How do you account for the radical differences between Buddhism and Christianity?

Tom: How do you account for the radical differences between Buddhism and Christianity?
Our ancient ancestors of 40,000 years ago all relied on gods to explain the unexplained, like day, night, rain, etc. In the west, these gods evolved to the creator God that is worshipped in the Abrahamic religions; Buddhism doesn’t teach one way or the other about such a God and its worship practices are fundamentally different. How can the same group (hunter gatherers) in two different geographic regions arrive at such different conclusions about religion?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Carebear
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Answer by irksome
Hunter gatherers? Asia at the time was a crossroad of culture.

Answer by a.kolathil
Budha was sent for ancient Indians as prophet where as Jesus for Israels only.

Answer by EddieJ
Both were invented much more recently.

Answer by Mac
You can apply this to just about all religions on the planet. Believing in One God is not the natural result of thousands of years of a belief system.

One explanation of course, that there is a God, and he set up His religion, and it has survived for thousands of years because He made sure that it it did.

Answer by heartless_hank
Buddhism is a teaching about how to reduce the pain of life by surrendering the illusion of self.
Christianity is a teaching about how to attain everlasting life by belief in a God.

Kinda figures they’d come up with different conclusions.

Answer by I Change My SN Too Often
Buddhism wasn’t started by hunter-gatherers. You *really* need to brush up on your history.

Seriously, different people in vastly different regions of the world came up with different explanations for their existence.

Answer by Lincoln6
God doesn’t regulate religious belief and people adjust it to serve an agenda. That’s how we got 1500 different religions.

Answer by Torg T. Robot
By the time these religions had developed, their societies had advanced well past the hunter-gatherer stage and even the agricultural stage. These societies were large and had leaders whose authority was supported by the existing religion. These two religions are different because their purposes are different. Buddhism is meant to improve the lives of its followers while Christianity is meant to justify the power of certain people over others. Christianity does have other goals, but many Christians consider their god to be a ‘lawgiver’, which should give you a clue.

Torg

Answer by Michael
Christianity is based on a mythical guy named Jesus. Buddhism is based on a real historical person that became enlightened and passed on his knowledge to the world…………… one is a MYTH, the other is TRUTH. you figure it out………..

Answer by truth seeker
Buddhism is the philosophy of a man

christianity comes from jesus and what he as god told us to do

no you are wrong jehovah god is creator he was not made up or from other myths

this is just your opinion

Answer by Panthergirrrrl
wow! your history sucks, but anyway. buddhism actually teaches something. christianity is a form of mental slavery

Answer by Drakestone
You are mistaken you if you believe that Christians are the legitimate sons of Abraham. At best, they are mongrel child seeking to hide their true roots. https://www.pocm.info/

Answer by Serene E
1) different cultures in which Buddha and Jesus came from.

2) Neither had their teachings or their life written down in their lifetime. Christians san say that the Bible is the Word of God, no mistakes, yada, yada, but that holds absolutely no water. People met, lived with them, was impressed by them through their own personalities, culture, interpretations, etc. Just like Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, they were all Disciples of Jesus but after Jesus died and those who did, wrote down their remembrances, there were differences between their stories. Could be teachings have been lost, mis interpreted, mistranslated, etc.

3) A religion is changed by the people who follow the religion and visa versa. To me, the further in the past the person comes, whether Jesus or Buddha or Muhammad, the more changes have been made to it. Therefore, looking at Buddhism or Christianity, Christianity is the newer religion. I’d turn to it than to Buddhism.

Answer by Saul follower of Jesus
Because Buddhism is a false religion and Jesus IS God and only through Jesus can you enter into heaven. All you enter through Buddhism is Hell.

Answer by Tommy
Some comparative religious works contend there are some strong similarities about all the religions of the world and include Buddhism in the mix; even though it is a philosophy.

I think you miss the point that religion is something that men do while in its pure form Christianity is a direct revelation and not a self discovered enlightenment. That aside, we all look to find some common answers and we all share common wants and needs and in a pinch we all take a common escape route from Truth.

That all suffering stems from desire is a teaching not that far removed from the Christian concept of sin; which also credits desire for much human pain and suffering. (This is just one example).

Every religion in one way or another deals with human suffering. What we have in common is not only suffering but the basic needs of this life. Even the nature of the language we speak tends to result in differences in how we see things.

I cannot fully relate to your question because I accept revelation as a source of knowledge and further my world view is that man fell away from fellowship with the Eternal Spirit and descended into the darkness of superstition with its many gods.

Men and religions evolve but the essence of man remains and Truth is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Answer by Bruce
Buddhists err in equating the Creator with his creation. That begs the question of how the creation came to exist.

Science confirms the Abrahamic-Christian thesis that the universe had a definite beginning in the Big Bang, about 14 billion years ago. Time and space had a definite beginning. This implies that the creation is finite and not a god.

There are also vast ethical differences. Buddhism seeks a way to escape suffering by changing the mind, but Christianity seeks to ease suffering by changing the world.

Cheers,
Bruce