Jesus the one true Avtar

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Originally Posted by Popeyesays
Ask most educated Hindus "How many gods are there?"The answer will be: "One".By this reasoning Krshna is an avatar of the Godhead. As is Vishnu, or Ganesh, or Kali, or SIva or any of the "gods".Regards,Scott

It is likely the 'educated' Hindus mean one reality and innumerable expressions. Hindus would feel left out in saying there is only one God if by it you were to mean a God separate from us.

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Originally Posted by lilithu
My point is that if your argument is that the devas are simply expressions of the one true God, then so are we. And if that's what you want to call an "avatar" then so are we. It's not what most people mean by avatar tho.

We are expressions of God but we are not avtaars because we are only evolving towards our divinity, whereas an avtaar happens when God involves Himself in the human situation, thereby apparently restricting Himself while being fully aware of His reality all the time. We can't really know who an avtaar is, for God can come in any guise. But when we come across humans who seem to possess awesome spiritual powers, we dub them avataars. Avtaars rarely declare themselves to be avtaars. Even Krishna's best friend Arjuna did not know Krishna was an avtaar till a crucial moment.

I wasn't really arguing that we are avatars. I was saying that if he wants to argue that all devas are avatars, then we are avatars as well. My point was that devas and avatars are not synonymous. There is a functional distinction.