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Message Subject Are Christianity and Taoism compatible?
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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Read the parable of the prodigal son.

God as Taoist master.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 15301379


Tao is God
 Quoting: A Friend


Some people say creation is God.

That is like the people who mistake God for light, which is only part of creation.

God is prior to creation and the separation of opposites like light and darkness.

Tao represents a balance of opposites.

God is still beyond that because he is outside of it and he works with the balance of opposites.

Creation is always immersed on the Tao, or the play of opposites, but thanks to God breathing his essence into man, people are capable of using their imaginations to step outside of it and see it from God's perspective.

It is not the same thing as being God, but something like being the image of God.

Demonic spirits could recognize the spirit of God instantly in Jesus because he could look upon them, without fear, as manifestations of the Tao.

Taoism is useful for understanding creation, just as science is useful for many things, but neither of them is a substitute for relationship with God, which Jesus represents.

God is a person, and relationship to God is so personal that only a person can truly do it. Not angels or devils, or anything in creation. Personality itself is prior to creation, and prior to the division of opposites.

Persons are essentially whole beings.

When Jesus urged us to be perfect like our Father in Heaven, he was talking about our essential, undivided, and indivisible wholeness as persons.

We can be perfect.

We aren't the Tao, but we are immersed in it.

We can observe it and work with it.
 
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