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His father was a carpenter yet Krishna was born of royal descent. |
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His birth was attended by angels, wise men and shepherds, and he was
presented with gifts. |
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He was persecuted by a tyrant who ordered the slaughter of thousands
of infants who feared that the divine child would supplant his
kingdom. |
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His father was warned by a heavenly voice to flee the tyrant who
sought the death of the child. The child was then saved by friends who
fled with them in the night to a distant country. When the tyrant
learned that his attempt to kill the child failed, he issued a decree
that all the infants in the area be put to death. Writing about
Krishna in the eighteenth century, Sir William Jones stated, "In the
Sanskrit dictionary, compiled more than two thousand years ago, we
have the whole history of the incarnate deity, born of a virgin, and
miraculously escaping in infancy from the reigning tyrant of his
country." (Asiatic Researches, Vol. I, p. 273). |
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The Bible states that Jesus and family fled to Egypt afterward to
escape from King Herod. According to the Christian apocryphal text
"the Gospel of the Infancy," the family traveled to Maturea, Egypt.
Krishna was born in Maturea, India, hundreds of years earlier. |
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He was baptized in the River Ganges. |
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The missions of Krishna and Jesus were the same - the salvation of
humanity. |
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Krishna worked miracles and wonders such as raising the dead and
healing lepers, the deaf and the blind. |
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Krishna used parables to teach the people about charity and love. |
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Jesus taught his
disciples about the possibility of removing a mountain by faith.
According to tradition, Krishna
raised Mount
Goverdhen above his disciples to protect his worshipers from the wrath
of Indra. |
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"He lived poor and he loved the poor." |
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Krishna washed the feet of the Brahmins and transfigured before his
disciples. |
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Krishna's teachings and Jesus' teachings were
very similar. The celebrated French missionary and traveler,
Evarist-Regis Hucv,
who made a journey of several thousand miles through China and Tibet,
stated, "If we addressed a Mogul or Tibetan this question, 'Who is
Krishna?' the reply was instantly 'The savior of men." According to
Robert Cheyne, "All that converting the Hindoos to Christianity does
for them is to change the object of their worship from Krishna to
Christ." Appleton's Cyclopedia says this about the teachings of
Krishna: "Its correspondence with the New Testament is indeed
striking." |
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There is an extra-canonical Hindu tradition which states that Krishna
was crucified. According to some traditions, Krishna died on a tree or
was crucified between two thieves. |
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(17) |
He descended to hell, rose bodily from the dead, and ascended to
heaven which was witnessed by many. |
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(18) |
Krishna is called the "shepherd god" and "lord of lords," and was
considered "the redeemer, firstborn, sin bearer, liberator, universal
Word." |
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He is the second person of the trinity, and proclaimed himself the
"resurrection" and the "way to the Father." |
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(20) |
He was considered the "beginning, the middle and the end," ("alpha and
omega"), as well as being omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent. |
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(21) |
His disciples bestowed upon him the title "Jezeus," meaning "pure
essence." |
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Krishna is to return again riding a white horse to do battle with the
"prince of evil," who will desolate the earth.
Ref.
Jesus
as ncarnation of Christ |