" As far as I'm concerned the Christian era started with Adam and Eve so absolutely nothing that Buddha said or did was original. As to similarities between Christ and Buddha I know of none. "
So you don't find any similarities from the account I just gave you of the Buddha curing the leper , and the story that is composed and injected in to the "gospels" centuries later ?
You did read this wonderful story didn't you ? Message 15557553
I think what you call " reasonable " person would think it extremely similar, almost exactly the same story , only told and made famous hundreds of years before .
Of the greatest living Master the world has ever known....
But I get the impression from you , that if you say that the sun is blue, or the ocean is not wet , it is always our sacred duty to agree with you . What is true for you is not true for others .
We are living in an eternity Chris , a Universe without beginning or end , and the world is not flat , wasn't created 3003 years ago at 7am , & all the animals didn't just spring spontaneously to life fully formed, after a Creator worked for six days and rested. This may have been convenient for those unknown composers of your scripture because they knew no better ....it is irrelevant today other than a curiosity.
" As far as I'm concerned the Christian era started with Adam and Eve so absolutely nothing that Buddha said or did was original. "
That's all very well and good a fable for you to believe in Chris , but most of the rest of us living in today's world , tend not to identify with such a pretty legend . It really is quite fantastical to think that someone is actually posting on Silicon Investor , on the world wide internet who actually seriously believes this kind of Myth and fable be taken seriously today .
No " reasonable " person today believes this fairytale ....you do realize this don't you ?
regards
mars |