Comments on: Idolatry: Can the blind lead the blind? – Part 1 https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2013/06/10/idolatry-can-the-blind-lead-the-blindpart-1/ Discerning Biblical Answers for Christians in Todays World Wed, 30 Aug 2017 11:55:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Deborah (Discerning the World) https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2013/06/10/idolatry-can-the-blind-lead-the-blindpart-1/#comment-249782 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:43:36 +0000 https://1joh4.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/idolatry-can-the-blind-lead-the-blindpart-1/#comment-249782 In reply to Martin Horan.

Martin

I don’t get it either Martin. Actually wait I do, they love their sin and they don’t want to turn away from it so find other ways to become ‘spiritual’.

]]> By: Martin Horan https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2013/06/10/idolatry-can-the-blind-lead-the-blindpart-1/#comment-249615 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:11:13 +0000 https://1joh4.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/idolatry-can-the-blind-lead-the-blindpart-1/#comment-249615 I don’t think ‘d heard of Joubert or Hudson before reading the above. Listening to Hudson’s comments on repentence, I thought they sounded okay–at first! But the devil is subtle [Gen 3:1]. It wasn’t until I read the comments below that part of his “sermon” that I realized what he was actually saying. I nearly missed it but for those comments, Thomas. Thanks for pointing out what he was really saying.
I have a close relation who has become a buddhist in his seventies. It saddens and astonishes me that anyone can fall for this stuff but many intelligent people do.
We have the Dalai Lama touring the world and proclaiming he is a god. He is welcomed to speak at ecumenical conventions and people flock to hear him. As Dave Hunt pointed out: He claims to be a god but he travels on public transport and needs an umbrella to keep rain off him!
As to Buddha, how did he know he what he was looking for in the enlightenment he sought? And how did he know it was enlightenment that he got?
His search for enlightenment was not unlike that of Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, who went through similar kinds of mystical ascetic disciplines to find “truth.” It’s something in the human mind–even among professing Christians–to try to appease God by penance or works. It’s ignoring and/or rejecting Christ’s sacrifice which has done it for us.
I can’t figure out why people like Stephan Joubert and Trevor Hudson go down those roads. Buddha being a Hindu and an outright pagan without God’s Word could be said to have some excuse. Joubert and Hudson have God’s Word available to them and claim to be Christians. I don’t get it.
When we make a god of our religion, as the reformer Thomas Erskine once said, we won’t have God in our religion. In other words our religion becomes our god as does anything we put before him. And when we have anything before God it means we are idolators. It strikes me that Joubert and Hudson, by puting their own interpretation of Scripture [see 2 Pet 1:20] into action are being idolatrous.
It may not be their intention but idolatry is never intended. No idolator considers himself to be one.

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