Isn't the self an illusion anyway?
If there is no one there, there is no one to suffer, to practise, to be freed or to be loved. The Bible says you are real, made by God and known by name.
The Buddha taught that none of the five parts of a person is self. But the whole path still speaks to someone who must walk it. The Bible's view is that persons are real because God is personal, and that your life matters to him in every detail.
“Mendicants, form is not-self.
Samyutta Nikaya 22.59:2.1, The Characteristic of Not-Self (tr. Bhikkhu Sujato) · context
13For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. 15My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth. 16Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.
Psalms 139:13-16 (WEB) · context
1But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.
Isaiah 43:1 (WEB) · context
Reason 3: You are not an illusion. You are someone God made and knows by name.