Is Christianity Mayavada because many Christians consider Jesus to be God?

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Krishna question why don’t we consider Christianity to be Mayavad when many Christians consider Jesus to be God answer no we shouldn’t be too hasty to apply the label Mayavad on anyone and everyone Mayavad is very specific school of thought which holds the idea that God is impersonal and that the personal manifestation of God is an illusion which needs to be transcended so that one can realize the higher impersonal absolute truth so Mayavad that is the idea that everything that we perceive with our senses including the form that we may perceive or conceive that is all Maya that is Mayavad so in fact just the notion that one’s particular spiritual teacher is God is not Mayavad that’s the first point secondly coming to Christianity within Christianity the position of Jesus and his connection with God with God who was talked about in the Old Testament and with the God whom Jesus talked about that connection was debated for almost four centuries after the departure of Jesus and after that understanding evolved which has been more or less accepted by most mainstream branches of Christianity and that idea is that Jesus was God incarnated in human flesh or as some Christians put it the divinity of God, divinity of Christ manifested in the humanity of Jesus now without going to the philosophical technicalities, theological technicalities of the statement on the the important point is that Christians don’t consider the form of God to be an illusion they say that any depictions that we may make of the form of God those are illusions so the form of God cannot be depicted and they certainly don’t consider that the absolute truth is impersonal and we need to go beyond the personal absolute truth to merge into that impersonal absolute truth so those defining characteristics of Mayavada are conspicuously absent in Christianity and although the overall conception of God is hazy but still there is a substantial element of devotion within Christianity wherein the Christians want to devote themselves to God and some Christians like St. Francis of Assisi and others have even achieved exalted levels of devotion by their practice by the practice of Christianity that’s why the Vaishnavacharyas have generally compared Christianity more with Bhakti although it’s not so analytically or aesthetically evolved conception of Bhakti as is given in the Vaishnav tradition but still there is the conception of God who is personal but his personality is not conceivable to us his form is not conceivable to us and there is the idea of devoting oneself to that God so in that sense the whole conception is personal not at all Mayavadi Thank you Question from Jugal Prabhu