Jesus or Buddha – Understanding Truth vs. Spiritual Deception

Jesus or Buddha / Truth vs. Deception is a chapter from my E-Book: Buddhist Monk Saved by Jesus. You can download it for free on my Home page ⟶ Buddhist Monk Saved by Jesus

Foundation for Understanding: Jesus vs. Buddha

In this Jesus or Buddha section, I will compare the core teachings of Buddha with the Word of God in the Bible. Why the Bible? Because the God of the Bible is the Creator of all things and the source of absolute truth. This same God sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to speak His words and to do His works. Jesus rose from the dead and is now seated at the right hand of God in heaven, among the hosts of angels.

Buddha, on the other hand, did not know the one true God. Before becoming known as Buddha, he was Prince Siddhartha—a Gentile in a land where the people worshiped many false gods. His teachings did not come from the God of the Bible. I will show that the knowledge Buddha taught stands in opposition to the Word of God and to Jesus Christ, because it came from Satan and evil spirits who deceive mankind through false spirituality.

1. Creation of the world

• Buddha’s teaching: Everything that exists in the universe arises and disappears according to natural laws, eternally, without beginning or end. There is no God or any being who created everything.

• God’s word: Gen. 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. By His word, He created light, the firmament separating the heavens and the earth, the seas and rivers, plants, stars, the sun and the moon. Then He created all creatures in the waters and on the earth, creating them so that they could reproduce, each according to its kind. Finally, God created man – male and female He created them.

2. The nature of life after death

• Buddha’s teaching: Buddha describes six main realms of existence: hell, preta (hungry ghosts), animals, humans, demigods, and gods. Beings are continuously reincarnated through these realms according to their karma. This is samsara – the cycle of birth and death, which is marked by suffering.

• God’s word: There is no reincarnation. Man has one life, then judgment follows. Just as God gave us this life, so He will give us eternal body and eternal life at a set time. The saved will go into eternal life, the unsaved into eternal destruction.

Heb. 9:27 It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment. Rom. 2:16 On the day when God will judge the secrets of men according to my gospel, through Jesus Christ. 2 Tim. 4:1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom.

3. The Cause and Solution of Suffering

• Buddha’s teaching: Buddha teaches the Four Noble Truths: (1) suffering exists, (2) the cause of suffering, (3) the cessation of suffering, (4) the path to the cessation of suffering. The causes of suffering arise in the mind, and the path to stopping it is the Eightfold Path, which severs the connection of dependent origination. A person can free themselves from all suffering through learning Buddha’s teachings and practicing meditation. Liberation is nirvana, which is described as an eternal state without suffering.

• God’s word: Through one man — Adam — sin entered the world, and because of sin, death came to all people, since all have sinned. Through the disobedience of one, we all became sinners. Through Adam we received sin and death. We cannot free ourselves from sin, suffering, and death through any practice, ritual, or custom. Our good works cannot save us, not even “Christian” religious deeds.

The payment for sin is death and eternal destruction. God, besides being a just judge, is full of love and mercy. He sent His only begotten Son into the world, not to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.

Jesus was the only human who never sinned. God condemned the entire sin of humanity in the body of Jesus on the cross. ONLY JESUS’ SINLESS BLOOD COULD BE THE PAYMENT FOR ALL OUR SINS. To be “reconciled with God through the blood of Christ” means that God, through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ, restored the broken relationship with humanity. Because of humanity’s sin, there was fundamental enmity between humans and God, but Christ’s shed blood provides the means to end this enmity, creates peace, and restores fellowship. This reconciliation brings believers into a holy and spotless state before God and offers a new relationship of peace and fellowship.

Whoever believes: “JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED, DIED FOR OUR SINS, AND ROSE FROM THE DEAD ON THE THIRD DAY.” Receives, by God’s grace, the Free Gift of Salvation. God’s grace is undeserved, His favor offered to humanity, a gift that no one can earn through good deeds. To be “saved by grace” means that salvation — reconciliation with God and eternal life — is not the result of human effort, but a free gift from God, received through faith in Jesus Christ. Salvation does not come from what we do, but through faith in what Jesus did for us. This is the Gospel of our Salvation by grace through faith, without our works.

It does not matter who you are or what you have done in the past. Whoever believes, wherever they are, God justifies them from all sins and seals them with the Holy Spirit. Thus, we are no longer sinners before God, but righteous in Christ. Just as we became sinners through the disobedience of Adam, we become righteous through the obedience of the last Adam — Jesus Christ. For Jesus, who knew no sin, God made Him sin for us, so that we might become God’s righteousness in Him.

As through Adam’s sin judgment came to all people, so through Jesus’ righteous act justification comes to all people, which gives life. In Adam we are dead, but in Christ God gives us life. Therefore, for all people there is only one Savior and only one way to salvation. That is through faith in Jesus. God’s righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.

All have sinned and fall short of God’s glory, yet they are justified freely by His grace, through the redemption in Jesus Christ. Thus we are justified and righteous before God. We are saved from his wrath, judgement and eternal destruction. We will have eternal life in heaven. God will give us glorified, eternal bodies. No one else can create an eternal place where we will live, and no one else can give us eternal life. This is why no one else deserves all worship and glory forever, except the highest God, Creator of all, and His Son Jesus Christ — our Savior, the only mediator between us and God. God has saved us, justified us, and given us life in Christ.

Beware of Christian religious deceptions — that is, adding anything else to this for salvation. God did not create Christians, but all people, and Jesus did not sacrifice Himself for Christians alone, but for all people. God sent only Jesus as the Savior of the whole world. Therefore, all other religions worshiping other people or other gods — who are in reality fallen angels and evil spirits — cannot save anyone.

4. The Truth About Enlightenment

• Buddha’s knowledge: Buddhism describes how Prince Siddhartha became the Buddha, which means awakened from illusion into truth. On the night of enlightenment, he was first tested by Mara, described as an inner demon, an internal struggle of desire, fear, doubt, attachment, and illusion, which prevents one from reaching enlightenment. When all these trials attacked his mind and he came beyond them through non-reaction in emptiness, he first saw all his previous births. Then he saw all beings as they reincarnate from one life to another and their causes. Then he saw the Four Truths, the 12 links of dependent origination, and the cessation of suffering through the Eightfold Path. All this knowledge was said to have been received by the Buddha from emptiness.

• God’s word: Col. 1:16-17 God, through Jesus Christ, created all things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities: all things were created through Him and for Him; and He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. Phil. 2:9-11 God exalted Jesus above all and gave Him a name above every name, so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth; and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

In the knowledge from God, who created all things, there is no reincarnation, no enlightenment, no nirvana. Prince Siddhartha was a pagan from India; at that time, Israel was God’s people, the only nation that knew the true God. Everything about this is written in the Old Testament.

All other nations were pagans who did not know the Most High God at that time, but worshiped false gods. These are rulers from the kingdom of darkness who pretend to humans to be real gods, the chief among them being Satan or the Devil. Buddha had no knowledge of God; when he meditated, he received all knowledge and visions from evil spiritual beings from the kingdom of darkness, so that through him they deceived the masses. Knowledge cannot be obtained from emptiness. The Holy Scriptures are the word of the true God; everything else are false gods and their deceptions, opposing the knowledge from God.

It can only be slightly altered, with something added or removed, to mean something else. Whoever is not in Christ and does not understand His word cannot know this, so many people ignorantly follow knowledge from Satan instead of God.

Eph. 2:2 Before salvation we were dead because of our sins, in which we once lived according to the ways of this world, following the ruler of the domain of the air (Satan), the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience.

How Satan Uses Spirituality to Deceive the World

Buddhism, New Age spirituality, non-duality (Advaita Vedanta), yoga, reiki, astrology, fortune-telling, horoscopes, Hinduism, Islam, Taoism, the Catholic Church and all Christian denominations that teach human traditions, channeling, worship of angels or “deities,” crystals, witchcraft, shamanism, ayahuasca rituals, DMT and other drugs, mysticism, atheism, and various philosophies are all means through which the Devil and evil spirits deceive people. The purpose is that people worship them and serve them out of ignorance.

I advise you to get rid of all books, statues, pictures, jewelry, and stop all practices and rituals connected with these, because they come from Satan and evil spirits. Such practices allow evil spirits to have power over you spiritually and distance you from God and His truth. The only way for your salvation is to believe and trust in the Gospel of Salvation.

Jesus or Buddha / Truth vs. Deception is a chapter from my E-Book: Buddhist Monk Saved by Jesus. You can download it for free on my Home page ⟶ Buddhist Monk Saved by Jesus