The Jews, and Hebrews before them had a positively brilliant idea, that any belief system can benefit from.
Simply put, it was the acceptance that not only didn’t they know it all; but that other people often have very good ideas as well.
So even if a heathen has a good idea, why not adopt it? And this acceptance has profited them immensely, because even before their diaspora, they made an effort to learn from others, even if they were their enemies. And this learning good ideas from others really came into its own with the diaspora: each and every place and people contributing to their knowledge of things.
While Christians are sometimes hesitant to embrace this idea, they are usually still willing to separate the wheat from the chaff in the ideas of others, as long as it doesn’t really despise Christian beliefs.
An excellent example of this is Acupuncture. Dating very far back, some suspect to the Neolithic period, it evolved into a very complex system of medicine. However, it also adopted a log of pagan and mystical ideas. Yet these are not integral to the system, and can be easily ignored.
So here is the question. If you have “secular acupuncture”, no longer tainted by pagan mysticism, is it still anathema to Christianity? Especially if it works?
Because ANYTHING independent of what God provides for us through faith in Christ is not in His Plan. It’s also called sin.
The problem with that analogy, ye...whatever your username is....is that there is only one way to salvation and by adopting all these “good ideas” as you call them from this religion or that religion, Catholicism has become corrupted beyond recognizability as true Christianity.
They have, in fact, done just the opposite of your acupuncture analogy by incorporating pagan and mystical ideas into Catholic worship.
And they are dragging gullible non-Catholics into this mess with them
See:
[url}http://www.thebereancall.org/content/evangelical-mysticism[/url]
So, no....insofar as salvation goes, there is only one idea and one way...belief in Christ and that is it.