Posts from October 2010

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A fundamental difference between Buddhism and Christianity

by Joel Radford

We’ve been looking at the difference between Christianity and other major religions – particularly their teaching about how to get to heaven. Today we look at Buddhism. The founder of Buddhism was Sidhartha Gautama (c.566-486 BC) who was born a Hindu in India. As an adult, Gautama was convinced of the inevitability of suffering and […]

A fundamental difference between Hinduism and Christianity

by Joel Radford

We’ve been looking at the difference between Christianity and other major religions – particularly their teaching about how to get to heaven. Now we will look at Hinduism. Hinduism is a family of various religious ideas that have evolved over the past four thousand years. Thus Hinduism today is not what Hinduism has been in […]

A fundamental difference between Roman Catholicism and Christianity

by Joel Radford

We’ve been looking at the difference between Christianity and other major religions – particularly their teaching about how to get to heaven. Today we will look at Roman Catholicism. Roman Catholicism shares many similar doctrines with Protestant Christianity. For example the deity of Christ, the virgin birth and Jesus’ resurrection. But sadly there is no […]

A fundamental difference between Islam and Christianity

by Joel Radford

For the last two weeks we’ve been looking at the difference between Christianity and other major religions – particularly their teaching about how to get to heaven. Today we will look at Islam. Islam is a religion that began with the prophet Muhammad (570-632AD). Muhammad is believed to have received a collection of revelations from […]

A fundamental difference between Christian Science and Christianity

by Joel Radford

For the last two weeks we’ve been looking at the difference between Christianity and other major religions – particularly their teaching about how to get to heaven. Today we will look at Christian Science which has a number of churches here in Sydney. Christian Science is a religion started by Mary Baker Eddy in the […]