Do Buddhists believe in Jesus Christ??
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Buddhists probably beleive that jesus was a great prophet who walked the earth once upon a time and taught a lot of wonderful , good things. I don't know if they think about the crucification, rise again, son of god part of it.
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Based on the universal meaning of Christ I will present below, I hope this may better explain why so many people across time and cultures have come to adopt or accept Jesus Christ.  \n\nIf Jesus Christ is the universal Messiah for all people, who rejoins God and humanity as one, then Christ must represent the common love that joins all humanity as one by conscience -- all souls across time, all people of all tribes and nations.  Otherwise, anything less contradicts the meaning of a universal messiah whose sacrifice saves all souls by expunging collective sins and karma from the past that otherwise trap and divide us.\n\nThus if the Bible is true, it makes sense to me that at some point all tribes, nations and tongues -- all religions and even secular systems of thoughts -- will accept Christ in the process of reconciling all our hearts and minds to unify in the spirit of truth and love for all.  Whether we make this choice out of love, out of desperation when physical life fails us, or out of 'survival of the fittest,' history shows that people eventually choose what fulfills us all spiritually, which the message of Christianity offers.\n\nThe Scriptures prophesy that "every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess."  And indeed all religions and even pre-Christian myths foretell that a spiritual Messiah will come to bring final salvation.  All religions have a different way of naming or describing this process.  For example, Buddha spoke of a Maitreya Buddha who would come once, and then return a second time to enlighten the world.  Even the goal of secular activists to work for the day that "Justice will come" is the same as Jesus coming to bring peace on earth.  And individuals or whole cultures who experience painful spiritual growth through a recovery or grieving process following great tragedy or loss, collectively go through the same process as Jesus dying on the cross to be resurrected. \n\nSince this is a universal theme across religions and cultures, it makes sense that Jesus Christ on the Cross serves as a central symbol of that ultimate break in the vicious cycle of karmic sin and suffering so that humanity can be reconciled with God, and spiritual harmony restored on earth as we visualize in heaven.\n\nAll people and all groups will need to come to a common understanding in Christ or by conscience in order to reach this final mature stage in our spiritual process.  But in that understanding, so will all religions and cultures be equally recognized and all included.  Christianity is not exclusive but all inclusive, so that the message calls to all people.\n\nNo one has to give up their past traditions in order to accept Christ, who ultimately fulfills any laws or teachings whether sacred or secular; but one has to understand the meaning of Christ in order to embrace all people and traditions equally as neighbors.  Because Christ serves as that universal link joining us all, that is why so many different people from different cultures and points in history have recognized and accepted Christ as a natural stage in human spiritual development.
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You got it all wrong.Buddhist do not pray to the buddha!We follow the teaching of the buddha and take refuge in the buddha,dhamma and the sangha.However hard you prayed buddha cannot help you only you can help yourself.Buddha showed the path,you have to travel the path .
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oh ! you didnt read from the website....?\n\nits buddhism....
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The bible says "There a way that seems right to a man but in the end is death." Most people believe with as much sincerity as you may about God and the Holy Bible as they would about Allah or Buddha. I belief in Jesus Christ as God in the flesh, some say he was an angle, others would say he was just a man, and the ignorant would say he never existed.
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many buddhists consider jesus to have been a bodhisattva, which means a spiritually enlightened being (no bearing on divinity btw) who makes a conscious choice to stay in the living plane in order to help others.
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I doubt a Buddhist has ever killed someone for not believing in Buddhism.  In fact, throughout its history, Buddhism has been continuely threatened by the fact that its members refuse to go out and convert others.
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There are no religions in heaven. Everyone who believes in God and HIS only son jesus christ, everyone who believe in HIS love, that HE sent HIS son to us to guide and teach us, that HE died to erase the sins of those who believe in HIM, and the ones who follow his wishes and live to serve HIM and teach others about HIS love and forgiveness, those are the ones who get to go to heaven.\nGod didn't send HIS only son for christians or jews, but for every human being on this earth, for HE loves us all, no matter what we did or who we are, as long as we believe in HIM and ask HIM for redemption.\nEveryone believes their religion is the right one, but notice that they all believe in one GOD. So if you believe in HIM and do what you're asked to do - to love - you will get to heaven.
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The short answer is no, not all people have the same chance of being saved. I have not been to either Mongolia or Bhutan, but I have close friends who have been there, and I have spent many hours in prayer for the people of those countries. Did you kow that Bhutan charges hundreds of dollars (US) Per Day, just for a Christian to breathe air inside the country? The Bhutanese government has done everything in their power to make it all but impossible for the Gospel to reach the Bhutanese people. As a Christian, this is heartbreaking. As for following the "good way" this link will lead you to my answer on that subject.\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Arza_HnelTHDkKiUL_Ljb2jsy6IX?qid=1006030600650\n\nYou're absolutely right about what place and time a person is born into having a direct effect on whether or not they will have access to the gospel, and have the opportunity to be saved.\nThat is why Jesus told His followers to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every ethnic group on the planet.\nIn the first century AD, the ratio of people who had access to the gospel was about 1:100.\nToday, that ratio is about 1:3-1:5 (This number varies a little depending on what criteria is used to decide what constitutes "access to the gospel".) So, that said, A person born in Bhutan today, has a better chance of hearing the gospel than a person born in the U.S. in the first century AD.\n\nI think the real question you're asking though, is "Does God love the Bhutanese as much as He loves the American?"\nThe answer is YES! There ARE some (very few) Bhutanese who are Christians, and there are some (too few) Christians who are actively trying to reach the Bhutanese with the gospel.\nThe real problem is that there are all too many (especially Western) Christians who are quite simply ignorant of the fact that God loves the Bhutanese as much as God loves them, and/or are not loving their Bhutanese 'neighbor' as much as they love themselves. The fact that Christianity (as a whole) is not doing what Jesus told them to do, does not call God's character into question so much as reveals the fact that we (Christianity as a whole) have not been faithful to emulate God's character in their own lives.\nIf every Christian church in the state of California alone sent ONE member of their congregation to a place that had no access to the Gospel, there would be no place on earth that did not have access to the gospel.\nSo, God is not unjust or unloving - God's people are being disobedient, selfish, and lazy - thus giving God a bad name.
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Transformation is not a free gift according to Christianity. WHo told you that?\n\nI am not a Buddhist by the way but your question has a major flaw in that it has no basis for truth.  If you want to find out abut transformation, you must know the ONE who transforms the heart and , sorry but it is not Buddha\n\nPlease read Romans Chapter 12 verses 1-2
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Most Buddhists do not view Buddha as a god. He was a man who had reached enlightenment - thus not a god to pray to but just a man they should aspire to become like. \n\nThere is not a 'Bible' in Buddhism but most, if not all, would agree that the major teaching of Buddhism is the Four Noble Truths along with the Eight fold path.\n\nThe four noble truths are : \n\n1. Life is suffering\n2. Suffering is caused by desire (I have also heard attachment instead of desire)\n3. Suffering can be alleviated by avoiding desire (or seeking unattachment)\n4. Follow the eight fold path to achieve unattachment (or lack of desire)\n\nEight fold path : \n\nRight view/understanding\nRight intention/aim\nRight speech\nRight action\nRight livelihood\nRight effort\nRight mind fullness\nRight concentration \n\nThere is a sect of Buddhism I believe it's called Mahayana that is religious Buddhism instead of philosophical and they do view Buddha as a god and worship him as thus though this is not the view of the majority of those who consider themselves Buddhist. \n\n(this is what I wrote to answer another similiar question) \n\nI would say the major theme is living a 'right' life by following the eight fold path to achieve enlightenment.
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hello..\nactually i'm not a truly buddhist.. i'm an atheist but i learn lots from Buddhism..\n\nit's just hard to explain in words, Buddhist doesn't really care about religion, its focus in self-spiritual-development.. to gain wisdom and practice compassion..\n\n “Do not go by revelation or tradition, do not go by rumor, or the sacred scriptures, do not go by hearsay or mere logic, do not go by bias towards a notion or by another person’s seeming ability and do not go by the idea ‘He is our teacher’. But when you yourself know that a thing is good, that it is not blamable,  \nthat it is praised by the wise and when practiced and observed that it leads to happiness, then follow that thing.”\n\nThe Buddha taught us to try to understand our fears, to lessen our desires and to calmly and courageously accept the things we cannot change. He replaced fear, not with irrational belief but with rational understanding.\n\nthe Buddha saw that each human being had the capacity to purify the mind, develop infinite love and compassion and perfect understanding. He shifted attention from the heavens to the heart and encouraged us to find solutions to ¬ our problems through self-understanding.\n\nWe believe in humanity. We believe that each human being is precious and important, that all have the potential to develop into a Buddha — a perfected human being. We believe that humans can out¬grow ignorance and irrationality and see things as they really are. We believe that hatred, anger, spite and jealousy can be replaced by love, patience, generosity and kindness.  \n\nNo one saves us but ourselves, No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path, but Buddhas clearly show the way
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There are many Buddhist practices that are usable to people of all faiths. Many of the forms of meditation and much of the philosophical teachings are complimentary to the teaching you are familiar with. (I am a Buddhist, was born and raised Catholic and spent more then a few years deeply involved with a Baptist Church. I guess you could say I was  born again gone again) <Sorry, bad humor>\n\nAs far as the more religious venues of the faiths, from a Buddhist perspective it works because Buddhism is open to everyone. If you do not agree with something then you can ignore it. My path is not your path. If you choose to believe in one creator god, then that is your choice. You may still study the teachings of the Buddha and learn how to be more compassionate. If you choose to take refuge in the triple gem, you may do so regardless of your other religious affiliations. Thus, you could be a practicing Christian and a Buddhist as well. \n\nFrom a Christian perspective, taking refuge in the triple gem, (The Buddha, his teachings and his followers) would be considered blasphemous. Still, studding the lessons of the Buddha is not 'anti-Christian' other then to say that the teaching are from outside the bible and thus deemed unnecessary. Still, I don’t see the harm.  \n\nI hope this helps.
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Definitely NOT Christianity.  But since you think it has the most empirical evidence, I am very interested in knowing from you what that is.  I am conducting a study on the evidence both for and against Christianity, and I will do my best to survey it scientifically without bias, so please show me this evidence you speak of.\n\nJudaism offers the most "empirical evidence" of any religion I have seen to date.  However, the evidence is flawed.  It at first seems impressive, but upon scrutiny, one realizes it is not good evidence.\n\nBuddhism would have to get my vote just because it does not require you to believe in anything which you cannot discover with your own mind.  It invites you to lay its teachings on the line and if you find that the Buddha was wrong, then you just don't follow his teachings.  It does not require belief in God.\n\nHowever, I am not a Buddhist.  I embrace lots and lots of Buddhist teachings.  In fact, I probably embrace more of it than I reject.  I am a Hindu because I believe in that religion, and so obviously Hinduism is the most believable in MY eyes.  I cannot prove to another that God is, but I believe in God, and therefore I choose a theistic religion.  But more than this, the Hindu Scriptures teach things, like Buddhism, that can be arrived at independently.  Some of the mythology (which I do not call "mythology" in a condescending way at all) may be difficult to arrive at again, however, the ideas and teachings BEHIND that mythology could.\n\nIt is said that if all the Vedas were lost, all the years of teachings of the Hindu religion were somehow forgotten, that given time, people could rediscover them.  These are timeless truths, inherent in the universe.  That is why we call it the sanatana dharma (eternal dharma).  It is the truth that people of all cultures have found in the so-called "pagan" religions.  Every culture developed similar beliefs to the Sanatana Dharma.  Something happened, involving politics usually, that changed that pristine vision.  And then religions like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, supposedly enlightened above those "pagan religions" try to stamp them out.  But they cannot succeed, because the truth is there in the universe before us, and when we open our eyes and hearts to it, we will find it again.
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The Buddhist faith has many sects, as Christianity does, i.e., Catholics, Baptists (some sub-groups in that one), Latter Day Saints, etc.  Just as there are many "types" of bibles, such is true for Buddhism as well.  I belong to and practice Zen Buddhism, and Zen practitioners do not read some texts that say, Tibetan Buddhists do.\n\nJust my two cents...
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It is a common error to include Buddhism in the category of 'faiths' or 'beliefs'.  \n\nThese terms refer to theistic religions - that is, religions based on gods,  whose existence is claimed on the basis of writings, 'revelations' by individuals ('such as 'prophets' etc.), even on the coincidental incidence of cataclysms etc. In other words, these religions are based on 'faith' or 'belief' - meaning simply on claim or assertion but without any irrefutable evidence.\n\nThe problem is that any or all of the claims of each of these such religions conflict with those of the others - even to the extent whether there is only one god or many, what he/they look like (whether, for example, with the head of a dog, like of Anubis the Egyptian god, or with the head of an elephant, like in Ganesh the Hindu god, or with the head of a man, as in the Christian, Muslim and Jewish god, etc. -  and they depend on their survival and spread on the brutal eradication of the other similar religions, all equally based on unsupported assertions. For instance, when Constantine the First became a Christian, he (but mostly his son) eradicated the existing Roman religion by intense persecution of the adherents of that religion. While western films have spread endless propaganda about the persecution of the early Christians (when they were a minority and powerless) by the Roman-religion-believing Roman Emperors, Hollywood's Christians have carefully avoided mentioning about the persecution BY the later (and then the dominant) Christians - how they intensively persecuted not only the Roman religion believers (throwing them in thousands to the lions in the same gladiatorial arenas etc.), but of EVERY other religion around the world ever since.\n\nThis pattern of one set of god believers attacking and eradicating other god-believers has been characteristic of the past two millennia since the birth of Christianity.\n\nBuddhism does not have such 'faiths' and 'beliefs', and the SUTTAS (the records of the discussions between the Buddha and his disciples) reveal how ENTIRELY rational, scientific and dispassionate they were - in contrast to the discussions between Jesus and his disciples (or the similarly unsupported statements by Mohammed), where he made totally unsupported assertions and his disciples were simply expected to accept them on his (unsupported) claim that he was a god's representative. (He did NOT claim that he was a 'son of a god, but EVERYONE was at that time supposed to be children of the god. Indeed, a modern re-reading of the Bible suggests that 'god 'was an alien, who inter-married with a 'daughter of man'!!).\n\nBuddhism's inherent pacifism made it an easy target for the god-believing religions' fanatic marauders, and the religion was eradicated from Iran, Iraq etc. right down to Indonesia (except for a few countries like Sinhalé (the correct name of 'Sri Lanka'), Myanmar (formerly called Burma), Thailand etc. The process of persectiion and forcible conversion - now using different weapons - is today being seen in intense use by Christians in the Buddhist countries, and Vietnam and Korea have already fallen victim to the modern Christian gladiators.\n\nWimal Ediriwira
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Why? Can a Pagan not follow Christ's teachings? Seems to me they can if they want to do so. Lots of people consider themselves 'christian' and probably are not. Who are we to judge?