Religion
In reply to the discussion: Christians; how do you regard Hinduism? [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)Jesus or not? Is an absolute, universal, eternal truth transcendental or not? or is it limited only to the traits that individuals ascribe to it? What was Jesus before he incarnated as what we have come to refer to as "Jesus"? What is it that makes "him" Jesus right now? and where the fuck is "he"?
Isn't it a mistake to limit a universal truth to a single instance of something, a body named Jesus whom some happened to experience 2000+ years ago, when the reason we remember that person in the first place is in the HOW (as in the manner) of that be -ing, not just only the whats (after-all there were others who lived similar whats and we don't remember them) and it is that particular HOW, that manner of doing what was done, that instructs us and which we try to reify in our own manners of be -ing. I could look like Jesus, talk like Jesus, say the things Jesus said, do the things that we "know" Jesus did, but if I don't do that stuff in the manner of that particular be -ing, something that is accessbile to anyone who commits to it, be -ing that others can happen to come to themselves whether they label it "Jesus" or not, what does it mean?