It's Hard to Communicate with a Buddhist

How can we know anything about anything

To try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald

Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible?

NO!

That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about.

Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us?

How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences?

We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers.

Why is that?

How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read.

Why is that?

Same scientific facts. Different answers.

Same Bible. Different answers.

Why is that?

The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible?

How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible?

How do we analyze what we have seen and read?

How do we interpret what we have seen and read?

We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly.

An example might help.

Question: Why do you believe in evolution?

Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact.

Question: Why do you believe your science teacher?

Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read.

Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice.

If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts.

When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from?

There are three possibilities.

things that we make up, pulled from the air
demonic lies
divine revelation

Question: Why do you believe in creation?

Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him.

See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved.

In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same.

Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us.

The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan?

The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know.

Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me"

The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem.

Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." *

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 *

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God.

How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver

Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32)

"If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it"

Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay.

"[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31).

"There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48)

That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own.

"When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19)

Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true.

In another case of just listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations.

They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, "I guess I'm making the whole thing up." It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn't want God to rule over him.

It's hard to communicate with a Buddhist Evolutionist.   They claim to be so open-minded, but they are so closed-minded.

This Buddhist isn't an Atheist.   He is a Pantheist.   That is a very popular position in the current evil age.   It's comfortable to hold such a popular position.

The Buddhist does a monolog for half an hour without taking a breath.   There is a history of this type of monologue.   Every sentence of every conversation has some reference to the Evolutionist dogma, Evolutionism, in these monologues.   This time is no different.   He is very confident and condescending.   He then states that, as a scientific person, he has to say that he might be wrong, but the evidence is so strong for his side and there is no evidence to support a Creator God.

Keep in mind that this is not a hostile meeting. Actually, everything is quite pleasant. The resistance to God is accomplished with a smile. At this point, the monologue turns into a dialogue, and actual conversation where both parties are allowed to speak. The Buddhist Evolutionist Relativist stays in control and launches into monologues at will, but there is some two-way conversation now. This calls for patience on the part of Christians.

When the Christian points out that the claims of the Buddhist Evolutionist Relativist are based on either unsupported axioms (that is, nothing at all except for a claim) or else they are based on circular reasoning, the Relativist admits this and says, "There is nothing wrong with circular reasoning." and "There is no problem with baseless claims." When the Christian points out that Evolution requires the addition of a lot of information constantly being added to cells by natural process but that there has never been an instance where information has been added to anything by natural processes, the Evolutionist says that he read an article that states that information has been added by natural processes. (Such articles are all over the Internet, but it doesn't take much of a mind to read them and realize that their examples are bogus.) When the Christian speaks of the revelation of God, the Buddhist uses summary dismissal and contends, without any reasoning, that these are not revelations. The Buddhist says that all the religions claim revelation, and he comes to the odd conclusion that no one can know what is a revelation from God and what is coming from some other source. The Buddhist says that all ways lead to God, to which the Christian quotes the words of Jesus, "No man comes to the Father but by me." God is very much exclusive. God makes no bones about it. He gives us enough information to make a decision. In fact, He comes directly to us and speaks to us. If we reject Him, we determine our course for the ages to come. It is only because their deeds are evil that they reject Jesus.

During this entire conversation, the Buddhist goes into long addresses using the technique known as "tossing the elephant" where he throws out so many bogus statement in one continuous stream that all of the claims of the Buddhist Evolutionist Relativist cannot possibly be addressed. Since there is no consistency of thought, there is no basis of communication. Yet this conversation never turns into an argument. If you ever wonder what it would be like to talk to an evil spirit, it is about identical to speaking to a human being who is speaking out of his own natural mind, since the natural mind is totally under the control of Satan.

As things progress, it is apparent that there is another dogma beyond the dogma of Evolutionism. The second, and perhaps more important dogma, is relativism. This poor man is absolutely sure that no one can be absolutely sure of anything. Relativism refutes itself. It is illogical in the highest degree. The Christian and the Buddhist discuss the Biblical concept: "If any man thinks that he knows anything, he does not know as he ought to know." The Buddhist Evolutionist Relativist runs with that to twist it into the most extreme idea that the only truth is that there is no truth. It is interesting that he doesn't consider applying his relativism to Evolutionistic dogma. With extremists of this type, it is strange how they have no need for internal consistency of thought. They are able to hold two mutually exclusive concepts as being true at the same time, and it doesn't bother them at all. The reason for this is that there is something that happens to the mind when it learns to think this way. The mind is damaged. It is seared and unable to tell the difference between sanity and insanity. This is the type of mind that public schools have been creating for some time--not all public school teachers are guilty, but enough to destroy a society.

Buddhist Evolutionist Relativist's mind is open, he states, while, according to him, the mind of the Christian is closed. The Buddhist Evolutionist Relativist repeatedly refuses to even consider any information offered by the Christian, usually launching into another monologue. The Buddhist is fulfilling Romans 1. They refused to acknowledge God. They refused to hold God in their knowledge. Fot this reason God turned them over to a reprobate mind. The Christian offers some materials supporting Creation. The open-minded Evolutionist would not consider ever reading or looking at anything that would not support Evolutionism and Relativism, but he offers to share some of his Evolutionistic propaganda to the Christian. The closed-minded Christian says that he would welcome looking at the propaganda. If a Christian is firm in his or her faith, such material is a confirmation of the glory of God because the poor logic and false claims it such material is quite obvious. It's a wonder that anyone could believe it, but the eyes of evil-doers are blinded. One fact sticks out like a sore thumb when you talk to dogmatic unbelievers who think that they are intellectuals. They are extremely careful about what they read. They seldom if ever read anything that conflicts with their religiosity.

The Christian tells about a couple of modern-day miracles. For the first time, the Buddhist Evolutionist Relativist is interested. Time runs out. The Christian has to leave the conversation. He prays for the Buddhist Evolutionist Relativist. Will this man respond to the grace of God. Who can tell. Perhaps some day.

It's Hard to Communicate with a Buddhist

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