I took ~45 hours of religious studies…which in short means I am not limited to economics. So here is an essay I wrote on the Centurion from the Gospels:

The Gospel means “good news”, which is derived from the Old English “god-spell” translated from Greek. Four Gospels were chosen to be placed in the New Testament, based on the idea of the four corners of the earth and the four winds. In these Gospels known as the Canonical Gospels, there are interestingly restless ideas that can be interpreted in a number of ways.

An interesting passage, Matthew 8:5-8:13 raises an interesting question. The question being, “why was Jesus not present during the healing of the Centurion’s servant.” In this passage Jesus states, “Go! It will be done just as you believed it would.” Never in the passage was Jesus ever in contact with the servant, but rather he talked specifically about faith. Although often times we see textual inconsistencies within the Gospels, the same trait is displayed in Luke 7:1-7:10. We see no presence of Jesus during the healing of the Centurion’s servant, but still we see the display of faith and healing as a result. This healing is uncharacteristic and unlike many of the other miracles and healings. Was this passage simply meant by relaying faith through Christ, or in having faith within and relaying it through God’s power?

Perhaps Jesus revealed something deeper than what the Gospels would have us believe. Perhaps there is a point in the human evolution of thought in which you must quite asking and start knowing, and believing. Assertions of your faith in living and feeling it surely are more powerful than mere requests to the divine. Possibly the story of the centurion gives us insight to our own faith and power of prayer, through mind, body and soul. Jesus says “Go your way; as you have believed, so be it done unto you”. The servant of the centurion was healed that very hour according to the Gospel of Luke.

Possibly Jesus was teaching us to lift our consciousness out of our narrow ways and onto a broader scale, in which what we need to be happy is already given. This appears to root back to Genesis 12:1, “Go Forth”, in Hebrew “Lech-Lecha” or “walk into yourself.” Even still we see more examples of this ideology of journey of Moses, as Moses leads the slaves of Israel out of Egypt. Egypt, also read as Mochin d’Katnut, or mind of narrowness; to travel out of this state is to travel to Mochin d’gadlut or a mind of spaciousness. Perhaps Jesus realized these ideas fully and tapped into the kingdom of heaven by doing so. The Bible translates God, or the lord rather, as the “ising”. Is it a matter of God being what he will be, through our own thoughts and prayers? God says to Moses, that “I will be, (what) I will be”, conceivably through this God is what we wish.

It is well known that the desire and belief of victory increases your chances to do so. Buddha been noted as to saying things similar to Jesus, such as:

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”

Believing it is important to note the unity of multiple religions and philosophies, we begin to see a much broader picture. The idea of the outer, physical world being an effect and not as a cause lifts many more questions and ideas, or rather philosophies of living. Perhaps in saying these things both men had found the power of prayer and meditation, the freeing of the mind and soul. If what is needed is already provided, what is there to fear? Buddha proposes that through our doubts we create our own pains or failure.

“What we think, we become”; a quote of Buddha often mentioned by teachers, and preachers alike. In saying this Buddha implies what was fore mentioned in earlier texts. Buddha has many other quotes that progress this idea of unity with God through faith, the idea of men shaping their life with their own thoughts and prayers. The idea of pure thoughts is distributed throughout the teachings of Jesus and Buddha; one would think that the subject would be more widespread.

Jesus performed his miracles, and healings with the faith that what was needed was already provided. Perhaps we should learn from the Centurion and have faith; faith that our prayers have already been answered, ambitions, hopes and dreams already true. Perhaps if we think, act and live as Jesus taught, with such faith that we knew there was nothing to fear, we would grasp faith greater than our problems.