FROM BUDDHA TO JESUS: An Insider's View of Buddhism & Christianity (Comparative World Religions) by Steve Cioccolanti

Author:Steve Cioccolanti
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Steve Cioccolanti
Published: 2007-10-25T23:00:00+00:00

QUESTION & ANSWER

Is there a God in Buddhism?

Buddha never denied the existence of God. His teachings are deeply rooted in the assumption that there is absolute morality and there is a just distribution of merits and demerits. This strongly implies the presence of an Intelligent, Personal and Moral God. Otherwise, who is keeping track of every person’s moral decisions and the distribution of rewards and punishment?

Morality without Personality is an impossibility. It would take not only a moral Person to keep count of everybody’s thoughts, words and actions, but also a very intelligent Person to keep track of karma. This Being would have to be All-Seeing, All-Knowing, and Perfectly Just. Is this not, by definition, belief in a Moral Omniscient God?

In Thai Buddhism, there is a title used to refer to God: Sing Saksit Nai Sakolaloak. Thai Buddhists know this refers to “Something Holy in the Universe.” When Buddhists pray, they will often pray to Sing Saksit Nai Sakolaloak. So they do actually pray to the Supreme Being, only they don’t know His Name is Jesus Christ.

This is similar to the idolatrous Athenians praying to the Unknown God. The Athenian religion was certainly not centered around the Unknown God, but neither could it deny His existence. Paul highlighted what they considered minor and declared, “The One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you” (Acts 17:23).

The Bible says that every child is born with the knowledge of God – they are “alive unto God” (Romans 7:9). No child is born with an “I don’t believe in God” gene. No child dies and goes to Hell. They all go to Heaven. Only after social conditioning, peer pressure and religious indoctrination does a child accept human theories and deny God. But even then, for the rest of his life, a person lives with an awareness of Eternity (Ecclesiastes 3:11) and of the coming Judgment (Romans 2:15-16).

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