Madaba considers those who follow his standards and who want to build a relationship with him to be his followers - and him considering you one of his followers is both good in and of itself and good in terms of your inevitable post-death Audit
To follow Madaba and cultivate a relationship with him is to walk The Madaba Path
And to follow any of the world's major religions is to follow Madaba, hence the world's major religions are all The Madaba Path, they all correspond to it and to follow them is to follow Madaba
(even some of the world's minor religions!)
Although not all such followers follow it perfectly, to say the least!
Most of the world’s religions are the same basic path as The Madaba Path
But each has its own details, its own unique features and
content
And each results in it own way of life and has its own culture
Yet each is as good as the other - even if they all claim exclusivity
I don't think any one faith tradition is exclusively true, I believe that any faith tradition that corresponds to The Madaba Path is true, and that The Madaba Path is exclusively true.
I believe that Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism (and most other religions) are ways of walking The Madaba Path
Madaba approves of all those religions, and many more too
But not when they are done wrong
I believe that to believe in God is to believe in Madaba and
that Madaba likes it when people believe in God as that means that they believe
in him
I believe that to speak of God (or whatever else you want to
call him) is to speak of Madaba
It is possible to walk The Madaba Path without subscribing
to any of the world’s religions, but I think that to do that would be to miss
out on much of the holy experience of following a religion, as well as much of
the culture and the community - and a whole way of life, and I think that the ways of life that each faith tradition offers can be rich and fulfilling
I walk The Madaba Path by being a Christian. It is in terms
of Christianity and the Christian God Concept that I approach Madaba and
understand reality and my place in it
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