Steve_F

Just a quick question that hopefully someone can help me with.

An oft cited point put to believers is how do you know your particular brand of religion is the correct one. Christians can respond with:

"Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist."

etc etc.

What are the comparable statements from other faiths?

Adora

Look at it this way: You can't read two lines of the Qu'ran without encountering the word "unbeliever" somewhere in them. Chapter 17 is called the "Children of Israel" and has some interesting quotes... Uthman also had some issues with powerful desert tribes trying to take the empire, so there's lots of references to tribal divisions and "False Muslim Arabs in the desert" and such. Also, there's large portions of the text devoted to explaining the inclusion of the other Abrahamic religions (well, major ones at least) into the Islamic faith, but at the same time a lot of phrases decrying the divine conception of Jesus. I'd find the exact phrases if I could be bothered, but I think my computer is about to blow up honestly (sorry).

jafosei

Based on my reading, Buddhists wouldn't have any comparable statements. Buddha himself advised his listeners to question everything, even the Buddha's own teachings (for instance, the Kalama Sutta).

Asoka (Buddhist emperor in 3rd Century BCE India) publicly decreed "Whoever praises his own religion due to excessive devotion and condemns others with the thought "Let me glorify my own religion" only harms his own religion. Therefore, contact [between religions] is good. One should listen to and respect the doctrines professed by others." (Asoka's Edicts).

That's one of the things I like about Buddhists (in general): they don't claim to be the only way to truth, and they don't have a problem with people believing differently than them.

Then again, there are those who consider Buddhism to be more of a philosophy than a religion, so perhaps it doesn't count towards your original question.