2007-08-31 11:21:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You mean what MIGHT they disagree about? Too much to answer really but here's a few bullet points.
Christianity - Suffering is either a test of faith or righteous punishment. when you die you are freed from suffering or condemned to it eternally.
Buddhism - Suffering is caused by excess want and desire. By controlling those you can escape suffering.
Christianity - Life is a quest to obey God and prove your worthiness.
Buddhism - Life is a quest to find peace, mental clarity and enlightenment.
Christianity - Sin is forgiven by submission before God and begging for forgiveness. Mortal works are irrelevant without God.
Buddhism - Bad Karma can be countered by the eightfold path of proper view, intention, livelihood, action, speech, effort, mindfulness and concentration. This may take more than one lifetime though.
Christianity - One life, one afterlife.
Buddhism - Multiple live until you get it right and escape the painful cycle of "Samsara".
2007-08-31 11:41:30 · answer #1 · answered by sgtcosgrove 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. The existence of Sin.
2. Jesus claimed to be the Son of God. Buddha was agnostic.
3. Salvation for buddhists is essentially, non-existance, or the release from the cycle of reincarnation by entering Nirvana (non-existance). Salvation to a christian is complete union with God whom is the essence of existence itself.
Thats just a few. Hope that cleared up some things.
2007-08-31 18:34:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Buddha, as far as I understand, did not even know whether there was a god.
Jesus claimed to have been sent from heaven by God the Father, and claimed to have left behind the eternal glory He shared with the Father as the Word of God:
"Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. "
John 17:5
I would say that's a pretty significant starting point in delineating differences.
2007-08-31 18:29:39 · answer #3 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Budhism doesn't threaten people with hell.
And, we don't know what Jesus said. His followers are the ones that wrote the tall tales.
He probably never said anything relating to his divinity. The concept didn't exist at the time. God status was dropped onto the historical Jesus at the first Council of Nicae.
2007-08-31 18:30:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus answered, I am the way, the truth and the light. No one comes to the Father, except through me." John 14:6
2007-08-31 18:25:53 · answer #5 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is our Savior, God.
Buddha does not believe any gods. He has a lot of good advice but that amounts to nothing in the eternal point of view.
2007-08-31 18:25:42 · answer #6 · answered by Isthatso 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Jesus said that no one could enter the kingdom of God unless they come through him. His path is by grace, not of any good deeds. In is not about whether we mess up or do good, it is about receiving Jesus as our sacrifice.
Buddah was all about living a good life. So if you mess up, you are screwed.
2007-08-31 18:27:10 · answer #7 · answered by didjlord 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think their main message is the same.
perhaps buddha and jesus are the same entity and they just appeared to the people in the best form they would understand.
how we interpreted the message is why there are differences today.
2007-08-31 18:28:07 · answer #8 · answered by friskygimp 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Read "The Lotus and The Cross" by Ravi Zacharias for a complete answer to that question.
2007-08-31 18:26:34 · answer #9 · answered by SDW 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The only pathway to salvation and eternal life.
2007-08-31 18:25:41 · answer #10 · answered by whitehorse456 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋