I believe that Legends and Ancient Texts need investigation.
They cannot be just brushed away as figment of imagination.
This seems to be rational.
I have been checking legends,Puranas of the Hindus.
Nearly all reference points turnout to be true!
Lord Krishna‘s Dwaraka is being excavated.
The exact location where Lord Krishna delivered the Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna during the Mahabharata battle, has been identified.
The date of birth and death of Lord Rama is validated thorough the references of the eclipses and the description of celestial events like eclipses and the configuration of Stars and Planets.
And there are many more.
I was curious to know about the geographical location of the Mount from where Jesus Christ is recorded to have delivered the famous Sermon on The Mount.
The Sermon on the mount epitomizes Christian Ethics.
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The Sermon on the Mount (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: Sermo in monte) is a collection of sayings and teachings of Jesus, which emphasizes his moral teaching found in the Gospel of Matthew (chapters 5, 6 and 7).[1] It is the first of the Five Discourses of Matthew and takes place relatively early in the Ministry of Jesus after he has been baptized by John the Baptist and preached in Galilee.
The Sermon is the longest piece of teaching from Jesus in the New Testament, and has been one of the most widely quoted elements of theCanonical Gospels.[2] It includes some of the best known teachings of Jesus, such as the Beatitudes, and the widely recited Lord’s Prayer. To most believers in Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount contains the central tenets of Christian discipleship.[2]
The last verse of chapter 5 is considered to be a focal point that summarizes the teaching of the sermon: “be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect”, advising his disciples and followers to seek the path towards perfection and the Kingdom of God‘-wiki”
The reference to the Sermon on the Mount are found in the Bible and they are contradictory in terms of its Geographical location.
“According to Luke, there was no mountain…
“17And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;”
(Luke 6:17-49)
Yet Matthew says it was a mountain:
“1And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:”
(Matt. 5:1)
Funny, neither Mark nor John even mention the famous sermon at all — neither mountain nor plain.
Paul also appears to not have any knowledge of any such sermon”
We have two issues.
1.Whether the Sermon on the Mount was delivered by Christ?
“The ‘Sermon on the Mount’ is the first exposition of Jesus’ teachings in the New Testament. Many of its features suggest that it reflects the very beginnings of Jesus’ thought (?). It represents both the original kernel and the normative foundation of Christian morality. Despite many changes and adjustments Christianity has undergone since the time of its inception, Jesus’ sermon remains the lasting source of inspiration for all who profess to be the followers of Jesus. Meanwhile they had discovered that it was not easy to live strictly by the precepts of the original Christian morality.
Note: The sermon does not necessarily reflect a single event from Jesus’ preaching tours; it could have been a later literary concatenation of sayings taken from several different speeches Jesus had delivered during his lifetime…
| The Gospel of Matthew (5:1- 7:29); The Gospel of Luke (6:17- 49). These two versions differ only slightly. | |
| Title: | The traditional title seems to have originated with the commentary of St. Augustine: “Concerning the Lord’s Sermon in the Mountain” (394 AD). |
| Time: | The original sermon was composed probably by the end of the third decade of the 1st century AD. Both Matthew’s and Luke’s version of it were written down some time between 65 and 95 AD. |
| Place: | If Matthew is to be believed, the sermon was delivered on one of the hills near Capernaeum. Luke, however, intimates that the sermon was given in a “level place” (if so its proper title would be “The Sermon in the Plain” |
One must not forget that the Bible was compiled by Constantine in an assembly of Cardinals nearly three hundred years after the supposed death/Crucifixion of Jesus.
The reference to the Sermon on The Mount appears in the New Testament.
It is also the view of Scholars that the Sermon on The Mount does not relate to a single Sermon but a collection of Jesus’s Teachings over a period of Time.
So The Sermon on the Mount does not seem to have been delivered by Jesus as such.
2.Where is the Geographical location of the Mount?
As pointed out earlier in this post there seems to be contradiction about the Sermon having been delivered on the Mount,plain or has not been delivered at all.
It seems to reason to believe that The Sermon on The Mount was not delivered by Jesus as is reported nor is there any geographical reference to it.
At best it is a collection of Ethical Principles.
References;
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090225121311AAm0sI4
For a discussion on the subject http://www.uri.edu/personal/szunjic/philos/sermon.htm
*Definition of Hoax.
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how come … after three hundred years … and the manuscripts of saint john fund in Egypt since the first c.
http://ramanan50.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/mother-teresa-blogcomment-origin-of-the-bible /
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Dear, if luke and matthew say that Jesus was on plain or on mountain , that not means is a Contradiction between , cause the bible is not a historic book only, so The sequence of events may not be as 1 2 3 , I hope the idea Has reached
The implied point of the post is that Bible is Not History and that it was complied some three hundred years after Jesus’s death.
As such it can not be relied upon for facts, can be taken only as a Moral treatise prepared to suit Constantine to hold onto to His Throne.