People who have not heard of Christ

last SG · 2004-08-30T22:20:31+00:00

I think there is no need to feel offended. If you do not believe in the christian worldview, there is no reason to feel offended. To you, the God who will ju...

Icemoon SG

I think you miss the point of Buddhism. Buddha never say he is perfect. And the issue about nirvana and glowing head is unimportant, compared to the christian belief [to their grave] that Jesus is the Son of God, second person of Trinity and He died for our sins. The resurrection is of outmost importance as a historical fact compared to the nirvana episode under a Bodhi tree.

Honeybunz SG

hmm.... how come my topic on our ancestors and Christ has become nirvana and buddhism talk?

maybe it's an indication to close the topic?? (hint hint to moderators Mr. Green )

aloka SG

BEYOND BELIEF

PREFACE
The purpose of this book is threefold. Firstly it aims to critically examine Christianity and thereby highlight the logical, philosophical and ethical problems in Christian dogma. In doing this I hope to be able to provide Buddhists with facts which they can use when Christians attempt to evangelize them. This book should make such encounters more fair, and hopefully also make it more likely that Buddhists will remain Buddhists. As it is, many Buddhists know little of their own religion and nothing about Christianity - which makes it difficult for them to answer the questions Christians ask or to rebut the claims they make.

The second aim of this book is to help any Christians who might read it to understand why some people are not, and never will be, Christians. Hopefully, this understanding will help them to develop an acceptance of and thereby genuine friendship with Buddhists, rather than relating to them only as potential converts. In order to do this, I have raised as many difficult questions as possible and not a few home truths. If it appears sometimes that I have been hard on Christianity, I hope this will not be interpreted as being motivated by malice. I was a Christian for many years and I still retain a fond regard, and even admiration, for some aspects of Christianity. For me, Jesus' teachings were an important step in my becoming a Buddhist and I think I am a better Buddhist as a result. However when Christians claim, as many do with such insistence, that their religion alone is true, then they must be prepared to answer doubts which others might express about their religion.

The third aim of this book is to awaken in Buddhists a deeper appreciation for their own religion. In some Asian countries Buddhism is thought of an out-of-date superstition while Christianity is seen as a religion which has all the answers. As these countries become more Westernized, Christianity with its "modern" image begins to look increasingly attractive. I think this book will amply demonstrate that Buddhism is able to ask questions of Christianity which it has great difficulties in answering, and at the same time to offer explanations to life's puzzles which make Christian explanations look rather puerile.

Some Buddhists may object to a book like this, believing that such a gentle and tolerant religion as Buddhism should refrain from criticizing other religions. This is certainly not what the Buddha himself taught. In the Mahaparinibbana Sutta he said that his disciples should be able to "Teach the Dhamma, declare it, establish it, expound it, analyse it, make it clear, and be able by means of the Dhamma to refute false teachings that have arisen." Subjecting a point of view to careful scrutiny and criticism has an important part to play in helping to winnow truth from falsehood, so that we can be in a better position to choose between "the two and sixty contending sects." Criticism of another religion only becomes inappropriate when it is based on a deliberate misrepresentation of that religion, or when it descends into an exercise in ridicule and name-calling. I hope I have avoided doing this.

I would like to thank Moses Chan and Paul Teo, two devout Christians and good friends, for the hours of stimulating discussions we had on some of the matters covered in this book. We agree to disagree but remain friends.

A.L. De Silva

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Note: The original version of this book is available in WinWord and text formats at the BuddhaNet web site, http://www.buddhanet.net .
Copy of the book is also available at the web site of the Buddhist Society of Queensland, http://www.uq.net.au/slsoc/budsoc.html

aloka SG

Jesus lived in India
Jesus Lived in India The Synopsis of the book "Jesus Lived In India" by Holger Kersten was written by Dr Ramesh Manocha & Anna Potts.

http://a1.nu/christian/jesus-christ/lived_in_india.htm

Jesus in India download e-book here
Version: 3.0 Date: 01/29/99 File size: 189 KB
License: Free
From: Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam

Jesus in India is a program that allows you to search, read, print, and learn about the book "Jesus In India," by Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmed. "Jesus In India" is an English version of Masih Hindustan Mein, an Urdu treatise written by the Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835-190 Cool . The main thesis expounded in the treatise is Jesus' escape from an ignominious death on the cross and his subsequent journey to India in search of the lost tribes of Israel, whom he had to gather into his fold as mentioned in the New Testament.

Jesus in India
Being an account of Jesus' escape from death on the cross and of his journey to India
By Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian
The Founder Of The Ahmadiyya Movement In Islam
1989 Islam International Publication Ltd

Christian authors like Sylvan Levy and sources like the Aquarian Gospel have established that Puri was visited by a Christian Apostle during the times of Jesus Christ. The Christian concepts of love, compassion, charity and fellow-feeling are almost exact reproductions of the value- endowed Vedic paradigms of humanistic tradition that Purusottama Kshetra signified in those remote times.

Lost Years of Jesus Christ Ancient scrolls reveal that Jesus spent seventeen years in the Orient. From age thirteen to age twenty-nine, he was both student and teacher. The story of his pilgrimmage from Jerusalem to Benares was recorded by Brahmanistic historians. Today they still know him and love him as St. Issa. Their buddha.

Tomb of Jesus and Post-crucifixion life of Christ:

The Tomb of Jesus Christ
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The most complete and powerful website dealing with the issue of the post-crucifixion life of Jesus Christ. The Church would rather you didn't know about this place.

TombOfJesus.com Forum - Could Savior Survive crucifixion?
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laurence82 SG

There are so many research that Jesus stem from Buddhism, or Christianity is the mother of all religion thingy..

so who is right who is wrong?

Take every research with little pinch of salt instead of blatantly copying and assuming its right.

An Eternal Now SG

does aloka ever say anything that is not a paste?

laurence82 SG

hope he show us some of his talent to discern stuff…

cool_ridge SG

ok i know i'm a bit off topic here but there are just a few things i would like to clarify...

firstly, we Christians believe in the Holy Trinity, which is 3 Gods in one. Upon stating this, i would actually like to say that using the example of water being a solid, a liquid and a gas is a bad analogy, because it can only be a solid, a liquid and a gas at any one time.

God is God the Father, who sent His son to earth as a man named Jesus. He was born from the virgin Mary, and is still the son of God. He is sinless and He came so that He can die in our place, as the penalty of sin is DEATH.

Then after Jesus died on the cross, He resurrected from the dead and appeared to His disciples. Jesus had conquered death. He has bought our death. So why won't you believe in Him and have eternal life?

Anyway, Jesus later on went back up to heaven to be with His Father, but that is not to say that His presence is not here on earth. He left His Holy Spirit here to be with us.

So through this, we get the Holy Trinity (three-in-one), God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

I hope you understand it better now. Cheers!

Honeybunz SG

No. I don't think he will ever come out with anything on his own.
He's forever off topic and nobody bothers to read.

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