Buddhist beliefs teach followers that suffering is life and in order to escape from this life of suffering is through a life of education, ascetic life, meditation, and living several lives of iteration to reach to a point where you can spiritually attain higher and higher levels up until nirvana...a heavenly experience where suffering does not exist... Budhha claims to have reached this, but he did not stay within that area.
In application, when bad things happen, often folks who follow the teachings of Buddha may be resigned to believe it ocurred because of their failure to live an enlightened, righteous life...whether it is in this iteration of life, or if it happened in a "previous" life.
As earlier shown in the bible, we have but one death, and then the judgment.
Jesus is the antithesis to this. He lived a perfect, righteous life. He in fact came from the Heaven state which He ruled and reigned and governed. He is the Creator. He judges on who will be there, and stay there. He is the truth, the way, and the life...that no man can come to the Father's home and stay, but through Him.
Buddha teaches that the question on whether there is a God who is Almighty and Created the Universe and instituted nature's laws is an irrelevant question...that whether there is a God or not, it is "okay" to believe, but that the question itself may lead to discomfort and a form of struggling...which ultimately keeps you away from peace...
Jesus,and all the scriptures in the old testament of the jews, which predicted His time coming before it happened, says that God is....That's the question answered. Period. That we can find the peace that surpasses all understanding when we ask God to come into our lives....That Jesus is the Prince of Peace, and that that He can bring you to the Father's glorious home. And that ALL will have to stand before this glorious God and sense his amazing Presence...but some will be condemned, and some will step into everlasting life with Him. The key question is whether you believed in Him...that He came to save you...all could be pardoned except your rejection of the truth He offered you. Jesus and the scriptures that testified about Him, and were correct (over 200 prophesies) claim you won't have another turn at getting to the eternal Heavenly state....you only have one life to do that...but that you can get there not by your own work, but by the work of the one who lived a perfect life for you...to die and suffer injustice to make the payment and suffering on your behalf, so that you can enjoy true enlightenment...that is God's perspective and words of wisdom, not man's.
This is undeserved..>This is GRACE...Undeserved merit.
The idea of karma incorrectly asserts anything bad is due to karma, deserved merit. Jesus says that He can make all things (even the bad) work together for the GOOD of those who love Him. This is the antithesis to karma.
Jesus reversed the Curse of this world, evidenced by His Power to change the lives of those who suffered a great deal... Blind folks,sickly, lepers were healed...
He had no fear of people who the Buddha thought might ruin your own karma.
Therefore, the God (whom Buddha had never met) who created the universe demonstrates love, and compassion, and mercy for those who seemed cursed, either by fate or by their own poor choices. When Jesus encountered those who admitted their need for a touch from God and their need of mercy, who were willing to receive Him...He reversed the Curse in immediate powerful fashion.
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