This test is a study guide that can only provide some preliminary information for a personal encounter with Christ. The purpose of human life is not just to learn about Christ, but to know Christ, to get to know Him, and to fellowship with Him.
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1. Did Jesus travel to India during His earthly life?
Correct answer: №2Correct!Educational materials: Was Jesus in India?Comment:None of the legends of Christ's eastern journeys are documented earlier than the 19th century, whatever parallels the adherents of eastern pagan cults may have tried to find to popularise their teachings.
The question of "influences" can be resolved in a purely scientific way - by analysing the language of Christ and the Gospels. If a man had studied for many years in a religious-philosophical school, and especially if he had come under its influence, it is most probable that afterwards the language of that school would be reflected in his own speech. Even preaching in a different language, such a person would use the images and terminology he had learnt. Where are the traces of Sanskrit and Indian philosophy in Jesus' vocabulary? Dozens of Indian religious terms are used today from language to language ("karma" remains "karma" in Russian and English books). But Christ's speech is free from the jargon of the yogis.
The people of Israel strictly adhered to monotheism ('one God') and it is ridiculous to imagine that someone would go to learn the paganism despised by the Jews, rejecting the Divine Revelation of the Old Testament.
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