Why I stopped following Buddha and started following Jesus?

Hettiarachi

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Some one put the following comments in the internet. any buddhist can answer his doubts please.

I came to the Buddhist path as a seeker. I was skeptical about religious claims, but felt a deep void in my life. I yearned for meaning and truth in a unpredictable and often hostile world. In Buddhism, I thought I had found what I was searching for.

Buddhists has never started a war. There was never a Buddhist Inquisition. They emphasized wisdom, compassion, lovingkindness, and personal transformation. And they certainly never threatened me with eternity in a lake of fire.

But it was not meant to be. That deep void in my life? It was what has often been described as a “God-shaped vacuum”—the emptiness that only God can fill. We are His creation, made in His image. He intends for us to have a relationship with Him and, when we are without Him, we feel empty and alone. No matter how long I meditated or what teachings I read, I could not fill this emptiness in my life. For in Buddhism, there is no sovereign, loving Creator.

True, some Buddhists purport to believe in a god, or in a realm of higher beings called devas. Others pray to statues of Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama). But as a whole, Buddhism is not a theistic religion. It has a law—the law of karma—but no lawgiver.

According to the Buddhist worldview, all beings accumulate karma based on their actions, and karma dictates their life circumstances. When a person dies, the karma accumulated in that lifetime (and all previous lives) determines his or her lot in the next life.

To many Buddhists, this means that a person born into a wealthy family has good karma, while someone who lives in a poor, disease-infested village would have accumulated negative karma.

Buddhists believe karma keeps one trapped in an endless cycle of death and rebirth (samsara), and the only way out is through enlightenment. To become enlightened, one has to eliminate desire. Buddha taught that desire is the root of suffering; that it causes attachment, which leads to suffering, and in turn causes other beings to suffer. This produces negative karma. If one eliminates desire and stops causing suffering, one can become enlightened, as he had.

But eventually I began to question. Who or what had set this law of karma in motion? Who judged these beings' actions and sentenced them to another life of pain? Why were beings punished for actions they would be unable to remember? Was desire always a bad thing? Wasn't the desire for enlightenment still desire? If so, how could one ever attain enlightenment?

So I strayed from the Buddhist path, the emptiness within me greater than before. I began to examine the claims of Jesus of Nazareth in a new light, laying aside the biases and prejudices that had caused me to dismiss Him as merely a “great human teacher.” The more I searched, the more I came to believe that there was a sovereign God who loved me and that Jesus was who He claimed to be—the Son of Man, fully human and fully God. I accepted Christ into my heart.

In doing so, I now feel that I've found true enlightenment—through a personal relationship with my Creator.
 

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    In Buddhism if you give up all the desires then you attain enlightenment.. It is not that you should have a desire to attain enlightenment..
     

    mensoft2003

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    We don't need your bless my dear,there is no way ur god can bless my God as u dont have god at all. we need you to attain good path thts it.

    YES Accepted :yes: . we Don't have a god and he is not even a creator and he is never going to bless to you , your god or even to us.

    so what i can wish is again ;)
    "you god bless to you and your creator." :lol::lol::lol:
     

    Hettiarachi

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    In Buddhism if you give up all the desires then you attain enlightenment.. It is not that you should have a desire to attain enlightenment..

    Buddhism's attempt to nullify all human desires is another aspect of its narrow philosophy. God created the blessings of this world for human beings' benefit and pleasure, and so that they would give Him thanks in return. For this reason, other religions not command people to suppress their desires or to endure pain and suffering. On the contrary, it enjoins them to take advantage of the beautiful aspects in the world (apart from base and unlawful behavior), not to restrain themselves needlessly, nor to inflict pain upon themselves

    Here what is explanation about desire in Buddhism?, i hope you mean unlawful desire, if so, it is not something new in Buddhism, all the religions say to give up the unlawful desires.then what is the special in this only in buddhism??
     

    Hettiarachi

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    YES Accepted :yes: . we Don't have a god and he is not even a creator and he is never going to bless to you , your god or even to us.

    so what i can wish is again ;)
    "you god bless to you and your creator." :lol::lol::lol:

    Thanks My dear. So keep full stop,please let Buddhist not to abuse others. they are the worst abusers those who i have ever seen..
     

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    මේ නූලේ අරමුණ , බහුතරයක් අපි සියළුදෙනා සතුව තිබේන එක අරමුණ , නැවත වෙනස් කර පීලී පැන්නවීමටයි. දරත වගේ අයත් දැගළුවෙ ඕක කොරන්න තමයි. අහු වෙන්න එපා.
     

    mensoft2003

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    මේ නූලේ අරමුණ , බහුතරයක් අපි සියළුදෙනා සතුව තිබේන එක අරමුණ , නැවත වෙනස් කර පීලී පැන්නවීමටයි. දරත වගේ අයත් දැගළුවෙ ඕක කොරන්න තමයි. අහු වෙන්න එපා.

    පොඩ්ඩක් පෑහදිලි කරන්න පුලුවන්ද ?
     

    DrZakirNaik

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    පොඩ්ඩක් පෑහදිලි කරන්න පුලුවන්ද ?

    දැන් බලන්න එක්කෙනෙක් ටෝක්ස් සෙක්ශන් එකෙ ඉස්ලාම් වෙන්න හැදුවා , දැන් මේකත් ඒවගේ. මේකත් හරියට සිරාජ් කොපි පේස්ට් කොරල අපිට ඒක කියවවන්න හදන එකේ අනුවර්තනය වුන තවත් මූලෝපායක්. අරමුණ අපේ සුළුවෙන් හරි තියෙන එකමුතුව බිද දැමීම. මේක වඩාත් හොදට පැහැදිලි වේවි කලින් මෙතන තිබුන නූල් කියෙව්වනම්. මම කියන කාරණය වැටහේවා.
     

    Hettiarachi

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    දැන් බලන්න එක්කෙනෙක් ටෝක්ස් සෙක්ශන් එකෙ ඉස්ලාම් වෙන්න හැදුවා , දැන් මේකත් ඒවගේ. මේකත් හරියට සිරාජ් කොපි පේස්ට් කොරල අපිට ඒක කියවවන්න හදන එකේ අනුවර්තනය වුන තවත් මූලෝපායක්. අරමුණ අපේ සුළුවෙන් හරි තියෙන එකමුතුව බිද දැමීම. මේක වඩාත් හොදට පැහැදිලි වේවි කලින් මෙතන තිබුන නූල් කියෙව්වනම්. මම කියන කාරණය වැටහේවා.

    My PC is not enabled with sinhala language, I want your posts in english pls...
     

    navodwickra

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    your intensions are evil man. You won't post like this if you're a true catholic or a christian for that matter. Just because you change your religion that doesn't mean buddhism is wrong. Remember religions are there for make people good not to compare. If you didnt find what you were looking for in buddhism that means you're a big Looser. Changing religion to find the correct path is the biggest bullshit I've ever heard. If you need a change change yourself not the religion because at the end of the day you will be the same miserable person you were used to be.
     

    mensoft2003

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    My PC is not enabled with sinhala language, I want your posts in english pls...


    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

    So why dont you ask from your creator to make you pc sinhala enable.

    the wonderfull creator of the world. pray for him and request from him. he will enable sinhala in your pc.

    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

    ill also pray for you....:P
    මොහුගේ මෝඩකමට අනුකම්පා කර සිංහල අකුරු PC එකට Install වේවා :lol::lol::rofl::rofl: