Hello, I just recently discovered that the Buddha said Humans in the past had lived up to 80,000 years. I very much understand/believe all of the Buddhas teaching but find it hard to accept this particular teaching due to its seemingly wild claim and scientific inaccuracy. Is there any interpretation of this that makes more sense. Thank you 🙏
Hello I just recently discovered that Buddha’s words and teaching were written 300-400 years after his death. Before being written down, they were passed down via oral tradition. My question is that how can we know that these oral traditions were not corrupted or influenced by political forces or the “telephone effect”. And I would also like to know if these text were reliable, what are the most reliable out of these text that is closest to the Buddha’s actual words. Thank you🙏
Hello, I am a 19 year old Male. I was raised a Buddhist and converted to Christianity when I was about 15. Over the time I saw many personal miracles that were just too insane to be coincidences, For example I had an urge from god telling me to read a specific part of the bible KJV for no reason, it was in Psalms I believed….and the titles of the three verses i read spelt out the initials of my name, i don’t have a common initial, my initial are(ZHT). There are more chilling instances of these “miracles”. Then I discovered other people’s miracles through online testimonies which further strengthened my belief. One Testimony in particular of Nabeel Qureshi strengthened my belief the most. Nabeel converted from Islam to Christianity after having a dream. I won’t get in the specifics (you can search about it on youtube) He prayed to Allah to speak to him through a dream, he eventually had a dream and he then later realised from his friend that this exact story that he dreamt was written exactly in the bible. Nabeel had no prior knowledge of this bible story. Testimonies like this made me fear more and believe in my faith.
Due to this I start to go in a mental decline and starve myself praying all day to god that my family and those around me would be saved. I also stared to share the good news of jesus christ to those around me as well. However I started to become tried of the mentally exhausting and depressing state I was in and just decided to leave the Christian faith.Also my moral compass has also convinced me the ethical flaws of Christianity.
I tried to look into reasons why the bible might be false such as the garden of eden and noah’ arc but this won’t disprove anything about the supernatural things me and others experienced. I was a Buddhist again from 17years old to 19 but now that my school is over and I have more free time, my mind is start to think about these instances again and this fear that Christianity might be true is starting to show.
My question as I try to get back into Buddhism is that how can I get over these fear of hell and whether there is a Buddhist explanation to the supernatural miracle experienced by following other religions . Thank you
Hello, I am a 19 year old Male. I was raised a Buddhist and converted to Christianity when I was about 15. Over the time I saw many personal miracles that were just too insane to be coincidences, For example I had an urge from god telling me to read a specific part of the bible KJV for no reason, it was in Psalms I believed….and the titles of the three verses i read spelt out the initials of my name, i don’t have a common initial, my initial are(ZHT). There are more chilling instances of these “miracles”. Then I discovered other people’s miracles through online testimonies which further strengthened my belief. One Testimony in particular of Nabeel Qureshi strengthened my belief the most. Nabeel converted from Islam to Christianity after having a dream. I won’t get in the specifics (you can search about it on youtube) He prayed to Allah to speak to him through a dream, he eventually had a dream and he then later realised from his friend that this exact story that he dreamt was written exactly in the bible. Nabeel had no prior knowledge of this bible story. Testimonies like this made me fear more and believe in my faith. Due to this I start to go in a mental decline and starve myself praying all day to god that my family and those around me would be saved. I also stared to share the good news of jesus christ to those around me as well. However I started to become tried of the mentally exhausting and depressing state I was in and just decided to leave the Christian faith.Also my moral compass has also convinced me the ethical flaws of Christianity.I tried to look into reasons why the bible might be false such as the garden of eden and noah’ arc but this won’t disprove anything about the supernatural things me and others experienced. I was a Buddhist again from 17years old to 19 but now that my school is over and I have more free time, my mind is start to think about these instances again and this fear that Christianity might be true is starting to show. So is there any information that entirely proofs Christianity to be false and how can I heal myself of the Trauma of these personal ‘miracles” and other people’s testimonies. Thank you.