Good Friday

I was asking my wife today why today was called "Good Friday" rather than "Crucifixion Day". She said that she thought it was because Jesus sacrificed his life for all mankind today so that this was a "Good Friday".

I thought about what she said and said, "I don't see the Crucifixion as the important thing. I see him resurrecting from the dead as an example for all humans to follow as the important thing, not the Crucifixion itself. I see that Jesus raised his body from the dead to show each being what to do. So, his life was a complete example for us to follow, not just being crucified.

She wanted to debate me regarding this and I said,"I'm not willing to debate this because this is my personal religious experience." She thought this was interesting that I thought this way.

Also, I have studied a lot about who and what the historical Jesus was. And my point of view is that he likely was married to Mary Magdelene and that she was mostly eliminated from the Bible over the years by the Catholic church mostly just to keep women down and not equal to men which was more normal especially during the dark Ages in Europe and the middle east. In fact, we see it still in more primitive cultures where they don't even want women to be educated in a western way at all and try to kidnap them like recently happened in Africa of about 100 women in a Western High School. Luckily, those women except for about 8 of them were set free by the Army of the nation in which this happened in.

My thought now after studying about Jesus historically is that he likely went to a place like India or the Caves of the Himalayas and from adepts learned to raise his body from the dead as a young man which is still taught there today and has been for at least 10,000 years already. Tibetan historical documents say that Jesus likely moved with Mary Magdelene and his children to India where he lived to be about 85 and was a Guru there after he raised his body from the dead. I think this is very likely given all the historical documents and evidence that was allowed to not be destroyed in Tibet for over 1000 or more years because Tibet was impossible for an army to invade until motorized cars and planes were invented in the early 1900s.

He was likely known as Saint Issa which is very close to his actual Aramaic name of Yesu or Yeshua.

However, Christianity after Jesus left Israel was mostly used as a political tool by governments. So, often it ceased to be what it once was while Jesus was alive and became something else.

On the other hand whatever people believe whether it is historically accurate or not, if it helps them have good lives, then maybe that's okay too.

I once talked to a High Tibetan Lama who told me how someone he knew became completely enlightened meditating on a dog's tooth because the man believed his whole life that it was the tooth of the Buddha which really made me think more deeply about all people's beliefs worldwide.