(Sorry I have been absent from posting for the last couple of weeks!)
As we examine our belief system, we need to thoughtfully and intentionally choose something worth following. Is that something that's inherited, or based in part on today's culture? Many belief systems contradict each other, but if we look at this logically, opposites cannot both be true. This "law of non-contradiction" is an inescapable reality-and you can't even argue about it without implicitly agreeing with me. In applying this principle of non-contradiction to matters of faith, the personal God of Judaism and Christianity is not compatible with the impersonal Brahman of Hinduism. Either God is an intelligent deity, who is distinct from the universe that he made, or he is an unconscious and impersonal pantheistic god, who is in and part of everything - or neither description is true - but he can't be both. Both concepts could be wrong, but they can't both be right because they are incompatible and contradictory. We should support the legal right of both of these traditions and other to exist and to spread their messages. That's tolerance. But don't confuse tolerance with truth. There can't be two contradictory-but-true realities in the sense of genuine, what is truth. Reality is reality-it's what is.
(From "Choosing your Faith in a world of Spiritual options" by Mark Mittelberg)
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