involves choosing a guru (teacher) and becoming his disciple. In fact, they believe that is mandatory, because not having a proper Hare Krishna guru supposedly makes it impossible to cultivate “Krishna consciousness.” Contrary to that practice, the Bible does not have us Christians
go through a teacher, pastor, priest, or guru to access God. Those attending Sunrise Bible Church here in Las Vegas do not have to go through to me, the pastor, to get to God. Because of what Jesus did for us, we can approach God directly on His throne, whether we are the greatest of Bible scholars, or even a new Christian who just heard and accepted the gospel. And the doctrine for Krishna followers gets even worse:
Besides believing that adherents must go through a guru to reach their
millions of gods, they also teach that the guru is a god. | image tagged in krishna,buddhism,god,bible,new age,hindu | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5ylh06.jpg)
![WHAT IS THE HARE KRISHNA BRANCH OF BUDDHISM ALL ABOUT? [2 of 4] The Krishna movement began as a reactionary response to dispassionate Buddhist Hinduism. Krishna followers participate in lavish public displays of their adoration and worship for Hindu deities. Similarly, the charismatic influence may have sprung up in the Christian Church because so many services have become somewhat boring and lifeless, often from hiring shepherds who don’t even believe what they're teaching. But our salvation through Christ is the most exciting development that has ever happened to mankind. God forgave all of our sins, so we are no longer headed for hell; instead, we get to spend eternity with God in heaven, ruling and reigning with Jesus, exploring the universe,
and forever learning more and more about the mind of God. I'm all for that! But there is so much deadness in a huge number of Christian Churches today because we’re not spending daily time in the Bible, which is how Christians become passionate for God's truth. This has caused people to get sucked into hyper-charismatic churches, where they are often led to connect with spirits that are not from God. While I agree that many Christian Churches today are fairly lifeless, those are not accurate representations of true biblical Christianity—they’re normally not very biblical. Either way though, two wrongs don't make a right, so jumping into
other harmful, unbiblical practices is not the answer. | image tagged in krishna,buddhism,hindu,god,bible,charismatic | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5ylgqq.jpg)
![WHAT IS THE HARE KRISHNA BRANCH OF BUDDHISM ALL ABOUT? [1 of 4] Hare Krishna is the extreme-charismatic subsect of Hinduism’s Buddhist branch, so it is all about the experience, which often includes physical actions like dancing and chanting. Followers do these things to get themselves into an altered state of consciousness, which helps them (and those of many world faiths) to connect with spirits—the same old lying demons. A similar sort of charismatic element exists within Islam, through the relatively small branch of Sufi Muslims. Sufi’s are also called “whirling dervishes,” because they spin around in skirts that rise up to form a circle around a person who can turn fast enough. That spinning is their form of
charismatic worship that they incorporate into their Islamic beliefs. And it’s all part of the same sorts of practices from Buddhism and Hinduism that are meant to get followers into an altered state of consciousness, an emptying of the mind that more easily allows visions and the ability to connect with what the Bible calls “familiar spirits.” Again, those spirits are deceiving, murderous demons—like their father, the devil. There are only a couple variations from Buddhist Hinduism for those involved with the Hare Krishna religion. Like Hinduism, Hare Krishna obviously allows most any type of worship and deity, because they too have over 330 million gods. However, Hare Krishna’s differ in the practice of their religion, publicly displaying their emotional devotion, while Hindus
are more prone to dispassionate expressions, just solitarily
sitting in some specific position while they meditate to alter
their consciousness and connect with demonic spirits. | image tagged in krishna,buddhism,hindu,god,sufi,charismatic | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5ylgar.jpg)
![WHAT IS THE BUDDHIST RELIGION OF JAINISM? [2 of 2] Jesus talked about the Jewish Pharisees forcing their followers to perform prescribed works as the way to supposedly reach a pleasant afterlife, the same sort of works that today’s Jainism (an offshoot of Buddhism) holds their people to. What did Christ say about people who force followers to perform manmade tasks as the supposed ticket to heaven? He called the Pharisees what they were: fools and hypocrites. Here is Jesus addressing the Pharisees in Matthew 23:15 and 27:"Woe to you, blind guides! You go over
land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one,
you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are…; You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.” The Pharisee’s rules where false teachings, useless burdens put on people. Completely contrary to what the Pharisees prescribed, Jesus had the people follow Him, promising this at the end of Matthew 11: "Come to Me…you will find rest for your souls. My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” But even today, because people refuse to accept Christ’s free gift of salvation, those caught in false religions like Jainism continue to suffer under Pharisee-type rules, not to mention risking an eternity away from God, ending
up in hell, if they don’t accept Jesus before their death. | image tagged in jainism,buddhism,hindu,god,bible,jesus | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5ylfaf.jpg)
![WHAT IS THE BUDDHIST RELIGION OF JAINISM? [1 of 2] “Jain” simply means “conqueror,” and “ism” is a “doctrine, cause, or theory,” so a Jainist is a “conqueror from the bondage of this world.” That foundational belief of Jainism sounds like the Hindu idea that we all must escape the bonds of reincarnation, life’s supposed cycle of continuous birth and death which is caused by our bad karma built up in previous lives. The similar views make sense because Jainism is another spin-off from Buddhism, which came out of Hinduism. The works-based aspect of Jainism—the same, tired, old claim that we all must
work our own way to heaven—is similar to the beliefs and practices
of Jewish leaders during the time Jesus walked the earth. Christ had to deal with the Pharisees and all their onerous, manmade rules and traditions that they relentlessly put on the Jewish people. The Pharisees came up with crazy decrees, like not spitting at the ground on the Sabbath. Why in the world would that matter? Well, having the right trajectory, your spit might hit the dirt with a strong enough force to roll through the dust; thus, you would be plowing a tiny trough—how dare you work on the Sabbath. This is just one of a million examples
where man’s rules have been put on people to religiously control
them with constant threats on their eternal lives. | image tagged in jainism,buddhism,hindu,god,bible,jesus | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5ylev4.jpg)
![HOW IS THE BUDDHIST “BAHA’I FAITH” GREATLY IMPACTING WESTERN CULTURE TODAY? [4 of 5] Satan knows Bible prophecy better than anyone, so even false faiths like Baha’i and the New Age movement are looking for a man who will lead the whole planet. The Bible says he will be the Antichrist, and warns that he will be aided by the False Prophet, a planetary religious leader. New Age and Baha’i followers have been deceived to believe these evil men will usher in a peaceful, loving, global utopia on earth, but the Bible tells us that time will see a false peace, which will turn hellish because it’s all part of the Antichrist kingdom. We are not to fall for it. Today, we see all this developing in America and globally through the United Nations and other governmental organizations that are setting up their new world order. We can see the leadership of many religions pushing for acceptance of all beliefs, as preparation for a supposed utopia that will include that new order for the whole world, one that will promise total equality of men and women. But while causing people to ignore the fast-spreading control by the
earth’s evil leadership, this great deception will build to an ambush of
mankind, once the evil-doers have built their new world order and
one world religion. Two thousand years ago, the Bible
warned of both, and we are seeing signs everywhere that
these evil efforts are being put together right now! | image tagged in buddism,hindu,bahai,god,bible,new age | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5ykbzr.jpg)
![HOW IS THE BUDDHIST “BAHA’I FAITH” GREATLY IMPACTING WESTERN CULTURE TODAY? [2 of 5] Bahai teaches that we can attain accurate beliefs through all sorts of “sacred” texts that are revered by faith systems around the world. This is the same belief we see with the modern New Age movement, a Hinduism-inspired religion for Western society that advocates its followers choose whatever “truth” they’d like; maybe a bit of Christianity combined with some Buddhist Baha’i beliefs and a sprinkling of whatever other philosophies and religious teachings they would like. From that self-chosen mishmash, Baha’i and New Age
adherents are taught to claim that they have reached the “ultimate truth.”; Both religions also believe God showed us His will through revelations brought by the many historical figures He sent us. Hinduism and Baha’i refer to those people as avatars (divine teachers), or prophets, and Bahai believes that these manifested helpers from God have been equally important people, meaning Jesus was no better or worse than Moses, Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius, and the rest. Today, we hear that
exact mindset all over America and even in the Church; supposed Christians have
joined in on the absurd claim that Jesus was “just another great teacher,” no different
than Mohammed, Confucius, or other leaders of faith movements throughout
history. That thinking comes from Bahai, and because uniformed people
think this erroneous sentiment feels and sounds nice, affirming all faiths
as being true, they spread the harmful, cancerous lie through our airwaves
and conversations, while they don’t even know where it came from. | image tagged in buddhism,bahai,hindu,god,bible,religion | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5ykb6e.jpg)
![HOW IS THE BUDDHIST “BAHA’I FAITH” GREATLY IMPACTING WESTERN CULTURE
TODAY? [1 of 5] Of the many sub-religions that have spun off from Hinduism, Buddhism is the most known, but the majority of Americans don’t know that Buddhist thought has greatly impacted the terminology of our culture, mindset, and even belief systems—as have smaller false faiths with roots in Hinduism. For example, most have not heard of a sect of Buddhism called Baha’i (Ba-HI) Faith, but the New Age movement in Western culture gets its philosophy from Baha’i, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Other Buddhist offshoots are Jainism, Hare Krishna, Taoism (also
called Daoism), and Zoroastrianism. That last one was founded
in the sixth-century, BC, by a man in Persia named Zoroaster. Hindu-rooted, Buddhist Baha’i teaches that individuals from all different world religions and cults can pray to whomever they’d like, because it’s just the same God being referenced by many different names. Today, that attitude has become prevalent among people all over the world, including here in our American society—even in the Christian Church! In fact,
I’ve heard Christians say they reference “Allah” in the place of “God” when
witnessing to the Muslims. But Islam’s Allah is a completely different
entity, certainly not the God we Christians worship; both Muslim
and Christian leaders widely acknowledge that fact. So, Baha’i
Faith originated the false claim and belief that all deities worshiped
by the world’s vast variety of diverse faiths are supposedly
the same Supreme Being—which tells us that those people
know little to nothing about Christianity, or other faiths. | image tagged in buddhism,bahai,god,bible,religion,christian | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5ykae1.jpg)
![DON’T ALL FAITHS LEAD TO HEAVEN? [2 of 3] The devil has been blinding the minds of unbelievers, and his greatest deceiving tactic is to get people, (even born-again Christians), away from the Bible. Christian or not, if you don't know the Bible, you can much more easily fall pry to a cult. Wisdom and a wisely spent life depend on a person's source of truth: If you stick with the Bible—the indisputably Word of God given through men—you will be perfectly fine. But most won’t do that, so the vast majority of humanity remain uniformed of their Creator’s plans for our lives, just because they don’t study the Bible. The more closely we follow God’s ways, the more our lives become filled with happiness, peace, love, joy, patience, kindness, and many other fruits of the Holy Spirit that come from a close walk with God. Instead, this widespread, terrible mistake
of not reading Scripture results in people joining fake-Christian
groups, like the massive Roman Catholic Church. | image tagged in religion,god,bible,heaven,hell,christian | made w/ Imgflip meme maker](http://i.imgflip.com/5yk3ka.jpg)
