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Friday, July 30, 2010

Self-Help or All Satisfying Saviour

Some say that Buddha and Christ are similar.....I say that they are very different. Buddha taught that inner peace is a human achievement, Christ taught that it was a God achievement. Buddhism basically says that life is full of suffering due to human desire and you must enlighten yourself to end it. It seems to me that this is simply far too self-preservational to have a solution behind it. If enlightenment meant the end of human suffering, then why do we still suffer from evil? Is it because of the lack of enlightenment? or is it because of something else? If enlightenment is the key then we should all just meditate and read books and evil will just simply leave. This is why Jesus is not equal with Buddha. Enlightenment is not to be taken personally, but corporately. Meaning once we have the Light (Jesus) we are not to keep Him to ourselves, but to spread Him around to others. Jesus taught that we suffer from evil because mankind is inherently evil due to his twisted nature that was born out of Adam's sin (falling away from God) Jesus taught that the only way out of this predictament was to believe that He is and was the Son of God, that He died on the cross for mankind and that He rose to liberate us from these sinful desires and the evil that rages in our hearts. Not a self help guru, but Saviour. Either Jesus satisfies all the desires in your heart, or you are still a slave to your sin. One or the other. Jesus cannot simply be a way to a better life when He is the way to the Father. Jesus said it himself if you do not believe I am who I say I am you will die in your sin. There are only two choices when it comes to Jesus. Either He is who he said He was or He's a stark raving madman. There isn't room for a great moral teacher/self help guru. He is either Saviour or the saddest mental case in all of history. But there's not a trace of His bones on Earth. However you can visit Buddha's grave. Kinda makes you think doesn't it?

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