Hate to break it to you, C, but Jeez was a Vedic.
c.500BC Buddha obtains enlightenment.
c. 270BC Ashoka the great unifies India and converts everyone to Buddhism, introducing written language to the sub-continent and putting up his 33 pillars of human and animal rights.
Buddhism remains the dominant religion there until c. C4th-C6th AD.
c.0BC 3 wise men come from the East. And they must be Buddhists. {see above.}
c.12/13AD Young Jeez kicks off with the Pharisees in the temple as he realises Yîds know fück all about God and all support the Sperz, anyway.
He goes off into the Wilderness, which is to the East, which as said, leads to the Buddhist sub-continent. Every thought that perhaps the 3 wise men left a map or calling card?
c.30 AD After 17 years bumming round India studying Buddhism, like any self-respecting backpacker, Jeez comes back and performs his first miracle. Turning water into wine, and not just any wine, but the best any of them had ever drunk. Which shows Jeez was bang up for getting off his head, just like Hindu sadhus do with charas out there.
c.30-33AD. Jeez now spends 3 years explaining Buddhism to Yîds in words of one syllable. Think only about the quotes directly attributed to Jeez in the 4 Gospels. Turn the other cheek, do unto others, the way to God is though your heart etc. All the parables about kindness (Good Samaritan) and forgiveness (Prodigal son.)
And compare this to the unloving, vengeful, violent, unforgiving Judaism of the Old Testament.
Does Jesus sound more like a Buddhist or a Jew?
c.33AD An alliance of Yîds and Wops nail him up for being a nice peaceful, Buddhist and making them question their own fückwitted religions.
See, C? All makes sense now, init?
Load of old nonsense.
Everyone knows God made Buddha and everything else some 6,000 years ago FACT.
Jesus is a third of God, see?
Easy.
Jesus is God, but so are God and their insubstantial friend, the Holy Spirit. They are all different, but the same. They are each parts of God, but at the same time they are each completely God.
It's really very simple. Much better than Ganpati's hippy elephant-worshipping nonsense.
The way I had it explained to me was that rather than thinking of it as 1+1+1=3, you should think of it as 1x1x1=1.
This, I felt, cleared the whole thing up admirably and proved how much better being a Catholic is than being a dirty, ignorant heathen or (worse) a foul, hell-bound heretic.
Yeah? We've just got one God. But He comes in 3 main flavours. The 2nd of which Vishnu has incarnated about ten times, including as Rama and Krishna. And the 3rd, Shiva, is simultaneously the same as and different from his wife, Parvati, who's also an re-incarnation of his first wife Sati, but Parvati also incarnates as pure destruction, Kali. And then we've got millions of others Gods, too. Durga, Ganga etc.
So if it comes to a God ruck, we'd win.
And anyway, as I said, Jeez is one of ours anyway. Read his teachings and honestly tell me he sounds more like a ¥id than a Buddhist.
And that is why there is some essential element of civility in Christianity which is lacking in the other two Abrahamic religions.