RE: Personal relationships with deities
December 29, 2015 at 8:30 am
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2015 at 8:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I sometimes wonder which motivates you more, criticism of christianity, or defense of buddhism from your criticisms of christianity. 
If you commit to doing good deeds, are your karmic sins not washed away? Can you not influence your karma? Can you not, with the good, ameliorate the effect of the bad? Christians believe that not only is taking jesus into your heart a "good deed", but that it will also help them to perform good deeds. Just as you believe that buddhism is, itself, good..... and that buddhism helps you to achieve good deeds.
If you commit to doing good deeds, are your karmic sins not washed away? Can you not influence your karma? Can you not, with the good, ameliorate the effect of the bad? Christians believe that not only is taking jesus into your heart a "good deed", but that it will also help them to perform good deeds. Just as you believe that buddhism is, itself, good..... and that buddhism helps you to achieve good deeds.
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