We must say that although the three Abrahamic faiths all worship the same God, over the centuries that Christianity , Judaism and Islam have existed, there have been times when corrupt and ignorant leaders twisted and perverted the true and compassionate teachings of their faiths.
Some high level Buddhists have drawn analogies between Jesus and Buddhism , e.g. in 2001 the Dalai Lama stated that ” Jesus Christ also lived previous lives”, and added that “So, you see, he reached a high state, either as a Bodhisattva, or an enlightened person, through Buddhist practice or something like that.” Thich
The conversion of adherents of other religions is widely accepted within Christianity . Many Christian organizations believe that they have a duty to make converts among every people.
Messianism originated as an Abrahamic religious belief, but other religions have messianism-related concepts. Religions with a messiah concept include Zoroastrianism (Saoshyant), Judaism (the Mashiach), Buddhism (Maitreya), Hinduism (Kalki), Taoism (Li Hong), and Bábism (He whom God shall make manifest).
The word Hindu is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, many practitioners refer to their religion as Sanātana Dharma (Sanskrit: सनातन धर्म: “the Eternal Way “), which refers to the idea that its origins lie beyond human history, as revealed in the Hindu texts.
Muslims, Christians and Jews do all worship the same complex God . Yet, in spite of this, all believe that their religion contains the full and final revelation of the same God .
Christians preach of one God, creation and salvation, while Buddhists believe in reincarnation, enlightenment and nirvana. “The beliefs aren’t compatible at all,” said Stephen Lahey, an Episcopalian minister and religious studies professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Drinking this kind of beverage whether one knows it as alcohol or not can be considered as transgression of vows. Despite the great variety of Buddhist traditions in different countries, Buddhism has generally not allowed alcohol intake since earliest times.
Buddhists seek to reach a state of nirvana, following the path of the Buddha , Siddhartha Gautama, who went on a quest for Enlightenment around the sixth century BC. There is no belief in a personal god . Buddhists believe that nothing is fixed or permanent and that change is always possible.
Unitarians believe in the moral authority but not necessarily the divinity of Jesus. Their theology is thus opposed to the trinitarian theology of other Christian denominations.
Defenders of religion have countered that the question is improper: We ask, “If all things have a creator, then who created God?” Actually, only created things have a creator, so it’s improper to lump God with his creation. God has revealed himself to us in the Bible as having always existed.
Allah is usually thought to mean “the god” (al-ilah) in Arabic and is probably cognate with rather than derived from the Aramaic Alaha. Arabic-speaking Christians call God Allah , and Gideon bibles, quoting John 3:16 in different languages, assert that Allah sent his son into the world.
Catholics believe that Jesus is God incarnate, “true God and true man” (or both fully divine and fully human).
The earliest Christians maintained that Jesus was a human being who was made God – a god – a divine being. Later they ended up saying that Jesus was born to the union of God and a mortal because the Holy Spirit came upon Mary and that’s how she conceived Jesus , so Jesus literally had God as his father.
Messianic Judaism is a modern syncretic religious movement that combines Christianity (most importantly, the belief that Jesus is the Jewish messiah) with elements of Judaism and Jewish tradition. It emerged in the 1960s and 1970s.