Buddha and Christ Compare and Contrast

Well, I have studied other religions. I don't like Hinduism because of the Caste System. I don't like Islam because it fights against the Jews and Christians. I don't like Buddhism because its founder was not perfect like Jesus was. I don't like Paganism, because I believe in one God, as it doesn't make sense that there'd be multiple gods all fighting one another. I don't like Shintoism or Zoroastrianism because they believe in Manichaeism. Same thing with Gnosticism.  And I don't like the idea of Reincarnation either, so that strikes Buddhism or Hinduism out. I find it unfair to demand people live, and only suffer. I don't like the core teachings of Buddhism, either, that it doesn't express the joys of life, like Christ did, but rather derives all meaning from suffering. And I don't like Atheism, because it leaves a moral vacuum, and makes weird stuff start to appear and become normalized. And I would be Agnostic, if not for Jesus Himself, who was a superior sage to even Confucius, Buddha and Pythagoras. Which is why I believe, is because of Jesus. I think in order to know good, you need an example set, and Jesus is that Example. And you'd also need God Himself to instruct us on the right way to live and behave, which God did in the Ten Commandments and when He came in the Flesh as Jesus Christ, and taught, and lived and died.

It's also not about moral teachings. It's about Christ. Without whom, none of those other religions would even tempt me. Only Christ. Because of What He did, and Who He was. He didn't sit in a graveyard or on a battlefield, pining about life. He did something. And people witnessed this, and were willing to die for it.

It's not like Buddha didn't have some good things to say, he just didn't live the right way. Christ did, and without that example, we can't know how to live. We needed God Himself to live an example for us to follow. Without that, we couldn't know right from wrong, I'm very convinced of that. Because right now, with knowledge of Him decreasing more and more, nobody knows right from wrong. And the Gospels were witness of Him, living that life, and witness of Him fulfilling over 400 messianic prophecies. Meaning, He is the Messiah and Son of God.

Compare Christ to Buddha, Buddha was all talk. And the miracles he's said to have done are all icky, and don't have the beauty or simplicity of Christ's miracles. Christ talked, but what He did was far more glorious, and spoke more than any Sermon He preached. And the Apostles actually witnessed Christ perform those Miracles. And they died believing it. We have that accounted in history.

Comparing Jesus to Buddha, even the mythological Buddha, Buddha's kind of scary, and more like a warlock, than a genuine human being. He's more self serving than Jesus is, and doesn't pour himself out for other people. Which is the core problem I have with Buddhism, is Buddha himself. He's just all wrong, and kind of icky. Jesus, in the four canonical gospels, which we can prove came from eyewitnesses, is just more elegant. And has none of the excess that Buddha does.

I was reading the earliest Biography of Buddha, I guess the fact that it doesn't seem to have the authority of the four gospels, being four accounts by many different witnesses, all saying the same things, and then Buddha's teachings which seem to center around worldly pleasure and suffering... it's just I think Jesus avoids that topic altogether, and demonstrates a life worthy of emulating. Buddha in the biography I read, was all talk, and simply kept repeating the same thing over and over again. Jesus wasn't monomaniacal like that. He had diverse things to say, and centered His teachings around attaining full pleasure in Heaven. Which is affirming the spirit of Joy, rather than trying to inure you to life's suffering, Jesus told you to hold fast to the joys of the Kingdom, and thereby be strengthened by the pleasures of God's Kingdom and that hope.