Comparing Christianity And Christianity

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For religious people, religious activities are their daily work. Newport said, “This year, 56% Americans have said religion is very important. Only 17% say religion is not very important” (“Question and Answer About…” 3). Religions with religious are very necessary. They can pray in front of the Buddha altar, the God altar, and they can also go to the temple or go to the church to pray. Christianity and Buddhism is the large and popular religion. They both teach people how to be an ethical human in society. The concepts of Sakyamuni’s Buddhist theories are profound and complicated. Sometimes, they are difficult to understand. Meanwhile, the Christian theories are very simple and rudimentary. Buddhism was a peaceful religion while Christianity …show more content…

Both sides recognize the impermanence event. Looking at the life that we can see the change. Nothing is permanent, dry grass, the flowers fall. This flourishing empire and decadent. People live and people die. Human are born, grow up, grow old, get sick and die. It is impermanent. Both sides raise ethical standards. It teaches people to be honest, disciplined, bright mind and love people. Next, Christianity and Buddhism prohibit murder, fraud, forbidden sexual desire, forbidden to lie, gluttonous, and drunkenness. Buddhism has “Five Precepts” and the “Noble Eightfold Path”. Christianity has the “Ten Commandments”. To interacting in social life, they both emphasize meditation and self-discipline skills. They praise the sympathy and teach human should respect for life. Buddhism teaches to renounce all desire. Christianity teaches to keep yourselves from unworthy and unclean appetency. Mahayana Buddhists believe in heaven and hell with rewards or punishments future, which is similar to conceptions about the payoff futures’ Christianity. Finally, they both guide people to the honest and have a peace mind. It is the way to help people to accept the troubles that happen in their life. Therefore, they can calm down, recognize and overcome these all …show more content…

For example, Christianity begins and ends with God. God is the first base materials and the final goal. However, Buddhism does not like to refer to God, but it is only to themselves intentional. According to Buddhism, life is not significant, but according to Christianity, life is meaning because they have God. Buddha consistently denied any divine acclamation for him. Buddha taught: "I have found the way, and now we show you the way." The Lord Jesus claimed to be the Son of God, "I and the Father are one." He made it clear clearly, "I am the way, the truth and the life." Jesus accepted the worship of many for his contemporaries. Next, Buddhism focuses on human needs and human effort while Christianity focuses on God-His purpose and his provision. To continuing about the life on the Earth, Buddhists believe that there is nothing eternal or immortal in the human body. No eternal ego at all. Christianity claims that humans have an eternal soul. The fact of the existence and personality itself is

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