Some try to claim that Christianity took things that were personal to Buddha and described them as Christ. Is there a great similarity between Buddha and Christ?
The truth is not what I will present briefly in the difference between Christ and this confirms the non-citation
The Buddhists do not believe in the Buddha, neither is he a God nor a prophet, but they do not believe in a God who is omnipotent, but believe that the Buddha is only a Teacher who has come to enlightenment and Narvana. The Buddhists do not believe that Buddha is the Son of God or God, Their sins. Buddha did not claim to have any divine status and did not claim to be inspired by God or gods.
Buddha basically rejected the idea of a Creator God at all and said that it was related to the concept of suffering
Thera, Nyanaponika. 'Buddhism and the God-idea.' & Anne M. Blackburn, Jeffrey Samuels. 'Approaching the Dhamma.
Phoebe is considered an atheist and Buddhism includes forms such as Theravada and Mahayana which are the first. And deny that the universe is the creation of God. We can call Buddhism a form of atheism.
Jayatilleke. 'The Message of the Buddha
Buddhism calls the idea of Nirvana, which is "extinguishing or stagnation, a technical term called the state of the mystical courtyard, which reaches the human after the liberation and enlightenment after death Jains uses this word to indicate where the liberated spirits succeed in the skies of the universe, Buddhists believe that this word means But not in the sense of the destruction of man, the dispossession of which is the desire, and from which man returns to the earth and travels through it. "The Buddhist texts describe the nirvana with the calm at the top of the mountain or a piece of precious jewels. (Dictionary of religions and beliefs of the peoples of the world p. 514 Library of the floor). They are also: "A general text of enlightenment, the goal of Buddhism" (The International Dictionary of Religion, p. 132).
As the karma is the consequence of the actions of the people, there is no salvation for the object as long as the karmas are present, "says the Department of Knowledge Wikipedia:" Nirvana is the supreme goal of Buddhism as the ultimate liberation through the break of the cycle of life and emancipation and the elimination of pain and suffering.
The term "Nirvana" is used to describe the state of alertness that is extinguished by the fire of factors that cause pain (lust, hatred and ignorance). The total dissipation of Karma does not occur when Nirvana is reached. This condition can be described as the beginning of the end in the path of salvation. Nirvana is a state of awareness and perception that can not be defined or even understood, once the organism reaches it, becomes alert, continues to live, and with time expels all its karma, until it reaches the full nirvana - the total dissolution of karma. When these people die, they do not resurrect - the Karma has been exhausted - and no one can comprehend the state of eternal bliss they reach (according to the Buddha himself).
Any act, good or evil, and any source, act, utterance or mere realization of an idea must have consequences, as long as it has resulted And may take the form of fruits, grow as soon as they mature and fall on their owner, then reward them either reward or punishment, may be prolonged or shorten the period required by the maturation process (or the consequences of the acts), but it often exceeds the life span of man , It is imperative for the owner to resurface again to receive the reward he deserves.
On the other hand, Christians believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the visible God in the flesh, is the everlasting Creator God, the omnipotent, omnipotent Creator, the embodiment of the redemption of humanity
2 Buddhists do not have the Holy Spirit at all !! "Buddhism has stripped the origins of the concept of the ego, stripped the universe of the concept of the eternal Creator - the source of salvation for all." Buddhism does not oppose the idea of several gods but has refused to assign it a place in its faith. "She is happy in Paradise, yet she is exposed to difficult situations, like other beings, who can experience death and then resurrect themselves in an inferior existence." The gods have no hand in the creation of the universe, nor can they control the fate of living beings.
The message of Buddha was not the source of the divine revelation and did not claim this at all but rather its own significance.
In Christianity, you believe in the divine revelation, and that the whole book is inspired by God and written by the holy men of God who are driven by the Holy Spirit.
3 The birth of the Buddha has no miracle and nothing abnormal
His father was a Hindu king named Shuddhodana and his wife was Queen Maya. She was not a virgin, but a wife of King Sudhodana, who was king of the kingdom. And the leader of one of the most famous tribes in Nepal. When Buddha was born, he was called Siddhata and he was called Buddha, which means in Sanskrit "enlightened or enlightened" (Dictionary of the Religions and Beliefs of the World's People, p. 152). It says the first Buddhist legend written in the first century, says one of those who specialized in Buddhism:
"The oldest stories of the Buddha's ancestors show nothing unusual about his birth. They speak only of his birth from his mother and his father, and the ancestors return seven generations back.
(The Life of Buddha as Legend and History Edward J. Thomas Dover: 1949.p, 36)
And his mother, the wife of Sudhoudana, who lived several previous lives in the 100,000 age of the world, "ie during her birth on the ground and reincarnation thousands of times !!
The first and best biographies of the Buddha were written by Ashvaghosha in the first century and are called Buddhacarita (ie the works of the Buddha), which provide a clear picture of the non-virginity, not of a virgin but of a married woman. "He had [the Sakyas] A beautiful queen, beautiful and sincere Maya was called Maya resemblance with the goddess The two tasted the joy of love and the day she conceived the fruit of her stomach
The Translation of the Meaning of Sahih Al-Bukhari: Arabic-English 9 Vol Set. Muhammed Muhsin Khan (trans). Darussalam: 1997.p, 36.
Here is the assertion that she is not a virgin wife but the myth gives birth to a legendary profile and emphasizes that he has a father. The following Buddhist site says:
"Siddhartha was born about 563 BC in the city of Kapilavastu (now in Nepal). Siddhartha's parents were King Sudhodana and Queen Maya who governed Sakyas."
http://www.edepot.com/budintro.html
"Legend says that he was born around the 6th century BC, and his birthplace Lumbini is said to have been in the Sākyas. His father was the king of Sakayas and Siddhirtha (Buddha) lived in luxury." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuddhIsm
The Bible says: "In the sixth month Gabriel sent the angel from God to a city of Galilee called Nazareth to a virgin engaged to a man from the house of David named And the angel came to her and said, "Peace be upon you, O blessed one." The Lord is with you blessed in women, and when she saw him, she was troubled by his words, and she wondered what this greeting might be. And behold, ye shall bear a son, and shall be fathered by Jesus: this shall be great, and the Son of the Most High shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him The angel of David, his father: and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and his kingdom shall not have an end: and Mary said unto the angel, How shall this be? And I know not a man: 35).
In conclusion, one Buddhist legend did not say that he was born of a virgin and did not come to the Holy Spirit, which the Buddhists knew nothing about. There is no similarity between the rope and his birth and the Lord Jesus Christ. Buddhism was written from the first century onwards and later it is likely that these myths are taken from Christianity and not vice versa.
4 Buddha was not truly loyal to mankind
The Buddhist doctrine says that the original doctrine is based on two principles: The first moves through the cycle of their being from one life to the next, and from one body to another: a human being, a human being, Animal, pariah person and so on. The nature of future life is determined by the work done by the living organism in its previous life, the second is emitted by those who have done great deeds to a better life, while those who have done malicious acts live miserable and arduous lives. The first principle was defined among the Indians even before the presenter of Buddha, while he is likely to have laid out the second principle. "
The Buddha taught his followers to rely on themselves to reach the state of Nirvana for salvation from sins and evils. He never said and never believed in the idea of the Savior who saves others from their sins. Thus Buddhism has no idea of redemption, apostasy, and salvation. Himself and his works. The history of the Buddha says that he called for: "Everything is created subject to corruption and death, everything is lost." Your salvation was accomplished diligently after passing through mediation. The Buddhist dies to reach the paranirvana (cessation of perception and sensation)
http://www.edepot.com/budintro.html
Buddha was not a redeemer, not a redeemer, but a religious reformer and a jutama (Buddha) who strove to ask how to be freed from the misery of endless reincarnation. "(The worlds Religions p, 226).
Vizkaria, a Buddhist man who converted to Christianity, wrote the following.
"It does not seem a coincidence that the night Gautama left his palace to find the answer to the pain and suffering on the night his wife gave birth to a son. In his quest to eliminate suffering, he went and left his wife alone suffering from her pain. Who came to the world and made his only daughter on the cross to embrace his sufferings and human suffering. The Buddha walked far away from his son and away from pain. In Christianity the Lord is an integral part of the solution. "
Zacharias, Ravi. 'Why Suffering.
Christianity is based on the fact that sin and death entered the world through the fall of the first man Adam by the devil's providence, and the justification of sin and return must be made only by Christ who presented himself on behalf of mankind: "For Christ was yet weak and died at the appointed time for the ungodly. But for God's sake, we are yet to be sinners, for Christ is dead for us: for much more, and now we are justified by his blood, we shall save him from wrath: for if we, as enemies, were reconciled with God by the death of his son, And we are good, and we shall save his life, and not only that, but we shall also boast To God in our Lord Jesus Christ, whom we have now received reconciliation for, as if by one man sin entered into the world and by sin, death, and so death passed on to all men, for all sinned "(Romans 5: 6-12). The eternal salvation of the blood of Christ that He poured on the Cross: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life" (John 3:16), "For the Son of man also came not to serve but to serve and to make The same ransom for many "(Matthew 10:45)
5 There is no birth star nor any miraculous events or signs of God at the time of Buddha's birth in ancient Buddha stories. Old Buddhism does not mention anything about a natural contravention of Buddha's birth. But some late myths say that the queen dreamed of a dream about her husband: "A white elephant descends on a golden mountain and moves from it, and in its hose is the branch of the boughs." The elephant rolls about three hundred cycles and touches the side of the queen And the king was listening to his wife, 000 and there was something strange. The fetus seemed to be sitting squatting in the womb of his mother. He remained on this scene until he came close to the situation. 00 That day Queen Maya asked the king to travel to her parents to give birth There, while on the way, I was surprised by the labor, which is under the tree of Sal in the orchard called "L. And under the tree sheds shadows sat squatting queen 00 after being blocked by servants on a private curtain, and when she wanted to raise her hand to the branch of the tree and swam on its own until the boat of her palm 00 did not rise until it was under a child grabbed by the hands of four Brahmins in the network woven Threaded from gold wire.
Suddenly, the child stood up and took seven steps forward. Then he shouted in a tortured voice: "I am the master of this world." This life is the last life of Li 00. At the same time, thirty-two signs appeared in the sky and on the earth. Light rain was not promised, and opened the bud of flowers and the sleeves of the fruits, and spread a good bright wind all over the blind and recovered blindness and recovered the deaf hearing 00 And returned the voice to pronounce and sing 00 The news of the Prince's birth began to circulate the whole Kingdom of "Sakia" 00 And from all places came the regiments to congratulate King 00 infantry On horseback and elephants 00 to the palace carrying gifts. "
Then he talks about Zahid called "Asita" and tells his story in a mythical way that says he went to see the child and when he saw him he said to his father, "This child, King, will reach the level of supreme enlightenment 00 He will enter Nabarvana 00 and guide the world on the path of right and right." (The Story of Religions pp. 88-90).
As our father Abdul-Masih said simple
Here we have several observations:
1. Although these legends were written much after Christmas, they do not resemble or resemble the story of the birth and childhood of Christ as they are in the legal gospels that are inspired at all, but are similar in some parts to the Apocryphal books, From a year ago. The story of the birth of Christ, as it appears in the Gospel of St. Luke, says: "The Virgin Mary was born with her firstborn son and his tribe and his wife in the manger, because they had no place in the house. And the glory of the Lord was shining on them, and they were afraid with great fear: and the angel said unto them, Fear not: for I will proclaim to you a great joy that shall be for all the people: Of the heavenly host, praising God and saying glory to God in the high and on the earth And when the angels went to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, Let us now go to Bethlehem, and look at this matter, which the Lord has informed us, and they came quickly, and found Mary, Joseph, and the child lying in the manger. Those who heard marveled at what was said to them of the shepherds "(Luke 2: 7-18). Here we see the story as simple as it happened away from the imagination and legend.
2 - that these accounts are similar to some of the Koran in the birth of the Virgin of Christ under the bee and eat the Virgin of the Palm: "Vajajha labor to the trunk of the palm said," I wish I died before this I was forgotten forgotten "(Mary: 23)," and shake you Palm trunk "You shall be wet on the earth" (Maryam: 25). Where the legend says as conveyed by Solomon appearance: "While in the way I was surprised by the labor under a tree," and as she wanted to rise her hand reached the branch of trees When she wanted to raise her hands to the branch of the tree, she swam away on her own, until her palm was raised, and she did not rise until she was under a child who was grabbed by the hands of four Brahmans in a net woven from gold wires.
Suddenly, the child stood up and took seven steps forward. Then he shouted in a tortured voice: "I am the master of this world." This life is the last life of Li 00. At the same time, thirty-two signs appeared in the sky and on the earth. Light rain was not promised, and opened the bud of flowers and the sleeves of the fruits, and spread a good bright wind all over the blind and recovered blindness and recovered the deaf hearing 00 And returned the voice to pronounce and sing 00 The news of the Prince's birth began to circulate the whole Kingdom of "Sakia" 00 And from all places came the regiments to congratulate King 00 infantry On horseback and elephants 00 to the palace carrying gifts. "
Then he talks about Zahid called "Asita" and tells his story in a mythical way that says he went to see the child and when he saw him he said to his father, "This child, King, will reach the level of supreme enlightenment 00 He will enter Nabarvana 00 and guide the world on the path of right and right." (The Story of Religions pp. 88-90).
As our father Abdul-Masih said simple
Here we have several observations:
1. Although these legends were written much after Christmas, they do not resemble or resemble the story of the birth and childhood of Christ as they are in the legal gospels that are inspired at all, but are similar in some parts to the Apocryphal books, From a year ago. The story of the birth of Christ, as it appears in the Gospel of St. Luke, says: "The Virgin Mary was born with her firstborn son and his tribe and his wife in the manger, because they had no place in the house. And the glory of the Lord was shining on them, and they were afraid with great fear: and the angel said unto them, Fear not: for I will proclaim to you a great joy that shall be for all the people: Of the heavenly host, praising God and saying glory to God in the high and on the earth And when the angels went to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, Let us now go to Bethlehem, and look at this matter, which the Lord has informed us, and they came quickly, and found Mary, Joseph, and the child lying in the manger. Those who heard marveled at what was said to them of the shepherds "(Luke 2: 7-18). Here we see the story as simple as it happened away from the imagination and legend.
2 - that these accounts are similar to some of the Koran in the birth of the Virgin of Christ under the bee and eat the Virgin of the Palm: "Vajajha labor to the trunk of the palm said," I wish I died before this I was forgotten forgotten "(Mary: 23)," and shake you Palm trunk "You shall be wet on the earth" (Maryam: 25). "As she was on the way, I was surprised by the labor, which is under a tree," says the legend. "When she wanted to rise, she stretched out her hand to the branch of the tree and swam away on her own, until her palm was raised." Make your Lord under you secret "(Mary: 24), !! "Suddenly the baby stopped, and forward seven steps and then shouted in a tortured voice:" I am the master of this world! " Do we tell them that what came in the Koran taken from these myths ?? !!
3 - Buddhist legends never say that the star of the birth of the Buddha, noting that the pagans believed that each person has his own star born by birth and dies, but still simple in the countryside believe it !! When we were young children and we saw a fall from the sky in the form of a star, the adults were telling us that a man died and his star has fallen !! We find that in the biography of Abi Hisham talk about "Najm Ahmad, who appeared in the sky," where she says in [Hassan bin Thabit narrated from his son Solomon] Ibn Ishaq said: Saleh bin Ibrahim bin Abdul Rahman ibn Auf, Yahya bin Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman bin Saad bin Zerara Al Ansari. He said to me, "Do you know what you want from a man of national origin?" He said that the night of Najm Ahmad, who was born with him, Muhammad ibn Ishaq said: I asked Sa'eed ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Hassan ibn Thabit. How old was Hassan ibn Thabit, the Messenger of Allah, the city of Salaam? Ibn Sittin said, "The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) gave him fifty-three years old, and Hassan heard what he heard when he was seven years old."
See: Biography of Ibn Hisham - Part I.
http://islamicweb.com/Books/seerah.asp?book=2&id=208
Can we ask Muslim brothers who say what the atheists said about Christ and Buddha this question? Where did the biographer and Rawa Hadeeth quote the idea of this star Najm Ahmad from the Buddhist as they claimed about Buddha? Or from this thought, which speaks of the fact that everyone has a star ?!
6 Buddha and miracles
In the ancient Buddhist writings there is no mention of the miracles of the Buddha as a teacher of valid teachings, not a prophet, nor a man who makes miracles, nor is there any god or any other. If there are some modern legends after the birth of Christ centuries are only additions modern mythological and therefore vary from one source to another in Buddhism
So he said, I hate the miracle and I reject it and despise it
Walshe, Maurice. 'The Long Discourses of the Buddha
But what has been added and attributed as miracles to Buddha are three
1 In a young man, the lotus flower is opened when he puts his foot upon it
2 And the coming of fire from the top of his body and water from the bottom of his body
3 Stretching its steps in a time to go a long distance in three steps
The Buddha's miracles have no objective purpose and nothing to declare, but as they are clarified, modern additions come after 450 years of his life. This time gap allows the entry of non-historical things to spoil the historical essence.
In Christianity, of course, we know the great testimonies in the Bible about the miracles of Christ, but even the enemies of Christianity, who know miracles well but attack them by accusing them of magic. The historian Josephus mentioned the wonders of Jesus. Jesus knew that he was the maker of miracles among his readers, opponents and surrounding people. Bart Ehrman said that whatever you think of the philosophical possibility of healing miracles, it is clear that Jesus had a wide reputation for doing these miracles.
Ehrman, Bart. 'The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings
This leads us to believe in the historical reasons (especially for the early registration and certification) that Jesus really made miracles. The only negation of the unbelievers was that he was a sorcerer or a charlatan or someone with a supernatural intelligence who had deceived thousands. Though the followers of Jesus died for him, The miracles of Jesus were accompanied by healing and the expulsion of evil spirits. It is indisputable in historical terms and is widely supported by modern studies as Burg explains.
"Despite the difficulty that miracles pose to the modern mind. The historical reasons are almost indisputable that Jesus was a savior and a hunter of evil spirits
Borg, Marcus. 'Jesus, A New Vision'
And constant testimonies about the miracles of Christ
7 The Buddha was not crucified, nor was he killed;
He married and gave birth and died at the age of 80 years and different in the year of his death a large difference between 483 BC or 400 BC natural death of old age
Of course, this is completely different from the Lord Jesus Christ who was crucified, died, buried, and risen from the dead on the third day.
For the Buddha there is no reliability to the event of his death. Or to the thinkers. The historical record records that Jesus appeared after his death for many, even an atheist historian said.
"We can say that historically Peter and the disciples were certain through the experiences of the death of Jesus who appeared to them and ascended"
Ludemann, Gerd. 'What Really Happened
8 The Buddha has not said prophecies, nor has he said prophecies
There are no ancient writings predicting the birth of the Buddha nor anything in his life nor did Buddha say prophecies about the late days or anything else. But according to research
As for the Lord Jesus Christ, the Old Testament is full of prophecies about His divinity, revelation, birth, birth, life, safety, crucifixion, death, resurrection, and many events.
The Lord Jesus also mentioned many prophecies, such as the destruction of Jerusalem and others, and also fulfilled prophecies about the end of the days that began to occur
9. The importance of the personality of Buddha and Christ for each faith
According to a search for Paul Tilch and translated by my brother Gregory
In 1960, he visited a theologian Paul Tillich of Japan. He had discussions with some Buddhist scholars. "If some historians put the possibility that the man named Gautama did not exist, what would be the consequences for Buddhism?
Buddhist scholars have said that a historical question of Gautama was never a problem for Buddhism: according to the Dharmakāya doctrine, the "real body" is eternal. This does not depend on Gautama's history.
"Tillich Encounters Japan," ed. Robert W. Wood, Japanese Religions 2 (May 1961): 48-71.
Therefore, whether Gautama exists as a historical person or does not exist and has never done or said what is recorded to him. This does not affect or distort the reputation of Buddhism.
This is different from Christianity. The history of Jesus is fundamental to the Christian faith. Without Jesus there is no Christian. This is confirmed by the Apostle Paul in one of the letters. It is the message to Kronathus that states that if Christ has not risen, then our preaching and falsehood will also invalidate your faith. 1 Corinthians 15: 14-19 "Christianity is Jesus and His redemption on the cross for the salvation of mankind. This of course requires Jesus to be a historical figure and he has already died on the cross. He rose from the dead. If Jesus were out of the equation, there was no Christian faith.
Fine Similarities? Where are the qualities of Buddha, which Christianity quoted from Buddhism and described as Christ?
The two colonels are very different
It is the truth that speaks without proof only to distort Christianity that loses its credibility
Glory to God always
The truth is not what I will present briefly in the difference between Christ and this confirms the non-citation
The Buddhists do not believe in the Buddha, neither is he a God nor a prophet, but they do not believe in a God who is omnipotent, but believe that the Buddha is only a Teacher who has come to enlightenment and Narvana. The Buddhists do not believe that Buddha is the Son of God or God, Their sins. Buddha did not claim to have any divine status and did not claim to be inspired by God or gods.
Buddha basically rejected the idea of a Creator God at all and said that it was related to the concept of suffering
Thera, Nyanaponika. 'Buddhism and the God-idea.' & Anne M. Blackburn, Jeffrey Samuels. 'Approaching the Dhamma.
Phoebe is considered an atheist and Buddhism includes forms such as Theravada and Mahayana which are the first. And deny that the universe is the creation of God. We can call Buddhism a form of atheism.
Jayatilleke. 'The Message of the Buddha
Buddhism calls the idea of Nirvana, which is "extinguishing or stagnation, a technical term called the state of the mystical courtyard, which reaches the human after the liberation and enlightenment after death Jains uses this word to indicate where the liberated spirits succeed in the skies of the universe, Buddhists believe that this word means But not in the sense of the destruction of man, the dispossession of which is the desire, and from which man returns to the earth and travels through it. "The Buddhist texts describe the nirvana with the calm at the top of the mountain or a piece of precious jewels. (Dictionary of religions and beliefs of the peoples of the world p. 514 Library of the floor). They are also: "A general text of enlightenment, the goal of Buddhism" (The International Dictionary of Religion, p. 132).
As the karma is the consequence of the actions of the people, there is no salvation for the object as long as the karmas are present, "says the Department of Knowledge Wikipedia:" Nirvana is the supreme goal of Buddhism as the ultimate liberation through the break of the cycle of life and emancipation and the elimination of pain and suffering.
The term "Nirvana" is used to describe the state of alertness that is extinguished by the fire of factors that cause pain (lust, hatred and ignorance). The total dissipation of Karma does not occur when Nirvana is reached. This condition can be described as the beginning of the end in the path of salvation. Nirvana is a state of awareness and perception that can not be defined or even understood, once the organism reaches it, becomes alert, continues to live, and with time expels all its karma, until it reaches the full nirvana - the total dissolution of karma. When these people die, they do not resurrect - the Karma has been exhausted - and no one can comprehend the state of eternal bliss they reach (according to the Buddha himself).
Any act, good or evil, and any source, act, utterance or mere realization of an idea must have consequences, as long as it has resulted And may take the form of fruits, grow as soon as they mature and fall on their owner, then reward them either reward or punishment, may be prolonged or shorten the period required by the maturation process (or the consequences of the acts), but it often exceeds the life span of man , It is imperative for the owner to resurface again to receive the reward he deserves.
On the other hand, Christians believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the visible God in the flesh, is the everlasting Creator God, the omnipotent, omnipotent Creator, the embodiment of the redemption of humanity
2 Buddhists do not have the Holy Spirit at all !! "Buddhism has stripped the origins of the concept of the ego, stripped the universe of the concept of the eternal Creator - the source of salvation for all." Buddhism does not oppose the idea of several gods but has refused to assign it a place in its faith. "She is happy in Paradise, yet she is exposed to difficult situations, like other beings, who can experience death and then resurrect themselves in an inferior existence." The gods have no hand in the creation of the universe, nor can they control the fate of living beings.
The message of Buddha was not the source of the divine revelation and did not claim this at all but rather its own significance.
In Christianity, you believe in the divine revelation, and that the whole book is inspired by God and written by the holy men of God who are driven by the Holy Spirit.
3 The birth of the Buddha has no miracle and nothing abnormal
His father was a Hindu king named Shuddhodana and his wife was Queen Maya. She was not a virgin, but a wife of King Sudhodana, who was king of the kingdom. And the leader of one of the most famous tribes in Nepal. When Buddha was born, he was called Siddhata and he was called Buddha, which means in Sanskrit "enlightened or enlightened" (Dictionary of the Religions and Beliefs of the World's People, p. 152). It says the first Buddhist legend written in the first century, says one of those who specialized in Buddhism:
"The oldest stories of the Buddha's ancestors show nothing unusual about his birth. They speak only of his birth from his mother and his father, and the ancestors return seven generations back.
(The Life of Buddha as Legend and History Edward J. Thomas Dover: 1949.p, 36)
And his mother, the wife of Sudhoudana, who lived several previous lives in the 100,000 age of the world, "ie during her birth on the ground and reincarnation thousands of times !!
The first and best biographies of the Buddha were written by Ashvaghosha in the first century and are called Buddhacarita (ie the works of the Buddha), which provide a clear picture of the non-virginity, not of a virgin but of a married woman. "He had [the Sakyas] A beautiful queen, beautiful and sincere Maya was called Maya resemblance with the goddess The two tasted the joy of love and the day she conceived the fruit of her stomach
The Translation of the Meaning of Sahih Al-Bukhari: Arabic-English 9 Vol Set. Muhammed Muhsin Khan (trans). Darussalam: 1997.p, 36.
Here is the assertion that she is not a virgin wife but the myth gives birth to a legendary profile and emphasizes that he has a father. The following Buddhist site says:
"Siddhartha was born about 563 BC in the city of Kapilavastu (now in Nepal). Siddhartha's parents were King Sudhodana and Queen Maya who governed Sakyas."
http://www.edepot.com/budintro.html
"Legend says that he was born around the 6th century BC, and his birthplace Lumbini is said to have been in the Sākyas. His father was the king of Sakayas and Siddhirtha (Buddha) lived in luxury." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuddhIsm
The Bible says: "In the sixth month Gabriel sent the angel from God to a city of Galilee called Nazareth to a virgin engaged to a man from the house of David named And the angel came to her and said, "Peace be upon you, O blessed one." The Lord is with you blessed in women, and when she saw him, she was troubled by his words, and she wondered what this greeting might be. And behold, ye shall bear a son, and shall be fathered by Jesus: this shall be great, and the Son of the Most High shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him The angel of David, his father: and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and his kingdom shall not have an end: and Mary said unto the angel, How shall this be? And I know not a man: 35).
In conclusion, one Buddhist legend did not say that he was born of a virgin and did not come to the Holy Spirit, which the Buddhists knew nothing about. There is no similarity between the rope and his birth and the Lord Jesus Christ. Buddhism was written from the first century onwards and later it is likely that these myths are taken from Christianity and not vice versa.
4 Buddha was not truly loyal to mankind
The Buddhist doctrine says that the original doctrine is based on two principles: The first moves through the cycle of their being from one life to the next, and from one body to another: a human being, a human being, Animal, pariah person and so on. The nature of future life is determined by the work done by the living organism in its previous life, the second is emitted by those who have done great deeds to a better life, while those who have done malicious acts live miserable and arduous lives. The first principle was defined among the Indians even before the presenter of Buddha, while he is likely to have laid out the second principle. "
The Buddha taught his followers to rely on themselves to reach the state of Nirvana for salvation from sins and evils. He never said and never believed in the idea of the Savior who saves others from their sins. Thus Buddhism has no idea of redemption, apostasy, and salvation. Himself and his works. The history of the Buddha says that he called for: "Everything is created subject to corruption and death, everything is lost." Your salvation was accomplished diligently after passing through mediation. The Buddhist dies to reach the paranirvana (cessation of perception and sensation)
http://www.edepot.com/budintro.html
Buddha was not a redeemer, not a redeemer, but a religious reformer and a jutama (Buddha) who strove to ask how to be freed from the misery of endless reincarnation. "(The worlds Religions p, 226).
Vizkaria, a Buddhist man who converted to Christianity, wrote the following.
"It does not seem a coincidence that the night Gautama left his palace to find the answer to the pain and suffering on the night his wife gave birth to a son. In his quest to eliminate suffering, he went and left his wife alone suffering from her pain. Who came to the world and made his only daughter on the cross to embrace his sufferings and human suffering. The Buddha walked far away from his son and away from pain. In Christianity the Lord is an integral part of the solution. "
Zacharias, Ravi. 'Why Suffering.
Christianity is based on the fact that sin and death entered the world through the fall of the first man Adam by the devil's providence, and the justification of sin and return must be made only by Christ who presented himself on behalf of mankind: "For Christ was yet weak and died at the appointed time for the ungodly. But for God's sake, we are yet to be sinners, for Christ is dead for us: for much more, and now we are justified by his blood, we shall save him from wrath: for if we, as enemies, were reconciled with God by the death of his son, And we are good, and we shall save his life, and not only that, but we shall also boast To God in our Lord Jesus Christ, whom we have now received reconciliation for, as if by one man sin entered into the world and by sin, death, and so death passed on to all men, for all sinned "(Romans 5: 6-12). The eternal salvation of the blood of Christ that He poured on the Cross: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life" (John 3:16), "For the Son of man also came not to serve but to serve and to make The same ransom for many "(Matthew 10:45)
5 There is no birth star nor any miraculous events or signs of God at the time of Buddha's birth in ancient Buddha stories. Old Buddhism does not mention anything about a natural contravention of Buddha's birth. But some late myths say that the queen dreamed of a dream about her husband: "A white elephant descends on a golden mountain and moves from it, and in its hose is the branch of the boughs." The elephant rolls about three hundred cycles and touches the side of the queen And the king was listening to his wife, 000 and there was something strange. The fetus seemed to be sitting squatting in the womb of his mother. He remained on this scene until he came close to the situation. 00 That day Queen Maya asked the king to travel to her parents to give birth There, while on the way, I was surprised by the labor, which is under the tree of Sal in the orchard called "L. And under the tree sheds shadows sat squatting queen 00 after being blocked by servants on a private curtain, and when she wanted to raise her hand to the branch of the tree and swam on its own until the boat of her palm 00 did not rise until it was under a child grabbed by the hands of four Brahmins in the network woven Threaded from gold wire.
Suddenly, the child stood up and took seven steps forward. Then he shouted in a tortured voice: "I am the master of this world." This life is the last life of Li 00. At the same time, thirty-two signs appeared in the sky and on the earth. Light rain was not promised, and opened the bud of flowers and the sleeves of the fruits, and spread a good bright wind all over the blind and recovered blindness and recovered the deaf hearing 00 And returned the voice to pronounce and sing 00 The news of the Prince's birth began to circulate the whole Kingdom of "Sakia" 00 And from all places came the regiments to congratulate King 00 infantry On horseback and elephants 00 to the palace carrying gifts. "
Then he talks about Zahid called "Asita" and tells his story in a mythical way that says he went to see the child and when he saw him he said to his father, "This child, King, will reach the level of supreme enlightenment 00 He will enter Nabarvana 00 and guide the world on the path of right and right." (The Story of Religions pp. 88-90).
As our father Abdul-Masih said simple
Here we have several observations:
1. Although these legends were written much after Christmas, they do not resemble or resemble the story of the birth and childhood of Christ as they are in the legal gospels that are inspired at all, but are similar in some parts to the Apocryphal books, From a year ago. The story of the birth of Christ, as it appears in the Gospel of St. Luke, says: "The Virgin Mary was born with her firstborn son and his tribe and his wife in the manger, because they had no place in the house. And the glory of the Lord was shining on them, and they were afraid with great fear: and the angel said unto them, Fear not: for I will proclaim to you a great joy that shall be for all the people: Of the heavenly host, praising God and saying glory to God in the high and on the earth And when the angels went to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, Let us now go to Bethlehem, and look at this matter, which the Lord has informed us, and they came quickly, and found Mary, Joseph, and the child lying in the manger. Those who heard marveled at what was said to them of the shepherds "(Luke 2: 7-18). Here we see the story as simple as it happened away from the imagination and legend.
2 - that these accounts are similar to some of the Koran in the birth of the Virgin of Christ under the bee and eat the Virgin of the Palm: "Vajajha labor to the trunk of the palm said," I wish I died before this I was forgotten forgotten "(Mary: 23)," and shake you Palm trunk "You shall be wet on the earth" (Maryam: 25). Where the legend says as conveyed by Solomon appearance: "While in the way I was surprised by the labor under a tree," and as she wanted to rise her hand reached the branch of trees When she wanted to raise her hands to the branch of the tree, she swam away on her own, until her palm was raised, and she did not rise until she was under a child who was grabbed by the hands of four Brahmans in a net woven from gold wires.
Suddenly, the child stood up and took seven steps forward. Then he shouted in a tortured voice: "I am the master of this world." This life is the last life of Li 00. At the same time, thirty-two signs appeared in the sky and on the earth. Light rain was not promised, and opened the bud of flowers and the sleeves of the fruits, and spread a good bright wind all over the blind and recovered blindness and recovered the deaf hearing 00 And returned the voice to pronounce and sing 00 The news of the Prince's birth began to circulate the whole Kingdom of "Sakia" 00 And from all places came the regiments to congratulate King 00 infantry On horseback and elephants 00 to the palace carrying gifts. "
Then he talks about Zahid called "Asita" and tells his story in a mythical way that says he went to see the child and when he saw him he said to his father, "This child, King, will reach the level of supreme enlightenment 00 He will enter Nabarvana 00 and guide the world on the path of right and right." (The Story of Religions pp. 88-90).
As our father Abdul-Masih said simple
Here we have several observations:
1. Although these legends were written much after Christmas, they do not resemble or resemble the story of the birth and childhood of Christ as they are in the legal gospels that are inspired at all, but are similar in some parts to the Apocryphal books, From a year ago. The story of the birth of Christ, as it appears in the Gospel of St. Luke, says: "The Virgin Mary was born with her firstborn son and his tribe and his wife in the manger, because they had no place in the house. And the glory of the Lord was shining on them, and they were afraid with great fear: and the angel said unto them, Fear not: for I will proclaim to you a great joy that shall be for all the people: Of the heavenly host, praising God and saying glory to God in the high and on the earth And when the angels went to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, Let us now go to Bethlehem, and look at this matter, which the Lord has informed us, and they came quickly, and found Mary, Joseph, and the child lying in the manger. Those who heard marveled at what was said to them of the shepherds "(Luke 2: 7-18). Here we see the story as simple as it happened away from the imagination and legend.
2 - that these accounts are similar to some of the Koran in the birth of the Virgin of Christ under the bee and eat the Virgin of the Palm: "Vajajha labor to the trunk of the palm said," I wish I died before this I was forgotten forgotten "(Mary: 23)," and shake you Palm trunk "You shall be wet on the earth" (Maryam: 25). "As she was on the way, I was surprised by the labor, which is under a tree," says the legend. "When she wanted to rise, she stretched out her hand to the branch of the tree and swam away on her own, until her palm was raised." Make your Lord under you secret "(Mary: 24), !! "Suddenly the baby stopped, and forward seven steps and then shouted in a tortured voice:" I am the master of this world! " Do we tell them that what came in the Koran taken from these myths ?? !!
3 - Buddhist legends never say that the star of the birth of the Buddha, noting that the pagans believed that each person has his own star born by birth and dies, but still simple in the countryside believe it !! When we were young children and we saw a fall from the sky in the form of a star, the adults were telling us that a man died and his star has fallen !! We find that in the biography of Abi Hisham talk about "Najm Ahmad, who appeared in the sky," where she says in [Hassan bin Thabit narrated from his son Solomon] Ibn Ishaq said: Saleh bin Ibrahim bin Abdul Rahman ibn Auf, Yahya bin Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman bin Saad bin Zerara Al Ansari. He said to me, "Do you know what you want from a man of national origin?" He said that the night of Najm Ahmad, who was born with him, Muhammad ibn Ishaq said: I asked Sa'eed ibn 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Hassan ibn Thabit. How old was Hassan ibn Thabit, the Messenger of Allah, the city of Salaam? Ibn Sittin said, "The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) gave him fifty-three years old, and Hassan heard what he heard when he was seven years old."
See: Biography of Ibn Hisham - Part I.
http://islamicweb.com/Books/seerah.asp?book=2&id=208
Can we ask Muslim brothers who say what the atheists said about Christ and Buddha this question? Where did the biographer and Rawa Hadeeth quote the idea of this star Najm Ahmad from the Buddhist as they claimed about Buddha? Or from this thought, which speaks of the fact that everyone has a star ?!
6 Buddha and miracles
In the ancient Buddhist writings there is no mention of the miracles of the Buddha as a teacher of valid teachings, not a prophet, nor a man who makes miracles, nor is there any god or any other. If there are some modern legends after the birth of Christ centuries are only additions modern mythological and therefore vary from one source to another in Buddhism
So he said, I hate the miracle and I reject it and despise it
Walshe, Maurice. 'The Long Discourses of the Buddha
But what has been added and attributed as miracles to Buddha are three
1 In a young man, the lotus flower is opened when he puts his foot upon it
2 And the coming of fire from the top of his body and water from the bottom of his body
3 Stretching its steps in a time to go a long distance in three steps
The Buddha's miracles have no objective purpose and nothing to declare, but as they are clarified, modern additions come after 450 years of his life. This time gap allows the entry of non-historical things to spoil the historical essence.
In Christianity, of course, we know the great testimonies in the Bible about the miracles of Christ, but even the enemies of Christianity, who know miracles well but attack them by accusing them of magic. The historian Josephus mentioned the wonders of Jesus. Jesus knew that he was the maker of miracles among his readers, opponents and surrounding people. Bart Ehrman said that whatever you think of the philosophical possibility of healing miracles, it is clear that Jesus had a wide reputation for doing these miracles.
Ehrman, Bart. 'The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings
This leads us to believe in the historical reasons (especially for the early registration and certification) that Jesus really made miracles. The only negation of the unbelievers was that he was a sorcerer or a charlatan or someone with a supernatural intelligence who had deceived thousands. Though the followers of Jesus died for him, The miracles of Jesus were accompanied by healing and the expulsion of evil spirits. It is indisputable in historical terms and is widely supported by modern studies as Burg explains.
"Despite the difficulty that miracles pose to the modern mind. The historical reasons are almost indisputable that Jesus was a savior and a hunter of evil spirits
Borg, Marcus. 'Jesus, A New Vision'
And constant testimonies about the miracles of Christ
7 The Buddha was not crucified, nor was he killed;
He married and gave birth and died at the age of 80 years and different in the year of his death a large difference between 483 BC or 400 BC natural death of old age
Of course, this is completely different from the Lord Jesus Christ who was crucified, died, buried, and risen from the dead on the third day.
For the Buddha there is no reliability to the event of his death. Or to the thinkers. The historical record records that Jesus appeared after his death for many, even an atheist historian said.
"We can say that historically Peter and the disciples were certain through the experiences of the death of Jesus who appeared to them and ascended"
Ludemann, Gerd. 'What Really Happened
8 The Buddha has not said prophecies, nor has he said prophecies
There are no ancient writings predicting the birth of the Buddha nor anything in his life nor did Buddha say prophecies about the late days or anything else. But according to research
As for the Lord Jesus Christ, the Old Testament is full of prophecies about His divinity, revelation, birth, birth, life, safety, crucifixion, death, resurrection, and many events.
The Lord Jesus also mentioned many prophecies, such as the destruction of Jerusalem and others, and also fulfilled prophecies about the end of the days that began to occur
9. The importance of the personality of Buddha and Christ for each faith
According to a search for Paul Tilch and translated by my brother Gregory
In 1960, he visited a theologian Paul Tillich of Japan. He had discussions with some Buddhist scholars. "If some historians put the possibility that the man named Gautama did not exist, what would be the consequences for Buddhism?
Buddhist scholars have said that a historical question of Gautama was never a problem for Buddhism: according to the Dharmakāya doctrine, the "real body" is eternal. This does not depend on Gautama's history.
"Tillich Encounters Japan," ed. Robert W. Wood, Japanese Religions 2 (May 1961): 48-71.
Therefore, whether Gautama exists as a historical person or does not exist and has never done or said what is recorded to him. This does not affect or distort the reputation of Buddhism.
This is different from Christianity. The history of Jesus is fundamental to the Christian faith. Without Jesus there is no Christian. This is confirmed by the Apostle Paul in one of the letters. It is the message to Kronathus that states that if Christ has not risen, then our preaching and falsehood will also invalidate your faith. 1 Corinthians 15: 14-19 "Christianity is Jesus and His redemption on the cross for the salvation of mankind. This of course requires Jesus to be a historical figure and he has already died on the cross. He rose from the dead. If Jesus were out of the equation, there was no Christian faith.
Fine Similarities? Where are the qualities of Buddha, which Christianity quoted from Buddhism and described as Christ?
The two colonels are very different
It is the truth that speaks without proof only to distort Christianity that loses its credibility
Glory to God always