Posted on: 03 Mar 2024
1. How does the concept of the Trinity impact our understanding of God's nature and His relationship with us?
Swami replied:- God creates, maintains and destroys the creation along with all ordinary human beings like us and this is the Trinity of God.
2. Why didn't Jesus write His own gospel?
[Why didn't Jesus write His own gospel? If His message was of such importance to humanity, why did He leave it up to second-hand accounts from various, "imperfect" human authors (many of whom He never met) to deliver that message?]
Swami replied:- When the message is dictated to a disciple, the dictator of the message becomes the author of the message.
3. Why does the Bible mention everything from the creation of the Earth to its end, but it doesn't mention the dinosaurs?
Swami replied:- It is included in living beings and when living beings are mentioned, dinosaurs are also included.
4. According to the Bible, the Earth was created in one day, yet I keep reading that the formation of the Earth took millions of years. How can that be?
Swami replied:- The time scales of God and earth are quite different as mentioned by the Hindu scriptures.
5. If Jesus was Jewish, why aren't Christians considered Jewish?
Swami replied:- The best thing is to directly study the direct message of Jesus Christ.
6. Does Jesus have a history or tradition?
Swami replied:- The earlier Prophets have already formed the tradition and divine history.
7. Should India expel all Christians from India?
Swami replied:- As long as both live together with real brotherhood, there is no need of expulsion of one soul by another soul.
8. Why don't Jewish people believe that Jesus is the Messiah?
Swami replied:- This is the problem of human beings with any contemporary human incarnation of God. People commonly believe in the past human incarnation of God or in an energetic form of God as a statue. The human incarnation preaches spiritual knowledge believing that people will believe it at least after His death!
9. If Jesus comes back, how will people know that He is actually Jesus?
Swami replied:- You can recognize any human incarnation by its excellent and true spiritual knowledge preached.
10. Was Jesus a socialist?
Swami replied:- For any human incarnation, there is no difference in humanity and hence, every human incarnation is a socialist.
11. How was it possible for Jesus to die knowing God would cease to exist?
[If Jesus is God (and He is), with the understanding that God cannot die, how was it possible for Jesus to die knowing God would cease to exist, along with creation and all that is in it?]
Swami replied:- God is present in the human body of Jesus, the soul. The body is always mortal and God is neither born nor dies.
12. What did Jesus mean when He said, "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.”?
Swami replied:- This means that the spiritual life of any soul will have to face the destruction of worldly bonds after the soul gets attached to God completely.
13. Is there any reasonable explanation for Jesus' resurrection?
Swami replied:- By the grace of God, several devoted souls became alive after their death. Why can’t the contemporary human incarnation of God like Jesus become alive after death? Dead becoming alive by the power of God was shown by Jesus Himself in the case of Lazarus.
14. Why do we not know what Jesus did during His lost years? Why were those years skipped in the Bible?
Swami replied:- Because they were very much inconvenient to the authors of the Bible.