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Anonymous Christians

May 9, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

I like to start this article by a declaration of self interest or perhaps a declaration of possible conflict of interests. Yes, I am a Christian and I believe in Christian concepts and in the Christian Apostle’s creed. But I do have a bone to pick when Christians try to project themselves as the ONLY WAY to God’s Kingdom. The current advocacy of prayers for people of the Muslim faith during the month of Ramadan (called the 30 days of prayer for the Muslim World) by most churches is one glaring example of how Christians somehow view themselves as those […]

Life - What’s That?

March 13, 2019 FLAI40 Leave a comment

Understanding Life What is the Purpose of Life? by Sadhguru 1,650,499 viewed as at 12 Mar 2019 Take 13 minutes to listen to what this guru says regarding the purpose of life. This video has over one million six hundred hits and thus deserves our consideration, regardless of what religion we belong to. What is Life, Actually? “If you figure it, you will see that the most important thing that is happening in your life right now is that you are alive - nothing else. Not that the stocks you hold have gone down, not that your love affair has […]

Trinity - A Lesson on Faith

November 13, 2018 FLAI40 Leave a comment

It was an article entitled “A New Look at the Trinity” by Willian F. Dankenbring supplied to me by a Christian friend that started my interest and my research on this topic. This article can be read from: http://www.triumphpro.com/trinity-disproved.htm William F Dankenbring (1941 - 2017) had led the Triumph Prophetic Ministries for some time before his death. He was cast out by the Worldwide Church of God in 1974 after serving this Church for eleven years as the editor of several magazine publications including PlainTruth, Good News and Tomorrow’s World. William F. Dankenbring had, all through his working life, attempted […]

Have a Little Faith 有一点信仰吧

August 13, 2018 FLAI40 Leave a comment

The first article on the same topic was written on 16th March 2016 posted on my LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/post/edit/have-little-faith-mitch-albom-%25E6%259C%2589%25E4%25B8%2580%25E7%2582%25B9%25E4%25BF%25A1%25E4%25BB%25B0%25E5%2590%25A7-francis-lai Now that I have just returned from Cambodia (Kampuchea) I have time to reflect again on this topic after my visits to the two genocide sites: The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTRjJAo2jjU and The Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cDsjA25bLo As I toured the two places, I remembered the story of my departed father and grandfather who were taken by the Japanese soldiers to be killed somewhere in Singapore during the Japanese Occupation of the island. This was in February 1942 […]

A Visit to Mount Koya, Japan

April 10, 2018 FLAI40 Leave a comment

Yesterday we visited the famous Mt. Koya, a world heritage site with more than a thousand years history of Buddhist meditation teachings. We visited the Kongobuji Temple and the Okunoin Mausoleum. We travelled by Jumbo Taxi from Osaka, a two-hour trip. The entire tour took us all day, starting at 9:30am and returning to our Imperial Hotel at 5:00 pm. There were five of us, Lin, Molly, Yin, me and our English-speaking tour guide, Hiroake Tanaka. The Kongoburi Temple is the headquarters of the Koyasan Shingon-shu Buddhism, founded by Kobo Daishi, who in the year 804 AD, crossed the sea […]

Serving the Lord

January 29, 2018 FLAI40 Leave a comment

Yesterday’s message from the church I attended was found in Joshua 24:15 - “but as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” The International Standard Version of the Bible reads: “If you think it’s the wrong thing for you to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves today whom you will serve—the gods whom your ancestors served on the other side of the Euphrates River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose territories you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.” Even for non Christians, it is still worthwhile […]

An Empty Chair

October 29, 2017 FLAI40 Leave a comment

Thanks to my dear personal friend Edmund from Singapore who email this article to me. Please read this article first and we shall talk about the implications of the contents later. A man’s daughter had asked the parish priest to come and pray with her father. When the priest arrived, he found the man lying in bed with his head propped up on two pillows. An empty chair sat beside his bed. The priest assumed that the old fellow had been informed of his visit. “I guess you were expecting me,” he said. “No, who are you?” said the father. […]

Have Faith in Jesus

October 16, 2017 FLAI40 Leave a comment

When we reflect on those events in our lives, those ‘ups’ and those ‘downs’, we begin to understand that (a) we are sinners on earth; and that (b) we need to have faith in Jesus - that Only Jesus can forgive our sins. Let me explain by asking and then answering just several major events in my own life. Question # 1: Why was it that a poor street kid from Singapore’s Chinatown who survived a car accident (at the age of five) and a drowning incident in Singapore’s drains during a rainstorm (at the age of eight) could become […]

Jesus or Buddha

March 20, 2017 FLAI40 Leave a comment

Do you believe in Jesus or do you believe in Buddha? Or do you believe in both - Jesus and Buddha? Christian historians like Wilfred Cantwell-Smith (Canada) and Lloyd Geering (New Zealand) have advocated that we as humans and true Christians should consider very carefully the deeper meaning of “Love Thy Neighbour as Thyself”. Christians should not be so aloof as to insist that Christian is the ONLY way to God. If this is the interpretation of the bible, then all those humans born prior to Christ would never be able to get peace. Those of us living in Buddhist […]

Wilfred Cantwell Smith

February 12, 2017 FLAI40 Leave a comment

“Who is Wilfred Cantwell Smith?” You may well wonder. He was born in 1916 and he died in the year 2000. His life has been described by many philosophers as one who had made tremendous inroads to our understanding of religious pluralism. He is best known as the author of his controversial book “The Meaning and End of Religion” where he contended that ” … the term ‘religion’ is a peculiarly European construct of surprisingly recent origin.” In other words, the term “religion” as we know it today was non-existent until the nineteenth century. According to the philologist Max Muller, […]

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