OkCornel:


Hi bro,

It's quite tough uploading the book on nairaland. Perhaps you could send me you email so I forward it to you.

Cheers.

OLAADEGBU:


Who do you pay yours too, Buddha or at the palm wine shrine?

LoJ:
It takes fools to Oppose Jesus and Buddha.

When you know both schools of thought, and when you read the gospels carefully, it is very obvious that Jesus has been influenced by Buddhist thought to a great extend. I don't know if this exposure to Buddhist thought came as a result of a trip to India (as suggested by some archeological evidence) or if it is from his initiation in Egypt or from his essenic training or some other source. Still, many of his sayings, teachings parables and event healings have a Buddhist/ hindouist background.

budaatum:

More like similarities, and not background, I'd say. They seem to be of different sources to me with Buddhism originating from Hinduism and Jesus from what's seeming like Egypt. I'm finding out quite a whole lot came out of there! Everyone had a brain!

History of Indian and Africana Philosophy HAP 01 - Something Old, Something New - Introducing Africana Philosophy

MuttleyLaff:
I dislike when people upload audio without option to read, just like one site my missus too always gives me to listen to, and I literally going and am screaming what of those having hearing challenges but can read. FOLYKAZE, might like and enjoy the link

Prof Sophie Oluwole RIP would be smiling in her grave at the mention of Africana Philosophy

budaatum:
[url=https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.karucu.com/uploaded_documents/the%2520lotus%2520and%2520the%2520cross_%2520jesus%2520%2520-%2520ravi%2520z-180848.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjPn9KVxMvjAhWQSxUIHfR3Bi0QFjAAegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw1fvFhq3OE5B2B46O5MhXHj]The Lotus and the Cross: JESUS TALKS WITH BUDDHA
By RAVI ZACHARIAS[/url]

OLAADEGBU:


"And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness" (2 Thessalonians 2:10-12).

Buddhism is the most subtle and dangerous religion of all. This is what happens when folks reject the truth, they will then be open to believe a lie that will delude and deceive them. If you continue on this path you have chosen and die in your sin, you will never be able to go into the presence of God and say, "I never heard the gospel." If you turn your back on the Lord Jesus Christ, then you are wide open for delusion and you will then be subject for judgment. There is nothing like reincarnation, after death there is nothing but judgment.

"And it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Hebrew 9:27).

As a believer giving out the gospel, I am a savour of life to those that are saved and a savour of death to those that perish. I have really put you out on a limb, because you cannot say you have never heard it, and you have probably heard it in several different places. If you reject Jesus Christ, then I am the savour of death to you. If you accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, then I am a savour of life to you.

OLAADEGBU:
Does it matter that Buddha came long before Jesus?

In the modern West, people often consider ideas that are new, novel, and more recently discovered through the most up to date studies and methodologies to carry the most weight. In the Buddhist East, however, this is not the case. It is common among Asian Buddhists to consider the fact that Siddhartha Gautama (the man known as "the Buddha" ) lived and taught around 500 years before Jesus walked the earth to be an argument in favour of the truth and value of Buddhism over Christianity. These cultures generally see wisdom that is more ancient and time-tested to be more venerable and more likely to be true. The truth is that neither novelty nor ancient origin is, in fact, good arguments in and of themselves for the truth of an idea or teaching. Still, it is worthwhile to note for the sake of Buddhist friends that the Christian gospel is actually more ancient wisdom than Buddhism.

https://carm.org/does-it-matter-that-buddha-came-long-before-jesus

CaveAdullam:
A nice read indeed. There are some similarities but many foundational differences.

Please uncle budatuum, I will like to know how you managed to download this PDF copy, because I was unable to do same using my favourite; Google and all the sites that pop up.

Thanks for sharing once more.

God bless.

budaatum:
To speak the name of the dead is to make them live again
Egyptian Proverb 3180BC

omokoladejames:

One of the major tenets of Christianity is the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.

1 Cor 15:14, the apostle Paul says: “if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.”

Amujale:
Does it matter?

Yes, it does matter.

Buddha predates the making of the Jesus character.

budaatum:

Are you saying Paul wrote that a tenet of Christianity is the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ? I doubt you are saying the Body of Christ is physically somewhere today 2000 years later. And I doubt Corinthians is that simple, Paul definitely wasn't. Can you explain what Paul's point was in 1 Cor:15?

How you been? I have read so much that I am blind now so be patient please. When I see again I will respond..

budaatum:

You want to know how lol! Well, let me oblige you.

I too used only google search, title+author+epub and dug through the popups. That's the work. If you don't seek you won't be finding anything, but you still provided the impetus for it when you said "Let there be", and tools, and voila, so you, uncle.

I read, "store your wealth where the moths can't eat it" and think, in my head. Nothing can get at it there except death. So I chew paper. Stuffed my head full of it so I know where to look I think.

You are aware your question, CaveAdullam, is, "how are you buda?" Lol.

CaveAdullam:
please uncle budatuum, do you have the complete volumes i.e volume 1-3 or only volume 3 of the the book in the light of the truth; grail message?

budaatum:
In the Light of Truth
Grail Message by Abdrushin

I am not uncle! Call me buda.

omokoladejames:

I've been good boss, hope u good also.
Yes , u are right, the book of Corinthians or any other book of the bible for that matter is not simple by any standard. But while we humbly grapple with the Bible's complexity, we are not to loose sight of the fundamentals.
The fundamentals of the scriptures(atleast to the best of my understanding) is God created a good world and made humanity the crown jewel of His creation but through the actions of one man, evil entered into creation and with it came death and corruption. God in His mercy promised that evil won't get the last word and that he would redeem His creation from the power of sin and death. In keeping with this promise, God took on the corrupted flesh, lived a perfect life, showed humanity what it means to be truly human by the way he lived, allowed the weight of sin and death to crush him and by His resurrection, rendered both sin and death powerless. By these acts, God kept his part of the bargain and humanity is now given the choice of either accepting God's grace of redemption or rejecting it and going his own way.

1 Corinthians 15 deals with that last act of the promise. Apparently some factions in the Corinthian church did not believe in the resurrection of the dead. The Greeks did have different views of the afterlife, some believed the soul lived on in Hades, some believed there's nothing after death while others supported the pantheistic believe and did not support the idea of personal immortality. One thing all these beliefs share in common was that they didn't believe in the resurrection of the body.

Paul begins his message by iterating one of the first things he passed on to them: " Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, he was buried and was raised up on the third day according to the scriptures"1 cor 3-4(paraphrase). He made them understand that they didn't just have to take his word that Christ arose from the dead, the risen Christ appeared to over 500 people including the apostles, many of whom were still alive, so it was something they could fact check.
The second part of the chapter deals with the implications of the rejecting the resurrection of the dead. Basically Paul's argument was, if there's no resurrection of the dead, then Christ himself couldn't have been resurrected and if Christ was not risen from the dead then our faith is useless and we are still in our sins.
The last part deals with how the dead are resurrected and what type of body will they come with. This part has sparked debates amongst christains as Paul used imagery and theological language here but one thing most sides of the divide agree on is that the risen body would be incorruptible and immortal. I'm sure there are alot of people here who are more qualified than I am that can break down this section better.

I know I barely scratched the surface here but I hope you can see why the bodily resurrection of Christ was so important to the apostles and the early church. Luke 24:36-42 is just one of the verses that showed Jesus was bodily alive after death on the cross, and u can look up many other instances of this in the gospels and letters. The early church fathers also made sure this teaching was passed down uncorrupted by repeating it in their writings and writing against those who believed otherwise.

Just as an aside if I may: Christianity is one of those religions that cannot be mixed with other worldviews or philosophies, no matter how harmless or noble they seem at face value. Though I applaud your thirst for knowledge and understanding, one has to be careful in one's quest for knowledge because not all knowledge is from God and we have to be careful of the kind of knowledge we consume 1timothy 6:20 is one of such admonitions of many. Christianity is an all-in worldview, it impossible to be a Christian and follower of any other religion.
Right from the time of the apostles, Christianity has always stood against any form of syncretism. We are called to be all-in followers of Christ while respectfully(all humans deserve to be treated with respect and dignity regardless of their beliefs and position) rejecting other worldviews.

I pray your eyes get better speedily..

budaatum:

In the Light of Truth
Grail Message by Abdrushin

I am not uncle! Call me buda.

OLAADEGBU:


The Prophets and the Ancient Gospel

While it is a plain fact of history that the founder of Buddhism did indeed teach centuries before Jesus' earthly ministry, this is not the full picture. The gospel was preached by the prophets of God even earlier than that. Long before Siddhartha Gautama was born in India, the prophet Isaiah proclaimed that:

• The Messiah would be God in the flesh (Isaiah 9:6)
• He would be born of a virgin and called "God with us" (Isaiah 7:14).
• He would be sinless, but would die for the sins of others and would rise from the dead unto glory, power, and victory (Isaiah 53).
• Salvation would be found in repentance and quiet trust (Isaiah 30:15)
• The repentant will be redeemed, and those who remain in their sins will be judged (Isaiah 1:27-28).

This is the Christian gospel, preached not only before the coming of Jesus Christ but also before the life of Buddha as well. Jesus did not come to introduce this reality, but to fulfil it.

This is why the apostle Paul writes:

"Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures," (1 Corinthians 15:1-4).

Note the Paul does not merely report that these things occurred, but that they occurred "according to the Scriptures." The gospel is that which was written about long before and later fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Jesus Himself taught us this in saying:

"'These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.' Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and He said to them, 'Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day, and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things,'" (Luke 24:44-48)

We can look at Balaam's prophecy in the time of Moses of the victorious star that would come forth from Jacob (Numbers 24:15-19). We can go back even further to Jacob's prophecy of Shiloh to come (Genesis 49:10). We can trace the message earlier still, to the time of Abraham and Isaac where it was foretold that, just as God had provided a ram in Isaac's place, God would one day again provide a substitute for his people on the holy mount (Genesis 22:13-14). Indeed, we can look back to the beginning of time at man's very first sin and see the promised seed of the woman would one day crush the serpent (Genesis 3:15). In all ages, it was foretold that the promised one would come. The gospel is as old as sin and suffering itself. There is no wisdom and no hope more ancient than this.

budaatum:
10 Resurrected Religious Figures

DYING AND RISING GODS

budaatum:
10 Resurrected Religious Figures

DYING AND RISING GODS

budaatum:

Let me know if this has Vol 3 so I can go change link in original post.

OLAADEGBU:


And why they are all fake.

https://www.nairaland.com/4108872/22-reasons-all-scholars-agree

CaveAdullam:
No volume 3, still volume 1 and 2. The volume 3 contains 62 lectures.

budaatum:

Well, sorry, that's all you're going to get for free on this one. Some books you just have to pay for to value and I'd say this is one of them.

Happy hunting, and reading.