World Religions · Foundational
Jainism
Jainism teaches that every soul must free itself from karma through vows, nonviolence, and austerity, with no Creator to help it, while the Gospel declares that God sent His Son to bear what no one could shed, and gives eternal life to whosoever will come.
The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.
What you'll learn
1
Who Mahavira and the Tirthankaras are, and how Digambara and Svetambara Jains differ
2
What Jains teach about the soul, karma as a substance, nonviolence, the vows, and liberation
3
Why no discipline can remove sin, and what Christ's finished work has done instead
4
How to share the Gospel with a Jain friend, including which words to define and what a family may lose
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