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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Y2K" data-source="post: 12340232" data-attributes="member: 35049">Buddha & Jesus On PersonhoodSince a self-existing creator god is a false concept in Buddhism, human beingscannot owe their existence to a primordial act of creation. There was no original“making” of human beings because there is no real “maker” outside the beginninglesscycle of rebirth. The Buddha says several times in the Samyutta Nikaya that “thissamsara is without discoverable beginning” (II,15,1). In contrast, the Christ didn’tquestion the Jewish view of creation. When challenged by the Pharisees to statehis view on divorce, Jesus grounded the sanctity of marriage on its God-givenstatus through creation. He quoted from Genesis saying: “At the beginning ofcreation God made them male and female” (Mark 10,6, Matthew 19,4).Although there is no similarity in the way human beings are said tohave originated, might we still find common ground in the way the Buddhaand the Christ have defined our nature? On the one hand, in the teachingof the Buddha we have a clear definition of what human nature is: the fiveaggregates and nothing more. We have already analyzed the anatta doctrine,the way human existence is shaped by karma and dependent co-arising. On the other hand, Jesus didn’t provide a systematic list of componentsor mechanisms to describe the human being as the Buddha did. Therefore wecannot define human nature merely by compiling a collection of Bible verses taken from here and there, i.e., verses that speak of a body, verses that speak of soul, of emotions, will, etc. But there is a better way of understanding whatwe are. The best starting point is to remember the concept of being created inGod’s image and likeness (Genesis 1,26).</blockquote>

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