Question about Jesus
Would Jesus still be revered and worshipped as he is today if Mary hadn’t been a virgin and he wasn't conceived through immaculate conception?
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being · 36-40, F
I was thinking the other day of this symbolic metaphor.
How Mary was virgin, in the sense that it wasn't the Man that impregnated her but the Spirit itself. We mistook the metaphor perhaps and instead of seeing the Divinity in our beings, that we are all sons and daughters of the spirit, we took it personified to Jesus.
I prefer to see the story as more towards the collective, which is what Buddhists do. All can be a Buddha, as all can be a Jesus, or Mary. With or without babies. Just by recognizing in themselves that they are pure children of spirit.
That is my story, I really like it and it makes me shift my vision of how I see myself and others in light.
How Mary was virgin, in the sense that it wasn't the Man that impregnated her but the Spirit itself. We mistook the metaphor perhaps and instead of seeing the Divinity in our beings, that we are all sons and daughters of the spirit, we took it personified to Jesus.
I prefer to see the story as more towards the collective, which is what Buddhists do. All can be a Buddha, as all can be a Jesus, or Mary. With or without babies. Just by recognizing in themselves that they are pure children of spirit.
That is my story, I really like it and it makes me shift my vision of how I see myself and others in light.
JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
@being I believe that there were factions in the early church before it became standardize in Nicea, that some people took some of these things like the virgin birth and Jesus's resurection as more of an allogory about the transformational power of the spirit. They lost and the litteralists won the debate; hence the dogma they teach now.