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To: Greg or e who wrote (33950)	11/14/2002 2:54:09 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 39621

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To: Greg or e who wrote (33950)	11/18/2002 2:02:22 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Not that you are interested in truth, but Jesus did rise from the dead in the same body that went into the grave. That's what Christians have always believed Well you might like to delude yourself with a deluge of delusions once again greg , but this is not always what all "Christians" used to believe of Jesus , or the Messiah or the greek idea of "Christos". Though many of these alternative descriptions and those that pursued them were hunted down , persecuted and usually killed in very brutal ways . But I'm not going to tell you now of the history of your own religion , if by now you don't already know it . A Christian gives pause usually with a silent prayer to give thanks to "God" for the food that is on his table and that is good . The Buddhist is taught that before eating to reflect on not just the food before him no matter how humble, but to meditate on the seed from which the sprout grew, the Sun that energized the plant , the farmer that planted the seed and tended the garden and pulled the weeds and transported it to the market, and he or she who presented it and sold it .... all the actions that led to this meal he sees before him . Usually this is done in silence and with reverent pause . Could this as well be seen as "giving thanks " ? Yes , I and many others today think so ... Can you tell me where you find the difference and offence? Surely greg , even with your "living God" , I find when I reflect on your personal set of interpretations , that back when there were "witches" and heretics , you might have tended to be one of the first in the crowd to be cheering for the torch to be set to the fires underneath the hapless person that didn't believ in your rigid, banner waving dogmas. But I hope you are not really one of those. Christians are not anymore saved than anyone else, you are very protected up there in Canada from the rest of us . Try and use a little more imagination in your practices of tolerance and love , you'll be happier for it. Your "living God" was/is quite capable of revealing his infinite mystery to many peoples of the earth in many different manifestations , and did before Jesus and keeps doing so today, as it is very much a personal thing . I find it more proof of Buddha's divinity that he didn't make any grandiose, manic and magical claims on "Godhead" but chose to live exactly as the Christ wanted ...humbly without thought of possessions and compassionately. What more do you see Jesus saying in his speeches 500yrs later ? Or shall I find you the passages of his words that describe exactly this path too? regards Mars