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Didn't the Buddha say: test everything for yourself?

In the Kalama Sutta he told people not to go by tradition alone but to know for themselves. Good: apply that test to Jesus, who invited it, and to the resurrection.

The Kalama Sutta is often quoted as a charter of free inquiry, though in context it goes on to commend the Buddha's own teaching. Christians also believe in testing: Paul says to test everything and hold fast to what is good. The central Christian claim is public and testable: Jesus died and rose, and the witnesses could be questioned.

Please, Kālāmas, don’t go by oral transmission, don’t go by lineage, don’t go by testament, don’t go by canonical authority, don’t rely on logic, don’t rely on inference, don’t go by reasoned train of thought, don’t go by the acceptance of a view after deliberation, don’t go by the appearance of competence, and don’t think ‘The ascetic is our respected teacher.’ But when you know for yourselves: ‘These things are unskillful, blameworthy, criticized by sensible people, and when you undertake them, they lead to harm and suffering’, then you should give them up.

Anguttara Nikaya 3.65:4.1-4.3, With the Kālāmas of Kesamutta (tr. Bhikkhu Sujato) · context

21Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 (WEB) · context

3For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep. 7Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

1 Corinthians 15:3-8 (WEB) · context

26For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.

Acts 26:26 (WEB) · context

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