Christianity, Sect of Judaism or Buddhism?

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Contents

Introduction

1:    The Path to Realisation of the Truth.

2:    The Way it Is.

3:    Religious Teachings.

4:    Christianity and Judaism.

5:    Christianity and Buddhism.

6:    Judaism and Buddhism

7:    Recapitulation.

8:    Conclusion.

9:    Final Clause.

INTRODUCTION

LIKE ANY OTHER good little south African white boy, of my age group, I too was brought up to be a good Christian follower of the faith and to live an exemplary life for all to, in my behaviour see the high quality of parental guidance I was privileged to enjoy. Even right from the moment that I entered into school in grade 1, the one subject that came to our class firstly was named Religion, in those days we even had to write exam on this subject. However, from even way back before I commenced my school career as a youngster I found myself questioning this so called religious education received from my parents. To me, right from the start there were problematic logistics that I for one couldn’t comprehend and no one else could explain to me when inquired about, my Dad just always said that I should only concern myself with having faith and not to question these so called facts as these facts were not meant to be questioned but believed.

Just to explain some of the difficulties that I found understanding this religious subject:-God is firstly not human and yet very human, I mean, how can a human being be the spitting image and in full likeness of anything not human, it’s simply just not possible and yet the Bible claims that man, human were created by this God in the image and likeness of this so called God. Thus this God must have the image and likeness of that created being called man and if this man is then human it means that this God simply just has to be human, yet the other part of this phenomenon clearly reveals this so called God not to be human. Now what now? More important in this regard is the composition of man, human being, and the composition of God. If man is equal to God and man is flesh and blood, what does that make God to be? and if God is omnipotent, what must the human being then be like?. Both the above mentioned ideas are incomprehensible and yet, both are biblical truths.

Another aspect of this is the idea of the so called soul within man, the identity that gets rewarded or alternatively punished for man’s actions here on earth, I mean, why reward or punish anyone for someone else’s actions, in all fairness the one who committed the action should be rewarded or then punished for his particular action not so? Therefore, if the soul is taken to be the accountable one, then the doer of that accountability should’ve been this soul, thus if the man, person, does something and the soul receives the effects thereof it surely implies that this man is in fact nothing else than the very soul itself. Now, if the man is the soul it means that the soul cannot exist for ever and ever as we were taught because every individual dies at one point of time, so if this soul happens to be man, and this man happens to die, it tells me that the soul actually dies. How can it now be punished or rewarded for anything done before it died, after its death, and how can it be punished or rewarded non stop for eternity after it died.

These above examples are only but very few of the problematic questions I’ve raised to parents, teachers and religious preachers without receiving any answer whatsoever. Consequently I came to realise that I was all on my own in this regard and that I’ll have to find the truth all alone and by myself.

1:

The Path to Realisation of the Truth.

I COMMENCED AN extensive in depth study into religion at that point of time in my life at the age of ± 7 years and read every and any religious topic in absolutely any book that I could lay my hands on, please realise that at that point of time it by necessity could only be the Torah, the Bible or the Koran as that was the only available literature on the subject. Soon, in about 2½ years, I finally came to realise that all these efforts proves to be futile and that I’m not going to get anywhere with that. I simply just had to figure this whole thing out for myself without any external aid whatsoever. I was privileged to grow-up on a farm near a small town named Middelburg in the then Transvaal province of South Africa, on our farm there was a river running through and at the far north eastern border on the other side of this river called Keerom Spruit there was a fairly big Poplar forest with 2 particularly large Poplar trees right on the riverbank on that other side and inside the river centre between these two trees there were some very large rocks.

Every free moment I enjoyed during those happy days of my childhood I’ve spent sitting on top of the biggest of these rocks in the shade of those two trees listening to the water’s soothing cobbling sound as it passes through right beneath me over the small stones embedded in the sand of the river bed watching the flow as it slightly disturbs the sand bed and the small little fishes swerving and swaying through the running waters as they seemingly at that stage played unaware of our world of hustle and bustle outside their water paradise. The calmness I experienced doing that was immense and absolutely beyond any verbal definition or expression.

One specific day as I sat watching the water hearing its calmness I suddenly realised that what I’m actually experiencing was a absolute unthought-of phenomenon ever yet. I came to realise that this so called water was actually unique in the sense that though I see and hear the same waters over and over again it actually is not, I came to realise that I’m looking at absolute new water every micro second of the time and that the specific water that I now see and hear moved out of site in a wink of an eye and its space has been filled with other water, I also realised that those little fishes swam in and drank new water every micro second of their entire life, this idea caused me to contemplate the grass of the field, every winter the fields turned beige as the grass was believed to’ve died, then we normally burned these fields and they turned pitch black, yet without ploughing or sowing any new grass, when the summer finally arrive these same black burned grass fields would turn foliage green and be alive once more to serve as food for our cattle. Would this perhaps be the way that humans are as well I thought, do we perhaps at some stage after death also raise up and bloom another period of time, should this however be the case, my next question was, when does this happen, I know of plenty people who passed on long before then and never yet until then returned.

Just thinking of Hebrew history which holds that the man called Yoshuda, this is the man known as Jesus, has risen from the dead and even he hasn’t been seen yet. This fact poses yet another question I thought, if so and not here, where then do this risen dead ones rise and live again as man requires a very unique and specific atmosphere to survive in and we all know that within our solar system there is no other planet with such a life support system where man could survive, there, I then realised, there I found the prove that the dead cannot rise, thus the grass of the field are as a matter of fact more than us humans because these grass rises from the dead year after year. Later that same time while still contemplating this I came to realise that the grass which flourishes the following season is in fact not the same grass that was burned. Actually it is the same grass yet not the same grass, there was a biochemical interference which changed the composite of the grass to make it grow again. So it became new grass yet from the old grass.

Upon this realisation I suddenly came to know that humans also spring the one from the other and that although parents die, their children carries on to live, in other words, as with the grass its also here with humans, we are the same as our parents and yet we’re not the same although we came from them, genetically we are blueprints of our parental couple yet we are uniquely different from them, without them we wouldn’t be around though and therefore we are as much the same as them as what we differ from them. It is solely the life force within our parental couple that flows through us sustaining

our existence.

It was this realisation that moved me to compare myself to a light bulb. As I was said to be water, blood and spirit, a triune being with a life force within I could clearly see the same qualities in a light bulb, it consisted out of the outer glass casing vacuumed which resembles my body, (water & blood), its electric element which glows when switched on and this resembles my spirit, the subsequent light that it gives resembles my intellect. The electric current would resemble the life force that sustain my being. Should the electricity be switched off there’s no way that the bulb can shine its light. Likewise, in the event of the life force within me be switched off so to speak, there’s also no way that I would be called a being any further irrespective of the cause why this life force stopped. Likewise also, should any component of a light bulb be damaged or broken, there is no electrical current whatsoever that could make this bulb shine out light again and should any component, (life sustaining organ) within me stop to function or be damaged there is absolutely no life force that could get me to be alive.

Electricity, life force, what is it, well I knew that electricity was made up of 3 components, volts, amps and their product, watts, whaw, this feels like some past knowledge revisiting me, of course it is, the Bible, I’ll print that section from the Bible for the sake of better understanding what I’m trying to tell you. 1 John 5:7:-For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. :8:-And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. So here we are with volts, amps and watts which are one, electricity. And glass casing, vacuum and element which agree in one, forms one unit. Very interesting I thought to myself, my problem here was with the scriptures, where is this heaven, what is this heaven, man, am I fortunate because of my intense biblical study earlier in my life, every question’s reply just pops up from my memory, again I’ll print from the Bible. Gen 1:6:-And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7:-And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. 8:-And God called the firmament Heaven. Clearly here we can easily find the answer to my questions regarding heaven, (i) where is heaven, between the dams, rivers, sea and the clouds (ii) What is heaven, it’s the firmament, the air between these water recourses and the clouds. Electricity also is in the air between earth and sky, you only need a generator to convert the static electricity to a useable current caught up in power lines though.

Realising this I then started contemplating myself, my being, in much greater depth, slowly day by day as the time passed by I realised the following scientific facts about the human body and its composition. Aside being only water, blood and spirit this human body holds far more in its composition, although ± 90% water, a great deal of this water was in a semi solid state being flesh, fat, muscle, sinew, nerves, ligaments, bones and lots more. That it is a very intricate thing this body no one could argue and yet as tough as it seems to be its just as fragile, this body can die due to the slightest little thing that might go wrong. However, it isn’t just flesh and blood that makes up a human, out of all the organs there is one that is not tangible, this is the human mind was my thoughts at a certain point of time during this mental analysis of what a human is. You might reason that the mind is not a organ but allow me to assure you that that’s all the human mind is, just another one of many organs of a human being’s make-up. Consider this, the mind can be developed, can be taught, it can also be controlled just as any other organ of the body, once the body dies, the mind is as dead as all the other organs and can never function again.

The largest organ of a human being is the skin and all his other organs are situated inside this organ, likewise is the organ, mind, situated inside another organ called the brain, the mind is not the brain and the brain definitely is not the mind. More than merely just the body and all its various organs, cells, liquids and atoms proves to be a human being. This could be referred to as his personality, his attitude, that which he really is, his behaviour patterns. From all the various organs there are five which should be taken special cognisance of, these are the sense organs because they are the body’s contact to the outside world, they’re also the human’s only contact with the outside world. Without these five organs a individual finds himself completely separated from the entire world around him. These organs are called, (i) Eyes. (ii) Tongue. (iii) Ears. (iv) Nose and (v) the Nerve System, their contact functions with the world are Sight, Taste, Sound, Odour and Feeling. The fact is that the only difference between a corpse and a being is that the corpse houses no senses anymore. So the only realisable thing that leave a human body at death is its sensibility, nothing else. Hence there exists no special hidden something inside living beings that could carry on further after the demise of such a being was the only conclusion that I could reach at that point in time of my life. Although the bulb is manufactured, made, so am I, my parents made me just like a factory made the bulb, I’m just through a different process from a different component list but still just manufactured like anything else on earth and so we all are.

Yet one other sense forms an intricate part of a human’s composition, this sometimes is referred to as one’s sixth sense, the particular sense organ that constitutes this sense is the mind. I’ll collaborate on that in detail at a later stage, for now there is another fact to consider. With what I’ve realised up to now the burning question to me is what or rather who, no, rather what would this so called God be which is in the same state, same image and likeness to this that I so far came to know. To understand him I have to figure out more about me, about human beings, where we originated from, where we all come from etc. Here follows what I arrived at with regards to these problematic questions. The wonderful phenomena regarding our human ingredients left me dumbfounded, allow me to enlighten you with this astonishing evidence. See diagram on page 18 below and just look at what I’ve derived with regards to the ancestral lineage of the species. Although this diagram is true for the majority of beings sharing the earth with us there are certain species that fall outside the specifications that are relevant to this diagram. Examples of these would be multi procreative beings like cats, dogs, lions and all other species that bare more than a single offspring per each birth. Nonetheless, my aim is more concentrated towards humans and for these the data within this diagram are a hundred percent true and correct. Fascinating though this information only serves as a means to convey a complete different message than what in fact is apparent in the table. It reflects the number of people required to produce 1 offspring 10 generations into the future.

Explanatory notes on the contents of Tables 1 & 2.

Table 1: The far left column denote the generation’s numerator, as in Nº. 1 means this generation and thus Nº. 2 would mean the immediate previous generation. Therefore it can clearly be seen that Table 1 reflects the past ten generations starting with now, this moment. The column directly to the right of this column reflects the quantity, the number, of people it took to cause the births of the previous number of people. The very first quantity right at the bottom is 1 and that is me alone. The next number right above that is 2 and that are my parents. Right above them are 4, they are my grandparents and they’re the first people of this, my current generation. Directly above them appears a number 8 that represents my great grandparents and so the Table goes on upwards reflecting the number of people in each dispensation of every generation required to make the number of births possible in the