Question

In Buddhist tradition there is no god, so can we view the Dhamma in the sense of a god?

Answer

Take the Bible, Jewish or Christian's, and every time the word God is written, see if you can change it into the word Dhamma or Kamma, and you going to find virtually every single time you can do that, it's very interesting. It is something that is bigger than us. As to an individual being that has a long beard and white hair or whatever, you know, maybe it's not that sort of thing. But there is definitely something bigger than us, we call it the Dhamma, we call it the Law of Kamma, some people want to call it a god.

Buddhism actually says there is a lot of gods in the heaven realms, but not a single one universal god that creates everything. Yet interestingly enough, if you take the Bible and you try that with the words Kamma or Dhamma, you going to find that almost everything in there can actually be written that way.

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