So I watched this video a few weeks ago and I have been mulling it over since then, knowing if I talk about it I will alienate some friends, if they read it and watch it, because if true, their religion would be based on a lie. And I have always thought it was a lie, but proof and theory are totally different.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YbUEZfJJaQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
For those not inclined to cut in paste in a browser it is a documentary from the BBC that exposes some irregularities and offers an explanation for several parts of Jesus's life that is not forthcoming in the bible. It also gives us an explanation of his teachings that fits truer than anything out there.
1. Execution by crucifixtion is a long death lasting days without assistance, yet Jesus died in only six hours. Jesus was crucified on a Friday and the Romans were anxious to get the execution over with before sundown so they were breaking the legs of the crucified. No pressure ability to stand on the nail securing the legs, causes the victim to quickly suffocate. Jesus had already died at this point. The suggestion was that when the friends of Jesus bathed to wounds with a sponge and with brine water that there could have been a poison that slowed his heart rate making him appear dead.
Could have added is weak proof though.
2. Jesus was interred right away and his friends brought incense and herbs to prepare his body. The items were named, frankensense and aloe. Aloe is not used in any embalming practise, but it is used in healing. Why would they bring him aloe unless he was alive.
Three days later he was seen and then he vanished. Where did he go? The answer could lie in his past. Much is known about his life as a child when he traveled to Egypt and then again when he was thirty when he appeared and started preaching.
3. Three wise men came to Bethlehem in search of a king. That is part of the famous story, but who could they have been and what were they really looking for? They came from the east that is known. The documentary suggests they could have been Buddhist monks. Buddhist monks after a great leader dies often go in search of the reincarnated soul and invite them back to the temple. They do this these days. Twenty years ago they came to a small Nova Scotia town and approached on family and told them their son who was only thirteen had the reincarted soul of one of their great leaders and they offered him the chance to learn about his life, his last life. This could have happened to Jesus, and he could have journeyed to the east just to do this thing. After all where was he for nearly twenty years?
4. When Jesus reappeared on the scene in Judaea, he was preaching brotherly love and the Golden Rule, do on to others as you would have them do on to you. A philosophy that is in many ways the opposite of the Jewish faith of eye for an eye tooth for a tooth. His knew philosophical ideals blasphemous compared to the status quo, but would be very well received by the populous. There was a religion that did preach these ideals, Buddhism. Two or three year journey both ways funded by to gold from the Three Wisemen, the same going back leaves many years of studying these loving ways. It can fill these twenty missing years and explain the philosophy change.
5. So where did Jesus go after he was resurrected? He could not stay in the Roman Empire; the laws regarding failed executions were very strict, try again. So Jesus went away to the only other home he had ever known, the Buddhist temple. The BBC documentary revealed the location of his tomb and mentioned the two irregularities in his tomb. First he was burried in the wrong direction according to the Buddhist tradition, but the correct direction for a Jewish person. Secondly there was a carving of his feet on top of the tomb of the occupant. There is a scar on each foot, that corespond to a wound caused by a nail driven into his feet. Crucifixion was used only by Rome for executions in those times.
So we can either believe that Jesus died, was resurrected and transcended directly to heaven. Or we can see Jesus as a boy who received the blessing of an alternate education, but was executed for blasphemy, but faked his death and fled back to his old school to live out his life as a Buddhist monk until the age of eighty.
Watch the video with an open mind and listen to its proof. I don't really care, because I am not a Christian, so it is merely an acedemic discussion for me.
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