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Why can Jesus not simply be a guru or yogi, as Eastern religions define these words?
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Jesus cannot be a guru or yogi because these people teach that God is found inside and that we are gods. Jesus always pointed to His Father and in the gospel of John 17 his lengthy prayer to the Father for his disciples is an example of this. In Matthew 6:9-13, he teaches his disciples how to pray. The prayer opens with, “Our Father who art in heaven.” In Matthew 27:46, as he was crucified, he turns to God with a cry of, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” We see no turning inward to God, but a cry to the heavens.
From all this we see that Jesus taught of one God and that was not himself. Rather than us humans being gods, he teaches that we willfully choose our own selfish ends rather than to serve a holy and loving God. -
Jesus could not be simply a great Guru. In Eastern Religions, God can be found in everything. He was a monotheist who claimed to be the only way to God the Father. As the ONLY way to God, He contradicts the polytheist viewpoint of the world and focuses it on Himself.
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He is monotheistic. He is the SOn of God.
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First of all, neither Jesus nor those who wrote the gospels or the apostles who preached about him made those claims.
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Who is this Jesus? In Matthew 16:13-18 the disciples quote various opinions they heard from others in their travels. Some thought he was John the Baptist or Elijah or one of the prophets of old reincarnated or that He was just another prophet. Today, they say the same thing, or they include Him in the long list of “good men” such as Martin Luther King, Ghandhi, or some mystic. But Jesus was more than that. He is God. He is Lord. He is the Messiah. He is the source of our salvation. He is worthy of our worship. He is Wisdom, the Wisdom that created the World and mankind. (1 Corinthians 1:30)
