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From: pete@octopus.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: one more time (who claims to be fully human & fully God?)
Message-ID: <224@octopus.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Sep-86 03:04:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 19 03:04:33 1986
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In article <2741@pogo.UUCP> daveb@pogo.UUCP (Dave Butler) writes:
>In article <222@octopus.UUCP> Pete Holzman writes:
>>There is only one unique
>>thing about the Bible/Christianity that makes it any different than other
>>religions: Jesus. No other religion has a central human figure ('prophet',
>>whatever you want to call it) who claimed to *be* God.
>
>Sorry to burst your bubble Pete, but Vishnu came to earth several times. One
>of his most important manefestations was Krishna (also called Lord of Lust),
>[interesting story of a miraculous battle...]
>
>Not only that, but Krishna could not be mistaken for merely human if he 
>weren't in disguissed. He was tall, beatiful, "black as a lotus", had 4 arms, 
>and could speak from the moment of his birth. The Bible may have been 
>"inspired" by God, but Krishna gave us the _Bagavad_Gita_ in person. If you 
>don't buy this and think its a bunch of cowflop, then stop and think for a 
>moment, and maybe you'll understand why hindus (and many other people) think 
>the same about christianity.

Dave, I'll admit up front that I'm personally no expert on comparative
religions. However, I think your example is rather poor: From the description
you gave, Krishna was in no way fully human. In fact, he even needed a disguise
to *look* human. I didn't say it very well, I guess: Jesus claimed to be fully
God *and* fully human simultaneously, and provided evidence to that effect.

There's lots of interesting followup questions of course. I probably won't
get involved (I don't have lots of time-- this is fun, but my family needs
to get more of my time! Oh well...)


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