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anon5216
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Come on thistle,
I don’t presume to know your soul, but I can certainly respond to your words.
No, I am definitely not equating myself to God.
And yes, Padre Pio is the standard for faith.
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I don’t presume to know your soul, but I can certainly respond to your words.
No, I am definitely not equating myself to God.
And yes, Padre Pio is the standard for faith.
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anon5216
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Your strawman caricature is quite obvious.That’s quite a mouthful of straw, Matey. Enough to build a strawman, in fact.
You do know that Jesus was an Indian, born in Fiji? His parent emigrated there in the 1900s from Calcutta, fleeing the real threat of the Sikhs from the Northern regions…
He played rugby for a while but sadly wasn’t good enough to make the famed national representative Fijian Sevens team that toured and played in Dubai in 2008, which is where he’s always wanted to go to.
You see? Anyone can pose a theory…without evidence!
There was no straw in my post you just responded to.
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JW55
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Could Jesus have gone to India? Technically yes, in the missing 18 years between 12 and 30 he had enough time to go about anywhere. There was a silk route between the Middle East and India where trade was exchanged. In all likelihood did this trek take place? No. There is really no evidence to substansiate this claim.
Unfortunately there is a faction of individuals that would like to believe that everything that Jesus did was already done by Buddha or already occurred in the Hindu belief, and Jesus merely borrowed from it.
I don’t have my notes handy when I previously checked this out this so I will try to go from memory (please forgive my spelling if in error). Supposedly there was an English Dr./explorer in the Himalayas in the 1920’s who broke his leg and was taken in at a Tibetian monastery and nursed back to health. During the time he was there he stumbled across some old manuscripts that basically gave an account of a St Esau from the Middle East who studied with the Masters and later returned to the Middle East. If I recall he was highly revered, performed miracles and then returned to Tibet or India where he died and was buried. This was believed of course to be Jesus. No hard evidence was ever brought back. I believe this explorer wrote a book about his travels. A few years later another explorer tried to investigate and substansiate these claims, traveled to the same monastery and inquired into the supposed visit. There was no record of such a visit by an Englishman with a broken leg and no one remembered such an event or the existence of such a manuscript.
In our society there is a substansial effort to minimize Jesus significance and the Christian faith while at the same time enhancing Eastern and New Age faiths. The media seems to thrive on these type of stories. It would be wise to take these with a grain of salt unless significant verifiable documentation is provided.
Unfortunately there is a faction of individuals that would like to believe that everything that Jesus did was already done by Buddha or already occurred in the Hindu belief, and Jesus merely borrowed from it.
I don’t have my notes handy when I previously checked this out this so I will try to go from memory (please forgive my spelling if in error). Supposedly there was an English Dr./explorer in the Himalayas in the 1920’s who broke his leg and was taken in at a Tibetian monastery and nursed back to health. During the time he was there he stumbled across some old manuscripts that basically gave an account of a St Esau from the Middle East who studied with the Masters and later returned to the Middle East. If I recall he was highly revered, performed miracles and then returned to Tibet or India where he died and was buried. This was believed of course to be Jesus. No hard evidence was ever brought back. I believe this explorer wrote a book about his travels. A few years later another explorer tried to investigate and substansiate these claims, traveled to the same monastery and inquired into the supposed visit. There was no record of such a visit by an Englishman with a broken leg and no one remembered such an event or the existence of such a manuscript.
In our society there is a substansial effort to minimize Jesus significance and the Christian faith while at the same time enhancing Eastern and New Age faiths. The media seems to thrive on these type of stories. It would be wise to take these with a grain of salt unless significant verifiable documentation is provided.
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