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Originally posted by DBT9 ↑

This is in contrast to Christianity, for example, which teaches salvation through faith or the grace of god or predestination, depending on which verses you read.

Hence Buddhism is more a philosophy of mind than Christianity, by the given definitions.

Looking forward to seeing how you twist and distort this to suit your assumptions.

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Buddha taught "faith" is the 1st spiritual faculty & 1st spiritual power

(the 5 powers are faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration & wisdom)

thus, when you assert Christianity teaches salvation through faith, so does Buddhism

Buddha taught:

Now what is the faculty of conviction (faith)? There is the case where a monk, a disciple of the noble ones, has conviction, is convinced of the Tathagata's Awakening: 'Indeed, the Blessed One is worthy and rightly self-awakened, consummate in knowledge & conduct, well-gone, an expert with regard to the world, unexcelled as a trainer for those people fit to be tamed, the Teacher of divine & human beings, awakened, blessed.' This is called the faculty of conviction (faith).

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn48/sn48.010.than.html

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Monks, there are four best kinds of faith. What four?

Monks, among all living beings—be they footless or two-footed, with four feet or many feet, with form or formless, percipient, non-percipient or neither-percipient-nor-non-percipient —the Tathāgata, the Arahant, the Fully Enlightened One, is reckoned the best of them all. Those who have faith in the Buddha have faith in the best; and for those who have faith in the best, the best result will be theirs.

Monks, among all things conditioned, the Noble Eightfold Path is reckoned to be the best of them all. Those who have faith in the Noble Eightfold Path have faith in the best; and for those who have faith in the best, the best result will be theirs.

Monks, among things conditioned and unconditioned, dispassion is reckoned to be the best of them all: the crushing of all infatuation, the removal of thirst, the uprooting of attachment, the cutting off of the round (of rebirth), the destruction of craving, dispassion, Nibbāna. Those who have faith in the Dhamma of dispassion have faith in the best; and for those who have faith in the best, the best result will be theirs.

Monks, among all (religious) orders or communities, the Sangha of the Tathāgata’s disciples is reckoned to be the best, that it to say, the four pairs of noble persons, the eight noble individuals; this Sangha of the Blessed One’s disciples is worthy of gifts, worthy of hospitality, worthy of offerings, worthy of reverential salutation, an unsurpassed field of merit for the world. Those who have faith in the Sangha have faith in the best; and for those who have faith in the best, the best result will be theirs.

These, O monks, are the four best kinds of faith.

http://www.bps.lk/olib/wh/wh155-u.html#S48

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