Jesus Christ
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14. Is it true that Jesus Christ went to |
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No, it isn’t,
because according to this theory, between twelve and thirty years of age,
that is, during those years about which the Bible doesn’t tell any particular
event of His life – if we exclude the incident of the temple when Joseph and
Mary found Jesus sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking
them questions (Luke 2:41-50) -, Jesus went to India to visit some ‘teachers’
(called yogi) to learn their philosophy and then He taught His disciples that
philosophy; while Jesus in all His teachings never mentioned Hindu doctrines
such as pantheism (the doctrine which says that all is God) and reincarnation
(the doctrine which says that when a man dies his soul is reincarnated into
another human being or into a beast), which are the best known doctrines of
the Hindu philosophy. Jesus clearly taught that God is a person, who is
separate from the creation (therefore man is not God or part of God, as the
Hindu ‘gurus’ claim) for He called heaven ‘God’s throne’ and the earth ‘His
footstool’ (Matthew 5:34-35); and that man is not reincarnated into a beast
or another human being after death but he goes either to Hades or to a place
of comfort (Luke 16:19-31. I would like you to bear in mind that before the
resurrection of Jesus this place of comfort was the bosom of Abraham, but since
His resurrection it is paradise in heaven, Ephesians 4:8-10) depending upon
his spiritual state at death. Therefore, if he dies in his sins he will go to
Hades, which is a place of torment, while if he dies in Christ (that is,
forgiven of his sins) he will go to paradise. If Jesus had gone to |
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Nowadays
there are many western young people who go to India at the feet of the
‘gurus’ to learn their doctrine, and when they return to their native
countries they begin to spread the doctrines that they learned in India.
Therefore, the fact that Jesus Christ never mentioned Hindu doctrines means
that He had never learned them during that period of His life (from twelve to
thirty years of age), either in |
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The
Scripture says about the spiritual growth of Jesus during that period of His
life that He “increased in wisdom” (Luke |
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The
teachings of Jesus are sound, without impurities and falsehood, while the
teachings of the so called Hindu gurus are corrupted, false and full of lies.
The teachings of Jesus edify, while the teachings of the gurus destroy; the
teachings of Jesus deliver men from sin, while the teachings of the gurus
keep men chained to sin because they were conceived by the devil, who wants
men to be slaves of sin. |
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The word
of Christ is a light that shines in this world, it is a light that enlightens
darkness and makes it disappear from the mind of man when it is accepted by
faith, while the word of the gurus is darkness, pitch dark, there is no light
in it, it doesn’t enlighten the mind of those who receive it. |
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I will say
something else: the Hindu philosophy is able to make demons enter those who
accept it, for yoga, transcendental meditation (TM) and all the other
practices of meditation which are based on the Hindu philosophy are nothing
but means by which the devil makes demons enter the body of those who
practice them. And when demons get men under control, strange and incomprehensible
things, even signs and wonders, begin to happen, but above all the person who
becomes demon-possessed goes from bad to worse because demon possession leads
people to destruction. And a demon-possessed man can be set free only through
the name of Jesus Christ, for demons come out of the body of those in whom
they dwell and manifest themselves only when they are rebuked and cast out in
the name of Jesus Christ. |
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Therefore,
I exhort all those who in one way or another are in touch with people who are
devoted to the Hindu philosophy to reject it because it is of the devil.
Refute it through the Word of God. |