Perspective On Salvation

The Perspective of Salvation throughout the World Religions Growing up in a Baptist home, weekly service was common. As a young child, the practice of going to church seemed to be just something that you did to go give thanks for what you had, pay your respects to God, to confess your sins and pray for things that you needed or wanted. As a teenager, I had no desire to continue the weekly trips to church. Once I turned 18 and moved out of my grandparents’ home I did not attend weekly service as I did when I was a kid growing up. Throughout my adult life, I traveled and met many people with different cultures and religions from around the world. Speaking and interacting with them it was interesting to hear about their religious beliefs, primarily on how they felt about their outlook on Salvation. …show more content…
The Fourth Pillar is Fasting – fasting throughout the month of Ramadan. The Fifth Pillar is Hajj - the pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime, if one is physically and financially able to afford it. By performing these works, a Muslim hopes that on judgment day the recorded good deeds will exceed the bad ones, thus being granted salvation by Allah. Although the following religions may have different methods in achieving the ultimate goal of salvation. Buddhism has the Eightfold Path to liberation (Fisher, 2014, pp. 145-146), Hinduism has the sixteen rites (Fisher, 2014, pp. 95-96) and Jainism has the Ethical Pillars (Fisher, 2014, pp. 123-128). The religions of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, are very similar in their perspective of achieving salvation. They believe that we are reborn again and again until we finally free ourselves from samsara, the wheel of birth and death. That through our good deeds and efforts can we achieve good Karma, thus allowing us to gain enlightenment and move thru the gradual process of freeing our