Christianity Options

[sikdragon]

The reason Christianity is real to me is because it is so different from other religions. It has been tested and questioned by the harshest critics. It has undergone the test of time and the story has still been remembered.

The most important diffence is, it's founder lives. Buddha, mohammed, and all the various cult leaders are all dead. Burried in the ground. Christians search for their founder and find an empty tomb of a living king.

[Spirited Away]

nirvana is a state of non-existence.

Who made you the Nirvana expert? I thought we've long established the fact that you do not have a firm grasp of Buddhism (or much of any Eastern religion for that matter).

Nirvana is beyond human comprehension (just like some of the things God does is beyond Christian's understanding) simply because we cannot know of it until we escape the cycle of reincarnation. Nirvana, in Sanskrit, means to extinguish. In context to Buddhism and Hinduism, it means to extinguish ignorance, desire, hatred... earthly sufferings. It is when one gains omniscent knowledge of this world and beyond.

One who reaches Nirvana on their own is known as Buddha. One who reaches Nirvana with the help of a Buddha teachings is known as arhats. A Buddha would then exist in a world unlike this mortal realm. I usually think of it as a place similar to the Christian's Heaven, but I'm not quite sure if this is really the case.

The difference is not that God is watching over us. The difference is that our human founder died and rose again. The man who started it all is still alive.

Alive in SPIRIT. Just Buddhas are alive in a different place and in different form.


Hey Angel:

It's not a bad thing if one believes what he will without shoving it down other people's throats. If they just keep to their faith and leave other people to theirs, there is absolutely no problem with that.