2007-05-04 05:36:06 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Buddhists don't believe in the Trinity, or God really.
While Christians believe that three beings are ONE God.
Then God (singular) said, "Let Us (plural) make man in Our image, according to Our likeness..." Gen. 1:26
2007-05-04 05:39:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both have a trinity, but the meaning is different. Many religions have sets of three (= a trinity) but that doesn't mean they are all identical. The Buddhist trinity doesn't involve a creator god at all. You simply have a teacher who is a human (Buddha), his teaching (Dharma) and those who followed the teachings so that they themselves came to understand the gist of it (Sangha).
See, there's neither a god involved nor needed. The Buddha even denies that such a thing as an almighty creator god could possibly exist. Hence, no talk about him, his son or his holy spirit either.
2007-05-04 17:44:29 · answer #2 · answered by kakjab 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Trinity is not polytheistic. I am polytheist. Being polytheist means believing and worshiping multiple Gods which Christians don't. The Trinity is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. They are there in one. They are not Three Gods, but three components. Anyway that is monotheism. The belief that "all Gods are one God" is simply monotheism in disguise. Being polytheist means believing and worshiping Gods that are separate and individual beings. Why is there this continual talk of the Trinity being polytheism. It is not. Monotheism is worshiping one God, which Christians do. They just believe that he has three forms NOT three Gods.
2007-05-04 12:53:49 · answer #3 · answered by A-chan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Christian Trinity, that is to say the actual Trinity, is monotheistic, and the Buddhist "trinity" is atheistic, as is the very essence of Buddhism, so how can they be "the same"??
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2007-05-04 12:56:11 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Trinity does not mean 3 God's. How it works is like well the best way to explain it is a Man could be a Son, a father,and a husband. He is still just one man not 3.
2007-05-04 12:48:39 · answer #5 · answered by iplay412k6 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
1) Buddhism does not have a "trinity". Buddhism is non-theistic. Are you referring to Hinduism?
2) Christianity: One God, Three Persons. One in "ousia' (Greek: Substance) - Three in "hypostases".
2007-05-04 12:43:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're not the same.
The Christian Trinity isn't polytheistic.
2007-05-04 12:40:05 · answer #7 · answered by Mark 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
huh??? buddhism is a way of life, more a philosophy than a religion, that does not necessarily believe in a deity.
2007-05-04 12:41:25 · answer #8 · answered by zmj 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋