buddhist
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Thanks for sharing your testimony!Hi Buddhist,
I had been a believer of Buddha since I was a kid until high school. I started to learn about Christianity in my high school years. I left Buddhism because of the truth that God had given to us. I've felt God's love, peace and joy. Those are things that money can't buy, and things that cannot be acquired by our own human effort.
Love, God send His only Son, Jesus Christ to suffer for us for the purpose of giving us hope for salvation (John 3:16).
Peace, there is peace of God who fills our heart and mind.
Joy, there is joy from God who fills our heart and mind.
God does exists and still existing. He is not selfish and does not create man to suffer. His great love saved us from the penalty of sin. God is moral. This is the reason why there is morality. I believed that God take His place for us not to suffer, and that is the message of the cross.
Rev. 1:5
5. and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us, and released us from our sins by His blood,
Thanks
Mirroring your testimony in a way, I had been a believer in Jesus since I was a child as well. I've endured much sufferings through the last two decades - even through years of prayer to Jesus, which I felt were left unanswered in any significant way. So, in recent years I began to explore many philosophies and religious faith systems in an attempt to address that suffering. I decided to learn, and eventually apply, the teachings of early Buddhism, as a philosophy of life, while still holding onto my faith in Christ and Christianity. As I grew in knowledge of Buddhism from reading its earliest texts, I began to understand for myself the incredible depth of wisdom and insight the Buddha possessed and taught. I simultaneously delved far deeper into the Christian Bible then I ever imagined I ever would, in an anxious attempt to preserve my waning faith, ever mindful and fearful of the threats of the Christian god and his hell. In a sense, after intensely studying the Bible - even to the point of learning much of the original languages - and discovering many of the contradictions within it among its multiplicity of obscure teachings, I eventually left Christianity. I then fully embraced and found immense satisfaction in the clear, systematic, rational, and unambiguous Way pointed out by Lord Buddha, taking it as both my life philosophy and religious faith. I've found far greater peacefulness in my life as a result of applying the Lord's teachings into practice for myself. From that peace, I believe I've also acquired a greater sense of understanding, wisdom, loving-kindness and compassion for all beings in this world, having understood the shared sense of suffering we must all endure.
I could not say that I know directly for myself the alleged claims of the Bible, for I had no way to personally verify the historicity or truth of its narrative, and thus its claims. On the other hand, I can know, and have known, directly for myself the truths taught by the Tathagata in early Buddhism, through my own practice of the Buddhist path.
Although Christianity is unsatisfying to me personally, I am pleased to hear of your deep faith, and I hope it serves you well on your spiritual journey.
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