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due to kenosis was Jesus a bodhisattva?
And solving this is going to accomplish what? Are the words ascribed to him more or less?
Maybe. If he was then why did he quit? Jesus would just come back over and over again every few generations or so.due to kenosis was Jesus a bodhisattva?
maybe not, maybe they are coming but the others won't recognize them as the thief.Maybe. If he was then why did he quit?
love is a merciful love. it gives light, hope to those whose world has long been mostly darkness.Jesus would just come back over and over again every few generations or so.
due to kenosis was Jesus a bodhisattva?
Kenosis in Christian Theology would not be the same as Buddhist 'emptying the self' in Buddhism, The concept of Kenosis between contemporary Christian and Buddhist Beliefs represent to extremes. In Christianity it is directly associated with the physical Divine nature of Incarnation and the Trinity. In Buddhism it is self-emptying in the concept of Shunyata Do the Way of nothingness.
In the Baha'i Faith they are the same, and common with all Manifestations of God. The attributes of emptiness and detachment from the worldly nature as the nature of Manifestation of God in the pure form the apophatic Divine essence.
No. Why would you try to force another religion's concepts onto a religious figure. Jesus had nothing to do with Buddhism and there's no evidence he even heard of it.
Of course there's ideas and concepts unique to a religion otherwise they'd all be the same.ideas, concepts, aren't unique to a culture, a religion, a race, an ethnicity. languages are unique, symbols, et al.
Of course there's ideas and concepts unique to a religion otherwise they'd all be the same.
The point still stands that religions teach different things. You can only make it into some universalist jumble by stretching things.not necessarily, a belief system is influenced by the culture. the culture comes from the environment.
the concept of a house in the tropics would not necessarily be formed the same as a house above the arctic circle, nor would they be called by the same name.
people get hung up on forms at the expense of the action, the spirit of a thing. truth isn't a plurality. it may be expressed in innumerable forms but it doesn't act in another way. justice is blind to forms.
The point still stands that religions teach different things. You can only make it into some universalist jumble by stretching things.
Can't believe a pantheist is even questioning such a thing; if everything is God, then what are Buddha, Yeshua, Lao Tzu, etc made of?If he was then why did he quit?
Unfortunately using kenosis doesn't equate as Bodhisattva; because it is used in the Biblical context to supplement the sacrifice/death/murder of Christ as an emptying of one's self.due to kenosis was Jesus a bodhisattva?
suicide, even assisted suicide, is not a means to overcoming one's ego. it would break the first law of love.In my opinion:
Unfortunately using kenosis doesn't equate as Bodhisattva; because it is used in the Biblical context to supplement the sacrifice/death/murder of Christ as an emptying of one's self.
love and light destroys the illusion of ignorance and darkness. we can see the aspect of shiva in jesus by reference as a thief, trickster, devil that comes secretly and destructively of what someone might consider precious but is in fact mundane. he was destroying the belief system of the pharisees and sadducees, and to some extent their control and power over others. they didn't see him as loving. they saw him as a threat to their lives.Buddha is equated as an Avatar of Vishnu, and Yeshua to me is one of Shiva, with many interlinking Hindu concepts.
It wasn't suicide if others premeditated committing the crime, and you're in acknowledgment that is your destiny (Matthew 21:45-46).suicide, even assisted suicide, is not a means to overcoming one's ego.
Thank you hadn't really questioned the aspects of the Destroyer being attributed to Shiva, and Yeshua's actions do seem that (Matthew 10:34).he was destroying the belief system of the pharisees and sadducees, and to some extent their control and power over others. they didn't see him as loving. they saw him as a threat to their lives.
unfortunately when you're dealing with other people's idols and/or livelihoods they tend to become irate.In my opinion:
It wasn't suicide if others premeditated committing the crime, and you're in acknowledgment that is your destiny (Matthew 21:45-46).
Nothing irate about it, the text says he knew he was going to die; yet pleaded with God to remove the cup from him in the garden (Luke 22:42), suicide is willingly done....unfortunately when you're dealing with other people's idols and/or livelihoods they tend to become irrate.
you can't profit from what you can't control.In my opinion:
Nothing irate about it, the text says he knew he was going to die; yet pleaded with God to remove the cup from him in the garden (Luke 22:42), suicide is willingly done....
Fair enough if we take into account Christian ideology from John, Paul and Simon, we could be lead to believe 'that he laid his life down for his friends', and 'came down from Heaven being the image of God to sacrifice himself'... Yet none of that adds up properly.
It doesn't bother me questioning all angles, yet like to deal with the facts of any religious case.
In my opinion.
my cup runneth over. the cup is never half full, or half empty. as one thing is emptied another fills it up. that is sunyata, that is kenosis.
jesus emptied himself of his ego. he overcame the illusion of separateness.