(October 13, 2016 at 9:53 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(October 13, 2016 at 9:52 am)Little Rik Wrote: Buddha was very smart and intelligent.
He knew that the best way to show the God within to the people of that age was for the people to discover this God for themselves.
By teaching yoga to these people they would get there anyway.
So nowhere in Buddha's teachings does he say "There is a god"?
And how would you know that the Buddha believed in god if it appears nowhere in his teachings? Do you have some other source that others aren't aware of?
You don't seem to be very attentive to what goes on Fat.
Why Buddha would speak about God to people that would reject his message straight away?
Most probably he was living in a very materialistic society where people would not understand his message about God so why speak about something that would have been rejected?
Beside being smart and intelligent he was also a tactician.
Tacticians know the way to enter closed mental doors and that is exactly what Buddha was doing.