Continued
from previous post –
C.
S. Lewis initially considered Jesus a myth. But this literary genius
who knew myths well, concluded that Jesus had to have been a real
person. Furthermore, as Lewis investigated the evidence for Jesus, he
became convinced that not only was Jesus real, but he was unlike any
man who had ever lived. Lewis writes,
“Then
comes the real shock,’ wrote Lewis: ‘Among these Jews there
suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God. He
claims to forgive sins. He says He always existed. He says He is
coming to judge the world at the end of time.”
To Lewis, Jesus’
claims were simply too radical and profound to have been made by an
ordinary teacher or religious leader.
Some
have argued that Jesus was only claiming to be part of God. However,
the idea that we are all part of God, and that within us is the seed
of divinity, is simply not a possible meaning for Jesus’ words and
actions. Such thoughts are revisionist, foreign to his teaching,
foreign to his stated beliefs, and foreign to his disciples’
understanding of his teaching. Here I should refer to what Hindu
teachings suggest. That says we have all the three elemental aspects
within us and what element we encourage makes us of that type. Those
three elemental instincts are divine, animal and satanic. Jesus
throughout his teachings has insisted that his followers must develop
divine instinct and simply refuses to study other two. In Hindu,
teachings all the three are studied with judicious balance because
Hindu teaching accepts that all the three are inter related and
cannot be studied separately. I believe Jesus deliberately avoided
mentioning the other two because the type of people he was dealing
were already much closer to those two basic instincts.
Jesus
taught that he is God in the way the Jews understood God and the way
the Hebrew Scriptures portrayed God, not in the way the New Age
movement understands God. Neither Jesus nor his audience had been
weaned on Star Wars, and so when they spoke of God, they were not
speaking of cosmic forces. It’s simply bad history to redefine what
Jesus meant by the concept of God. All these discussions are based on
one presumption that Jesus was a Jew! Whereas we know from the lingo
he used that he was an Armenians, Some suggest that the same dialects
was common amongst other groups also residing in the same region what
today we call Syria. That group was called Areamians. Today we see
that most of these Areamians are now practicing Islam. And they speak
Arabic. While Armenians prefer to remain as Christians, they are
called Syrian Christians. there are cults also in that region
practicing the teachings of Jesus and they are termed by many other
names, however, nobody call themselves as Jesusians! Why this term
Christian became more common is difficult to explain. Some suggest
that Jesus was anointed by a saint who is supposed to be the father
figure in Jesuit line. He was called Baptist because he was the one
who began to, so called; authenticate children in the cult in which
Jesus is second father figure. They were not Jews. We never shall
understand the sayings of both Jesus and Baptist unless we accept the
notion that Jesus was not a Jew by tradition; the concept of religion
was very vague in those days. Those who were anointed with water were
called Christians. Therefore, this term became common with all. If we
want to be honest with facts of the history, we should accept Baptist
as the founder of this cult to which Jesus promoted through his
teachings.
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