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Does it matter whether Buddha or anyone else said the same thing? In fact,[b] there is a school of belief that Jesus spent some time in North India [/b]during the "missing years" and was influenced by Buddhist philosophy. Whether true or not, it does not take away from the essential message he was seeking to convey.[/quote]

Not really - just some people trying to make excuses for why BUddha and Jesus are so much alike. [b] I doubt the Jews of Jesus' time even knew there was an India. [/b]  Plus if that did happen, then Jesus borrowed his morality from Buddha so Jesus wasn't a great teacher after all -- and it would be pretty weird for God to send his son to get educated by the descendants of another great teacher in a distant land.  Very convoluted and certainly nothing in the bible about that.

What lengths people will go to believe things that make them feel good.[/quote]

Perhaps you need to educate yourself on the Jewish presence in India and when it occurred.

I always find it interesting how Christians in the west find it impossible to relate to Jewish presence in other countries - outside of their usual orbit of understanding - and especially how Christianity may have spread well before the advent of missionaries to countries like India. It is this bias that has most images of Jesus as a white, blonde, blue-eyed man. It is an easier image in the West with its historical prejudices to absorb than having Jesus look like the the more typical Middle Easterner with darker skin.

Anyway, google is your friend:

[url]https://www.google.com/#q=when+did+jews+arrive+in+india[/url]

Here is one link - among many on this subject:

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_India[/url]

And while you are at it, you may be interested to know that tradition in a part of India believes that the disciple Thomas came to South India after the crucifixion of Christ and converted the locals. Again there are many references to this on the net. Here is one:

[url]http://www.srite.de/index?id=2&cikk=84[/url]

The role of Thomas has not been proven and is more a belief based on tradition. There is also the belief based mainly on tradition that Thomas of Cana arrived in India between the 4th and 8th century.

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_of_Cana[/url]
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