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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, so I'll try to respond to this in a more balanced manner.

What you'll struggle with, I think, are the direct contradictions between the foundational doctrines of Christianity and those of Buddhism and Hinduism.

For one, Buddhism & Hinduism do not involve a belief in a single God who is omniscient, omnipotent and who created the world. There is no concept of a human being the savior of humanity. There is no concept of a priesthood that is considered closer to God than people.

My question to you is how you would reconcile that. Certainly you can practice mindfulness via meditation and yoga without adhering to Buddhist or Hindu beliefs around the permanence of the soul, reincarnation, Nirvana, etc., but I struggle to figure out how you can be a Buddhist Christian without having internal conflict. [/quote]

I can’t speak for Buddhism, but you don’t have your facts straight with regards to Hinduism.

For us there is one “creator” that is omniscient and omnipotent. But it’s not some man in the sky. It’s the creative principle of the universe from which all manifests and to which all dissolves.  We call this Brahman.

Brahman is sat-chit-ananda, truth-consciousness-bliss. It is the only permanent, unchanging reality and is in everything and in everyone one.

I do agree that the doctrines of Christianity and foundations Hinduism/Buddhism and any other non-Abrahamic religion for that matter cannot be reconciled for Christians. It goes in direct contradiction that they are the ‘one true religion.’

For us, it’s no big deal. We know there are many paths to God and that this universe is vast so it would make zero sense to plop one religion down in the desert of the Middle East hundreds of thousands of years after creation and believe it is better than the beliefs of anyone else.

To the OP- honestly these types of things simply seek to dilute the other religions in order to make it palatable to the Christian mindset and clear their conscious. If they can still call themselves Christian than they feel good about it.

I personally ( and I mean no offense ) don’t think Jesus would have wanted such exclusivity to what he taught and would have liked a more universal belief such as in Hinduism.  The formal religion of Christianity began after him. The Bible was written hundreds of years after him through the minds and hearts of common men and their recollections and interpretations in an area where there were wars and power struggles that benefited from exclusivity.

One can have faith and love for Jesus and not be Christian. But a Christian cannot follow the universality of other religions and still be Christian at the core. Is contradictory to your doctrine. 
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PP here. When I say there's no single God who created the world, that's what I mean. Hinduism and Buddhism don't have a sense of there being a man in the sky who created the world and hands down judgments about an individual's fate. Sorry I wasn't clearer about what I was referring to. [/quote]

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