[Khoo]
Here's* **The Synopsis of "Jesus Lived In India" by Holger Kersten written
by Dr Ramesh Manocha & Anna Potts, for a possible non-Western-centric view
of the MOQ. .Watch the rabbit go down the hatch and out again ! *
[Krimel]
Puleez, even the casual readers of Dan Brown know that Jesus suffered
perma-death on the cross and Mary was spirited away to France by Joseph of
Arimathea where she raised Bar Abbas (Son of the Father) to head the Priory
of Sion.
Or perhaps you prefer the fanciful account in the Uranita Book of Jesus'
travels in the East during the silent period of the Gospels between his 12th
and 30th years.
Or Morman delusions of Jesus preaching to Native Americans.
[Khoo]
It is not possible, Kersten asserts, to disprove that Christ went to India.
[Krimel]
Nor is it possible to disprove that at this moment Jesus obits Mars in
Bertrand Russell's teapot.
[Khoo]
More clues are drawn from the Apocrypha. These are texts said to have been
written by the Apostles but which are not officially accepted by the Church.
Indeed, the Church regards them as heresy since a substantial amount of the
Apocrypha directly contradicts Church dogma and theology. The Apocryphal
'Acts of Thomas', for example, tell how Christ met Thomas several times
after the Crucifixion. In fact they tell us how Christ sent Thomas to teach
his spirituality in India. This is corroborated by evidence found in the
form of stone inscriptions at Fatehpur Sikri, near the Taj Mahal, in
Northern India. They include "Agrapha", which are sayings of Christ that
don't exist in the mainstream Bible. Their grammatical form is most similar
to that of the Apocryphal gospel of Thomas. This is but one example giving
credibility to the idea that texts not recognised by the Church hold
important clues about Christ's true life and his teachings.
[Krimel]
First of all the Apocrypha usually refers to the inter-testamental writings
penned between about 500 B.C and 70 A.D. There are a view writings that
might be call Christian Apocrypha that were include in early lists of the
Christian canon be were later omitted, for example the Letter of Clement and
the Shepherds of Hermas.
Second the original definition of Apostle was one who knew Jesus personally
and reported on his teachings. Paul claimed to be an Apostle through a
loophole. He claimed to have met the risen Christ on the road to Damascus.
Otherwise he could not have been counted as an Apostle. The Christian canon
was closed in part to end such nonsense. It is all but certain that none of
the writings in the New Testament were written by Apostles under a strict
definition of that term.
It is hard to read the 'Acts of Thomas' without going, "yeah, right..." One
comes away with the feeling that whoever decided to leave it out made a good
call. The same holds for most of the early writing of the second and third
centuries. They are of interest for historical not theological reasons.
Finally, as for the Gospel of Thomas, it is simply not true that it has not
been taken seriously. The summary work of the first phase of the Jesus
Seminar's work is called "The Five Gospels" and includes the Gospel of
Thomas in its side by side comparison of the other gospel narratives. The
gospel itself has attracted a great deal of interest because it is an early
"sayings gospel" not unlike the hypothetical "Q" that seems to have been a
source work for both Matthew and Luke.
[Khoo]
{Christ's life in India, after the crucifixion, challenges current Church
teachings at their very foundation. The theology of Saint Paul, the major
influence on modern Christianity, is empty fanaticism in the light of this
discovery.|
[Krimel]
It challenges credulity to see how anyone could take such rubbish seriously.
One need not look to India to challenge the fanaticism of Paul. Most modern
scholarship on Jesus reveals him to be far more Jewish than Greek or even
Christian, a point to which Bo might well attend. But assuredly Jesus was a
Hebrew not a Hindu.
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