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Originally Posted by hordak
Don't get me wrong, I too think Buddhism has some great wisdom. However if they were the lost tribe i would expect more similarity in the teachings. While how to live ones life now is pretty in sink with some of the teachings of Jesus some "big" views, especially on the afterlife vary vastly. Reincarnation vs Heaven, God vs No God, Rain on the just and unjust vs karma.
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After 2000 years you expect them to be the same as in the beginning? It only took the Native Americans 400 years to lose the traditions Jesus taught them. There was next to nothing recognizable as Christianity when the Europeans came here.
Note: I always understood that the lost tribes were just other people who scattered across the earth and integrated with whomever was already there (aka after the tower of Babel). Wasn't aware they were living in the middle of the earth, Arctic circle, or with aliens...?