Buddhism versus Christianity/Attachment to the promulgation of anathema against Bishop Theophan/
Lvov (Ukraine), 23 June 2013
Buddhism and Christianity are divided by insurmountable differences: Christianity believes in one God the Creator, who is a personal God. Christianity views man as a being that needs salvation and is incapable of self-salvation. By contrast Buddhism does not believe in God as the Creator and a personal God. Furthermore, it holds that man can be saved by himself. This salvation is said to be attained in so-called nirvana. But that’s a deceit.
Pagan idolatry worships animals as deities. But the First Commandment of the Decalogue forbids it: “You shall not make for yourself a carved image – any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth (sacred animals – cow, bull, snake, dragon…); you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.” (Deut 5:7-9) Pagans do not worship God but demons (cf. 1Cor 10:20).
Buddhists and Hindus say that all is god. This is the heresy of pantheism. Another nonsense is that all is one and their belief in this nonsense means redemption. This results in the loss of common sense and of discernment between good and evil, truth and falsehood, justice and injustice. Their theory is the basis for the contemporary autogenocidal gender ideology which believes in the same nonsense that all is one: a man can be a woman or vice versa, two homosexuals can be called parents… The gravest crimes against children – when children are stolen from their loving parents, shunted between pseudo families of paedophiles or homosexuals and abused by them, or even sold for organs – are hypocritically termed “rights of children”. Normal existence of a family is considered to be discrimination against homosexuals. This is the devilish policy of Buddhism, Satanism and modern ideologies with the same spirit. The blame for the spread of this ideology on the Christian territory falls on the Church hierarchy, both Catholic and Orthodox, which promotes an interreligious dialogue and organizes so-called peace prayers in Assisi and Astana.
What does redemption mean to a Christian? Jesus delivered us from sin and demonic powers: “God has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.” (Col 1:13-14) So it is God who has delivered (redeemed) us, and not the false way of Zen Buddhist meditations. In Him – that means in Christ – we have redemption and forgiveness of sins, and in no one or nothing else! Nirvana is a demonic deceit. Behind the false enlightenment in Buddhism and the modern New Age movement is the angel of light – Lucifer – the devil. “Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit (Buddhism), according to the tradition of men.” (Col 2:8)
The theory of reincarnation denies the fundamental truths of Christianity (personal God, Jesus as the Redeemer, immortal soul, heaven, hell, sin). Reincarnation is a tragic deceit. What is in store for us after death is either heaven or eternal suffering in hell.
There is a close bond between the spread of Oriental paganism (Buddhism) and the current explosion of occultism. It is impossible to draw a parallel between Buddhist mantras and the Christian prayer as mantras open the soul to demons. The essence of the Christian prayer is communion with Christ. In Buddhism, by contrast, the meditating person unites to demons. This way leads to eternal perdition.
Christian missionaries on Buddhist territories fearlessly preached the true faith and salvation in Christ and were cruelly tortured and killed. So they established no Buddhist-Orthodox Councils instead of mission!
Buddhist antimission
Buddhism is invading the territory of the former Christian world through martial arts. Martial arts are tied up with Buddhist meditation. Meditation helps the warrior interact with spiritual energies – demonic entities.
Martial arts, such as judo, aikido and others, stem from Zen. Meditation trainees try to solve absurd riddles – koans. Their purpose is to deprive man of mind and conscience – God’s voice in us. The whole system is based on demonic pride and lie which abuses the corrupt human nature and feeds the negative in us – original sin. Through meditations the soul unites with this “serpent power” – sin in us.
Acupuncture, acupressure and Chinese massages stem from the teaching about so-called positive and negative energies, yin and yang and so-called meridians. All this is irrationality connected with demonic spirituality.
A Buddhist rose from the dead
In 1998 a Buddhist monk, who belonged to the Burmese ethnic majority, died. In the moment when his dead body was about to be cremated, the monk suddenly sat up and started to shout: “Everything is a lie! Everything is a lie! We were telling lies! I saw our forefathers, they are burning, they are tormented in the lake of fire! I saw Buddha and all renowned Buddhist teachers there! They were all in the lake of fire!” The resurrected man continued urging the people that they should believe in Jesus Christ because He is the only and true God. The monk was soon reduced to silence and disappeared. The state bodies are seeking to destroy the tape recording with his testimony. (Taken from foreign sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyTFtSl0IoI)
Christianity and Buddhism are irreconcilable. The Apostle calls: “What accord has Christ with Belial? And what communion has light with darkness?” Sin and virtue is not one, and condemnation and salvation is not one either. Christians are not called to betray Christ but they have the responsibility to call pagans to salvation even at the cost of martyrdom.
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