I got a text from a married couple this morning that said, was Jesus influenced by the Eastern

religions of his time? Was Jesus influenced by the Eastern religions of his time? And I replied

with a little voice message and thought I maybe put this on YouTube. You know, I saw someone,

someone put up on YouTube or somewhere on the internet, the average YouTube time, attention span is like 90 seconds.

So I'm going to start doing some of these short ones that aren't super long, super deep.

Most of you guys probably know the answers to these things.

But I'm sometimes surprised at, well, we've all been brainwashed by modernism a little bit.

So sometimes it's worth doing short videos on things that most of you know,

but might want a little bit extra ammo in your spiritual warfare pouch for answering these things.

So, again, was Jesus influenced by the Eastern religions of his time?

So the answer is no, and there's two reasons.

The first is historical.

There's simply no evidence that Jesus went to India or what we would call Iraq or Iran today.

There's just no evidence that he went out there. This has been projected by modern scripture scholars

probably in the 70s to kind of make it that Jesus had to go learn from the gurus of his time.

And really, there's an

agenda in that. It's to bring Christ down to the same level as teacher with people like Buddha,

who is admittedly born before Jesus, at least Christ as man. Of course, a second person in Trinity

existed long before Buddha. But these Eastern religions precede Christianity, of course, on any

timeline. And so scripture scholars, I think around the 1970s, wanted to make it that Jesus

was just another good teacher. So to insist that Jesus went to learn from the gurus of India is a way

to deny Christ's divinity. But the one thing you need to remember is just there's no historical evidence he did that.

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