Continued
from previous post –
Now let us get this
clear. Among Pantheists, like the Indians, anyone might say that he
was a part of God, or one with God….and this man, since He was a
Hindu but of that nobody from that region knew, could mean that kind
of God. God, in their language, meant the Being outside the material
visible world, who had made it and was infinitely different from
anything else. Moreover, when you have grasped that, you will see
that what this man said was, quite simply, the most shocking thing
that has ever been uttered by human lips. For those local people
however, nobody ever objected to his claim of being God or part of
God. In fact, in those days people there never ever could realize
difference in Jew religion and Hindu as they did not know of none of
them. Nevertheless, modern Christian scholars having mistaken Jesus
as of Jew linage fail to understand him. Certainly, there are those
who accept Jesus as a great teacher, yet are unwilling to call him
God. As a Deist, we’ve seen that Thomas Jefferson had no problem
accepting Jesus’ teachings on morals and ethics while denying his
being a deity. But as we’ve said, and will explore further, if
Jesus was not who he claimed to be, then we must examine some other
alternatives, none of which would make him a great moral teacher.
Lewis, argued, “I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the
really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready
to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his
claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say.” Amongst
Hindus, there is no objection to accept a person as being incarnation
of God or of some divine spirit. Since that practice is very common
amongst Hindus. However, Hindus have freedom to accept Jesus as a
saint but not actually a god; they do not mind him to be as somebody
talking for god. In Hindus tradition, it is a very common practice.
Since the Christian scholars do not have that freedom, they are in a
way stuck up in the confusion. There ignorance keeps them from
understanding the ways of the world.
Continues
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