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Originally posted by Gorman91
Santa Claus is what happens when a bunch of Odin worshiping pagans are taught about the saints.
The rest seems the source of some crazy baseless thinking.
Originally posted by BULLETINYOURHEAD
reply to post by SirTFiedSkeptic
YEAH I KNOW, BUT PEDO TIES INTO HIS CHURCHES MORE THAN ANY OTHER INSTITUTION ON THE PLANET HE KNOWS ALL ABOUT IT, PLEASE
Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
~ John 13:36, KJV
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
~ John, 14:3
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
Re: The historical Jesus. I presume that all the other characters must have been made up also, from Paul (Saul of Tarsus), to his elder contemporary Peter (desciple of Jesus), to Cephias the high priest, Pontias Pilate, John the Baptist, Mother Mary and Joseph, the whole lot of them, but for starters, isn't there historical evidence of Peter having been crucified upside down..?
Re: Jesus' Divinity: If the human being may be thought of, spiritually or in terms of consciousness, as not unlike a sphere within a sphere (research holographic mind/universe and monistic idealism ie: consciousness is primary) then is it outside the realm of concievable that Jesus could have been "reborn from above" or from the outer sphere, to the inner, with perfection, wholeness and integrity?
"The Broken Sphere" @ The Vatican
Consider the outer sphere, the whole of objective reality enveloped by the Tao or God of the highest.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
Is it because...
A) He is an imposter?
Originally posted by SirTFiedSkeptic
I've already mentioned that in America alone, more Protestant preachers are accused of pedophilia EVERY YEAR than have been accused in the Catholic Church SINCE THE '70's.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
Yes, but does anyone have an explanation for it, for the Santa Pope routine?
And on a figure on a ancient wall in India a symbol from Hinduism this word 'Omm' is centered in the connection of the triangle female symbol and the upright triangle male symbol.
The so called Star of David is not a symbol from Judaism, but a symbol form the Vedic religion of the ancient India, that is worshiping the reunion of man and wife. The symbol and the hidden meaning from Hinduism of this symbol was known by teachers of the Jewish mysticism and has found over them its way to the present Jewish culture.
Shiva is preserved in the Hebrew Genesis as chavvah ( = eve ) ( “life-giver” ) as the female life together with the Hebrew chayim ("Life").
Abraham
In his History of the Jews, the Jewish scholar and theologian Flavius Josephus (37 - 100 A.D.), wrote that the Greek philosopher Aristotle had said: "...These Jews are derived from the Indian philosophers; they are named by the Indians Calani." (Book I:22.)
Clearchus of Soli wrote, "The Jews descend from the philosophers of India. The philosophers are called in India Calanians and in Syria Jews. The name of their capital is very difficult to pronounce. It is called 'Jerusalem.'"
"Megasthenes, who was sent to India by Seleucus Nicator, about three hundred years before Christ, and whose accounts from new inquiries are every day acquiring additional credit, says that the Jews 'were an Indian tribe or sect called Kalani...'" (Anacalypsis, by Godfrey Higgins, Vol. I; p. 400.)
Martin Haug, Ph.D., wrote in The Sacred Language, Writings, and Religions of the Parsis, "The Magi are said to have called their religion Kesh-î-Ibrahim.They traced their religious books to Abraham, who was believed to have brought them from heaven." (p. 16.)
In the days of Jesus, it was about a process of initiation into knowledge, not learned "things" from memory, but experiencial knowledge, and for some privaledged folk with access to it, absolute mastery, whereby everything was made known and in God, nothing was impossible, even miracles.
I am NOT discounting many if not most of Jesus' miracles. He was trained by the very best and such things are not outside the realm of possible, and he was an absolute master.
You refer to my monicur, "NewAgeMan", to say that this is the "flavor of the age", but I'm just being rational and reasonable here.
There is reason for faith, which can start out very tiny, as trust - it's called Love. In fact, it's the very height of reason and logic (who's root is the same as logos).
What I am presenting are not the rantings of a madman, or the mask of religion, but the truth, and the life.
Finding Jesus on the other side of the myth and understanding something of his mind and his motives, is to be in sympathetic harmonious connection WITH him, the real person of him, who is also the very best part of who we really are as self-realized children of a loving God.