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# re: JESUS: Do We Need A Personal Agenda to Honor Him? @ Sunday, October 28, 2007 4:10 AM

All right, so you asked, it's a long one...;)

I consider myself a Buddhist AND a Christian..in Theraveda Buddhism, you don't pray to Buddha, he was just a philosopher. In fact, he actually said, "Work out your own salvation with diligence, that's not why I'm here..and when I'm gone, don't pray to me, I won't hear you, I'm dead. I'm here to teach you a better way to live."

Looking at Jesus through that Buddhist perspective of finding a "middle way" rather than "either/or", it opens your eyes when reading the bible.

Jesus was both...human AND divine...and if you read the same bible I did, he actually DID make human mistakes (yes) and learned lessons from US as he went...also why he was here, to learn what it was like. I don't know if they were sin mistakes, but human mistakes

Water into wine before "the appointed time" because his mommy asked him to...his first miracle;) I can see him going, "Okay, God?  YOU want the first miracle, but Mom wants that...do you think we could...um...start this thing early?";)

He also learned from us:  For instance, the Canaanite woman was healed because she appealed to his logic and taught him something. The woman followed him around proclaiming loudly that she could heal her daughter...but she was Canaanite. He told her to go away, his message was only for God's children, the Jews.  

She said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs are allowed crumbs off their master's table. Jesus then learned.:) He said: "Go woman, your faith has healed your daughter"...and you can read yourselves, from that day forward, his message was for everyone.:)   He also said several times, "I can do nothing without your faith."

I DO believe that Jesus was the son of God, yes, but perhaps not the only one?

Just the only one to die, as far as we know, proclaiming that he was doing so on our behalf.  Anyone that is willing to die for my bullshit and teach me a better way to love gets my vote.

And I don't think it has to be "either/or" with who gets what out of it either..there is no true altruism, just higher, more sophisticated love...but you still always get something out of it, even Mother Teresa got a sense of "doing the right thing" for herself and a more sophisticated kind of love.:)

Salvation would be icing on the cake, yes...but if I can "find a better way to live" while I'm here, that's the ticket..

"We now therefore proclaim the mystery of faith..."

We say this every communion in my Episcopal church, every Sunday...and right now, we're studying how the church expanded and survived, through the apostles, despite conflicting personalities, politics, and physical fights with one another...and how that message of love, hope, compassion (combined with his assertiveness against greed and hypocrisy) has survived despite the above...add in bible alterations, omissions,  and misinterpretation...THAT is the mystery of faith. :)

Peace be with you, this Sunday, my sistah...;)

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