First of all, Jesus is not buried. He walked away from His Jerusalem tomb.

Second, I don't have a problem believing that there was a man named Siddhattha Gautama.

Do I believe that he was the incarnation of a god? No. Pleasant story though.

If I had the money, I'd take you to his tomb in India. Alas.

Buddhists don't believe he was the incarnation of a god either, so you're in good company.

That's what the Bhavishya Purana teaches.
Different religious takes on the same myth.
Who's to say?
I have one Jesus, you have a completely different Jesus.
Guess we'll find out for sure sooner or later.

How did I miss this post?

And I would know that there are remains of a body in the tomb/ashes in an urn...
and I would know that the remains/ashes were of Jesus of Nazareth...exactly how?

Tell ya what though...
you get the money and I'll consider going with you to check it out.

The Bhavishya Purana is a Hindu text. That would be like me trying to describe Jesus to you using the Q'uran.



Mine's the one who gave the Sermon on the Mount.

Here are some pictures:

http://www.tombofjesus.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=60&catid=34

That's the same Jesus who said that He lived before Abraham, identifying Himself as God; and that He shared glory with God from before the foundation of the world; and that He would return to earth with glory and power, holding the keys to heaven and to hell; the same man that the Apostle Thomas acknowledged as Lord and God.

The words of C.S. Lewis:

"A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg--or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice.

Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us."

Oh. Then I guess I disagree with C.S. Lewis. Jesus was a great moral teacher, regardless of whether he was the son of God. Was he a lunatic? Maybe. I don't think so though, especially in light of the time and place he lived. By modern standards, all of Jerusalem should have been committed. But that's not really a fair standard, is it?

...all of which is your interpretation of what someone else wrote about Jesus as opposed to the words of Jesus himself...

Round and round and round.