The Gospel of Mark: Buddha as the Incarnation of YHWH (Jehovah)
The author of the Gospel of Mark is saying that the way to understand Judaism is through Buddhism. God is becoming manifest in us like he did in Gautama, so "Mark" paints Buddha as the incarnation of YHWH -- Jesus Christ -- who we also shall become. Hence, "(Buddha is) The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ" (Mark 1: 1).
This strikes even me as odd as I have seen Jesus being crucified for me. I saw it at the House of Praise in Kaimuki, Hawaii. In a Sunday morning service, Rod Wilson asked us to think about what Jesus had done for us. I saw Jesus being scourged cruelly by the Romans, the glass and metal in the cat-of-nine-tails tearing his flesh. I saw his back torn up like hamburger with the rough-sawn timber placed upon it. He didn't just stumble, passing out from the pain as he carried the cross, he was going into shock, dying. I saw him laid with that back on the cross and a spike set to be driven into his wrist, and then he looked straight at me and said AUDIBLY, "Come unto me." What had Buddha to do with that?
Prophecy. Prophecy tells us what IS. The life of Buddha told Mark what is. Prophecy has nothing to do with the future except we haven't gotten to what "is" YET, but we are going to.
"But Dan, Buddhists believe there is no God." There isn't. There is no separate, outside god divided from and separately apart from us. There is that which is, and we are all that there is, for we are included in all that is him. The Ineffable is e'had -- all that there is. If you think that God is something that spoke the universe and world into separate and distinct existence apart from himself, you are in for a wonderful surprise. Read Deuteronomy 6: 4 and LISTEN to it. Forget the he is over-there, separate and apart and completely divided from us, wholly-other "God" you inherited from Mithraism and their Roman Catholic theology. The Triune Spirit is ultimately, wholly, and completely ONE: the Ineffable Source, the Spirit/Consciousness, and the Intelligence which has become matter are all one big, integrated No-thing. There isn't any other God outside of the one who is inside ourselves.
"But Dan, Buddhists believe there is transmigration of the soul. Well, the Bible says we die only once, not that we only live once. We died to become crucified on this cross of flesh and suffer until we meet the Judgment of having becoming the Image of God.
There is no telling how many "lives" it might take for us to be generated into the likeness of God. Do you have an idea of how long eternity is? We have been developing character and ability in our souls while forgetting life after life for a long time, and will continue to until we become His theology. He being the one who spoke to me that Sunday in Kaimuki. Not Gautama Buddha, but the one my imagination is becoming -- the one I am destined to become -- the complete, perfect, and mature Manifestation of the Living Source of God whom we are. He whom we are becoming already exists(!), for the plan was completed at the beginning. Actualized theology is the technique of His becoming God through us.What does your theology tell you to do?
"Amen, I am telling you, that all sins and blasphemies that human beings commit will be forgiven" (Mark 3: 28, Alexander). Yes! WILL be, though it take an eternity! "However, the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit has no forgiveness to the end of the universe, except he calls against himself the Judgment of the universe" (Mark 3: 29 Alexander, incorporating note, emphasis mine). The Holy Spirit testifies to Jesus Christ, that we all are one with God. If we don't catch on and wake up but reject this testimony, we call upon OURSELVES the Judgment that we are still in the ignorance of the universe and get restored life after life after life to the wailing and gnashing of teeth of this deadly, terrestrial sphere of forgetting -- the "Grave." Gee, it sounds like Buddha's admonition to break out of the cycle of rebirth.
Mark wrote what he understood of Gautama Buddha as a Jewish Jesus. I saw the Jesus I knew. Do you think God cares that my image of our destiny was inspired by an India sage? The "Word" of God EXPRESSES WHAT IS. Christ is God's power and wisdom, Christ is become us, Christ is in a state of forgetting what is, Christ is crucified and buried, Christ is waking himself up, Christ is forgiven, and Christ is risen from this death.
This strikes even me as odd as I have seen Jesus being crucified for me. I saw it at the House of Praise in Kaimuki, Hawaii. In a Sunday morning service, Rod Wilson asked us to think about what Jesus had done for us. I saw Jesus being scourged cruelly by the Romans, the glass and metal in the cat-of-nine-tails tearing his flesh. I saw his back torn up like hamburger with the rough-sawn timber placed upon it. He didn't just stumble, passing out from the pain as he carried the cross, he was going into shock, dying. I saw him laid with that back on the cross and a spike set to be driven into his wrist, and then he looked straight at me and said AUDIBLY, "Come unto me." What had Buddha to do with that?
Prophecy. Prophecy tells us what IS. The life of Buddha told Mark what is. Prophecy has nothing to do with the future except we haven't gotten to what "is" YET, but we are going to.
"But Dan, Buddhists believe there is no God." There isn't. There is no separate, outside god divided from and separately apart from us. There is that which is, and we are all that there is, for we are included in all that is him. The Ineffable is e'had -- all that there is. If you think that God is something that spoke the universe and world into separate and distinct existence apart from himself, you are in for a wonderful surprise. Read Deuteronomy 6: 4 and LISTEN to it. Forget the he is over-there, separate and apart and completely divided from us, wholly-other "God" you inherited from Mithraism and their Roman Catholic theology. The Triune Spirit is ultimately, wholly, and completely ONE: the Ineffable Source, the Spirit/Consciousness, and the Intelligence which has become matter are all one big, integrated No-thing. There isn't any other God outside of the one who is inside ourselves.
"But Dan, Buddhists believe there is transmigration of the soul. Well, the Bible says we die only once, not that we only live once. We died to become crucified on this cross of flesh and suffer until we meet the Judgment of having becoming the Image of God.
There is no telling how many "lives" it might take for us to be generated into the likeness of God. Do you have an idea of how long eternity is? We have been developing character and ability in our souls while forgetting life after life for a long time, and will continue to until we become His theology. He being the one who spoke to me that Sunday in Kaimuki. Not Gautama Buddha, but the one my imagination is becoming -- the one I am destined to become -- the complete, perfect, and mature Manifestation of the Living Source of God whom we are. He whom we are becoming already exists(!), for the plan was completed at the beginning. Actualized theology is the technique of His becoming God through us.What does your theology tell you to do?
"Amen, I am telling you, that all sins and blasphemies that human beings commit will be forgiven" (Mark 3: 28, Alexander). Yes! WILL be, though it take an eternity! "However, the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit has no forgiveness to the end of the universe, except he calls against himself the Judgment of the universe" (Mark 3: 29 Alexander, incorporating note, emphasis mine). The Holy Spirit testifies to Jesus Christ, that we all are one with God. If we don't catch on and wake up but reject this testimony, we call upon OURSELVES the Judgment that we are still in the ignorance of the universe and get restored life after life after life to the wailing and gnashing of teeth of this deadly, terrestrial sphere of forgetting -- the "Grave." Gee, it sounds like Buddha's admonition to break out of the cycle of rebirth.
Mark wrote what he understood of Gautama Buddha as a Jewish Jesus. I saw the Jesus I knew. Do you think God cares that my image of our destiny was inspired by an India sage? The "Word" of God EXPRESSES WHAT IS. Christ is God's power and wisdom, Christ is become us, Christ is in a state of forgetting what is, Christ is crucified and buried, Christ is waking himself up, Christ is forgiven, and Christ is risen from this death.
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