Why is the life or Krishna so similar to the Christ?
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There are some things which can be said to be similar.  For example, the king tried to kill Krishna as a child, and the king also tried to kill Christ.\n\nEven their names are similar.  In some parts of India, Krishna is actually pronounced Krishto, almost like Christ.  \n\nPeople's visions of the divine are similar.  We expect the divine to do miracles, if he were to come to the earth.  If the divine were to come to the earth, we would expect him to have superior knowledge, to be able to overcome enormous obstacles, and defeat enemies, and have miraculous signs surrounding their birth, etc.\n\nThis is natural to think.  Some of the stories that were written about Christ were added after the fact as enhancement, and I would assume this is probably true of Krishna as well.\n\nThe same things can also be said about the Buddha, Mithra, Isis, Dionysus, etc.
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there are many similarities but i think there are more diferences, like experiences, hopes, general things that are thought about, like compare christians with rapist/murderers, enough differences there.
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According to some Christians, apparently. However, I was lucky to be born in a non Christian country, India, and I have a strong belief in Hinduism, despite being offered the opportunity to "see the light" on numerous occasions. I am sure that Krishna would not make me burn in Hell for my beliefs. All Gods are one, all people will eventually be with God. God is the ultimate source of compassion, the all forgiving, and God would not allow anybody to suffer eternal hellfire.
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It is not unnatural to suppose that a religion which filled the whole world, should have been copied at least in some details by another religion which was quite popular during the third century. Moreover the resemblances pointed out are superficial and external. Similarity in words and names is nothing; it is the sense that matters. During these centuries Christianity was coining its own technical terms, and naturally took names, terms, and expressions current in that day; and so did Mithraism. But under identical terms each system thought its own thoughts. Mithra is called a mediator; and so is Christ; but Mithra originally only in a cosmogonic or astronomical sense; Christ, being God and man, is by nature the Mediator between God and man. And so in similar instances. Mithraism had a Eucharist, but the idea of a sacred banquet is as old as the human race and existed at all ages and amongst all peoples. Mithra saved the world by sacrificing a bull; Christ by sacrificing Himself. It is hardly possible to conceive a more radical difference than that between Mithra taurochtonos and Christ crucified. Christ was born of a Virgin; there is nothing to prove that the same was believed of Mithra born from the rock. Christ was born in a cave; and Mithraists worshipped in a cave, but Mithra was born under a tree near a river. Much as been made of the presence of adoring shepherds; but their existence on sculptures has not been proven, and considering that man had not yet appeared, it is an anachronism to suppose their presence. (3) Christ was an historical personage, recently born in a well known town of Judea, and crucified under a Roman governor, whose name figured in the ordinary official lists. Mithra was an abstraction, a personification not even of the sun but of the diffused daylight; his incarnation, if such it may be called, was supposed to have happened before the creation of the human race, before all history. The small Mithraic congregations were like masonic lodges for a few and for men only and even those mostly of one class, the military; a religion that excludes the half of the human race bears no comparison to the religion of Christ. Mithraism was all comprehensive and tolerant of every other cult, the Pater Patrum himself was an adept in a number of other religions; Christianity was essential exclusive, condemning every other religion in the world, alone and unique in its majesty ....sorry its such a cut and paste job..i still have not fully researched it yet, i will get back to you
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ct both sufis in India and Bhakti era poets used this symbolism. Krishna represents God and Radha the human soul , trying to reacgh god forever.\n\nKrishna of Mahabharat left vrindavan as a kid and never came back. Radha was already an adult.\n\nMeera loved Krishna as a Bhakt, a follower like a Christian saint loves jesus.\n\nHindi movies and court culture has distorted the tales to no end.\n\nBut yes An spiritual love between god and humans is considered to be on hire plain.
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I agree. God is one Krishna Allah Jehovah, etc.  One God many religions.  Krishna Says in the Bhagavad Gita (Song of God) " Whenever their is a decline in religious principals and the truth appears to be lost, I appear again and again or send my representative to reestablish the Truth."  So now we can see why their are so many religions with so many misunderstandings.  Go to http://www.stephen-knapp.com for universal truths
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I own a 3 bedrom, 2 bath house.\nI rent out a room to a guy who is like a half Buddhist, half Hindu.\nHe has a little statue of Krishna in his room. He says he does not worship it, but i doubt him.\nWhat i do is just live Christ. I Love him like a brother and treat him with kindness.\nWe debate a little here & there, and we see eye-to-eye on a few things.\nHe once went to Church with me.\nHe has not yet accepted Christ, but i believe he one day will.\nI have given him to God, and i pray for him.\nJust live the Life and focus on the Word.\nThe rest you leave to God.\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibletruths_forbelievers/\n\nI JOHN 5:21\n    Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
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These are all part of the same myth.\nNot much is known about the life of Jesus as he was unimportant in his own lifetime. Subsequent generations have filled in the gaps with their own speculation.\nAs you can see from some of the answers.
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I know what youre getting at. most christians are too closed minded to accept that Jesus might have been Hindu. namaste
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The stories of Jesus and Horus are very similar, with Horus even contributing the name of Jesus Christ. Horus and his once-and-future Father, Osiris, are frequently interchangeable in the mythos ("I and my Father are one"). The legends of Horus go back thousands of years, and he shares the following in common with Jesus: \n\nHorus was born of the virgin Isis-Meri on December 25th in a cave/manger, with his birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by three wise men.\nHe was a child teacher in the Temple and was baptized when he was 30 years old.\nHorus was also baptized by "Anup the Baptizer," who becomes "John the Baptist." \nHe had 12 disciples. \nHe performed miracles and raised one man, El-Azar-us, from the dead. \nHe walked on water. \nHorus was transfigured on the Mount. \nHe was crucified, buried in a tomb and resurrected. \nHe was also the "Way, the Truth, the Light, the Messiah, God's Anointed Son, the Son of Man, the Good Shepherd, the Lamb of God, the Word" etc. \nHe was "the Fisher," and was associated with the Lamb, Lion and Fish ("Ichthys"). \nHorus's personal epithet was "Iusa," the "ever-becoming son" of "Ptah," the "Father." \nHorus was called "the KRST," or "Anointed One," long before the Christians duplicated the story. \nIn fact, in the catacombs at Rome are pictures of the baby Horus being held by the virgin mother Isis - the original "Madonna and Child" - and the Vatican itself is built upon the papacy of Mithra, who shares many qualities with Jesus and who existed as a deity long before the Jesus character was formalized. The Christian hierarchy is nearly identical to the Mithraic version it replaced. Virtually all of the elements of the Catholic ritual, from miter to wafer to water to altar to doxology, are directly taken from earlier pagan mystery religions.\n himself for the world's sins.\n\nThere are too many similarites.Jesus has to be an exaggerated Character.
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You know, this is a good example of why duality is the basis of ignorance, as Hindu philosophy says.\n\nAll God's Profets and Messengers and Incarnations (Avatars) come from the same Tree of Life, they are all One. There is no competition in Heaven between say Muhammad and Christ. I think they would be sitting there laughing at this, if it didn't lead to so much hatred and violence.\n\nThe fact that humans think They ca compete with each other is only proof of our ignorance about God.
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The teaching that Jesus can be identified with God needs to be balanced with an equal emphasis on the teaching that Jesus is human. Classic Christianity teaches both, to an equal extent.\n\nWe should strive to be like Jesus in his humanity, although we cannot be like Jesus in his divine "essence" as the eternal Word of God. This is a bit confusing, but it helps to remember that Jesus the man is NOT equal to God. Jesus - the man - is "God the Word, MADE FLESH". "Jesus" did not exist before his conception, but the "Word of God" did. "Jesus" is the "Word of God" manifest in the flesh.\n\nPeace and blessing
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Yet everyone claims that exact same God is the all-loving God of the New Testament. Why the 360 split personality? Also, there is no middle ground between the two. I find it very hard to believe that Gods of other cultures were the same.
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Living and behaving in a way that reflects the life and teachings of Christ.  Representing Him as closely as possible.\n\nBlessed Be
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yes they all are based of the heroic mythology... jesus could be bhudda could be king arthur... could be neo... it's all the same thing...
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Jesus was lived like a human and died as human. He was an enlightened person- a person whom a average human fails to understand so we attach lots of miracles to his existence. We all are god but waste our whole love trying to find God. We cant beleive that we are God and if we drop our egos and be one with nature we all can be like Jesus. But its much too difficult. Its much easier to accept Jesus and other enlightened persons as God and spending whole time to worship them rather than awakening the God in us.
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its an amazing story. it goes like this. it is said that all the gopis in their previous life were munis who after great penance got their wish to be with their lord  fulfilled in their next lives.