The light of the world : a brief comparative study of Christianity and non-Christian religions . en ; the possibility of redemption without a vicariousredeemer; a salvation at which every one is his ownsaviour, and which can be attained in this life and onthis earth by the exercise of ones own faculties withoutprayers, sacrifices, penances, and ceremonies, withoutordained priests, without the mediation of saints, andwithout divine grace. But there are more differences than these. SirMonier Williams draws out the list in his lastlecture on Buddhism:— According to Christianity : Fight and overco
The light of the world : a brief comparative study of Christianity and non-Christian religions . en ; the possibility of redemption without a vicariousredeemer; a salvation at which every one is his ownsaviour, and which can be attained in this life and onthis earth by the exercise of ones own faculties withoutprayers, sacrifices, penances, and ceremonies, withoutordained priests, without the mediation of saints, andwithout divine grace. But there are more differences than these. SirMonier Williams draws out the list in his lastlecture on Buddhism:— According to Christianity : Fight and overcome theworld. According to Buddhism : Shun the world, and with-draw from it. According to Christianity: Expect a new earth whenthe present earth is destroyed; a world renewed andperfected ; a purified world in which righteousness is todwell forever. According to Buddhism : Expect a never-ending suc-cession of evil worlds forever coming into existence,developing, decaying, perishing, and reviving, and allequally full of everlasting misery, disappointment, illu-sion, change and BUDDHISM 111 According to Christianity, bodily existence is subjectto only one transformation. According to Buddhism, bodily existence is contin-ued in six conditions, through countless bodies of men,animals, demons, ghosts, and dwellers in various hellsand heavens; and that, too, without any progressivedevelopment, but in a constant jumble of metamor-phoses and transmutations. Christianity teaches that a life in heaven can neverbe followed by a fall to a lower state. Buddhism teaches that a life in a higher heaven maybe succeeded by a life in a lower heaven, or even by alife on earth or in one of the hells. According to Christianity, the body of man may bethe abode of the Holy Spirit of God. According to Buddhism, the body, whether of men orof higher beings, can never be the abode of anything butevil. According to Christianity: Present your bodies asliving sacrifices, holy, acceptable to
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