Jesus had a harrowing time in hell, was happy to get out, yet many disbelieve in the abyss |
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Mahayana Savior Ksitigarbha |
One of the most famous Buddhists in all of Mahayana is a bodhisattva ("savior") figure named Ksitigarbha, who has vowed to empty all the hells (and there are many more than one divided into 9 planes, eight terrible worlds including Avici, the lowest and most torturous of the infernos, plus one that may be even worse, the interstitial hell not everyone is aware of).
All hail the Bodhisattva in hell |
The historical Buddha, after all, is a Catholic saint. If that's not cultural appropriation, what is?
Jesus is Caesar's Messiah before he's the good rabbi of Nazareth or the traveler who ventured to India during his "lost years" to study as a Buddhist monk in Hemis Gompa, Tibet (now Ladakh, India).
How would Jesus slaughter an animal? Tell his dad to do it? He wouldn't; he was a vegetarian. He threw killers out of the temple. |
Kshitigarbha has been saving sentient beings — including beings suffering in the “hell realms” — for countless years. Upon hearing the voice of the Buddha, the elder’s son made a great vow: “I vow to rescue all suffering sentient beings across uncountable eons and the six paths [places of rebirth] of samsara [wandering and cycling through the Wheel of Death and Rebirth] by establishing convenient methods [expedient means]. When all have been saved, only then will I attain Buddhahood [when they are freed, then I will take my leave from this otherwise Endless Round]” (Buddha Weekly).
To help those in hell(s), there is a mantra
Sid had a white pony, so why did Jess ride a donkey? |
Can we truth the Bible on the Historical Jesus? |
In the older tradition called Eastern Orthodox Christianity, which also calls it Great Week, it is the week following Great Lent and Lazarus Saturday, starting on the evening of Palm Sunday and concluding on the evening of Great Saturday [3].
In Western Christianity [Note A], Holy Week is the sixth and last week of Lent, beginning with Palm Sunday and concluding on Holy Saturday [1, 2, 5, 6].
Holy Week begins with the commemoration of Jesus Christ's triumphalist entry into Jerusalem on a white donkey on Palm Sunday, marks the betrayal of Jesus by a Jewish guy named Judas on Spy Wednesday (Holy Wednesday), climaxing with the commemoration of the Mystical or Last Dinner on Holy Thursday, and the Passion Suffering of Jesus on Good Friday. That would be today.
Holy Week concludes with Christ's pseudo-death and literal descent into hell on Holy Saturday [5, 6].
[So Jesus, who made hell and cast millions or billions of beings into it (as part of the Trinity), had never visited? Wait, he is the creator of the all and everything, but he didn't create hell, such a big place in the universe? Oh, he did create it, and he does throw countless living beings into it when they seem to die but still move around without this body and have thoughts and memories of a past life or lives? But he's simultaneously all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful only not powerful or knowledgeable enough to know what to tell his creations so they can avoid unimaginable suffering? Right. Good story, very consistent.]Roman psyops made this myth
Christians believe that Jesus died, was resting as a corpse from the ninth hour (3:00 pm) on Good Friday until just before dawn on Sunday morning, the day of his rebirth or resurrection from death, commonly known as Easter Sunday.
However, in 1 Peter 3:19, there may be a clue as to a task Jesus performed during this period between death and rebirth or resurrection: "By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison."
This marks the beginning of the season of Eastertide, with its first week being known as Easter Week (Bright Week) now that all the holiness is set aside until next year. More
Forged: Writing in the Name of God - Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are |
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Forgery (Joseph Wheless) |
- Dhr. Seven, Seth Auberon, Sheldon S., Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY, Wiki edit; Asking, What does Bible scholar Bart D. Ehrman have to teach us?
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