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May 28, 2006 at 00:15 o\clock

THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD

by: davecathy

 

Books such as The Da Vinci Code and The Holy Grail are fiction, despite the fact that many people believe them to be far more than that. They are no more than a hypothesis, a proposition, conjecture based on a few ancient documents (which do not all agree with each other), plus a few known facts, added together with a great deal of tradition, and a lot of inventive thinking.

 

Exactly the same can be said for the Bible, the only difference being that we are inculcated or indoctrinated from birth to believe that The Bible is the word of God; that Gospel equals truth. If we dare question, we are dubbed a Doubting Thomas, if not a heretic. But belief is not knowledge. Knowledge can be proven; belief, by its definition, cannot.

 

God gave us the power to think, to reason, so it is therefore quite legitimate, and in our God-given nature to question, to challenge, and to ask why? Only a fool believes everything he is told, or swallows everything he reads; we have to set what we hear alongside our common sense, our experience, what we know and can prove to be true.

Even in modern times, we have seen how easy it is for the truth to be buried under layers of myths, the deaths of President Kennedy and Princess Diana for example.

The Stalins, Hitlers and Sadam Husseins of this world demand loyalty on pain of death. Christianity demands loyalty on pain of eternal damnation.

 

I find it difficult, in fact it goes against all my life experience, to believe in a personal God who works through middle-men or priests, a God that expects all credit for the good things, yet ascribes all bad things as the work of the devil or of flawed mankind. We are told that God works many miracles, but we never see any of them. God used to offer proof of his being, by way of phials of holy blood, fragments of the Holy Cross, the Shroud of Turin, etc, but without exception, those things have been found to be fraudulent. And is that God the all seeing, loving God of the New Testament, or is he the jealous, vengeful God of the Old Testament?

 

I do not KNOW where the truth lies, and I can only BELIEVE in what makes sense to me, does not stretch my credulity beyond reason, and offers at least some proof.

What follows does all those things, and the more I have studied it, the more I have come to believe it.

 

YUS ASSEF

 

Kashmir lies in the northwest region of India. Within its borders live a people who claim to be one of the lost tribes of Israel, having been driven there by the Assyrians.

They are Buddhist by religion, and Buddhists believe, rightly or wrongly, in reincarnation, and that when a holy man, or Lama, dies, his spirit is reincarnated into a newborn baby, and a great search is begun to find him. Living examples of this are the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama.

2000 years ago, when a Lama died, the search took the wise men (3 wise men from the orient) to Palestine, where they discovered the newborn baby, Yus Assef. His parents were told that their son was 'The chosen one', and that he would have great works to do in his life.

The baby was left to grow up with his parents, and only taken to Kashmir at the age of 14, where he began to learn the great wisdoms of his calling.

Eventually, he returned to Palestine, where he began his ministry, as detailed in the New Testament. Yus Assef preached about a new vision of God, not the angry God of the Jews, who sought an eye for an eye, and said ‘Vengeance is mine’ and demanded the stoning of adulterers and homosexuals, and killed off the whole of humanity save for Noah and his family. The new God spoke of peace and forgiveness, of turning the other cheek, of loving thy neighbour. Such teachings belong to the Buddhist tradition, not the Jewish.

Yus Assef, Issa, the Leader of Men, did not die on the cross, and was restored to health. I will give my justification for this and other claims in a later article. He could not remain in Palestine, as he was now a wanted man. After meeting his disciples and promising to return eventually (the second coming), he travelled east, away from the Roman Empire, along the Silk Road, back to Kashmir, where he lived a long life, eventually dying at the age of 80, and was buried in a tomb in Shrinagar, which still exists to this day 

 

 

Comments for this entry:

  1. insider2 wrote at May 28, 2006 at 04:47 o\clock:What an inspiring piece!



    I\'ll give it some thought and provide a well thought out comment in the next day or two.
  2. davecathy wrote at May 28, 2006 at 11:08 o\clock:I look forward to your comments, and am happy to engage in debate with you or any other interested party.

    Best Wishes
  3. jamryn wrote at May 28, 2006 at 14:51 o\clock:
  4. jamryn wrote at May 28, 2006 at 15:09 o\clock:Well I guess Blogigo is having a snit fit again. I just responded with a legenthy reply - then hit submit. Then it asked me to log in - I ALREADY WAS LOGED IN !!!! But I log in again and it wipes out every thing I wrote. Grrrrrrrrrr.



    As I had said ...... there is no debate with me . The bible - fiction? Maybe - maybe not. As you\'ve said that is our God given right to question and to chalange. He likes that better than fence riders. ( Rev.3:1-3 )



    God\'s name? He goes by many names. To me he may be Jesus or God but to someone else he would be Yus Assef, Budda or something else. All the same He is the ONE - AND ONLY - Truth by what ever name you choose.



    As for miricals - it comes down to your definition of the word and just how open you are to see them happening right before your eyes. I see his mirical of LOVE daily and never need to have a middle man to interpert it to me.



    It\'s what makes sence to me.
  5. davecathy wrote at May 28, 2006 at 17:16 o\clock:Well, that is fine by me Jamryn. If what you have been taught makes sense to you, that is all you need

    Just 2 questions.

    Man is capable of great evil, without the help of God. Is he not also capable of great love without the help of God?

    If you had never heard of the Bible until today, and I gave you a copy of The Da Vinci Code, my story, and the Bible, which of them would you tend to believe as being the true one, and how would you decide which of them was false? They are ALL very convincing

    Love

    Dave
  6. jamryn wrote at May 28, 2006 at 19:33 o\clock:Dave - I will comment later on my blog - right now BLOGIGO HAS ME SO ANGERY - with not allowing my comments to come through - also their discrimination( as I see it ) aganst dyslexics and other learning disabled - with that stupid numbers and letters code to submit a complaint against them.
  7. insider2 wrote at May 30, 2006 at 20:25 o\clock:We are taught from birth never to question authority, to accept what we are told. There have always been eductated people (Galileo, Copernicus, DaVinci, and many more of latter days) who have questioned the authority they find themselves under (whether it be the Catholic Church, the scientific establishment or the United States or United Kingdom goverments). In every case they were dismissed as heretics or fools.



    The reason that the world seems so much more crazy now is that more and more of us have a good eductation and no longer accept authority unquestioningly.
  8. insider2 wrote at May 30, 2006 at 20:43 o\clock:Just one tiny snit, Dave! I really grates on me when people duplicate the singular and unique (as in your \"Stalins, Hitlers and Saddam Husseins of this world\".) What\'s next? The \"Newtons, DaVincis and Einsteins\" or maybe the \"Gaileos, Churchills and Picassos\"
  9. davecathy wrote at May 31, 2006 at 11:05 o\clock:I agree with you on one point, disagree on the other. Regarding turning singular into plural. That is the fault of my writing style, where I try to get as many ideas as possible over in as few words as I can. What I should have said was \"Oppressive dictators such as Hitler, Mugabe, Stalin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, etc\" but it would have been a more long winded way of making the same point.

    Where I disagree is that educated and enlightened people resent authority. On the contrary, we realise that authority is all that stands between us and anarchy, and we will accept and respect authority so long as it is honest, open, reasonable, and accountable.

    I contend that major religions are none of these things, and I also contend that only the ignorant or egotistical think that they are above authority.

    Throughout history, leaders of men have gone to war on the basis that God is on their side. not least George Bush. Do you not think that is dangerous and misguided?

    Best Wishes
  10. davecathy wrote at May 31, 2006 at 11:12 o\clock:Just one more point. I get the feeling that your frustration is that you find authority in the USA to be far from reasonable or open, and that the church there has a power to stifle debate and a liberal attitude, which is the opposite of democratic argument.
  11. jamryn wrote at May 31, 2006 at 14:37 o\clock:Who\'s God on who\'s side? Didn\'t Sadam and others over there claim this a Holy war jehad or something like that?



    It seems silly for me - to invision a heaven filled with various gods - each challenging each other to a fist fight - to see who is better.



    What I do invision is a kind,loving( parental figure ) and generous GOD - wanting all his children to get along with one another. And being saddened by the constent bickering( like two siblings fighting over the same toy ) between us.
  12. davecathy wrote at May 31, 2006 at 16:43 o\clock:You have it right Jamryn. God if he or she exists, is unlikely to take sides, just lets us get on with it. You say you envisage that God is kindly and loving, and maybe he is, but what if he isn\'t, and how would we know? You believe in the Bible, but how do you know whether the old testament is right, or the new testament? I reckon we tend to believe what we would like to believe. A kind, loving God is much easier to live with than a God whom you have to live in fear of, as they used to in the old days. What changed to alter our ideas? God, or us?
  13. jamryn wrote at Jun 1, 2006 at 14:18 o\clock:What changed? JESUS - changed the world, from fear and the over whelming need that we MUST follow every minute detail of the law - down to the enth degree.



    The statement FEAR GOD use to bother me also untill it was explained to me as - using the term fear as a term of respect rather than one of terror.



    When you look to your parents or grand parents - you fear them ( you honnor their knowledge ) and respect their decisions - that they\'ve made in respect for our best intrest.



    GOD is only thinking in terms of our best intrest. Like a good parent He sometimes has to disipline us to help us learn better ways.
  14. davecathy wrote at Jun 1, 2006 at 15:11 o\clock:Jamryn, your faith is obviously deeply held, and I will not and should not argue with that, and I respect your beliefs.

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