I read about Buddha that he already said he was
not the one and that the one is higher than him that is coming.
That's where Jesus came. There's a loophole here.
Jesus claimed to be God; Buddha claimed that there was no God as
we understand him. Jesus healed people in front of witnesses;
Buddha died of exposure, unable to heal even himself. Jesus worked
miracles and fed multitudes; Buddha denied himself and starved his
own body.
I'd rather follow a God that loved even though he was rejected
and despised, fed the people, comforted them and healed rather
than one that isolated and denied and withered. Jesus was full
of confidence and in control in every situation to top it
off.
I am quite sure Buddha believed in himself. It did not help him
much. Whereas Jesus's corpse could not be found, he rose from
the dead. The actual evidence of the tomb where Jesus was buried
and is now empty is still present.
I think you are confusing Buddha with John the Baptist here.
Buddha is regarded as the Supreme Enlightened One and taught about
the liberation of self, while John the Baptist is the one saying
that someone higher than him was coming, one whom he was not fit
even to tie the sandals of.
In the Bible, Jesus never outright claimed to be God. Jesus
often claimed or implied that he was the Son of God, it was human
philosophers who came up with the Trinity (also not ever mentioned
in the Bible). Jesus may being healing the people through the body,
but it can also be said that Buddha heals the mind, which is what
is important in Buddhism. And note that Jesus was the one that died
at the age of 33, dying of his wounds anyway. Jesus did too denied
himself and starved his own body, at the time of meditation where
he was supposedly tempted by the devil himself.
I am also quite sure that Jesus believed in himself too, yet he
ended up being betrayed by Judas, banished by the people whom he
tried to heal and save, suffered under the hands of his enemy and
died of his wounds. Whatever you mean by not helping, you were
extremely vague at this point. You should also know that the
historical records of that time said that the disciples supposedly
stole the body away and tried to spread to the public that Jesus
has resurrected.
And I understand that you are comparing with Buddhism because
that was what I mentioned earlier, but there probably are other
religions out there with similar stories such as in the New
Testament. And from my criticism of Pascal's Wager to Badzmaro in a
previous post, when you do choose a religion, you should choose a
religion with the strictest of God(s), since the one that loves you
anyway would forgive you even if you did choose a wrong religion,
wouldn't he/she?