is it true that is jesus was just a metaphor for cookies?
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YAY YOURE BACK!\n\ni dunno bout that, but toll house cookies represent the holy trinity\ndough= the father\nchocolate chips= the son\nwalnuts= the holy spirit
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NO.\n\nDyer makes no Biblical references (I'm speaking of the Holy Bible) nor does he talk about God the Father, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Spirit.\n\nWhen referencing "God" he is talking about the "God concept of self" (new age jargon).\n\nHe does not proclaim to be a follower of Jesus Christ, nor does he profess Christ to be Lord and Savior.  Therefore, he is NOT a Christian.\n\nI hope this helps. :)
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I believe that Jesus may have actually BEEN a Buddha, ie: enlightened one, and it is true that there is a lot of Buddhist subtext, especially in the NT where Paul tells us to not be attached to anything, and Matthew implies that the apostles lived almost like Buddhist monks: ie: not carrying anything with them, asking for handouts of food as "payment," and not having more than the clothes on their backs. \n\nI was talking about this just the other day with my teacher, I'm glad that someone else picked up on this too! However, there is no real way to determine whether Jesus was a Buddhist, but I definately think that he was on the same page as many of them are.\n\nBuddhas do not reincarnate, once they are enlightened they don't keep reincarnating. And I'm not saying that Jesus was one, I'm saying he could possibly be one by the definition of Buddha. I'm really not trying to undermine anyone's beliefs, just giving things to think about. \nI think it makes it easier when I tell people that I don't believe in anything and when I spurt things out like this, it's all hypothetical. You're still free to think what you want, but there is a lot of Buddhist ideology in the Bible.
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I have never heard anything like that.  I don't think the chicken/egg/rabbit story has anything to do with Jesus.
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Back in the 60s, that was one way in which I liked to think of Jesus. It made a lot of sense at the time. With the accounts of the early Biblical Christians living communally and giving their goods to the poor, it seemed as if they (and by extension, Jesus) had a lot in common with the more idealistic hippies of the 1960s.
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I think you may be confusing Jesus' ministry with your respect for animals.  I understand and respect your beliefs, but I really don't think anyone who eats an animal product is being untrue to anything Jesus taught or to Christmas.
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Sorry, I just think it's not true.  Jesus had a good message.  Martin Luther King had a better one.  I don't believe in supernatural things.
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yes. he's real.\n\nthe sad thing is that he tempts us so easily and we for the most part fall right into the trap. It is easier to give into temptation than to follow the path of righteousness. this is why most people claim to be atheist or claim to know Jesus, but yet do what he never did. they take the easy way out.
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Are you kidding?  Look at the long hair, the beard, the message of peace and forgiveness...Jesus was a hippie and he got high all the time, I am sure of it.
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No it's just a start! it's not believe in jesus but believe Jesus and all his teaching's of how to be apart of the gloriuos kingdom of heaven. Then except him!
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Yes! Totally! But I'm not Christian, I just think Jesus was a buddha or a boddhisattva. I would go through everything he went thought just to be that! The love, the wisdom, the compassion! The son of God. I wish I could spend eternity in that, or even a few years. That is worth everything. Yes, I would be Jesus!
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No, Thomas does not allude to the fact that Jesus was just a man.  The concept in fact would be contrary to most Gnostic believes.  Here's a quick quote from Thomas:\n\n(77) Jesus says:\n(1) "I am the light that is over all. I am the All.\nThe All came forth out of me. And to me the All has come."\n(2) "Split a piece of wood – I am there.\n(3) Lift the stone, and you will find me there."\n\nThomas is a "sayings gospel."  Unlike the Gospels that are in the Bible, it has no narrative.  It is just one Jesus quote after another.  Many scholars assign a first century date to Thomas, so it is at least possible that it is very old.\n\nGnostics believe that the material world is evil, and therefore God would never take the form of a man.  Gnostics have what is called a docetic view of Christ.  That is that he only appeared to be human, and had none of the actual physical characteristics of a human.  The goal of Gnostics is to escape the limitations and evil of this physical world and return to the spiritual world they believe we came from.\n\nGnosis.org is a great resource for gnostic information and has several copies of the Gospel of Thomas
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There was a thing circling the Internet this past Christmas, incorporating snacks in the holiday. \n\nThe story goes, a German baker wanted to create something to show his faith, so he designed a rope of dough in the form of arms bent forward and clasped in prayer. It looked sort of like the letter B on its side. But when it baked, the 2 hands didn't stick together, so he twisted them and tucked the tips under the top. \n\nThe new result was even better than he'd hoped for, because he'd accidentally created 3 holes (apparently for the trinity). I hadn't heard that the twisting was supposed to represent the crucifixion, but whatever. Anyway, I never heard of it before, either, but that's what about 30 people emailed me in November and December. \n\nPersonally, I doubt it. I've been to Bavaria and seen those German pretzel makers. And pretzels. Nothing holy about them. Pretty good with mustard though. Chalk it up to another urban legend online.
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CS Lewis wrote it.\nIt is an allegory about the  purpose of Jesus Christ
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Matthew 26:26   And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.  \nMark 14:22   And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.  \n1 Cor.11:24   And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.\nJohn 6:11   And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.  \n\nI would say so.
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I think that was Jesus...I could be wrong...I'll google it later
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Wasn't it like the Bible, written by some person, but actually written by Jesus Himself?