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To: Craig Richards who wrote (23802)	7/21/1998 11:19:00 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	of 108807

"Emile, Many people believe in Buddhism all their life but do not attain the true teachings. The same can be said for Christianity. " In Christianity, all who truly believe in Jesus as their Lord and Saviour receive Eternal Life---the life of God . Christianity is not a complex system of meditation that attains through accomplishment and achievment. Through simple faith in the Crucified and Resurrected Jesus, Christians are Born Again as children of God and receive the Holy Spirit of God. Through this simple faith God writes his laws on our hearts and puts them in our minds. This is all received through a simple faith in Jesus. There is no long processs of effort and step by step elimination of desires but rather an instant recreation of the fallen and sinful human spirit. After a Christian is Born Again, there begins a struggle and a war between his newly recreated spirit and the sinful desires of the flesh. The spirit of God withing us desires the heavenly things of God but our bodily temple of clay desires the things of this world. Our recreated spirit and the Spirit of God living in us overcome the desires of the flesh. Buddhism is a religion that strives through achievment and accomplishment to attain to a state without desire. This state of no desire is perfection and called Nirvana. This state of eliminating desire or sin is unachievable through the efforts of man because man is by nature innately fallen and innately sinful. No system of meditation or achievement can restore man to a sinless nature. Only an act of God can restore man to perfection as the sons of God. This is why God sent His only Begotten Son to die for the sins or imperfection of mankind. He restores our state of spiritual perfection through an act of love.

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