Will not defend Bruno as inoffensive as kinder terminology would be a more diplomatic approach. What he said, though coarse, is true. We are to speak the truth in love. Our heated first response may need to take heed to the journey the other is trodding.
Yes I really do! You can’t compare Buddhists with Protestants, Crusaders or Pius X.
Your post highlights the vast gulf between a theist and an atheist. A simple word of three letters sums up the source of everything we consider most precious: truth, goodness, beauty, freedom, justice and love. The bleak alternative is mindless matter producing purposeless organisms with so-called emergent attributes and isomorphisms which cannot conceal the fundamental emptiness of a Godless universe and a worthless existence that is a mere spark in the darkness of eternity.Bruno you sound a sincere guy but I would be surprised if your workmates and friends do not consider you somewhat extreme and even a bit of a Catholic “religious nutter”. If you really believe even half of what you say above I do not think words exist to bring you back to a realistic and true Catholic understanding.
God is considered to be both uncaused and outside of time. Causation requires a temporal component.
Right! And God is not just „considered“ to be uncaused. But (as many posts here in and all of CAF rightly state) and we jolly well do know anway; God always was and will always be „uncaused". We „earthlings“ can’t really comprehend this, but simply have to accept it - as a child has to „accept“ his parents, which the child did not choose.
„Nothingness“ doesn’t exist, nor can it be unstable, nor can anything what so ever come out or result of it, for somet inexistent can’t be (whatsoever). Even the word „something“ isn’t hitting, as no „nothing“ exists. Hence, not even the darkness could exist, for what and where would (it) be dark?
Scientists might call it whatever they like, it remains all theses, but never understood reality. Science tends to explain everything, but can’t even explain the very brain of it’s scientists, and still don’t exclude human-like like in outer space. This though is ridiculous, for Christ’s salvation is a unique deed and cant be done twice or more for other beings on other planets. Nor would God create other people elsewhere, which he then would not redeem. All that „science“ is nothing but naive blather of „Scientists“ who think they have to explore God and God’s ways. The atheist Stephen Hawkin even declared 30 years ago, when he was still unsure about God „……then we’d know God’s plans“.
This is why so many scientists make for awful philosophers.
Many Buddhists consider Jesus to have been a Bodhisattva, a Buddha-in-waiting.
How do you explain his Resurrection?
Fashionable? Oh no! I’ll have to convert to something else. I don’t want to be fashionable, not at my age (I’m Georgian).
If I thought all religions were the same then I wouldn’t have bothered to change. It is precisely because I could see that there were real differences between religions that I made the change.
Advanced Bodhisattvas can perform miracles.
Rossum, what kind of food do Buddhists eat. I heard that Buddhist reject all comfort and desire. So would that include tasty food?.
Are you saying the wound healed after 3 days due to a miracle, because i don’t think someones going to be walking around after 3 months with a wound like that.Advanced Bodhisattvas can perform miracles.
More prosaically the “blood and water” on the cross indicates that the soldier’s spear missed Jesus’ heart, instead hitting the left lymphatic duct, which is above the heart. A soldier thrusting a spear upwards from the ground would enter the body at an angle. Any wound will bleed blood; not all wounds bleed water as well. Jesus was in a coma and recovered after three days. YMMV.
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Guilty.
You need to learn more about Buddhism. This is from chapter one of the Saddharmapundarika sutra (Lotus Sutra):
You are generalising far too much. A lifelong Muslim living in Saudi Arabia who doesn’t know what it means to be a Christian will not “prefer Buddhism”, so your statement is obviously false. You seem to make too many sweeping assertions about whole groups. “He who generalises generally lies.” Better not to do that.
You heard wrong. Overindulgence is an error, but within reason enjoyment is fine providing you stay aware that it is temporary.
The wound was present for Thomas to examine, so it had not healed completely. Being in a coma reduces the heart rate, and hence blood pressure. With lower pressure it is easier for the blood to clot and seal the wound. As you say, full repair would take longer.
No, at least not in that lifetime. In a previous or later life… who knows? If He was a Bodhisattva, then He already had many lifetimes of training behind Him when He was born.
But if that the case Then why isn’t Christianity essentially Buddhism?
A Bodhisattva is not a fully-enlightened Buddha. Jesus was approaching the destination, and got many things right, but He had not yet reached the finish. He still had a few lifetimes to go.