This one seems to have more legs.
Buddhism proposes a savior, Maitreya. Who’s to say that this Maitreya isn’t Jesus?
Judaism proposes a savior, the son of David, King of Israel. At the end of Six Day War, David Ben-Gurion led an army to take the Temple Mount. He had full and unshared control. There were many in that army and related to it, who were chanting "Dahveed Melech Yisroel" (David, King of Israel), a line in an Israeli folk song which was taught to all of the Jewish kids and adults I ever met, when I was one. I was told by more than one of my Israeli schoolteachers, some of which were children of the adults who were there, that David Ben-Gurion had to choose whether or not to agree with that mob or not, to let them loose or not. He chose not. I was told by those chlldren of witnesses, that many were most terribly disappointed, despondent, even angry at this. Many of the children in those classrooms, felt an echo of this themselves.
Most of the above was whitewashed away in a documentary Sweet Lori and I saw last weekend. Even the name of David Ben-Gurion was shortened to "Gur", am not sure why or how that happened. I'll have to think, this name-whitewash may be reactionary rewrite for public consumption, to avoid as much as possible, thoughts of the many wealthy and powerful who would have done very differently were they equipped, who are biding their time in Jerusalem.
And in a different way, not long ago, there arose two or three different people, wealthy and with much support, publicly known to travel all over Africa and Europe and parts of Asia, who called themselves Maitreya. If one investigated their teaching, one found that all of them claimed to be the Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, and other Messiahs (by the various and sundry names), sent from above to encompass this world in both faith in them, and rule by them. I googled a bit, there is still at least one of those out there today.
We of Christ have been warned, by the true Christ, that there will be many who behave in that manner, who claim to be sent from above to encompass this world in both faith and rule. We of Christ, have been told, by the true Christ, that the true Christ does not do this, and never will do this, that His Father has declared the destruction of this world, that He has refused to rule this world, that He will return to orchestrate its destruction, not that falsehood with which the false ones tempt us.
But many shall be deceived, and many are deceived today.
Buddhism proposes a savior, Maitreya. Who’s to say that this Maitreya isn’t Jesus?
We who are faithful to Christ the Lord can, do, and will say that anyone who is or in the future may be called Maitreya, and everyone who looks to the coming of Maitreya, and everyone who tries to build a kingdom of God in this world, is seeking a deception, a lie, a falsehood, of he whom the Father shall throw into the lake of fire. They will repent, or join him.
