What does Jesus think about Inter-Faith events?

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I saw this on the web and wondered if other Christians felt as good as I do about denominations coming together to bless communities.  Read this and then please share your opinion in an answer.

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More than 100 people of different Christian denominations gathered under the gazebo at Pioneer Park [St George UT] on Jan. 1 for the fourth annual Prayer over the City.

Local religious leaders prayed for public safety officials, U.S. military personnel, government, children, and families for 2009.

Jimi Kestin, pastor for Solomon's Porch Foursquare Fellowship, spread a message of love without conditions.

"We are putting aside the religious beliefs that separate us to set the tone for 2009," Kestin said.

Kestin organizes the prayer every year, he said, to give people an opportunity to thank God for the positive events in the previous year and ask for His blessing for the new year.

"We do this to start the year acknowledging our prosperity, health and protection is in God's hands," Kestin said

Before other religious leaders led prayers over the city, Mayor Dan McArthur lead the group in singing "Are you from Dixie." He then recited a poem about building bridges.

"I agree we're all here to build bridges for the better," he said.

The Rev. Eleazar Silva of the St. George Catholic Church gave a traditional blessing for the new year.

"We ask God to be with us in this new year and for the Lord to give us his grace to do good," Silva said.

Tom Lamb, chairman of the Southern Utah Public Affairs Council for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, lead the group in prayer for spiritual and economic prosperity.

Lamb prayed for all people to have the resources necessary to survive, and expressed gratitude for the pioneers who settled the sunny region he now calls home.
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Is this good and commendable idea, or should the in-fighting continue?

rangedog · Accepted Answer

There are so many that claim to follow Jesus.
Few do.

The Bible holds a written history of God's people mixing with the world.
Time and time again
God hates it.

There is only one God, one faith, one lord.

Bruce S · Answer

There are many interpretations of "Inter-Faith"

One is that all the groups believe in the basic fundamentals: in other words, they have it "right" about Jesus.

Another is that people come from many faiths, not all of whom believe that Jesus is the Saviour and the son of God.  

I think we do need more unity among believers: our community just started having a series of prayer meetings.  There are three churches (Baptist, Pentecostal, Brethren) and each church takes turns hosting.
People are praying for our community, not for their particular church.
Only in unity can we have the power to reach the world.

Anonymous · Answer

The Jewish theory of God is that God is One and Indivisible. we can't divide God up into separate areas, the place each and each area of God is UnEqual to each and all the different areas, yet finally they are one and the comparable. The Hebrew Scriptures describes God as an absolute One, however the Christian's New testomony describes the Christian theory of God as divisible into 3 areas talked approximately as a trinity. interior the Christian's New testomony, Jesus at one element claims to have diverse information than different areas of the Christian Trinity. as an occasion, Matthew 24:36 or Mark 13:32. In yet another verse, Jesus would not have the comparable skill as different areas of the Christian Trinity, as an occasion, Luke 23:34. And in Matthew 26:40 two, Jesus's will isn't the comparable because of fact the prefer of the daddy. certainly, Jesus in many situations contrasted himself with the daddy, as an occasion, in John 14:28, or Luke 18:19. apart from, Jesus supposedly reported that the punishment for blaspheming against one area of the Trinity isn't the comparable punishment for blaspheming against yet another area of the Trinity. interior the Hebrew Scriptures, notwithstanding, God is One, as we examine in Deuteronomy 6:4, besides as in Isaiah 40 4:6, the place God tells us, "i'm the 1st, and that i'm the final; and beside me there is not any God." while Isaiah tells us that God reported, "i'm the 1st," it capacity that God has no father. while Isaiah tells us that God reported, "i'm the final," it capacity that God has no literal son. And while Isaiah tells us that God reported, "as properly me there is not any God," it capacity that God would not share being God with the different god, or demi-god, or semi-god, or persons, and there is not any trinity.

Anonymous · Answer

First, to me this seems like imposing God on the beliefs of man which is WRONG because God is the ultimate authority on it all.  It is taking American concepts form 2009 and imposing them on GOD! So to me the "preachers" are....  how would you say it?  Astonishingly ignorant?

No, the cold hard brutal fact is that if you are a Christian or a Muslim (any version of either) and you fully believe in your religion than you need to kill the person who isn't so enlightened. 

I'm not making this stuff up. I'm just going by what religious texts say. 
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Anyway, Quill, I just wanted to thank you for the detailed answer you gave to one of my questions. Please enable your email so people can contact you.

Stella · Answer

I think Jesus would be laughing his butt off! LOL

One, they all claim to be following him and they can't agree on much of anything.

Two, they're calling it "interfaith" when they're all Christians!

Anonymous · Answer

He would be a UU.

aybabtu · Answer

jesus died a while ago. 

he cant 'think' anything anymore.


and who are you to say what he feels?

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