Compare And Contrast Christianity And Abrahamic Religions

The two largest categories of major world religions are the Eastern and the Abrahamic religions. While the Eastern religions are catalogued due to the geographic location of their origins, the Abrahamic religions are all offshoots of the same monolithic tradition. Buddhism is based upon the teachings and life of Gautama Buddha, whereas Christianity is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Buddhism is a non-theistic religion, meaning, the faith does not believe in a supreme creator. Christianity is a monotheistic religion that believes Christ is the Son Of God not just a profit. “Now it is a strange fact that Buddhism and Christianity, constituting together sixty-six percent., which is considerably more than on half of mankind,
God is seen as the creator of all life and all things; a means to give reason for everything and pacify fear. The Christian tradition was created through the Bible, a text believed to be the word of God through his mortal son (with the framework coming from Judaism), Jesus. Jesus was created through immaculate conception, born of a virgin named Mary as a miracle dubbed the “Son of God”. As God’s Son, Jesus became God’s sole physical representation on earth and was the “Messiah” who brought upon new teachings, through the use of “miracles,” to add upon the much older Jewish religion, the first of the Abrahamic religions. While these two religions share the same Old Testament and “God”, it is the belief that Jesus was, in fact, the son of God and the “Messiah” that separates the two. Jesus would go on to die upon the cross, villainized for his proliferation of the word of “God” and condemned by his one of his closest companions. His death would be construed as God sacrificing his only son for the sins of all of humanity. These facts are the basis of the Christian religion and
It begins with the story of a prince, Siddartha Gautama, who leaves his lavish life in his palace behind in search of understanding about the outside world and of himself. Siddartha comes upon an old man, an ill man, a corpse, and then an ascetic, and in this travel he forms an idea that suffering is the source of all wrong in the universe. He renouncing his former life, all princely titles, and worldly possessions to become a monk in hope of finding the truth of the world. He begins following the ascetic tradition but finds the strict restrictions too constraining. Siddartha does not become “the Buddha” until he, while meditating underneath a tree, finally comes to understand how to be free of suffering and through that reach salvation. Following this epiphany, Gautama became known as the Buddha, “Meaning the "Enlightened One." The Buddha spent the remainder of his life journeying about India, teaching others what he had come to understand.” (Buddhism.