Lets say christianity is true...i believe in Buddhism...i believe it's the truth... will god now know that i thought i was following the true religion...i THOUGHT...or will he send me to hell for eternity for not believing in Jesus? I don;t believe in the bible...it says god is fair and just...but why would a fair and just god send people like myself to hell... or if you liek to put it a different way...i am choosing hell...but i DO NOT know what the right answer is...so how can i choose wrong? I honeslty believe that Buddhism is true...it's my heart and my life... to me i KNOW it's true... but will your god honestly punish me? For not knowing what was the truth...i did nothing wrong...i don't believe in the bible...if your god is fair and just why would he punish me...i have strong faith in my religion just like you do in yours... what's the difference? I dont believe in the bible so please do not try and justify GOD punishing me with the bible quotes, or if you have to....
2007-05-05 11:52:45 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To me Buddhism is the truth... if i am sadly mistaken...will god not understand?
2007-05-05 11:55:00 · update #1
The issue isn't what we "believe" but what we are pursuing and, ultimately, what we are trusting to satisfy God's demand for our lives. Christians believe that only by Jesus satisfying God's demand for perfection on our behalf can we be sinless and righteous and spend eternity in heaven with Him. I like what Dreamed1 said about seeking truth first and foremost, and as a Christian I believe that the only real truth is found through Jesus. Are you wrong for believing that Buddhism is the truth? Well, there's a difference between thinking something is the truth and actually pursuing the truth. A lot of people who call themselves Christians and who mentally agree that they believe what the Bible says aren't really pursuing to know and follow truth. It's one thing to say we believe something, but a totally different thing to pursue it. If you are pursuing truth, as a Christian, I believe if you keep seeking truth that you will find that Jesus is the only way to get to God and is the only real truth. I can't see your heart and don't know what you are pursuing--only you and God know what you are pursuing. If you are pursuing truth no matter where it leads you--and where it leads you could be very uncomfortable, just as I've seen in my own pursuit of truth that it can be very uncomfortable--then you will find it if you stay focused on finding truth and not on what is comfortable. I believe in looking at my own life that my pursuit of truth has led me at the very end to Jesus. If you are pursuing truth, if you stay focused on finding truth, God will show you that truth. I believe truth will lead you to Jesus. Maybe we don't believe the same thing because we are at different points in our spiritual journeys. Again, I can't speak for you or anyone else, nor will I tell anyone who is not a Christian that they will go to hell for not believing what I believe--I don't tell people what I believe and just leave it at that, but I tell them WHY I believe what I believe, and WHY I believe I have found the truth, but at the end of all of that, I hope that my life is a living example of Jesus' love as He works through and in my life, not just me trying to mimic what I think He would do and end up as just another bad actor. I don't seek to do what Jesus did, but I seek to BE like Jesus and to let my actions follow. And I hope that more than anything, my actions will convince others that truth is found only in Jesus.
I believe people will go to hell if they don't pursue truth, and I believe that truth is found only through and in Jesus, so ultimately if people reject the pursuit of truth, they will reject Jesus. Do I tell them they will go to hell if they don't believe what I believe? I think that's the wrong question. The issue isn't what I believe so much as where my pursuit of truth has brought me, namely, to Jesus. Telling people they are going to hell if they don't believe Jesus is the truth is a problem without a solution--showing them the truth and love of Jesus in my own life and living out the proof of that truth will convince people far better than anything I can say. I believe that Jesus is the truth and hope that people will see His truth in my life and will run toward Him because of the proof they see in my life. That's all I or anyone else who claims that Jesus is the truth can really do. But if we aren't living proof of Jesus as the ultimate truth, it won't really matter what we say.
2007-05-05 20:21:25 · answer #1 · answered by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I personally don't think there is a wrong and right religion. I'm a Catholic, born and raised but I disagree with my religion a lot. I do not believe in confession and I also believe that there can be reincarnation. I just believe in God, Mary, and Jesus. I don't personally think organized religion is for me. I do not think at all that you would go to hell, not in the least. I think as long as your a good person than what religion you are shouldn't matter. God doesn't send people to hell because he doesn't like the religion you choose. As long as you have a good faith than i think thats awesome, let it be for God or Buddha or any other God in any other religion. I hope this helps....
2007-05-05 12:02:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are some Christians who would say that. But I think it just comes from an incomplete understanding of what Truth really means. As a Christian, I believe God is the source of all Truth. Even Jesus said "I am the Truth". I once heard an Orthodox clergyman say that anyone who pursued Truth would inevitably find themselves in the arms of Jesus, whether they set out for Him or not. I think he is right. "Hell" is just the state of refusing to see Truth, of rejecting the ultimate Love that made the universe. Keep pursuing Truth and don't worry about what others say. You must know Truth in your own heart.
Peace to you.
2007-05-05 11:59:11 · answer #3 · answered by dreamed1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a christian.
But I study Buddhism too. Don't know enough to say "Buddhism is true" but I do see that most of the teachings are compatible with a Christian worldview. I don't Buddhism so much as a religion as a philosophic framework to help us all live better. At the moment at least I don't think the two are mutually exclusive.
Just some food for that
2007-05-05 11:58:20 · answer #4 · answered by LX V 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Catholics believe is that, when a non-Christian dies, the judgement belongs to God. It is between that person and God. If this person never heard of God, the judgement is between this person and God also. We as human should not judge as God is the judge on Judgement day. Buddha did not claim to be God and he acknowledge there is a God and he is only showing the way to enlightenment. If a person do not believe in God and not baptised when he dies, he will never enjoy the company of a loving God. Jesus said that He is the truth, the light and the way. The judgement is still God's!
2007-05-05 13:01:54 · answer #5 · answered by Sniper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not consider in "Biblical inerrancy" and but many non-Christians label me as a "fundie" and "evangelical. I take a instead educational/scholarly system to the Bible. However, even supposing I had been to take a absolutely literal view of the complete Bible (adding the publication of Revelation) I nonetheless could not justify the perception in an everlasting torture chamber. The wages of sin is demise. The lake of fireplace is the "moment demise" in which Death and Hades are destroyed eternally. That's why an "everlasting hell" does not make feel. The soul has by no means been assured everlasting lifestyles. That's why Jesus got here...to present us everlasting lifestyles (John three:sixteen). Even everlasting torment in hell remains to be everlasting lifestyles.
2016-09-05 08:43:28 · answer #6 · answered by cistrunk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in Buddhism, then you'll understand that we're essentially atheist, and that whatever Christians think of Buddhism is irrelevant. We have respect for them and Jesus, but the omnipotent creator being "thing" just makes no logical sense.
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2007-05-05 11:56:49 · answer #7 · answered by vinslave 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not your judge. All I know is what it says in God's word, in which I place my utmost faith. Since I believe what God's Word says, then, what Buddhists believe would not permit God to allow them in heaven, because then God would be a liar, and the Bible says it's impossible for God to lie ! I am not condemning them or you, God's own words do that.
2007-05-05 12:07:38 · answer #8 · answered by The Count 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Jesus in you heart and you are not living for Him. You will go to hell. You want to know right?
2007-05-05 12:11:49 · answer #9 · answered by Hamzeh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every religion thinks that everybody else's beliefs (or lack of) will land them in hell - so, by that rational, we are ALL going to hell.
2007-05-05 11:57:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋