Buddhism and Christianity

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This paper examines the history of Zen Buddhism and how it became a part of the Japanese, Chinese, and Indian cultures. It looks at how the Buddhist believes that the source of suffering is personal desire, all personal desire, and explores the four noble truths of Buddhism. In comparison, it explores how Christianity, on the other hand, identifies that man experiences suffering not as a result of his own wrong thinking and, whereas, Buddhism is only meant as a system of belief for men to use in order to gain a more peaceful relationship to his existing world, Christianity is based on the acknowledgment that mankind experiences suffering and difficulty in the world because man has departed from an obedient, loving, and intimate relationship with a loving creator God.

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"Christianity is the only religion, or system of belief on the planet that makes the arrogant assertion that man cannot redeem himself. Buddhism, as to all non-Christian religions, states that man can redeem himself, and attain a perfected existence after they die if they work hard enough, believe the right doctrines, or practice the correct thinking / religious sacrifices. Christianity, however, teaches that man cannot redeem himself. Only a perfect substitutionary sacrifice can restore the relationship between sinful man and a holy God. As a result, Jesus Christ, someone who claimed to be the Eternal God (Holy Bible, John 8.44), lived as a human being, and then allowed himself to be sacrificed for the sins of mankind."

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