OLAADEGBU:


Does it matter that Buddha came long before Jesus?

In the modern West, people often consider ideas that are new, novel, and more recently discovered through the most up to date studies and methodologies to carry the most weight. In the Buddhist East, however, this is not the case. It is common among Asian Buddhists to consider the fact that Siddhartha Gautama (the man known as "the Buddha" ) lived and taught around 500 years before Jesus walked the earth to be an argument in favour of the truth and value of Buddhism over Christianity. These cultures generally see wisdom that is more ancient and time-tested to be more venerable and more likely to be true. The truth is that neither novelty nor ancient origin is, in fact, good arguments in and of themselves for the truth of an idea or teaching. Still, it is worthwhile to note for the sake of Buddhist friends that the Christian gospel is actually more ancient wisdom than Buddhism.

https://carm.org/does-it-matter-that-buddha-came-long-before-jesus

MrBrownJay1:


Not at all, they are all the same BS.

OLAADEGBU:
Are you speaking logically or it is just the usual emotional outburst?

MrBrownJay1:


Have paid your tithe this weekend, before addressing me?!

OLAADEGBU:


Who do you pay yours too, Buddha or at the palm wine shrine?

Anas09:


Is Buddha a person?

OLAADEGBU:


Yes, his real name is Siddhartha Gautama, a prince from northern India near modern Nepal who lived about 563 and 483 BC.

Anas09:


But, there are very many Buddhas

OLAADEGBU:


It is rather Buddhism, a belief system that has evolved into 3 main schools such as Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana.

OLAADEGBU:


It is rather Buddhism, a belief system that has evolved into 3 main schools such as Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana.

sonmvayina:
Or the writers of the Jesus story put the words of Buddha in the mouth of Jesus.... Another strong possibility, given the fact that there where eastern delegates at the council of Nicea

OkaiCorne:


Hi bro, good morning.

Have you taken out time to read this book by Ravi Zacharias? The Lotus and the Cross.

It's a comparison between Buddhism and the Gospel...

Cheers...

budaatum:


Only fools claim their own father's prick is the biggest without pulling down the trousers of other's father's first.

Op, you know nothing about buddhism!

OLAADEGBU:


There are fundamental major differences and at best there are superficial similarities between Christianity and Buddhism. See the depiction below for one of the fundamental differences.

budaatum:


I repeat, you know absolutely nothing about buddhism!

budaatum:
Only fools claim their own father's prick is the biggest without pulling down the trousers of other's father's first.

Op, you know nothing about buddhism!

OLAADEGBU:


See why you can't compare Buddhism with Christianity in the videoclip below.

https://youtu.be/I5jr00Hk54

budaatum:

budaatum:
10 Resurrected Religious Figures

DYING AND RISING GODS

budaatum:
To speak the name of the dead is to make them live again

Egyptian Proverb 3180BC

budaatum:


To speak the name of the dead is to make them live again
Egyptian Proverb 3180BC

OLAADEGBU:


Physically or in your memory?

budaatum:

See the limits of your knowledge. It's either just "physically or in memory" to you!

Read and learn!

OLAADEGBU:


See point 14 in the thread below to see that there is no evidence for the rising of your Buddha, he remains dead.

https://www.nairaland.com/4108872/22-reasons-all-scholars-agree

budaatum:


The Buddha himself said he would die. Even Jesus is said to have died on the cross for your sins and would send you a Comforter to minister to you so I don't see your point here. Might it be that you never received Comfort?

OLAADEGBU:


It is true that Jesus died and was buried according to the scriptures. The difference is that He resurrected bodily, according to the Scriptures and His tomb is empty.