John 10:16 And I have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd.
This is the basis of the understanding developed by Keshab Chunder Sen [November 19, 1838 - January 8, 1884 an Indian Christian scholar] who argued that Christ is more than a local manifestation, but that he is for others in the widest sense. Here from Romain Rolland’s Ramakrishna [p122] are Sen’s own words taken from this page.
Honour Christ would never be "Christian” in the popular acceptation of the term…. Christ is not Christianity…. Let it be your ambition to outgrow the popular types of narrower Christian faith and a merge in the vastness of Christ!”
“Other sheep have I” on this verse he writes.
“We belong to no Christian sect. We disclaim the Christian name.
Whoso believes in God and accepts Christ as the son of God has fellowship with Christ in the lord…. how explicit to is that well-known passage “And other sheep I have ". We, the gentiles [Indian] of the new dispensation, are of the other sheep. The shepherd knows us…. Christ has found us and accepted us….. That is enough…. is any Christian greater than Christ?”
After reading a passage from Luke He prayed "that the Holy Spirit might turn their glossy material substance into sanctifying spiritual forces so that upon entering our system they might be assimilated to it as the flesh and blood of all the saints in Christ Jesus".
Sri Ramakrishna taught Vivekananda how to regard mankind in a more generous and truer light of weakness and of strength (and not of sin and or virtue). The beloved the Divine mother fills him. “Fait voluntas tua”
A Muslim [unknown] scholar reflects on interfaith.
I should become one with you
And you would become one with me.
I should be the body,
You would be the soul.
Then no one would be able to say
That I am different from you,
Or that you are different from me.
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