The Ten Commandments Of Christianity

Bill is a 34-year-old White male from Wichita, Kansas. He is an accountant that is currently engaged to Sue. Bill is a member of the Westboro Baptist Church is hates gays and the Jewish population. Additionally, this church protest the funerals of dead soldiers and victims of other crimes because they believe that God is the reason for their death because of America’s support for homosexuals (God Hates Fags, 2016). The Westboro Baptist Church is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (Southern Poverty Law Center, 2016). Hate groups have been on the rise since 2000 because of the growing demographics or other racial groups and their progress in society (PBS, 2016).

Hindus believe in an eternal soul that carries on after death, known as an atman. Buddhist believe in a finite self, with no eternal soul lasting beyond the grave, known as an anatman.

Suffering is one of the mysteries of human existence. Redemptive suffering, suffering willingly offered up, can be of tremendous use; but the natural human reaction to suffering is not willing acceptance. On the contrary, the natural reaction is to avoid it as much as

The next core belief is that they do not believe that there is a soul or self. They believe that our sense of self is an illusion and is constantly changing. Buddhism has branched into many different versions throughout the world to account for the differing cultural backgrounds of its followers.

Another religion in which the Ten Commandments is abided by is Protestant Christian. The Protestant Christians in this category consist of Greek, Anglican, and Reformed Christians. The Christians decided to validate which of the 613 mitvots were necessary to abide by. They came to the conclusion that out of all of the mitvots, the Ten Commandments were the only ones of importance. The Jews accused the Christians of just picking whichever laws they wanted to abide by (Smith, 2). The Protestant Ten Commandments is very similar to the Jewish version. They have the same commandments however slightly differ in the way they are worded. The first four commandments relate to god whereas the last six relate to humans.

The Four Noble Truths, as stated in The Dhammapada, are suffering, the

"The Noble Truth of Suffering (dukkha) is this: birth (jati) is suffering, aging is suffering..., death is suffering, association with the unpleasant is suffering, dissociation from the pleasant is suffering, not to receive what one desires is suffering—in brief the five aggregates subject to grasping are suffering."

The Nature of Suffering (Dukkha) from a Chinese Buddhist Canon Text describes all life as suffering. (Document 6). To achieve Nirvana, one must follow the Eightfold Path. This consists of adopting the Right Understanding, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration. In Zong Mi’s “On the Nature of Man” he says Buddha “encourage[s] the perfection of good deeds, punish[es] wicked ones, and reward[s] good ones”.

2. Sufferings do exist, what the Buddha taught was to face the pain directly and figure out the causes.

Every day people are put through unfortunate circumstances. Every day people suffer. It is something that nobody has control over. Some people embrace suffering and learn from it while others simply get lost in it. Others let it take over their lives. But what is suffering? It is important to recognize what suffering is to be able to cope with it and to learn something beneficial from it. A general definition of suffering would be a feeling of pain due to the loss of something physical. It can also go deeper. There are many people that suffer due to insults that can be emotionally draining to deal with or that are undermining to a person. It is important to not let suffering overtake your life but rather use it to learn something new and benefit from.

Hinduism believes that realizing the soul is the embodiment of Brahman is essential to being released from the cycle of rebirth, Samsara. Hindus understand that the soul, atman, is permanent and only inhabits a physical shell which dies and passes the soul on to the next mortal shell, which can be better or worse than the previous depending on karma. With that said, Hindus believe in rebirth until one realizes the ultimate divine at which point they would be free from the punarjanma, the transmigration of the soul, liberating their souls to achieve moksha. Buddhism, on the other hand, challenges Atman with the belief in Anatman, which is non-self. Buddhists believe that the world is constantly changing, nullifying the concept of the permanent soul, Atman. There is no reason the soul remains unchanged in a perpetually changing environment.

Also unlike Hinduism, Buddhists believe in anatta or anatman, which translates to “no self”. Buddhists believe that reality is a matrix of interdependent processes, and so impermanent. Introduced in Buddhism are the four noble truths. These truths state that first, every life entails suffering. Secondly, suffering has a cause.

God gave Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai to serve as principles of moral behavior for the human race. These are mentioned twice in Torah (Exodus and Deuteronomy). These Commandments are also being followed and Practiced in Christianity. The Ten Commandments are following: 1. I am the God your Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of Bondage.

My opinion the ten commandment was to display us how negligent we are and how severely in need of a savior we are. The Ten Commandments were never given as a set of guidelines to live by. They were given to show us our utter failure in the eyes of God. I think people do in general have the correct perception of the original purpose of the Ten Commandments as a covenant. There is a pattern to the covenant found in the bible. People been using the Ten Commandment to identify to people what they shouldn’t do.

The First Noble Truth of Buddhism is also referred to as the truth about suffering or dukkha, which posits that suffering, comes in various forms such as pain, desire and or deaths. However, the three types of sufferings coincide with the ones the Buddha witnesses on his journey outside his palace: they were sickness, old age, and death (Hardy, 2005; Young, 2013). Buddha argued that human beings are exposed to cravings and desires and even if they are able to satisfy these particular desires that satisfaction is merely temporary. In that case, pleasure is ephemeral and whenever it lasts it results into monotony (Velasquez, 2011; Besser-Jones & Slote, 2015).