Salvation free Gift?

A Christian devotee, Anil Antony, asked Me some questions just now. He asked whether the salvation is a free gift of God and not based on the work. This is the climax of foolishness. Even in the worldly affairs, a selection board sits and filters the deserving candidate to give the gift. If any body in this world gives a free gift without seeing the deserving qualifications, people will call him as a full mad person. Do you treat God as mad person, who is wiser than the wisest in this world? Jesus asked His devotees to go to villages and propagate His knowledge. Even today the Christian fathers wander all over the earth and they are propagating the diving knowledge by constant lecturers. Is this not work? If salvation is a free gift why should they work? How much divine work Jesus carried on? In Hinduism you can support free gift by saying that a soul might have done lot of good work in the previous birth and the gift may appear as free gift because the soul did not perform any good work in this birth. But Christianity does not believe the re-birth and therefore such possibility of explanation is also ruled out here.His another question is that Christianity encourages the praise and prayer of the Lord for certain materialistic benefits. He asks whether such prayer is correct. The answer is that such a stage is not incorrect but it is a lower stage. The LKG class is the beginning of school education. You cannot say that LKG is class is not correct. It is correct but it is lowest. The first step is true but is the lowest step existing on the ground. If you take the case of Jesus, He is in the highest step. He also praised and prayed the Lord but never asked anything for himself. He asked any thing only for the propagation of the fame of the Lord. The lowest step is certainly better than the pit, which is lower than the ground. Thus the beginner is certainly better than the atheist, who does not believe God at all. Even though the beginner is selfish, at least he believes the existence of God.At Thy Lotus FeetAnil AntonyUniversal Spirituality | Shri Datta Swami
Universal Spirituality for World Peace
antonyanil@universal-spirituality.org

Are you Anil Antony or someone else? Are you posting someone elses opinions/essays or are these your own?Again this seems more in the nature of a sermon or testification than of a proposal of a topic for discussion.TTFN,AW

You should know that this identical material is being spammed all over the net. If you do a google search on Anil Antony you can find dozens of examples of the very same material. In addition, the general pattern looking at the other sites is of a hit-n-run attack where material is posted but no discussions from the originator follows.

AdminJar;As a part of debate we a definitely posting this article in other forums also. It is not a spam as you think and we are not hit and run. This topic is very well worth a true dicussion. I have come up with my points. And it is upto others to come up with their point against or favouring so that we can involve in a meaningful debate which lead to an ultimate conclusion. It is not spam

But for now, you may not start any more topics. Any discussion that you have can be brought up in your world religions topic.This message has been edited by AdminPhat, 02-02-2006 08:51 AM

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