Hi Magnocrat
"Tolerate everyone" comes with a risk. To tolerate dangerous animals or men who come to killl your or your next of kin, makes sleep at night difficult. There are laws around to ensure too much "tolerance". Hence, I find there are certain limits to tolerance too. Tolerance within bounds, with sound measure - that could work many a time.
Let us speak of SRF's prolonged Yogananda's claim that Jesus is one of the SRF gurus. I think it is false. Why? Jesus says in the Gospel of Matthew that he, his teachings, kingdom and salvation are for Jews only, and Gentiles were expressly forbidden. Further, he warned against false Christs (Messiahs is the term), and things they would do, like ravenous wolves. (Matthew 15:24; 10:2-10, etc.)
Let us talk of Yogananda's exegesis of Christian scriptures. He says in Whispers from Eternity that he felt all futurity rippling inside him, and still he did not come up with anything that shows he knew a lot about textual criticism of the Bible. His commentaries are smooth talk on a surface-reverential level, and little else. There is little we can say with certainty that Jesus taught, for he wrote nothing we know of, and the gospels were made decades after he was dead, and versions differ a lot.
Bart D. Ehrman has written books about Jesus, the New Testament and early Christianity. The religious figure, Christ, is different from the Jewish healer, curser, and false prophet that said his ministry was for-Jews-only (The Missionary Command at the end of Matthew is a forgerly, assesses some scholars I agree with. Geza Vermes is one of them.
Ehrman shows in one of his books how the executed Jewish healer, curser, false prophet (about the end time and when it should come) Jesus got a different rep. or status long after his death. The prophet was called God!
It is also interesting to me how the Law that Jesus vouches for completely in Matthew 5:19-20 would have his mother stoned to death with him in her belly. The demand to kill a false prophet is also there. And commands to kill Yogananda for his interests and practices as a spiritist. Lola Williamson has written a bit about that side to him -
It is not good to trust wrong teachings, and may cause harm to trust them.
"Tolerate everyone" comes with a risk. To tolerate dangerous animals or men who come to killl your or your next of kin, makes sleep at night difficult. There are laws around to ensure too much "tolerance". Hence, I find there are certain limits to tolerance too. Tolerance within bounds, with sound measure - that could work many a time.
Let us speak of SRF's prolonged Yogananda's claim that Jesus is one of the SRF gurus. I think it is false. Why? Jesus says in the Gospel of Matthew that he, his teachings, kingdom and salvation are for Jews only, and Gentiles were expressly forbidden. Further, he warned against false Christs (Messiahs is the term), and things they would do, like ravenous wolves. (Matthew 15:24; 10:2-10, etc.)
Let us talk of Yogananda's exegesis of Christian scriptures. He says in Whispers from Eternity that he felt all futurity rippling inside him, and still he did not come up with anything that shows he knew a lot about textual criticism of the Bible. His commentaries are smooth talk on a surface-reverential level, and little else. There is little we can say with certainty that Jesus taught, for he wrote nothing we know of, and the gospels were made decades after he was dead, and versions differ a lot.
Bart D. Ehrman has written books about Jesus, the New Testament and early Christianity. The religious figure, Christ, is different from the Jewish healer, curser, and false prophet that said his ministry was for-Jews-only (The Missionary Command at the end of Matthew is a forgerly, assesses some scholars I agree with. Geza Vermes is one of them.
Ehrman shows in one of his books how the executed Jewish healer, curser, false prophet (about the end time and when it should come) Jesus got a different rep. or status long after his death. The prophet was called God!
It is also interesting to me how the Law that Jesus vouches for completely in Matthew 5:19-20 would have his mother stoned to death with him in her belly. The demand to kill a false prophet is also there. And commands to kill Yogananda for his interests and practices as a spiritist. Lola Williamson has written a bit about that side to him -
It is not good to trust wrong teachings, and may cause harm to trust them.