Taoism and Christianity

From a Christian's point of view, one of my favorite things about teaching religions around the world is to have opportunities to compare and contrast each religion with Christianity. When comparing the belief system and Christianity, I think it is important to be as fair as possible. After all, we love ourselves.

There are many differences between Taoism and Christianity, but in this article I would like to emphasize great resemblance to their teachings.

Road = the way of nature. Tao is all the source and food, but it is not a personal creator.

Roads consist of two equal but opposite elements harmoniously to each other - yin and yang

Sun is a strong, positive, positive, competitive, and masculine aspect (the bright side of the symbol).

In the sun, there is a little shadow and in the shade there is a little sun, so after all, everything is relative.

Taoism believes that our problem is that we are unbalanced. We practiced the sun. By practicing humility, non-competition, pacifism, the solution is more attractive. I have to practice more weaknesses

Well, now it is a remarkable similarity between Taoism and Christianity. In Chapter 78 of Tao Te Ching, I understood these words.

Remember, these words were written in China five years ago in Jesus! In 500 years after the Roman prison, Paul wrote as follows.

"The same idea as Christ: A person who is essentially a god does not believe that what is equal to God can be used to profit for himself; instead he is a nature of his servant Apparently he was inferior by obeying death or by dying on the cross, hence God took him to the highest place and he took him to the highest place, and he On the name of all the names of the knees of Jesus' names on the ground and on the earth in heaven, all tongues admit that Jesus Christ is the Lord and it is for the glory of the Father. "(Philippians 2: 5-11)

A weak person really overcomes a strong person. People who accept the final humiliation of the country will become the king of the world. Before Jesus lived, God seems to have witnessed their way in China in China.

Therefore, although the term Christ is used in the Chinese translation of the Gospel according to John, you should not infer that Taoism and Christianity are really the same. It's not. Christianity claims that personal creator is morally irritated by human sin and will judge the world someday by justice (Romans 1: 188: 6). Taoism insists on non-personal creative principles, there is no moral distinction between good and evil, and no one judges. Christianity claims that Christ died for our sins and grew for our justification and that anyone who trusts him as a Savior can get eternal life . twenty three). In contrast, the doctrine of moral relativism in Taoism excludes the Savior from the need for sin. Finally, and most shockingly, Jesus insists it is the only true way - or the way to the Father (John 14: 6). If he is right, Taoism can not say an eternal path with all its fine qualities.

After observing Taoism it is easy to find immoral, contradictory views and interrelationships between morality and Christianity. However, this does not mean that Taoism is equal to Christianity even at the same level. The relevance proves that the word of God is written in the heart of men, even a heathen religion can not be completely separated from God's truth.

Taoism is illogical in most respects, but it has some similarities with Christianity. After studying Taoism, the most unpredictable aspect is how Christianity and relevance of Christianity prove God's truth. As in Christianity, Taoism is Oriental mysticism rather than monotheism, but there are still some connections. Taoism does not have faith. If nothing happens, everything will happen. But all that has happened is very good. But will not you do anything? But there is nothing like good or evil, so can not do anything about it? Taoism says that by inactivity you can get redemption (Yutang, 1948). Taoism has no definition of redemption besides Tao and Tao.