Jesus was cool!

Jesus was actually a very cool person. He traveled to India, and studied buddhism. I believe he was truly a wonderful, peaceful person, and very misunderstood. When Jesus was around, it was the Age Of Aquarius. He said that everytime the Age Of Aquarius comes around a majority of the people(If not all) will leave their religion and go to another one. It happened then, and it's supposed to happen again. I wonder if it'll really happen.

I'm not even a Christian, I think Christians(not all, but a lot) just take things too litterally and thats why things are the way they are. Jesus didn't mean for things to be like this...

(If you are a Christian, I hope you are not offended.. the last part is just my opinion..please respect it)

[Edited on 16-5-2003 by CindyPants]

Originally posted by CindyPants
I think Christians(not all, but a lot) just take things too litterally and thats why things are the way they are. Jesus didn't mean for things to be like this...

the major problem isn't that christians take their religion too literally.
many don't even bother to practice their faith as it asks them too.

and is there a source for the information you provided?

Cindy thats crap. When dealing with sth as sensitive as a religious figure, its best not to put your words as theirs

Come on ech, where on earth would you find such a collection of fruit loop ideas in one place. Sounds like the ruminations of a drugged out hippie from Goa in india, who has just "found himself".

Originally posted by echelon

and is there a source for the information you provided?

"peace Ma-ann!!", You ganna pass the dobbie or hog it all night Cindypants.

Your information is incorrect, Cindy, Chrsit did not travel to India, and the Son of God did not study under Buddha. Some stoner myths just never die.

Puff-puff, give-give.

Jesus was adopted by many cultures as their own. Of course, since this all happened 2000 years ago, Jesus' life is nothing but guesswork.

I agree that Jesus was cool though....

Travelled the land with a bunch of his homies and a personal prostitute and had people believing he was the son of God. Jesus had it going on!

Originally posted by CindyPants
Jesus was actually a very cool person. He traveled to India, and studied buddhism. I believe he was truly a wonderful, peaceful person, and very misunderstood. When Jesus was around, it was the Age Of Aquarius. He said that everytime the Age Of Aquarius comes around a majority of the people(If not all) will leave their religion and go to another one. It happened then, and it's supposed to happen again. I wonder if it'll really happen.

I'm not even a Christian, I think Christians(not all, but a lot) just take things too litterally and thats why things are the way they are. Jesus didn't mean for things to be like this...

(If you are a Christian, I hope you are not offended.. the last part is just my opinion..please respect it)

[Edited on 16-5-2003 by CindyPants]

I also feel the same way about Jesus. You said he came around in the age of Age of Aquarius. What kind of calander is this?!?! Any information would be great

[Edited on 16-5-2003 by abstract_alao]

Originally posted by Trader
Cindy thats crap. When dealing with sth as sensitive as a religious figure, its best not to put your words as theirs

Actually there is evidence that a great prophet went and studied with buddast monks. This text was kept sacred for a long time and has just been released. You should read more before you critize. If you still don't believe I will find info your you

Originally posted by Thomas Crowne
Your information is incorrect, Cindy, Chrsit did not travel to India, and the Son of God did not study under Buddha. Some stoner myths just never die.

Puff-puff, give-give.

How do you know?!?!? A good portion of his life is not in the bible. Like 10 to 15 years. We don't know what happen in this part of his life. I think that this was a most vital in his spritual growth

[Edited on 16-5-2003 by abstract_alao]

Fida gives quite a few Asian sources to try to support Jesus in India. One is a Chinese text preserved in Tibetan (1800) called the "Glass Mirror" which mentions Yesu, "a teacher and founder of the religion who was born miraculously, proclaimed himself the Savior of the World." The text goes on to try to show that Jesus followed Buddhist principles. This tells us nothing because Nestorian monasteries were already given Imperial protection in the 7th c. Tang dynasty China. In fact Buddhist scribes from the monastic institutions were commissioned to help the Nestorians translate their gospels and texts into Chinese which took on such names as the "Jesus Messiah Sutra." On the other hand, many of the other sources Fida uncovers do make for some fascinating reading and offer some thought-provoking questions.

Hassnain and the Ahmadiyya have also identified 21 Muslim historical chronicles in Arabic, but mostly in Persian, with references to Isa (known as Yuz Asaph or various derivatives of this name) living and dying in Kashmir. From these, only two or three are original sources, the others relying on various portions of these 2/3. The earliest is the Persian "Kamal u-Din" (or an Arabic first name of a person) by Said-us-Saddiq in the late 9th c.

Finally, for me, the most interesting Isa reference is found in the Kashmiri Hindu text "Bhavishya Maha Purana" (circ. 2nd c., the name of a specific Sanskrit text of the "purana" category) about king Shalivahana (last mentioned circ. AD 80) meeting a foreigner calling himself Ishvara Putaram (Son of God), Isha Masih (Isha = Isa in Arabic = Jesus; Masih = Messiah), and Kanya Garbam (Born of a Virgin).

www.mm2000.nu/sphinxjj.html

check this outchurchoftheeast.ca...

We can nver really know but Jesus was a gret man who reached all people not just "christians"

somewhere....I believe it was a documentary on TDC or TLC...

Found at least one link....

www.sol.com.au...

Wouldn't take it as gospel, but just to point out that the idea that Jesus studied with Buddha isn't exactly new, or unheard of. After all, there are a lot of similarities....

comment:

"Travelled the land with a bunch of his homies and a personal prostitute and had people believing he was the son of God. Jesus had it going on!"

Originally posted by abstract_alao

Originally posted by Trader
Cindy thats crap. When dealing with sth as sensitive as a religious figure, its best not to put your words as theirs

Actually there is evidence that a great prophet went and studied with buddast monks. This text was kept sacred for a long time and has just been released. You should read more before you critize. If you still don't believe I will find info your you

No, there's misinformation trying to corrupt the faith, but the book that brings us the Good News of Christ explains that he did not travel to India and the Son of God did not study a religion that is not of His Father.
Gazrock, you are disrespectful.

There are similarities, true, Gaz, and lets consider for a moment why that might be.

What if there is a God, His Son is Christ, and Christ died so that you do not have to die and go to the same prison Satan does because he rebeled against God? What if you were that Lion that roams the world devouring all that he can? You would know that God engineered humans in a particular way, and that if you want to increase your odds of getting them to believe a lie, you make your lie to seem similar to the truth, right. After all, you don't have to get them to worship you, per se, all you have to get them to do is deny Christ.

Originally posted by Thomas Crowne
No, there's misinformation trying to corrupt the faith, but the book that brings us the Good News of Christ explains that he did not travel to India and the Son of God did not study a religion that is not of His Father.
Gazrock, you are disrespectful.

How does it 'corrupt the faith' to say jesus went to talk w/ some monks?

In what book does it say that jesus didn't go to India?

Studying is different than Practising. Only a fool refuses to learn, and Jesus was no fool.

No, just truthful...don't shoot the messenger...it's in YOUR book...

If God truly exists, I think his biggest mistake was making himself known to humans.

I mean, look at the amount of damage that religion has done to the human psyche.

Jesus was perhaps a cool person. Too bad that the thousands of years after he allegedly existed, humans have done nothing but distort and manipulate any good that could have come from his teachings...

Read and you'll see where he travelled. Think about it and you'll quickly realize why the Son of God would not study the teachings of monks if he had travelled.

The book, Gaz, does not say He had a "personal prostitute".

We weren't created to merely be here, we were to commune with God. We screwed that up. Had He not shown His presence, what would be the use of creating us. And even had he not, man would have created religions. He designed us as He did, that need would not have changed.