Originally Posted by biomystic
Well, right off the bat, Buddha didn't find God because you can't find God when you've shut down your brain's sense of self center, God and Self being intimately connected. Joe Smith wasn't Jewish and didn't get the spiritual truth handed down through the Jewish line of prophets although he did get some of the new information, e.g. the linking of the New World Native American spirituality with the Old World's Holy Land traditions. Ba'ha'i too suffers from being dependent on Abrahamic mythology but the loving ideology and willingness to sacrifice for God as peace is commendable. Who but Muslims who have a beef with anyone not Muslim could have a real beef with Ba'hais? Goodness is independent of religious doctrines and can be found universally in most human societies not completely oppressed by war conditions.
So, are the sutras, the BoM, and Ba'ha'i scriptures revelations from God?
Did you bother to read the posted statement above?
Originally Posted by biomystic
You ever go through a divorce as a kid? Personally, I don't know of any kid who ever really wants their parents to divorce and not work things out. It's the kids who suffer from divorce and I think Jesus, always looking out for out for children, was in his way trying to protect them from the human errors their parents were prone to that could destroy the family group.
That would be why the writer endorsed cutting off ones hand if it offends you? For the children?
To make a moral point?. Do we followers of Jesus' teachings routinely cut off our hands or pluck our eyes out? I thought your motto was "reason is my dogma". Not everything you read is to be taken literally.
Originally Posted by biomystic
"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also, and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father."
"No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven."
"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life."
Nice, but quoting the source in order to authenticate the source is circular logic...
This is your original question:
So...
God is us, in the future, sending back 'prophets'.
To which I posted some sayings of Jesus to validate the Son of Man theology which has been carried forward to our times through the Gospel of Humanity. I can see that you're really not interested in learning anything here but in nitpicking semantics in order to discredit the prophetic information that has been arrived at by spiritual communion with God. If you wanted my words on the subject, next time ask for them. I've got lot's of them..
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