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 | An original golden era in the Garden of Eden, and a
subsequent
fall of humanity. | ||||||
| Original sin shared by all present-day humans, derived from Adam and
Eve. | ||||||
| A world-wide flood in the time of Noah, causing the greatest
human genocide
in history. | ||||||
| The need
for a sinless personal savior whose execution enabled individual
salvation through atonement. | ||||||
| A god-man savior who was born of a virgin, executed,
resurrected and
ascended to heaven. | ||||||
| Salvation achieved:
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| Life after death: Almost all religions teach that a person's personality continues after
death. In fact, many religious historians believe that this belief was
the prime reason that originally motivated people to
create religions. Christianity and Buddhism conceive of life after death in
very different forms:
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| Return of a savior to earth at some time in the future. |
| An end of the world as we know it, in
the near future. |
| The belief that their religion will continue forever. Most Christians believe that Christians will increase in numbers until essentially the entire world is of this one faith. Some Buddhists believe in Miroku, the "future Buddha." They expect that Buddhism will eventually fade from the scene. This belief is compatible with their principle that all objects, religions, etc. are impermanent. However, they expect that at some future time in the future, another person will attain Buddhahood -- the state of perfect enlightenment -- and will recreate a religion similar to Buddhism. |
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Some shared beliefs:
Buddhism and Christianity do share some features:
| Ethic of Reciprocity: Buddhism, Christianity and all of the
other major world religions share a basic
rule of behavior which governs how they are to treat others. Two quotations from Buddhist texts which reflect this
Ethic are:
This compares closely to Christianity's Golden Rule, which is seen in:
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| Themes of morality, justice, love: These themes are found
through both the Buddha's teaching and the Hebrew and Christian Bible. |
Beliefs shared by some Buddhist traditions and Christianity:
| In its original forms, Buddhism did not teach of the existence of transcendent, immanent, or any other type of God, Gods,
Goddess, and/or Goddesses. However, many Buddhists -- particularly in Japan -- do believe in a pantheon of deities. |
| Some traditions within Buddhism believe in the power of prayer; others do not. |
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