I find it hard to believe that Jesus traveled 3000 miles to India. There's simply no solid proof of it. Just speculation.
However, King Asoka sent missionaries all over the world. And it was mentioned that these Buddhist misssionaries reached the middle east and even as far to Greece and Egypt.
The essences were probably heavily influenced by Buddhist thoughts. And John the Baptist was an essence. Jesus was probably influenced by John and the buddhist missionaries in the mideast.
This seems more highly likely than Jesus traveling to India. I don't think it's possible at all for him to go that far east and why would he?. Feel free to debate this since I'm intrigued by the correlation between Buddha's teachings and Jesus.
Originally posted by CosmicSurfer
I find it hard to believe that Jesus traveled 3000 miles to India. There's simply no solid proof of it. Just speculation.However, King Asoka sent missionaries all over the world. And it was mentioned that these Buddhist misssionaries reached the middle east and even as far to Greece and Egypt.
The essences were probably heavily influenced by Buddhist thoughts. And John the Baptist was an essence. Jesus was probably influenced by John and the buddhist missionaries in the mideast.
This seems more highly likely than Jesus traveling to India. I don't think it's possible at all for him to go that far east and why would he?. Feel free to debate this since I'm intrigued by the correlation between Buddha's teachings and Jesus.
Here is the Lotus Sutra, it's hard to read, but it will help you understand the correlation between the teaching of Buddha and Jesus.
http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/library/Buddhism/LotusSutra/
Originally posted by mr.smiley
It's very possible for the two religons to influence eachother.Like I said earlier,a Brahma priest was even part of the rights of Dionysus.We can't prove this happend on a major scale,but we know it happened once.
I think, generally, you are correct. The more we learn about the ancient world the more we realize that there was some kind of trade that connected parts of the world we never though passable. Many of the general concepts are similar like reincarnation and resurrection.
go to Israel and look up their records before Christ came. or go to the library and maybe look up information about Jewish history in biblical times. the Jews before christ hate gentiles. but after christ and the Romans lost power then that would be a different story in the trade business, but before no history of Israel trading with India. but some early Christians did get some influence from there.
Originally posted by cking
go to Israel and look up their records before Christ came. or go to the library and maybe look up information about Jewish history in biblical times. the Jews before christ hate gentiles. but after christ and the Romans lost power then that would be a different story in the trade business, but before no history of Israel trading with India. but some early Christians did get some influence from there.
Cking, I know my world history, at the time when Jesus lived the Roman Empire extended all the way east as far as Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf. The Romans traded with Persia and they traded with India. The Romans ruled Israel at that time when Jesus lived and the Romans would not let Jewish law dictate anything about trade, trade was important.
the Romans did let Israel follow their own laws. I read some history myself. the Romans did let their provinces do what they wanted to as long as the governor would handle it. if a rebellion started they would come down and destroy the country. Pilate was pressured because if he let Jesus go then the Jews would get mad and they would rebel and Pilate would be fired from his position, so he let the Jews do what they wanted. Pilate said he was non guilty, while the Jews said he was guilty. after that, Pilate ruled in Judea for 12 more years. After that things were really starting going bad for Pilate, he was shipped to France where he hanged himself. That decision had a big impact on his life. he surely was the victim that day.