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Old 01-01-2007, 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by kerry edwards View Post
Christians typically believe that sin is putting self in place of God. Putting God in place of self leads to true happiness. Seems an awful lot like Buddhist no-self to me. Living an egoless life = living for God?
That's a new one on me. My goodness, the bible (OT in particular) is all about ego and self. Other than that, I'll concede your point, if one can consider god a greater good, rather than a greater individual (which again, denotes ego and self).
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