The purpose of all religions is the same - returning to God's Kingdom. Why must Jesus Christ be crucified on the Cross? Is there a message that he carries by the crucifixion or is it because he has to sacrifice his life to save the sinners in that manner? In the teachings of Tao, it has great meaning! There is a very profound relationship between the Cross and Tao. The Truth has no word to explain and what happened 2,005 years ago to Jesus Christ is very important in the teachings of Tao of Heaven.

On the Bible, miraculously, a manuscript of it was maintained before the invention of printing. So far, there have been about 16,000 hand-written Bibles passed down. Newton, an English physicist, who discovered the law of gravity said, "The Bible challenges more than any other of the sciences." The Bible does not exaggerate western civilization. The real author of the Bible is the Almighty and Omnipotent Lord who has no beginning and no end and will last forever.

The Bible is a Book containing many books, sixty-six of them, divided into the Old Testament and the New Testament. "Genesis" which explains about the beginning of the world and creation, is the first book of the Old Testament. Its author has been ascribed traditionally to Moses, the Hebrew prophet inspired by God. The last book of the New Testament is "Revelation". It describes the ultimate triumph of Jesus Christ. The Old Testament mainly reports God's dealings with Isreal based on the covenant presented by Moses at Mt Sinai. The New Testament depicts the new arrangement of God with men through Christ on the basis of the New Covenant. Jesus' disciples recorded His teachings in the New Testament.

The doctrine of Christianity espouses the rebirth of the soul, seeking of the Truth through the Cross, the importance of praying, and being baptized with the Holy Spirit as criteria for returning to God's Kingdom. In the temple of Tao of Heaven, the Patriarch 'Bodhidharma' said, "One flower develops into five leaves and it results as it should be naturally." This means that the five great religions are derived from the same One Origin, Tao, and that Heaven-Tao will bring each religion together. Therefore, there should be no conflict or discrimination among human beings, because we are all from the same family; we are all God's children. God established the five great religions, to satisfy each individual's spiritual need in order to civilize us.

God took into consideration our various foundations of inclination, chains of cause and effect, distresses, and persistence. It doesn't matter which path we conform to or which religion we choose, the most important purpose is that we return to the Kingdom of God. But before we can return, we need to learn to get along with one another while on earth. Therefore, there should be no wars among nations, no discrimination among races, no libel among religions but, instead, human beings do not live in peace and kill each other. The humans' sins and technology are at its peak and hence the final catastrophe of the fire, water and wind cleansing everywhere will end the world, called the Final Judgement in the Bible. At this moment, the gate of Hell will be opened and all ghosts are released to take lives. Dark and gloomy, the dim and cold light fills the world.

The two greatest objectives of Tao of Heaven is to bring salvation to the Three Worlds and the unification of the five main religions for world peace. The Three Worlds are; the deities in the spiritual world, Human beings on earth and the ghosts in Hell. It is very complicated and hard for deities in space and the ghosts in Hell to receive Tao and be saved. Therefore human should cherish this rare opportunity to cultivate oneself and practise Tao. The relationship between "Cross & Tao" is beyond description in this article and for those who are interested to find out in detail please kindly refer to my website and look into the section under "Cross & Tao".

Author: T.A Chew