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**BigE** · 12-20-2007, 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by voyd

Allan Kardec Spiritism actually draws a lot upon the Bible.Hmm, what's the debate over? Whether Jesus really travelled to Asia in his 18 missing years and learned and taught from the Eastern mystery schools there?

In fact, you may be aware that some Catholic priests have been investigating if Jesus's resurrection was (or related to) what Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhists call a "rainbow body" ascension:

Never heard of that. Actually, the big question is to what degree is Christ present in other religion since only Christ can save. Moreover, to what degree is their religion posses Divine inspiration. Many theologians have had to ammend their work or have had their teaching faculties removed because they went a tad beyond what Rome allows. I could tell you more but I don't have time.

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Originally Posted by MeTurk

Surgery?!! I wouldn't let a possessed man within 10 foot of me with a scalpel. What if the doctor's from 300 years ago and wants to bleed the badness out of you?

I'd go for a look but be very wary this has con written all over it. I'm very sceptical and don't believe in this kind of stuff.

You said it.

**voyd** · 12-20-2007, 08:10 AM

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Originally Posted by BigE

Never heard of that. Actually, the big question is to what degree is Christ present in other religion since only Christ can save. Moreover, to what degree is their religion posses Divine inspiration. Many theologians have had to ammend their work or have had their teaching faculties removed because they went a tad beyond what Rome allows. I could tell you more but I don't have time.

I'm wondering if that might be a translational error or more open to interpretation than people commonly think. Another Christian was just preaching that to me yesterday and I still don't see it, per se. In fact, it sounds somewhat cultish and manipulative to me. Although, I still remain open to whatever the ultimate truth may be...

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"You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, 'What did that man pick up?' 'He picked up a piece of the truth,' said the devil. 'That is a very bad business for you, then,' said his friend. 'Oh, not at all,' the devil replied, 'I am going to help him organize it.' I maintain that truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or coerce people along a particular path."

"The core of Krishnamurti's teaching is contained in the statement he made in 1929 when he said: 'Truth is a pathless land'. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation, and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. Man has built in himself images as a sense of security—religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these dominates man's thinking, relationships and his daily life. These are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man in every relationship."

Some of the most deceptive lies are those mixed with truth so that the 2 are no longer easily-distinguishable. Caveat emptor.

Actually, it would be interesting to muscle-test these theological memes and see what the human lie-detecting body has to say...