Jesus and a Buddha differ in many ways but one of the significant differences is Buddha does not depend on a God or any supernatural being to save his soul, there is no soul in Buddhism. we have the potential to become enlightened, called Buddha Nature.

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Buddha was a human being and Jesus was the Son of God both taught peace and compassion for others, to live a selfless life was the best way to live one's life.

The only way to know the Christian God is through Jesus Christ.

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Through Buddha's realization and insight he finds the path out of self-caused suffering and freedom from the rounds of rebirth. Through his compassion and wisdom, he does not leave this worldly plain, which the Buddhist cosmology call the desire realm and teaches us, unruly humans, how to escape our self-made prison.

Buddha taught the Gods because they too eventually are reborn into the human realm and go through the crap we have to go through. Good karma doesn't last forever so one must let all their karma go. Old Karma is our body, our actions create who we will become in our next life. Karma is called the Law of Nature/cause and effect. What you do, the actions you take is like energy and this energy does not stop when we die.

Buddha didn't make any laws. The Ten Commandments are Gods law and to break them is a major sin, the soul will end up in hell forever. Even though Heaven is forever as well...how can two absolutes exist? I asked my Bible study teacher when I was a teenager about this paradox and he couldn't give me an answer.

There is no eternity or nihilism In Buddhism, and there are many kinds of hell realms or heavens we can take rebirth in but they do not last forever, we can break free of them any time through letting go of our conditioning, they are all caused by one's own positive or negative mind states and actions. One can only save oneself from self-created negativity. There is no God that has the power to clean up a messy mind, just beings who have the ability of self-knowing have that kind of power

Being angry, greedy, hateful are hellish mind-states we can experience right now! Buddha also taught we could experience real freedom in this lifetime as well, we do not have to die and go to heaven to experience freedom from negative mind states and actions that cause us endless suffering and rebirths.