Posted on 11/07/2011 12:51:06 AM PST by Love Wisdom Truth
I think that’s right.
Christianity centers around a thinking, actively good God.
Buddhism believes not so much in a higher being, as in inner peace. In order to avoid being reincarnated as a cockroach.
What I don’t understand about Buddhism is though (and I don’t actually disagree with Buddhism as a way to live one’s life), how is reincarnation based on how one lives life on Earth, if there is no God deciding your score?
How does that actually happen?
mirrors ?
There is no way to obey the command love one another.
It’s not my opinion, it’s what God has said:
“For all have sinned and fallen short of God’s Glory”.
“Be ye Holy as I am Holy”
“There is no one righteous, not one”
God’s standard is perfection- one that we cannot achieve in which our sin remains. God HAD to provide the way for salvation for us.
“My opinion is whatever Christ says comes from God.” You are correct!
That is why He claimed: “I am THE way, THE truth, and THE life, no man comes to God but by Me”!
Jesus death on the cross paid for our sins. He rose to prove that it was real-and to fulfill God’s promise. All we must do is recieve it.
I hope/pray you do.
-Jeremy
Pure Buddhism is agnostic, if not atheist. Buddhist reincarnation is not the same as Hindi reincarnation- there is no governing power and ultimately there really is no ‘you’.
In Buddhism what you are is a momentary accumulation of matter, ideas, motivations, wants, desires, ect that is constantly changing. As such your reincarnation is the effects your actions have: do bad things make bad effects, do good things make bad effects, do perfectly nothing and achieve nirvana.
Buddhism then is perfecting the art of stillness and emptiness in meditation. A Buddhist meditation is to be acutely aware of your surroundings and not react to them, and aware of your motivations and desires to clear yourself of them.
That’s wonderful! I’m truly happy for you.
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