ellen@ucla-cs.UUCP (04/30/85)
Sorry Tony, but Buddhists know that ALL GODS, YOURS INCLUDED, are still bound to the wheel of rebirth and have finite life spans, until they, too are freed from illusion and become one with the all. The Christian Bible may be the word of your god, but your god is just one among many who exist under the illusion that they are separate entities from the white light of the void. Heaven exists in the Buddhist cosmology (probably now subdivided, every religious group with its own tract), but it is on a lower level than even the gods because it is filled with humans, whose awareness has not yet fully grasped what truly is. Of course, it is better than Hell (also subdivided), but all beings who see themselves as such (beings with their own unique intelligence, gods included) will be reborn, although their life spans are of differing lengths. Joseph Smith was a prophet of your god. Every god needs prophets & disciples in order to continue the illusion of its existence. Better luck next life. Yours in the Bodhisattva, ellen