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by retrofuturist
Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:42 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 20653

Re: Christian-Buddhism?

Greetings Sphairos,
sphairos wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:48 am Hi Retro,

Why the Almighty, Omniscient, Omnipresent God simply could not make us all Gods?
You'd have to ask him that, although I wonder how could the created be God? It would certainly be a different kind of being by definition.

Metta,
Paul. :)
by retrofuturist
Tue Feb 20, 2024 5:38 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 20653

Re: Christian-Buddhism?

Greetings Ceisiwr, Sacrificing himself to please himself doesn’t make much sense. He could just forgive and judge us by our actions :shrug: Your perspective only makes sense if you're negating or rejecting sin, and downgrading it to a doctrine of actions or deeds. Unlike kamma however, holiness (the...
by retrofuturist
Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:11 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 20653

Re: Christian-Buddhism?

Greetings Adam, Please be professional. My views are widespread. Not that I've ever seen, and not that I see in the Bible, so wherever they're allegedly "widespread" is of no interest to me. I think this probably concludes our exchange as you seem more interested in road-testing your pet t...
by retrofuturist
Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:07 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 20653

Re: Christian-Buddhism?

Greetings Ceisiwr, Only the sacrifice of a perfect one free from sin could be sufficient to atone for the sins of mankind. Why does God need to sacrifice himself to save us from himself? Because he is both perfect in judgement and perfect in mercy. God did not create sin, and being perfect in holine...
by retrofuturist
Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:54 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 20653

Re: Christian-Buddhism?

Greetings Adam, What is the purpose of the crucifixion? ‭‭Romans 6:23 says "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Only the sacrifice of a perfect one free from sin could be sufficient to atone for the sins of mankind. What of this &qu...
by retrofuturist
Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:22 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 20653

Re: Christian-Buddhism?

Greetings Adam, I challenge retrofuturist to explicate on the nature of Christ's condemnation, as well as the holy spirit. These from a Buddhist perspective, please. From a "Buddhist perspective" the fundamental problem is dukkha, not sin, so what could Buddhism say to the cross? Nothing m...
by retrofuturist
Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:23 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 20653

Re: Christian-Buddhism?

Greetings Adam, What a load of nonsense. Where do you get your ludicrous ideas? It's definitely not from scripture. How do you explain that Jesus suffered God's wrath? Because I explain it with reference to karma. Moreso your nonsensical ideas of Jesus being a sinner. I'm not going to argue the toss...
by retrofuturist
Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:30 pm
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 20653

Re: Christian-Buddhism?

Greetings Adam,

What a load of nonsense. Where do you get your ludicrous ideas? It's definitely not from scripture.

All the best.

Metta,
Paul. :)
by retrofuturist
Sat Feb 17, 2024 9:02 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Orthodox Christian criticism of Buddhism
Replies: 21
Views: 1088

Re: Orthodox Christian criticism of Buddhism

Greetings, From the first 12 minutes or so. I stopped watching then as he’s basically misrepresenting Buddhism, the critique points are not in line with the teachings that are expounded in the suttas. This is one of the problems with cross-religious analyses. It takes long enough to understand your ...
by retrofuturist
Fri Feb 16, 2024 12:12 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Greetings
Replies: 6
Views: 282

Re: Greetings

Greetings Arnold,

Welcome to Dhamma Wheel.

:buddha1:

Metta,
Paul. :)
by retrofuturist
Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:20 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Which disagreements on practice and doctrine are actually aDhammic?
Replies: 41
Views: 1763

Re: Which disagreements on practice and doctrine are actually aDhammic?

Greetings SDC, Mike, all, The belief that the comportment of another implies a practice is successful is absolutely none other than the belief that one’s own choice of action implies the same about their own. That is pure sīlabbata-parāmāsa , which as an upādāna , is a wrong emphasis of the value of...
by retrofuturist
Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:09 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Mindfulness is a technique?
Replies: 116
Views: 3545

Re: Mindfulness is a technique?

Greetings Sam, Thanks for sharing your perspective. I think there seems to be a little bit of a disconnect perhaps in what members mean by "technique" as I certainly wouldn't describe the sutta you shared as being a "technique". The fundamental objection to "technique" ...
by retrofuturist
Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:22 am
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: There is nothing there, without substance
Replies: 460
Views: 10999

Re: There is nothing there, without substance

Greetings Robert, A few passages in particular that appear to accord nicely with the Early Buddhist view. Spk: Further, "the origin of the world" is direct-order conditionality; "the cessation of the world" reverse-order conditionality. [Spk-pt: "Direct-order conditionality ...
by retrofuturist
Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:28 am
Forum: Early Buddhism
Topic: There is nothing there, without substance
Replies: 460
Views: 10999

Re: There is nothing there, without substance

Greetings Robert, I like this. Things do exist, but not in the way that we normally think that things exist, As per the Kaccayanagotta Sutta: ‘Everything exists’: That is one extreme. ‘Everything doesn’t exist’: That is a second extreme. Avoiding these two extremes, the Tathagata teaches the Dhamma ...
by retrofuturist
Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:52 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: Christian-Buddhism?
Replies: 876
Views: 20653

Re: Christian-Buddhism?

Greetings, potential for an overlapping cosmology between Buddhism and Christianity, than the vast majority of even Buddhists and Christians would be able to comprehend, let alone willing to accept. Reality is being described by both Fiction is also describing reality I think that's true. Human lang...