“Rivers, ponds, lakes, and streams—they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do—they all contain truths,” said by Muhammad Ali. Religion is the belief and reverence for a supernatural power and powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe (2003). The religions I’ve chose to compare and contrast would be non denomination/ Christianity and Buddhism. Each religion would be broken down by their religious belief, religious ritual, and religious experience. The definition of these religious things are: religious belief is a statement to which members of a particular religion adhere, religious ritual is a practice required or expected of members of a faith, and religious experience is the feeling or perception of being in direct contact with the ultimate reality, such as a divine being, or of being overcome with religious emotion (Schaefer).
The knowledge of what non denomination actually meaning is vague. I didn’t even know what it meant for a long time until I actually looked up the definition. Non denomination is the restriction to or not being associated with a religious denomination. That means that the focus of your learning comes from many different religious denominations, but they focus on the same teaching. The basic groups that teaching come form would be Baptist, Catholic, and Christianity. My pastor is Catholic, but the group I focus myself is Christianity. Christianity/Christian is the professing belief in Jesus as Christ or following the religion based on the life teaching of Jesus (2003). Know Buddhism is more knowledgeable across the world and meaning is simple and straight to the point. Buddhism is the teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desir...
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Being part of a Jewish community and living one’s life, according to Jewish law and traditions it is very important they one have one god (which created the universe.) with a religious leader named Rabbi. Rabbi is kind of like a priest but not really its more Rabbi’s also don’t have no special religious status But a Rabbi is a religious leader. Judaism sacred writing is either the Torah or the Talmud. Jews house of worship is called a synagogue. Jews Belief cornering life the “Good life” is the 10 commandments. Jews Belief concerning life after death is either Heaven or Hell. Judaism Religious founders is Abraham and Moses. Judaism’s holy city is called Jerusalem (Palestine). As for Buddhism its leader is Siddhartha Gautama. Buddhist also has a belief system that tolerant of all other beliefs and religions. Buddhist sacred book is called the Tibetan Book of the Dead and Mahayana Sutras. Buddhist usually focus on each individuals seeking to attain enlightenment. Their values contained in “The Four Nobel Truths”. 1st Truth was the truth of suffering (Dukkha). 2nd truth is the cause of suffering (Samudaya). 3rd truth is the end of suffering (Nirhodha). And the 4th truth is the path that frees us from suffering (magga). Life meant suffering and path to cessation of suffering which meant following the eightfold paths, which are right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration for the
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A comparative analysis of salvation in Christianity and Buddhism exposes stark contrasts between the grace of Jesus Christ and the self-saving action and enlightenment of Buddha. I attempt to compare the Christian and Buddhist concepts of salvation in this essay to emphasise on the significance of each founder's roles in salvation, and to extract similarities and differences between them both.