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Originally Posted by tecoyah
What about the Birth of the Buddah.....Or Mohammad?
I would think the sheer numbers of people influenced by the latter rivals the followers of Jesus.....after all this is the history of " The World"....Right?
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well, it IS different, surely?
Gautama Buddha never made any claim to be divine or connected to the divine, only that he was able to gain true enlightenment and self knowledge, from which came universal knowledge - as far as I understand.
Mohammad, even to his followers, claimed to be a great Prophet of Allah, and to be in communication with God's angels.
The claims made about Jesus, that he was a part of God, a manifestation of God in human form, are somewhat different to what could be claimed about Buddha or Mohammad.
In fact, in my opinion, Isa holds a more important place is Islamic religion than Mohammad... although Mohammad was the greatest of the prophets, it was to Isa given to lead the last war and destroy the false prophet, and it was Isa who was elivated to heaven intact because he could not die.
Whether you believe in the claims of Christianity, or see Jesus as a normal man, or even a myth, I think it is hard to argue that the impact he had on the world was not greater, and more universal, than Mohammad, Buddha, David, Guru Nanek, or even Moses.