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Christianity basically relies on Jesus as the sole spiritual entity to bring people to 'God's Kingdom' within.
Philosophies like gnosticism and non-duality and Buddhism, and all the New Age authors, rely on a person discovering a higher state of state of consciousness within themselves, and the spiritual entity Jesus is not required to accomplish this.
I think their position is entirely logical and reasonable, but spirituality isn't logical and reasonable, I have found that the light that enters via Jesus is the Fire of the Holy Spirit from above, and this doesn't come to the gnostics and the non-dualists and the Buddhists and the New Agers.
Gaining the Holy Spirit is everything to a Christian seeker, and worth any personal suffering or public ridicule.
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