Was Jesus, like the Buddha, really a teacher of inner transformation?
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I was brought up in a church-going Presbyterian family, and during my formative years I developed a view of Jesus which remained pretty much constant. Until recently. It’s only late in life that I’ve come to discover how a number of important messages, which I took to be core to Christianity, may actually be much more a product of early church politics than what Jesus was really about. I understood the unalterable teachings to be that God was an Almighty Being, entirely Other and separate from me; that I suffered because I was innately sinful and would go to hell when I died; that the only way out of this dire situation was to believe in Jesus; and that everyone’s salvation – or lack of it – would ultimately be resolved during an epoch-changing historical event.
Was Jesus, like the Buddha, really a teacher of inner transformation?
Was Jesus, like the Buddha, really a teacher…
Was Jesus, like the Buddha, really a teacher of inner transformation?
I was brought up in a church-going Presbyterian family, and during my formative years I developed a view of Jesus which remained pretty much constant. Until recently. It’s only late in life that I’ve come to discover how a number of important messages, which I took to be core to Christianity, may actually be much more a product of early church politics than what Jesus was really about. I understood the unalterable teachings to be that God was an Almighty Being, entirely Other and separate from me; that I suffered because I was innately sinful and would go to hell when I died; that the only way out of this dire situation was to believe in Jesus; and that everyone’s salvation – or lack of it – would ultimately be resolved during an epoch-changing historical event.