It would have been very hard for me to accept the thought that the “infinite love” and “omnipotent benevolence” of the Christian God would ultimately prove immeasurably less generous or effectual than the “great compassion” and “expedient means” of the numberless, indefatigably merciful bodhisattvas populating the Mahayana religious imagination.
Ugh, this chapter is exhausting! God’s infinite love was demonstrated in that He sent His infinite son to pay the penalty demanded of an injustice committed against an infinite God. You as a finite being would have to die an infinite number of times to pay that penalty. He an infinite being only has to die once to pay that same price. What does Buddhism offer that matches that infinite love and infinite mercy?
