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There are inherent and fundamental differences between Buddhism and Christianity, one significant element being that while Christianity is at its core monotheistic and relies on a God as a Creator, Buddhism is generally non-theistic and rejects the notion of a Creator God which provides divine values for the world.
Jul 8, 2017 · The Buddha declared all matter in this world to be transitory. Jesus said: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away." The Buddha's last words are said to be, "Work out your own salvation with diligence." The Apostle Paul, speaking for Jesus, said, "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling."
What's the difference between Buddha and Christ? Buddha (Siddhārtha Gautama) insisted he was human and that there is no almighty, benevolent God. He preached that desire was the root cause of suffering and that people should seek to eliminate desire. He was born in present-day Nepal roughly 500 years bef...
- c. 563 BCE, Lumbini, Sakya, Nepal
- does not mention the Buddha.
- Indian (Shakya)
- 5 min
Feb 22, 2018 · They replaced the Buddha with the fictitious Indian saint Josaphat (the name of an Old Testament king) and created the character of Barlaam from Bodhisattva, the Buddhist term for an...
- The Purpose and Meaning of Their Lives
- Their Historicity
- Their Self-Concept
- Their Concept of God
- Their Miracle Working
- Their Answer to The Human Predicament
- Salvation vs. Liberation
- A Matter of An Empty Tomb
- The Religion of Christianity Is Different from Buddhism in Every Way
In 1960 a theologian by the name of Paul Tillich visited Japan, and in conversation with some Buddhist scholars, he asked that: “If some historian should make it probable that a man of the name Gautama never lived, what would be the consequence for Buddhism?” These Buddhist scholars responded by saying that the question of the historicity of Gautam...
The sources we have for the historical Jesus far surpasses that of what we have for Buddha in its earliness and abundance. To that end we can sketch a more reliable portrait of the Jesus of history. For Jesus we have numerous sources to go on, namely the biographical Gospels, the Pauline epistles, non-Pauline epistles, and the general epistles. Tha...
Buddha insisted that he was not divine, and that his problem with life was suffering of people and even animals. He taught that in order to eliminate suffering from one’s life, one had to let go of desire, and in turn live a life of moderation and self control. Some time after one would reach a state of happiness and bliss (known as Nirvana) where ...
The Buddha rejected the existence of God, and said that that was irrelevant to the notion of suffering (2). According to one scholar of Buddhism if by “God” we mean a Creator God then: The Buddha made no claim to special inspiration or revelation from any divine source. On the other hand Jesus was a monotheist (he believed in one God), and accepted...
Jesus’ miracles are multiply and independently attested. They are also very early, and we find them in Q, L (special material for Luke), M (special material for Matthew), Mark, Matthew, Luke, John, and Paul’s epistles. The “Signs Gospel” preceding John also contains several miracle narratives, and the Jewish-Roman historian Josephus Flavius affirme...
The Buddha taught one to eliminate suffering by getting rid of their desire, in other words one needed to suppress their desires. However, Jesus came into the world to allegedly bridge the chasm that sin caused between God and man. So, the Buddha taught a philosophy and the other came as our saviour (and brought a philosophy along). Ravi Zacharias,...
According to the pedagogics of early Buddhism we are each responsible for attaining our own liberation, such is antithetical to the view of Jesus. According to Jesus we cannot save ourselves because of the divide that separates man from God. The Buddha pronounced the dharma, the true teaching, which results in liberation, but it is still up to the ...
Both the Buddha and Jesus died, Buddha was cremated and Jesus was crucified. However, Jesus’ tomb was found to be empty, and this is affirmed by the majority of scholars: “In fact in a bibliographical survey of over 2,200 publications on the resurrection in English, French and German since 1975, the researcher Gary Habermas found that 75 percent of...
Jesus taught that the single most important thing to do was to believe in him. In fact, he said to believe on him is the ultimate will of God (John 6:29). The reason for this is that Jesus was the sacrifice for human sin (Mark 10:45) and only faith in him can reconcile us back to God (Ephesians 2:8-9). Jesus taught about a Kingdom of Heaven and a p...
Although Buddha and Jesus were separated by centuries and distance—about 3,000 miles—their stories and teachings have many similarities. So I ask, were Jesus and Buddha brothers by another mother? Could Jesus be the "reincarnation" of Buddha? Could Jesus be the "second coming" of Buddha?
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Most scholars believe there is no historical evidence of any influence by Buddhism on Christianity, [verification needed] Leslie Houlden states that although modern parallels between the teachings of Jesus and Buddha have been drawn, these comparisons emerged after missionary contacts in the 19th century and there is no historically reliable ...
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