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[sportsguy35]

I am entering the conversation late, please excuse. The lost years. Wherever He went, He had to have studied carpentry. I don't think He just traveled all over world and studied other religions. I know we would love to discredit christianity and attribute the power of his healings to yoga or something he learned in the east. He lived His life as a boy through an adult with few stories. There are a couple stories about his childhood. For example, when he went to the temple and stayed there with the priests. The Bible tells the story from when He was 33 and was baptized. I don't think that buddhism teaches the casting out of demons. Or healings in the name of Jesus. In fact, I dont think you could use yoga and put your hands on somebody and see them healed. It is something that is not that special to certain people. It is a gift from God for those who accept it, anyone who wants it. He relied so much on His father (God). He would have really have to have had mis-interpretted the teachings of Buddha.

[Rteacher]

My understanding is that all real religions are essentially bhakti yoga - connecting infintessimal individual souls to the infinite, transcendental Supreme Person through varieties of devotional service. Because there have always been different types of people with different levels of understanding there have been various authorized representatives of God (along with many bogus cheaters...) with distinct missions geared to attract particular types. Jesus's mission was to uplift a more-or-less barbaric class of people to at least the level of material goodness so they could make further progress based on elementary spiritual knowledge. He used the extremely present tense (erkatai) when declaring himself the "only way" to God, and he did not deny the existence of other spiritual messengers . The original teachings of Jesus were naturally similar to Buddha's teachings in regard for compassion to all living beings because both were on the highest level of realization and fully empowered by the seed-bearing Father of all life forms (Krishna). However, Buddha's mission was geared to reach people misusing Vedic scripural injunctions regarding animal sacrifices and - by propagating a brilliant atheistic philosophy - to trick atheists into worshiping an incarnation of God (Himself).
Although there may be apparent corruption due to time and free will, one should not unnecessarily criticize the original spiritual missions and their religious traditions - which can be reformed and revived by elevated souls. For a more sophisticated yet basic elaboration of Vedic spiritual science one should consult an authorized (by disciplic succession) version of Krishna's Bhagavad-gita (Song of God)...
www.krishna.com

[some waygug-in]

While there are similarities between the 2, I think the biggest difference is in the way each views salvation or nirvana or whatever.

Buddhism teaches that you should follow certain principals and work towards spiritual enlightenment. Some forms of Buddhism seem to me to be almost atheistic in their views, while others (Korean forms) stress bowing to statues of the Buddha and doing service for the temples etc.

Christianity on the other hand teaches that you must accept salvation as a gift of God. Nothing you can work for. While there are 'good works' in the Bible, these in themselves can never lead to salvation. Only through Christ's sacrifice on the cross was salvation made possible.

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[The Man known as The Man]

no

[igotthisguitar]

[some waygug-in]

I think you'd better take a closer read of that article you linked.


It talks about Buddhist influences in ancient Greece.

It does not claim that Christianity is derived from Buddhism.

It talks about a syncretism of Christian and Buddhist thought in Countries like Pakistan.

[thepeel]

This thread is informed by pop-culture ideas of what Buddhism is, and who Jesus was.

[igotthisguitar]

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[Ecumenist]

Yes.