Several years ago, I visited the Holy Land and places that the biblical tradition associates with the historical abode of a glorious and great man, 200 years ago, Yeshua of Nazareth. In the Temple of the Holy Sepulcher, there was no inspiration from the greatness and holiness of this place, which was pampered by millions of people.
On the contrary, some inner feeling told me that this place is "not right" ...
But in the church where the place of the peace of the Virgin Mary is located, a wave of ancient greatness and grace of holiness rolled over me. It is more correct to call this place not a church, but the Monastery of Dormition or the Monastery of the Dormition of the Mother of God.
This is the German Catholic abbey of the Order of Benedictines on the summit of Mount Zion.
In this temple I saw something like a small stone tomb-a rough-hewn bed of stone. On it lay a bouquet of red roses. Through a small window, glazed window and the light of a small electric lamp red roses on a yellowish stone looked touching and defenseless. But the matter is not in this picturesqueness, but in the response that this place has made in my soul.
The Catholic Church believes that it was on this bed that Mary fell asleep eternally. I know of another story related to her life and death, and even seemingly confirmed by archaeologists. But I'll tell her some other time.
I really like the personality of Yeshua, who became a prophet for Muslims and a god (or rather, one of the incarnations of the Trinity) for Christians.
He was a very strong, wise and brave man. And very, very active, otherwise he would not become a god. Probably, those who create religions themselves do not believe in the gods. Religious people do not have the ken, the ability to put themselves in the place of another person. Due cynicism, historical calculation and accurate knowledge of human hearts. And if you do not know the secrets of a person's heart, how to fill it with the new word of the new god? Yeshua himself did not write a single line. The gospels and apocrypha only say that Yeshua drew signs on the sand with his staff when preaching to his disciples.
I think that this is fortunately for all mankind; otherwise Arab scholars would have long deciphered Yeshua's hypothetical letters as "Allahu Akbar", Soviet ones as "Glory to the CPSU" and Jewish ones as "Shekel is eternal" ...
Yeshua was a great and valiant person, and probably he really could work miracles, otherwise they would have forgotten about him long ago. He worked wonders or those things that our human consciousness and imagination are mistaken for.
The current Russian church functionaries, who so often mention his pure name, can not make me stop respecting him.
Valiant and glorious Yeshua, who once lived in Judea and who has become perhaps the most revered man on earth for billions of people.