Who will bring all the religions together?, page 3

The religions of Earth can never be truly unified.

It is simply impossible, they will never get along because they'd all have to agree. Just the 3 monotheistic main religions would be a nightmare in itself. You'd have to have a story that all 3 groups agreed on or else you'd have no unification.

This means that the new religion as I like to think of it would have to have the following traits, just off the top of my head:

1) they'd have to recognize Muhammad as a divinely inspired prophet.
2) they'd have to recognize Yeshua (Jesus) as the Messiah of Jewish Lore.
3) they'd have to clear up a plethora of minor difference in the existing stories, ie; in the Koran, Ishmael is almost sacrificed by Abe, in the Bible, it's Isaac who is almost sacrificed by Abe, and there are many more things like this.

Currently Muslims accept that Jesus was born from a virgin Mother, and revere Mary quite highly. They recognize his prophet status, but since God is not a flesh and blood human, God cannot have sons and/or daughters, except for the entire human race as a collective. Therefore Jesus cannot be teh *literal* son of God, or God fully incarnated into a single man. They do think he was divinely sent by God, but they do NOT believe that he was crucified. They believe someone was crucified in his place and he was taken up into Heaven by God in the flesh while still alive. They believe Jesus will return in the end of days.

Currently the Jews don't accept Jesus was born of a virgin mother OR that he was a divinely inspire Prophet. They certainly do not think he is the Messiah, and outright denied him when he was here in the flesh. Jews also do not believe that Muhammad was a divinely inspired prophet either. They DO believe Jesus was crucified, but not that he rose from the dead. They do not believe Jesus will return at the end of days, but are awaiting their Messiah (or so they think).

Currently the Christians will not accept Muhammad as a divinely inspire prophet. Some individual Christians may do so, but collectively they do not, and no Christian organization has endorsed such an idea. This means none of the major Churchs of the world accept him as a prophet, including the Roman Catholic Church, as well as the Church of England, and even American Baptists and Evangelical Churchs. They believe Muhammad existed and they accept his history, but that is as far as it goes, much like Jew's attitude toward Jesus. They believe Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead on the 3rd day before ascending to heaven. They believe he is the Messiah, and they believe he will return in the end of days.

So as you can see here, Jews and Christians would have to accept Muhammad as a divinely inspired prophet. Jews would have to accept Jesus in the same manner that the Muslims do at the least, ie; that he is divinely inspired, sent by God, is a bonafied prophet, was born of a virgin mother, etc. They'd also have to accept him as Messiah in order to believe that he will return at the end of days, because if they did not, Christians would not join into a single religion with them.

The only way this could happen and will happen is when Yeshua(Jesus) returns to gather his flock and make war with the Beast and the Antichrist and all of that good stuff. Once Yeshua is on the scene and supernatural things are taking place for the world to see, the Jews would be much more apt to officially designate him as their Messiah you see. Islam already states that he will return in the end days to do battle with the evil doers, just that he'd be doing it alongside the Imam Mahdi (yes, its written that they do a sort of tag team on Satan lol). Muslims would have to accept the Holy Trinity, and you KNOW that isn't gonna happen ... they see it as Polytheism.

So yeah, "Jesus" needs to return and then a 1 world religion will take form. Here's the catch: Jesus explicitly stated that when he returned, he would have a new name, and that no man.. not even Jesus at that time of saying this, would know what that name is until the time comes. So this means that when Jesus returns, his name won't be Jesus, and this will cause a problem within itself due to people who will doubt him. But more importantly, the believers can all rally around him, and this would be the "new religion" of all 3 combined. It would be Jews who accept Jesus as Messiah, Muslims would have to accept that this man/being with a name different than Jesus (though IS Jesus returned) is the same man written of in all the texts, and would thus also need to accept the Trinity doctrine if that turns out to be truthful. Certain Christian sects do not believe in the Trinity as it is presented by Catholicism.

So as you can see, if you are a Christian and have read this far, my opinion on it is that the faithful who are around shortly after Jesus returns will be from all three monotheistic religions. You'll have quite a few so-called Christians denouncing the real Jesus out of confusion and fear. You'll have Jews who witness the miracles and other supernatural things that will be taking place and recognize him as Messiah. Lastly, you'll have Muslims who realize that it is Jesus returned or Isa as they call him, and that his "side" and whatever doctrine being spread at the time of his presence will be the doctrine to follow. So really the end times faithful will be a motley crew, and there will also be a lot of people who call themselves Christians not being saved, joining the Beast out of fear and confusion, and denounce the real Jesus returned for the very same reasons. Should be quite interesting ... just remember..

WHEN HE RETURNS HIS NAME WONT BE JESUS/YESHUA! HE SAID SO HIMSELF TO LET US KNOW.

[edit on 12/27/2008 by runetang]