Hello, I'm Shelley
Quinn and welcome to another
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Issues and Answers.
Have you ever asked yourself
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why do I believe what I believe?
You know, it doesn't matter if
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you have no religious beliefs
or if you've been a Christian
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or a Jew or a Buddhist or Muslim
all your life, I think you're
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going to really enjoy this
program. We want to welcome back
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today Dr. Subodh Pandit
from Hendersonville, North
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Carolina. A pleasure to be here.
Oh it's a pleasure to have you
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here. This is the sixth time
you've been with us, so you're
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getting to be an old pro at
this. As a matter of fact, I'm
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wondering, now that you've been
on television so frequently, is
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it making the ER work
that you do less exciting?
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This is actually, I
must confess, more exciting.
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Praise the Lord because God's
got his hand on your life for
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this. Let me briefly
recap what we've been covering.
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Dr. Pandit was born in India,
reared there, went to medical
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school. He was brought up in
a Christian home, a Seventh-day
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Adventist home, but he reached
that point in his life when he
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was married with two children
that he was really saying, Why
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do I believe what I believe and
am I right? Because there were
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so many lovely people in
his country of diverse religious
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backgrounds that believed that
they were right, that he then
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really was questioning himself
and his beliefs. And what he
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did was decide to search and he
did a real search. He even got
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to the point of saying is there
really a God? He discovered in
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this personal search of
his that there was plenty of
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evidence that there was a God.
He looked at all these various
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ways. If you want to find
out about his search you can go
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back and get these previous
programs. But then he came down
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to the question, What is truth?
He looked at three different
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types of truth, whether it was
traditional truth, modernism,
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post-modernism. He decided the
traditional method was going to
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be the best for his search and
then, when he was going further,
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he was looking to say, Is
it true that all religions lead
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to the same destination
or is exclusivity the truth?
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He decided that the exclusive,
the religion that said they are
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the only way was the
truth. But he had five different
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religions that he was looking
at: Muslim, Hindu, the Buddhist
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and Judeo-Christian and you are
looking at these now and saying
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only one can be correct because
you eliminated every other thing
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to say that they couldn't all
be wrong because you knew that
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there was a God. You couldn't
say that they were all right
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because they were all claiming
to be the only way, so now
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you're down to looking at their
literature, the literature of
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of antiquities and he's taking
us through now very graciously
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what his study was all about.
So you've asked a number of
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questions that we've already
gone through looking at this
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literature. Why don't you just
briefly mention those questions.
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We won't have time to discuss
the answers but take us there.
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The first question I asked was
what type of literature is the
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writing; is it mythological, is
it legendary, is it just a folk
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tale or is it historical? And
the second question was, what
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is the top feature of the
writing? The third question was
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does that writing open itself
to be tested for authenticity?
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The fourth question was to
the founders now: What is the
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highest claim that you as
a founder make for yourself?
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All right, so now you're coming
down to the fifth question and
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the question you were asking
is what is the message, what
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is the mission of these five
religions? Let's talk about that
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Yes. In the case I made it into
a nutshell, just a sentence or
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two. Somebody can say, you know,
that I was doing it by myself
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and that is true. But I
made it so that there would be a
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comparison. So here's what I
found. When it came to the Hindu
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religion, the literature there
wanted us to find the way to
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truth to break the cycle of
what is called Sansarah or the
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the life and death cycle
such that yourself would now be
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merged with the superself or
the Brahman in a state called
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Nirvana. So they wanted to show
us the truth about this life.
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When it came to Buddhism,
Gautama Buddha declared that
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he was born for enlightenment.
In other words, he was going
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to bring light to the world.
He searched for it, found it
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and then he was going to show
us that. When it came to the
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Islamic faith it was the
question of bringing the word
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of god to the world. Mohammad
said, this is Quran, the word of
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god. When it came to
the Judaic literature, Moses
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described what he got from
his Jehovah as a set of statutes
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and judgments and laws which
he declared if a man does or a
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woman does and keeps it, he will
have life. These were what their
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basic messages and missions
were. When it came to Jesus,
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I'd like to put the slide
on the screen right now and
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see what he said, He said:
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Now when you look at that it
does not seem to be a very big
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difference but I'd like to
just point this out. Each of the
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others said, I will show you,
for instance, what is truth.
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I will show you the way to truth
whereas he was saying, I have
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not only come to show you
the truth, I am the truth.
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To me that is a big difference.
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That's a really huge difference
if you think reflectively,
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carefully. To make that as a
claim is to set yourself very
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different from the others.
I want to emphasize that we
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just do quick comparisons with
two of those founders. I do not
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mean to belittle them at all.
In other words, we are going
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to take their words at
face value, but make a quick
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comparison. The first
one is with Gautama Buddha.
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Now repeat that
name again for me.
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Gautama Buddha, the founder
of Buddhism. He at the age of
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29 left home. I would like
to read here his own description
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of how he searched for light.
To such a pitch of ascetism
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have I gone that naked was
I flaunting life's decencies.
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I have taken only one morsel
a day or one every two days
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or one every seven days or one
every fortnight. In fulfillment
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of my vows I have plucked
out the hairs of my head, of
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my beard, have never quitted
the upright for the sitting
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posture, have squatted and
never risen up having couched on
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thorns, have gone down to the
water punctually thrice before
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nightfall to was away the evil
within. After this in diverse
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fashions I have lived to torment
and torture my body. To such a
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length of ascetism have I gone.
This is from the book Buddhism
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by K.K.S. Chinn. The words
of Gautama himself. What we are
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looking at here is a description
of his desperate search.
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Not to belittle anyone
who believes in this or in him
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himself, but when someone
is going through the physical
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torture and torment that
he subjected himself to, what
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state of mind must they put
someone into to then think that
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that's when
you've received truth?
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It's a good question, but when
you look at Gautama Buddha, he
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made the same question himself
and then he went back to proper
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dieting after that and
nutritious intake of food.
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But the point is six years
he searched and the description
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there was not an
ordinary search, it was a
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desperate search.
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What I want to do is compare
and contrast that with Jesus
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who simply stood and said I
am the light. In other words, I
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don't have to search for
it because I am the light.
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It is a big difference. Now
when you go the next difference
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the comparison between Muhammad
the prophet, the seal of the
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prophets of the Muslim religion.
One of the highest mystical
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experiences he ever had was in
the year 620 CE, the common era.
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This is their traditional
writing that described this.
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We are going to take it at
face value. He was awakened one
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night around Mecca by the angel
Gabriel, put on the heavenly
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steed or horse, Baruch, and
swung over to Jerusalem. There
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they found a ladder that
would reach up through the seven
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heavens to the sphere of god or
Allah. Each of the seven heavens
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were presided by a prophet;
the first one was Adam, and then
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the next was Jesus and on
to maybe Enoch and the others.
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The seventh was presided over
by Abraham. Then he went to the
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sphere of god and the same
night returned to earth. This is
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called Israh, the night
flight or the night journey, and
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established him as a
really high prophet of very high
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credentials. We're going to take
that at face value; yes he did
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go. That is your
saying yes if you
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take that at face
value that he did go. Okay.
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Yes. So now let's take the
claims of Jesus also at face
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value then and here is where
we find a very big difference.
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Here is a prophet, a resident
of this earth who has claimed
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that he went up there for a
visit and then came back down.
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And that was Mohammad.
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Mohammad. Jesus said the place
he went to visit is where I
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reside. Jesus came
from heaven to earth.
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That's right. So here is the
difference. A persons who is a
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resident of earth went up there
for a visit and then came down.
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Jesus' claim is that he lives
up there and came down here
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for a visit. So the origins
and the direction of travel are
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exactly the opposite. Now here's
the question: Who will know more
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about a kingdom or a nation
or a country, the one who lives
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there or the one who comes
there for a two-hour visit?
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Hmm, very good point. So
yes we acknowledge he may
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have gone there for a
visit and we do recognize that
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it's a very high mystical
experience, but it will never
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compare with a person who just
lives there. In other words, a
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person who is now stating what
America is if he is a resident
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of America it makes him more
credible than if I just came
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for a two-hour visit maybe
to New York or Chicago and back
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to my country. So this
is a big difference. So in a
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nutshell although it was a
subjective discussion it does
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bring out a difference and
the difference is very stark,
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amazing. We have to say wow.
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Yes it is a wow. And I have to
say wow at the way you fascinate
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me. I believe God's call was
on your life. Actually I believe
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the Lord led you through
this whole study because now you
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have Search Seminars
International and you actually
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go out and give these
seminars Come Search With Me in
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university settings and at
churches and I know the Lord
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is using your ministry. But
it fascinates me in the way in
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which you went about this.
So you really were an inquirer.
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You were not saying okay
I'm going to be a skeptic or a
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believer, you're going out there
with a totally open mind and
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it fascinates me even the 10
questions that you were asking
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the literature there. So now
that you had gone through this
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and you're looking and finding
so many wow factors in each one
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actually. I mean, there
were wow factors in every one of
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these letters of antiquity,
but now Jesus is coming to the
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forefront so far. But I
know last time you told me there
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were a few tests that in your
experience that you felt that
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maybe the others had come.
So you're still looking at this
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with an open mind and the
next question you asked yourself
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was how does their life actually
line up with their message?
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This I considered to be
the acid test of the founder.
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Yes, you can talk, yes, you can
expound a teaching or a doctrine
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but I want to know how did
you live it. And so I asked this
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question of all these five.
Let's quickly go through what
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their response was. In the Hindu
literature they clearly state
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that if you want to reach a
state of transcendental thinking
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and meditation then you must
put away sensual gratification,
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even the desire for it. That's
their stated doctrine. When you
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compare that with the lives
of them, none of them match up
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to it; even the great Krishna.
The descriptions of how he
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dealt with what is called
the gopees who he grew up with.
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Gopees were girl cowherds
and that's how he grew up in
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Drivnavna. So girl
cowherds, like cowgirls?
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That's right. Okay. And the
description in their writings
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as how he dealt with
them was a very sensuous way.
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Such that even Gautama Buddha
the founder of Buddhism when
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he was a Hindu looking at their
own literature, this is what he
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said. He said our books tell
us of gods and sages who though
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high-minded were addicted to
sensuous passion. So in their
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own writings they really do
not come up to what they had
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written down. So they
weren't practicing what
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they were preaching.
That's right. When you come to
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Buddhism, Gautama Buddha before
he left he made four rules that
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would cause a monk to be
expelled from the monastery.
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One of them if you have sensual
contact with anyone. The fact is
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Gautama Buddha himself was
married, he had a son and then
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from the age of 16 to the age
of 29 his father, according to
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their own traditional writings,
kept him up on the higher floors
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of the palace because he
was not allowed to come down.
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He might see sickness or
suffering, old age and death,
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which was what his father said
he should not ever see. How do
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you keep a young person
entertained? Their writings do
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tell us he was entertained by
women minstrels day in and day
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out. And that is why when he
was searching he said I go down
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to the water thrice before
nightfall to wash away the evil
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within me. So he
himself acknowledged. I am not
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describing what the evil
is. It's his own words that say
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that there was evil. When
it comes to the Islamic faith
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Muhammad is considered by
Muslims actually to be the
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perfect man. But in their own
writings, the 48th chapter of
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the Quran Allah says this
to him. We have given you a
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glorious victory so that we
will forgive you your past and
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future sins. So I do not have
to call sin what it is according
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to a Muslim. It is Allah who
is stating that in the Quran.
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In other words, Muhammad,
perfect though he was as a man,
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the book still tells us
that there was sin in him.
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When it comes to the Judaic
literature we look at three of
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the greats of Judaism: Abraham,
David and Moses. They said, Thou
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shalt not kill, thou shalt
not commit adultery, thou shalt
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not bear false witness or tell
lies. None of those three ever
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could look at their lives and
say it is clean regarding any
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of these. When you come to
Jesus, I'm going to look at it
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in 12 different ways, 12
statements. Maybe you can keep
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count of them. Different angles
and let's see what they said
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about this life. Let's
look at a Roman governor, Pilot.
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He said having examined him
I find no fault in him and one
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of the gospels says no fault
at all. Then he testifies also
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about Herod. So Herod is number
two. He says Herod also found
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no fault with you. The third
one was while he was in the
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trial his wife sent a little
note to him saying, Watch out,
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this man is a just man. That's
number three. Number four:
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At the cross there was a Roman
centurion, a soldier, a hardened
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soldier, who looked up at
him and he said, Surely this man
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was a righteous man. One of
the thieves hanging on the cross
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said, Look I'm suffering
for what I did but this man,
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according to his words,
has done nothing wrong. Five
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statements of people who were
distant from Jesus. Let's look
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at those who were close
to Jesus, His own disciples.
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John: He said in him there
is no sin. Peter described it in
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other words: Without spot,
without blemish. The writer of
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Hebrews, possible Paul, says
he was tempted in all points
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and yet without sin. We
have covered nine statements.
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The 10th one is a very unusual
one. I'd like to quote it from
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the Quran: Jesus is the only
founder of a major religion that
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is mentioned in the books of
another major religion. He is
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mentioned many times in
the Quran. Those who have done
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a count tell me that he is
mentioned in 93 verses in the
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Quran. Sixteen times he is
called the Messiah, 11 times
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he is identified as Isa Ben
Mariam meaning Jesus the son
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of Mary in the Quran. Let
me read to you Chapter 3 and
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verses 45 and 46 regarding the
life of Jesus: His name is the
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Messiah, Jesus son Mary. He
shall be noble in this world and
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in the world to come and shall
be one of those who are favored.
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He shall preach to men in
his cradle and in the prime of
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manhood and shall lead a
righteous life. The Quran, #10.
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That's amazing. Amazing
testimony. The 11th one is Jesus
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himself. It is one thing for
somebody to tell somebody else
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you are good. It's another when
you look into your own life and
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and find nothing there. There
was a time when he looked at
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his bitterest enemies and
critics and said can you, any
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of you show me one sin in
me. And the answer was silence.
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Number 12: This I think crowns
it all. It was the time at the
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trial before the Sanhedrin when
it was an open trial. In other
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words, you could bring in
witnesses and the Sanhedrin
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was there calling witness
after witness and could not do
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anything with him. Finally the
priest himself, the high priest,
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got up and came to him and
asked him under oath tell us if
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you are the Son of God.
According to Jewish tradition,
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it was probably the full council
meaning 70 members plus one
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the least quorum you need for
passing the death sentence is
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23 according to Jewish tradition
so we know there were at least
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23 plus the high priest.
So among those 23 they knew
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everything of the Torah
from Genesis to Deuteronomy.
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They called witness after
witness, couldn't find anything
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until this last sentence or
question that the chief priest
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asked, Who really are you? My
question is why did they shift
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from what did you do or say or
did you not do to who are you.
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Why the shift in the
judicial court of law?
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Because they couldn't find
anything wrong to convict him.
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That was the point. The reason
for shifting out to his identity
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was because in his actions there
was nothing wrong that the whole
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bench of judges could find.
Excellent point. So when you
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look at all 12 you find here
and only here a person where the
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theory of his teaching has met
its match in practice. Here only
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do you find a man in whom the
principles of teaching have been
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carried out to a completion
in real life. So therefore, the
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only life that I can
really describe as unblemished
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perfection. Therefore, here
is my conclusion at this point.
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Here's the only person who can
face the whole world, look you
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and me in the eye and
with perfect right and perfect
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credibility say Follow Me.
Nobody else has that right.
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Now at this point you had
researched for years and this
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is still fairly early on, a few
years into your research, how
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do you get to that point
where now Jesus has come to the
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forefront on two issues. Number
one when you're looking at the
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five religions and what their
founders claimed that his was
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the highest claim. Others
had claimed to be a prophet, the
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enlightened one, a sage, but
here he is claiming to be the
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Son of God and now as you
examine the founders of these
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religions you find that he's
the only one whose life meets
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up with the message that
he's preaching. Did you have to
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struggle against allowing Jesus
to come to the forefront. I mean
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because you still did a
lot more research. How did you
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contain yourself. At point, I'd
probably been saying he's the
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one. But how did you contain
yourself then or did you contain
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yourself? I had to
contain myself because
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the search was not yet over.
I will come to that point in
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just one moment. Let me
wrap this up with one sentence.
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This idea of him having lived a
perfect life was really to me a
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very uncanny confirmation
of his previous stand of being
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the Way, the Truth and the Life.
He said I am it. You see, if you
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say I've brought it, then you
can make a mistake in life, but
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you cannot make a mistake if you
say I am it. So when we really
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find that he really did not make
that kind of a mistake, it is a
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conformation of what he earlier
said, I am the Way, the Truth
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and the Life. Excellent point.
Now we come to your question
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whether I had to stop here
and say okay the search is over.
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I could have, but there is one
thing that I had learned when I
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was as a physician when reading
literature. You recognize people
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can skew figures, data, opinions
and concepts. I asked myself
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am I pushing this man to the
front or is he doing it himself?
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You see by the time you come
to the 15th or 16th mile marker
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of the marathon if somebody
is out in front, your eyes are
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naturally on that front runner.
But we are still not at the tape
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So my question at that point
was am I pushing him out there
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or is he doing the running
himself. So here is what I
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looked for. I looked for a point
in which he may not have come
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out in front. We
are going to cover some
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of these other questions that
you asked in another program
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that's coming up. You're
actually going to make the test
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even more difficult for the
case of Jesus to make sure that
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you're not skewing or weighting
it in one area of the other.
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That's right. I want to describe
some studies which I honestly
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did in which he did not come out
first. In fact, the next three
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are in which he came out last.
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That's interesting. So I can't
wait because what we do know
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is that Dr. Pandit at the end
of his research made a cause for
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Christ that he said he has
to be the one. Dr. Pandit, thank
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you so much for being with us
again today. I truly appreciate
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the research you did and I
appreciate you coming to 3ABN
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to share this with our audience.
For those of you in our audience
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if you would be interested in
getting all of the tapes, this
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is our sixth program and we are
actually inviting him back for a
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couple more. If you are
interested just call 3ABN and
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you can get this whole series
on tape. Perhaps you might even
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want to contact him to
have him come to your church and
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give the whole seminar. Thank
you so much for joining us.
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May the Lord multiply his mercy,
his love and his grace to you
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and yours for
here and for evermore.
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We're glad that you joined us.
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