How do you refute the idea that Jesus was a Buddhist?

[rossum]

budhha knew nothing about heaven and hell …

Both Buddhism and Hinduism have heavens (plural) and hells (plural). The Buddha was well aware of both.

Buddha did not offer forgiveness of sins, maybe because Buddha had no doctrine of sin against our Creator.

Correct. Buddhism does not have either sin or the forgiveness of sin. Buddhism has actions and consequences:

Mind precedes all conditions,
mind is their chief, they are mind-made.
If you speak or act with an evil mind then suffering will follow you,
as the wheel follows the draught ox.

Mind precedes all conditions,
mind is their chief, they are mind-made.
If you speak or act with a pure mind then happiness will follow you,
as a shadow that never leaves.

– Dhammapada 1:1-2

It is an error to assume that specifically Christian ideas are copied in other religions.

rossum

 

[eddie_too]

Jesus did not teach that there are “heavens” and “hells”. whatever budhha might have said about “heavens” and “hells” is totally unrelated to the teachings of Jesus Christ.

as someone else pointed out, we should not be looking for the Gospel of Jesus in non-Christian sources. it is not there. it cannot be there because all of those sources are finite human beings while the source of Jesus’ Gospel is the Incarnate Word, truly God in all ways. truly One with the Father and the Holy Spirit in all ways, but not the Father or the Holy Spirit.

 

[rossum]

Jesus did not teach that there are “heavens” and “hells”. whatever budhha might have said about “heavens” and “hells” is totally unrelated to the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Different? Yes. Totally unrelated? No.

as someone else pointed out, we should not be looking for the Gospel of Jesus in non-Christian sources. it is not there.

So, “Love your neighbour as yourself” is not part of the Gospel of Jesus Christ because the Buddha said, “Love others as you love yourself.” I thought is was Catholic belief that parts (though not all) of the Gospel of Jesus Christ were accessible to those living before Christ. Did not Moses have access to parts of it? If not, then why are the books of Moses included in Christian scripture?

You appear to be taking too extreme a position here. Buddhism condemns murder, lying and stealing. Are those not parts of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as well?

rossum

 

[edwest2]

I was an atheist for many years, my friend. I have since returned to Christianity, though I am an Orthodox Christian. All I can say, is that these sorts of books are popular level, conjecture filled, ahistorical tabloids. Those titles are approximately one notch above that horrendously idiotic “film” called Zeitgeist that was slithering around the web a few years ago, giving unchecked and fallaciously stupid ammunition for all the nerdy Reddit atheist, basement lurkers. My point, is that these books are a dime a dozen, and most end up in the bargain bin about a year or so after their “groundbreaking” release. Focus on reputable sources, not sensational rags that are designed to make uninformed lay experts feel smart, and in possession of worldview shattering, esoteric secular mythology.

I follow the crazy books and articles so I can know what is being sold to the public to confuse them about the truth. The young in particular.

amazon.com/The-Marketing-Evil-Pseudo-Experts-Corruption/dp/1581824599

Ed

 

[Lev23]

The New Testament is clear that after the exile into Egypt, Jesus lived in Israel, was sent only to the house of Israel, died, was buried, resurrected from the dead in Israel and rose to Heaven from Israel where he will return the same way he left, back to Israel.

 

[Lily_Bernans]

Buddhism does not believe in the survival of the individual soul. It espouses a cycle of birth-death- rebirth. Jesus did not teach anything like that at all.

 

[IgnatianPhilo]

I read the new testament. If Jesus was a Buddhist and was teaching Buddhist doctrine I cannot make sense of how the Christian church came about.

 

[Lily_Bernans]

I read the new testament. If Jesus was a Buddhist and was teaching Buddhist doctrine I cannot make sense of how the Christian church came about.

What Jesus taught was definitely not Buddhist doctrine.

Just for starters, he did not teach reincarnation and the achievement of enlightenment (at least not in the Buddhist fashion).