Journeyman;5862 The absence of any evidence of Jesus in his years between 18 and 30 is typical among cults and religions thousands of years before Jesus. In Egypt the gods(Horus) did the same thing during the same ages. Birth to 12 -nothing- 30 to death and resurrection. As as far as Greek influence goes, just read the NT and look at its influence. The book of John is heavily based on a Greek and Roman motif. BTW, from what I understand Buddhist are concerned with enlightenment and Christianity is concerned with a salvific process. They are not the same thing. Certainly one could be a Christian and a Buddhist experiencing salvation and enlightnement.
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" And He came to Nazareth where He HAS BEEN BROUHT UP; and as His CUSTOM WAS, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and STOOD UP TO READ" Recorded by the Greek Physician Luke in Luke 4: 16.
At least for the first two years He was in Egypt. Then we see him lost in the Temple at age 12 during their annual visits there for Passover. Then his routines are given till the age 30. Then He is with John the Baptist in Judah. Then he is back in Galilee as described in Kuke 4. Then three years He is all over Israel and finally at about 33 years He is crucified, buried, risen leaving no trace of His dead body... When in th world was He in India?
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"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things as a meaningful unity" - Albert Einstein
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Einstein is not infallible. Gautamma though a prince was inferior to the Brahmins. He did not like that. He wanted to abolish the Caste system (Caste is an English coinage of word. Varna = color is the rght
original Hindu word. Caste system was a Color system.
But, the English saw all Indians as colored.). His second problem was 330 million gods of Hinduism, while the Upanishads make no such references. So, he got rid of all of them and declared Nirvana as the end of Reincarnations. His version of Hinduism (Buddhism) swept across India all the way to Shri Lanka, Burma and Tibet- all then parts of Bharat/Hindustan (India).
Then Shankar, the teen age Sanskrit prodigy from Kerala, India came along and his guru gave him a mission, actually a trick. He should go to Benares ( the Vatican of Hinduism) and convince the Pundits that there are no gods but " You are Brahman", and " I am Brahman" and "everything is Brahman". This is the unity you are talking about!
Sankar was influenced also by the Monotheism of the Mission of Apostle Tomas in India, especially to the Cochin Jews Kerala. St. Thomas landed was very close to his grand parents around 53 A.D.
Eistein and many secularists and humanists in the West were also tricked into this.
Buddha died an ordinary death and his body was burned according to customs. Some could not believe this. So he was venerated and extolled into Nirvana.
There is only one Tomb which does not have any trace of its guest. That is the tomb of the Messiah. There was no Nirvana, only the historic Bodily Resurrection attested by his enemies and friends alike.
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