Quote (Modulok2405 @ 9 Nov 2023 09:16)
When my wife tells me dinner is ready, I take it on faith because I have experienced that minor event hundreds of times before and have no reason to doubt it.
When a book tells me that this is how the world has been created and that there is someone who made it all and controls it all that this guy is all powerful and that I have to believe this cause he invites me to his eternal kingdom if I do so, then I need a little more than "take it on faith". Especially when 5000 other religions claim the same thing about some other dude or multiple dudes and they all say: Take it on faith.
What you quoted from biblical scripture about "Noah's Ark" / "Walking on water" / "Water into wine" etc. by most people are not taken word for word as absolutes but read between the lines and see that most of it is metaphorical. That's why a lot of believers in Jesus Christ only follow what HE himself "supposedly" said. The bible was written a LONG time ago by the literate people of that time. Therefore hundreds of "interpretations" took hold because it was easy to manipulate it to control the masses. This is very true today. There are billions of followers of Jesus Christ but do they all truly know "Christ". No.
Would you rather have it the Hindu way which is the polar opposite? I studied both the Catholic interpretation of God and the Hindu interpretation of God.
This quote is from the Bhagavad Gita when Arjuna(a great warrior of that time) is told you MUST fight this war. It is your duty. You are a great warrior. When he sees the faces of his enemies and some are his own kin he falls to his knees and cries out, "I cannot fight". He saw no good that would come from the war. He was afraid of death and was no longer sure if fighting was the right thing to do.
He turns to his childhood friend and charioteer Krishna who is actually an incarnation of the god Vishnu.
Krishna then invokes the concept of "dharma" "sacred duty" which sustains the cosmic order and explains the "illusion" of death.
He goes on to say, You are the Supreme Brahman(vast/unlimited), the ultimate, the supreme abode and purifier, the Absolute Truth and the eternal divine person. You are the primal God, transcendental and original, and You are the unborn and all-pervading beauty. All the great sages such as Närada, Asita, Devala, and Vyäsa proclaim this of You, and now You Yourself are declaring it to me.
In Eastern "faith" it all falls on you and you alone are responsible for your karmic debt. You alone are on the spiritual path. You are your own teacher. You are the God you seek/sought.
As someone who puts his faith in Jesus Christ I see it even more clearly now. Jesus said what people in the East said for a thousand years before his time. "I am God". He just said it in a place and time where that would immediately incur death or wrath from authorities.
In Vedanta which is the philosophy I practice Jesus Christ is a "realized being" and the "greatest spiritual teacher" Someone who in one incarnation realized ALL truths and was able to turn HIMSELF into the MEDIUM in which so many gain a relationship with God. Through him. With him. To this very day. Every day someone realizes God through the teachings of Jesus Christ. That person doesn't gain magic powers they gain an eternal bond with a being that provides them with uncondtional love, peace of mind, bliss, virtue, the list goes on and on.
Swami Vivekananda observed, “In the West, if a man doesn't believe in a God outside himself, he is considered an atheist, whereas Vedanta says that a man who doesn't believe in himself is the atheist.”
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