Milestone One PHL230
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Milestone One: Concept Paper and Annotated Bibliography
Shanon McGrew
PHL-230-H7626
Instructor Dale Larder
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I am looking at Buddhism and Christianity for this paper. We will see how we can compare
these two religions and what are the main differences between the two. They both have beliefs and rituals that are worshipped and accepted by its believers. It is normal to want to know the answer to certain questions like is there even a purpose to live and what is the purpose of life? We see more than four thousand different beliefs in the world. Christianity is many different views in one. We see that some Christians believe in the Holy Trinity. Trinity is where you believe in God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy spirit. You have Christians that only believe in Jesus Christ and God. “The purpose of life is simple it is to live life, serve God, find happiness, find love, and to live to find wealth” (Christianity.com, 2019). Christians believe in helping one another, serving God, and fellowship.” Fellowship is all Christians live there life together not matter the race or background in worship, educational activities, helping others, and just having good clean fun” (What is Christianity? 2019). If you devote yourself to God and serve him everything else will fall line for you including love, wealth, and happiness. “The faith tradition that focuses on the figure of Jesus Christ and has generated its own culture, set of ideas, ways of life, practices, and artifacts that has been handed down from generation to generation” Britannica, 2020).
Buddhism has existed for more than two thousand years and originated in India. Buddhist
have over “three hundred seventy-six million followers worldwide was recorded in 2019 and has only grown larger” (BBC, 2019). “Buddhists seek the path to enlightenment through physical and spiritual discipline” (MIndEdge, 2022). They have Four Noble Truths that they follow. The Four Noble Truths explain life is full of suffering and you live life to try and end the suffering. You have the Truth of Suffering, which is referred to as Dukkha, Truth of the origin of suffering, which is known as Samudaya, Truth of the cessation of suffering, which is known as Nirodha,
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Truth to the path of cessation of suffering, which is known as Magga. The Four Noble Truths help explain the religious views of life and what they also believe to be the meaning of life as well. Teaching about suffering and loss Buddhists are able to understand that life strives to end suffering and encourage people to reach their goals in life and what truly brings them happiness and peace. References:
MindEdge. (2022). Parts 3.09, 3.13. In PHL 230: Religions of the World. MindEdge, Inc.
Retrieved from https://snhu.mindedgeonline.com/content.php?cid=169785
Wijaya, P. (2019). What is the true meaning of life? Christianity.com. Retrieved from https://www.christianity.com/wiki/christian-life/what-is-the-true-meaning-of-life-finding-your-
purpose-in-life.html
Annotated Bibliography Aich T. K. (2013). Buddha philosophy and western psychology. Indian journal of psychiatry, 55(Suppl 2), S165–S170. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christianity
This Britannica article goes in-depth about the history of the Christian religion and how Christianity originated. This article about Christianity not only details the start of Christianity, but it also talks about how Jesus became a key symbol to
the Christian Religion and also explains the Christian viewpoint on the meaning and purpose of life.
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BBC News. (2019). Buddhism at a Glance. British Broadcasting Company. Retrieved from https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/ataglance/glance.shtml
In this online article by the British Broadcasting company, the author of this article goes into detail about Buddhism and the beliefs that Buddhists have. This article also briefly identifies the four noble truths of Buddhism and why the four noble truths of Buddhism is important to the Buddhist religion.
Hedrick, C. (2018). What is Christianity? Rutgers University Library. Retrieved from https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/25605/PDF/1/play/
In this scholarly journal, author Charles Hedrick tries to explain the purpose of life for Christianity by using quotes and verses from the bible to support his claims. In this article, Charles not only tries to explain the purpose behind a Christians life by analyzing bible verses, but the author also details other aspects of the Christian life such as the Concept Paper: Buddhism and Christianity 6 Christian purpose to serve the Lord and to live their lives to worship God and to be kind to others. MindEdge Online. (2022). Religions of the World. Retrieved from https://snhu.mindedgeonline.com/content.php?cid=169785
This textbook chapter on Buddhism describes key history facts about the Buddhist religion and it also details the key beliefs of Buddhism - including an explanation of the four noble truths of Buddhism and why the four noble truths really exist. This chapter also talks more in-depth about what Buddhism is and how the religion came to be.