2006-11-13 15:57:26 · 15 answers · asked by a sock 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Captain Mac, do you prefer the instant macaroni and cheese or the 20 minute stuff. How about brands. Do you think the store brand is the same as the name brand. Do you prefer the elbow noodles or the shapes, like scooby doo. This is powerful stuff here, I'm sure the world will want to know!
I wonder, do you think that if Buddha was real, he could rub his big fat belly and his head at the same time in opposite directions?
2006-11-13 16:20:56 · answer #1 · answered by sunny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they both had important messages about kindness, life and being a good human being. They were both important figures in history and there's a lot humanity can learn from both.
This is a predominately Christian nation and so you're mostly going to get purely Christian answers to this question that are very skewed. Both figures were very different but in the end they taught acceptance, tolerance and to be kind to your fellow beings, human or not.
We're told in Christian society that Jesus died for us and that any other religion is wrong. Researching and reading the background on many religions is important rather than simply taking one viewpoint on all of them. If more people looked into the beliefs of others perhaps we'd have a world filled with more enlightened people.
Both Jesus and Buddha are dead and gone, or alive and influencing us in ways that we can't see. However you choose to feel about the subject it should be drawn from things you've learned, not from what others tell you.
Finally, never feel as if you've learned everything there is to know on the subject. Reading the Bible or the Dharmapada alone doesn't mean you know everything about religion there is to know in the world.
2006-11-16 02:18:20 · answer #2 · answered by Jaymie M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What? Jesus had nothing to do with Buddha? To tell the truth Jesus is way better then Buddha, Jesus died for you and me, i never heard Buddha do that...
2006-11-14 00:01:26 · answer #3 · answered by TiggaTheTiger 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way Captain Macaroni, Jesus is the true God and eternal life.
Jesus is the way the truth and the life.
Buddha is just a big statue made with human hands, it can neither see, hear, smell, feel or talk.
Jesus was not made or created by no man, in fact he is the great I AM, the Alpha and the Omega, the king of kings and Lord of Lords, Jesus is the Almighty God!!!
2006-11-14 00:34:27 · answer #4 · answered by JOSEPH M 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How do you know Jesus wasn't Buddha?
2006-11-14 00:01:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. Buddha is a Siddhartha-come-lately messiah wannabe.
2006-11-14 00:41:56 · answer #6 · answered by m. b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
enlighenment is not limited to a specific person or region, or religion. buddha claimed enlightenment, jesus was proclaimed messiah, or using the greek word, christ. both are states of being, and has been achieved by awareness of self.
2006-11-14 00:01:53 · answer #7 · answered by de bossy one 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is alive and well
I don't know about Buddha,
I think he is a statue, and he is dead
Can't walk, breathe, speak or move
How can the dead, help you???
2006-11-14 00:01:26 · answer #8 · answered by Gifted 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Legend has it that Jesus spent some time in India so he might have learned something there. It's a pity that modern christians can't do the same
2006-11-13 23:59:48 · answer #9 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He has many things in common with egypt. I guess all kinds of dates and beliefs etc.
Even dec 25 I believed has something in common.
I think all religions are close to eachother.
2006-11-14 00:08:20 · answer #10 · answered by Labatt113 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋