In my two-pennies on the issue about the painting of every one with Jesus holding babies, even Christ:
The essential story of Jesus Christ (which predates 'Jesus' himself by thousands of years), is that we all contain within us the 'being of Christ'
and that Jesus the 2nd coming is our own being finding the inner self we were born with(The Jesus 'within'). That's what being born again means.
In relation to Buddhism also, Buddhism teaches we're all born with an inner self, the truest flower of living, but it's plasticized by society and
external thoughts of other peoples minds which are not our own, so then we're molded into a personality which we're not born with but needed to
sustain as long as we remain part of a section, faction, or whatever group of society we are raised in. The teaching of all religions are written in
parable symbolic messenges, and only intelligent people see through the messege to obtain the truth that we already know. It's the Church's and
priests who push the messege literally so that people need the Church to exist. When people take it spiritually and symbolically, it surpasses the
need for the Church, because you yourself -- become the Church. This is why all religions (for the most part) are so harsh in addressing the literal
sense of all that is taught. Why then, would 'God' or whoever writes all the Holy Books write it in such complex symbolism, instead of just coming
out with the answers. And when people say God 'speaks' to them -- what do they mean? The answer is simple: Isn't it more fulfilling when you
accomplish something yourself, and find something out on your own doing? Sure, it's easy for someone to tell you the answer, but it's much more
fulfilling when someone pushes you along scarcely enough for you to make the discovery yourself. This is why it's all in a symbolic-sense.
Be the Church!
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I find it interesting that the Bishop of Turin announced that the Shroud of Turin could not be the shroud of Jesus (based on carbon dating) on October
13, 1988. October 13th is the anniversary date of the slaughter of the Knights Templar in 1307. Barring the calendar conversion (because it's not
necessary to take into account since we're talking of calendar dates versus actual days passed) the announcement of the Shroud came 681 years after
the murder of the Knight Templars.
According to this website, the parchment Sauniere found included information about Sigebert IV fleeing the Merovinginian kingdom in 681. The
fleeing of Sigebert IV is critical to the fact that the Merovinginian bloodline continued and it is speculated that is what was in the parchments -
the bloodline.
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