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the divinity of Jesus
One of the biggest problems with mainstream Christianity is the
insistence of Jesus as more than a man.
Many myths from and before that period of time that
Jesus walked speak of the gods
descending to Earth in the form of a human.
There are also myths that
speak of virgin birth.
Any one who has any understanding of the
Catholic religion should understand that wherever the Catholics have gone they
have taken local gods and added them to their pantheon as saints.
This
is a clever way to get the follows of other gods to also worship your god.
The divinity of Jesus is a
problem in that it takes the emphasis off of the living Christ.
Common
Christian belief is that Jesus died for
all men's sins.
Therefore Jesus
was selfless.
Jesus lived and
died for us, not for himself.
When the major concern becomes whether or
not you believe that Jesus is a deity,
as that belief is your key to heaven, then you have totally missed the point
that Jesus was trying to make.
If you are worried about going to heaven
then you are concerned with yourself which is not selfless.
Jesus asks us to love our neighbor as
ourselves for two reasons:
1) If we are as concerned with what happens
to our neighbor as much as we are concerned about ourselves then we are not
likely to commit acts of aggression,
2) if we treat others with respect
then that respect will be reflected back to us making our lives more enjoyable
and fulfilling.
Jesus set out a
blueprint for mankind to
create heaven on
Earth.
Of
Jesus' words
and Jesus' life we truly know very
little as anyone who has ever experienced life will understand that a word's
meaning may change over time, that in the act of translation words that do not
mean what was intended by the author are substituted (change the word fear in
the King James Version of the Bible to awe, which it should be, and you have an
entirely different book), that men will corrupt text (try to get someone to
write anything without, meaning to or not, changing the nuance or putting their
own spin on it), that men make mistakes, that men that have con-vinced
themselves that things are a certain way will be emotionally crushed when they
realize they have been mistaken and that men that have a vested interest in the
status quo of existing institutions are not likely to give up their position
easily (the position of Pope was a purchased position during the Dark
Ages).
Mahavira To liberate one's self,
Mahavira taught the necessity of right faith (samyak-darshana), right knowledge
(samyak-gyana), and right conduct (samyak-charitra').
Aneka-ntava-da is
one of the most important and basic doctrines of Jainism - the principle of
relativism or pluralism.
According to aneka-ntava-da, truth and reality
are perceived differently from different points of view, and no single point of
view is the complete truth.
Jains compare all attempts to proclaim
absolute truth with adhgajanya-yah, or the maxim of the "blind men and an
elephant".
In this story, one man felt the trunk of an elephant,
another the tusks, another the ears, another the tail. All the blind men
claimed to explain the true appearance of the elephant, but could only partly
succeed, due to their narrow perspectives.
This principle is more
formally stated by observing that objects are infinite in their qualities and
modes of existence, so they cannot be completely grasped in all aspects and
manifestations by finite human perception.
The historic origins of
aneka-ntava-da can be traced back to the teachings of Ma-havi-ra, the 24th Jain
Tirthankara.
The dialectical concepts of sya-dva-da (conditioned
viewpoints) and nayava-da (partial viepoints) arose from aneka-ntava-da,
providing it with more detailed logical structure and expression.
The
Sanskrit compound an-eka-anta-va-da literally means "doctrine of
non-exclusivity"; it is translated as "skepticism" or "non-absolutism".
An-eka-nta "uncertainty, non-exclusivity" is the opposite of eka-nta
(eka+anta) "exclusiveness, absoluteness, necessity".
Aneka-ntava-da
encourages its adherents to consider the views and beliefs of their rivals and
opposing parties.
Proponents of anekantva-da apply this principle to
religion and philosophy, reminding themselves that any religion or philosophy,
even Jainism, that clings too dogmatically to its own tenets, is committing an
error based on its limited point of view.
The principle of
aneka-ntava-da influenced Mahatma Gandhi's principles of religious
tolerance. |
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