Have you ever made a puzzle with half of the pieces missing?
Do you get the complete picture if half the puzzle is made?
What if others made up what was in the missing pieces because it was too powerful for you to know, according to them?
What if others scared you and your eternal Soul by saying those missing pieces were apocryphal, which only means hidden knowledge, not anti-Jesus, nor anti-Christ?
What if others twisted the truth for their own personal and/or social power, their fame, or their own fortune under the guise of, “God said …” in the very beginning?
What if others ignored the missing pieces because they did not like what Jesus said?
Don’t you want to know all that Jesus said, especially if you are a Christian?
This is what happened with the stories and myths of the origin of the cosmos, the Earth, and you. If you didn’t go along with the drinking the half-filled bottle of knowledge, you were ridiculed, ostracized or worse.
The following is from The Christ of India: The Story of Original Christianity, by Abbot George Burke (Swami Nirmalananda Giri).
Jesus, a siddha
“Jesus did not claim to be God, only a son of God as are all sentient beings. As explained earlier, Jesus of Nazareth was not an orthodox Jew, but an Essene who had studied some of the wisdom of India in the Essene schools. He spent most of his life in India and returned to Israel as a missionary of Sanatana Dharma. This book could not really be a presentation of original Christianity if it did not present the teachings of the Dharma which Jesus brought back from India.
“Jesus Christ was God in the sense that as atmas we are all divine, but he was not the Creator God, nor was he a blood sacrifice to satisfy an angry God and draw his wrath away from humanity. Rather, he was a great siddha, a liberated being who for all practical purposes can be called an avatara, an incarnation of God, as have been many others throughout history in India.
“Where can we find authentic teachings of Jesus? In the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutras. Although there are fragments and hints in the of Jesus’ teachings in the Bible (my note: and echos in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and especially Matthew chapters 5-8), the four Gospels were written long after Jesus and his disciples had departed this world, and a great deal of his teaching is omitted or distorted and even fabricated. The Book known as the Gospel of Thomas certainly presents his authentic teachings, and so do some of the text of the Christian Gnostics found in Egypt.”
Namaste