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Eventually, however, I believe that most people, Christian and otherwise, will accept that Maitreya is indeed the Christ, Messiah, Krishna - World Teacher for all.

It's all Tashlan to me.

Or as Chesterton said in a similar vein, some people are very fond of saying that Christianity and Buddhism are very similar, especially Buddhism.

The anti-Christs always want to pretend that Jesus is "a way" and that the divine light is within us, yada yada. Like the slave girl in the market whom Paul cast the demon out of ("*A* way of salvation, not *the* way).

Cheers!

Thank you so very much for sharing your insights, dear grey_whiskers!

Precisely so.

And therefore the importance of trying the spirits, of asking as Jesus did "What think ye of Christ?" (Matt 22:42)

If a person responds that He is "a" God or "a" Creator or "a" Way or "a" Truth or "a" Life - then it is the spirit of anti-Christ.

If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into [your] house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds. - 2 John 1:10-11

Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. - Psalms 91:14

Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. – Matthew 10:32-33

And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God. – Deut 12:3-4

God's Name is I AM.

Or as Chesterton said in a similar vein, some people are very fond of saying that Christianity and Buddhism are very similar, especially Buddhism.

That Chesterton is (astutely) remarking on it goes to show how far back in time this "movement" goes. It was in full bloom around the turn of the last century in the influential theosophist Madame Helena Blavatsky's London salon. She had many, many notable visitors including, it is said, Henry Ford and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Anyhoot, the Maitreya doctrine is a muddled mess of Buddhism and Christianity — mainly some sort of ersatz Buddhism with a tiny (yet reassuring to some) increment of Christianity added into the brew. It's interesting to note, however, that the Christian symbols are stripped of their accustomed meanings and given new ones altogether. I don't know whether a similar operation has been performed on Buddhist symbols. (I'm not at all well versed in traditional forms of Buddhism.) But I wouldn't be surprised if it had.

The anti-Christs have really outdone themselves with this Maitreya confabulation. For this time, they claim that Christ is not even "a" Way; he's actually pretty much a big stumblebum in the grand scale of things, only a third-degree initiate who must take a fourth initiation, which he might fail.

If Christ can "fail," then it logically follows that reliance on him is misplaced. Enter the "lord" Maitreya....

Cheers!!!