Did Jesus fly to the sky in a UFO?

Dutch Uncle said:
Or Buddhism. There's a gap from age 12(?) to age 33 in the life of Jesus. I doubt he was simply making cabinets that entire time. More likely he traveled East. A lot of Christian philosphy mirrors Buddhism.
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No, it doesn't, Sybil.

Buddha is dead. Buddha was cremated in Kushinagar, India. His ashes are enshrined in stupas across India.
Jesus Christ is alive. No grave or tomb could hold him.

Buddha taught reincarnation as an endless cycle that can only be dispelled through 'enlightment' (which is to essentially worship the strange loop).
Jesus Christ taught there is only on resurrection, not an endless cycle of reincarnation as different creature.
 
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Dutch Uncle said:
There's a gap from age 12(?) to age 33 in the life of Jesus. I doubt he was simply making cabinets that entire time.
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John 21:25 KJVPCE And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
 
Cypress said:
Agree with your analysis.

I think it's unusual that the great prophets of antiquity appeared at roughly the same time all over the world, what Karl Jaspers dubbed the Axial Age.
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The 500 year period certainly saw a lot of change and might be tied to the end of the Bronze Age 500 years prior.

OTOH, 500 years ago was just the beginning of the New World and all the changes that followed.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
The 500 year period certainly saw a lot of change and might be tied to the end of the Bronze Age 500 years prior.

OTOH, 500 years ago was just the beginning of the New World and all the changes that followed.
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Good point.

Siddhartha, Socrates, the Jewish prophets, Confucius, Laozi, Zarathustra, and the authors of the Bhaghavad Gita all seem to have lived within about 100 years of each other.

What makes that remarkable is the commonalities in their moral philosophies and the wide geographic distribution these teachings seem to have appeared around the world within a short time window.
 
Cypress said:
Good point.

Siddhartha, Socrates, the Jewish prophets, Confucius, Laozi, Zarathustra, and the authors of the Bhaghavad Gita all seem to have lived within about 100 years of each other.

What makes that remarkable is the commonalities in their moral philosophies and the wide geographic distribution these teachings seem to have appeared around the world within a short time window.
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Agreed on the more sophisticated philosophies of each. Is it that they came up with these ideas or that the times and circumstances allowed for such philosophies to take hold over the ancient "Law of the Jungle"? :thinking:

Ecclesiastes 3:1
“For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven”
 
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