f89347 No.827441
Hindu here. Anyone interested in a debate? Why is Abrahamic religions so hell-bent on insisting that only their methods of worship is valid and other methods ought to be destroyed?
If God is one, then why not let others worship god like how they want to and and learn to live and let live?
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04b3bb No.827442
>>827441
Pic related. It shows Krishna revealing to Arjuna that all gods that were worshipped separately were actually the same being and one and the same.
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066fe9 No.827443
>>827441
>Hindu here. Anyone interested in a debate? Why is Abrahamic religions so hell-bent on insisting that only their methods of worship is valid and other methods ought to be destroyed?
Christians aren't Mughals or other conquerors. Just because both Muslims and Christians are Abrahamic doesn't mean they're alike. Christians are followers of Jesus, and he said, "My kingdom is not of this world." Muslims, otoh, are obsessed with remaking the world with jihad and grabbing temporal power. If anything, the story of Christianity in India started off as periousl. One of Jesus' own disciples (Thomas) apparently made his way to India and eventually was killed there (strangely, I guess his burial site is now even sacred to Hindus and not just Christians.. so I thank you all for that :) ).
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066fe9 No.827444
Correction: Not the burial site, but the place where he was purportedly killed.
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7cd17f No.827446
>>827444
>>827443
Why then is India one of the hardest countries to be a christian?
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61b2b4 No.827447
>>827441
it's will be easier to understand if you look it in the view of sociology instead religion view .
Abrahamic religions are base on Pastoralism and trader . they need a god who live everywhere because they must move to next area often . and worship another god mean betray your own tribe
Hindu and another was create base on agriculture civilization . they don't need to move into new Areas. They don't need god who live in everywhere . they need gods base on locals culture
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066fe9 No.827448
>>827446
That I can't answer. I'd like to know the experience myself. I ran across a number of Christian population in India not long ago. It surprised me: 28 million! That's bigger than any other Asian country..even ones typically associated with a strong Christian population (Korea).
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9ab448 No.827449
>>827443
Sure. Christians aren't as rabid add Muslims when it comes to proselytising but it doesn't change the fact they hate Hindus and other pagans too.
One of the most popular saints in Hinduism, Sai Ram was a Muslim fakir. But Hindus have accepted him and worship him as avatar of a God.
In works of Vivekananda he praised Christ and considers him to be a true yogi and avatar whose message about universal brotherhood and love was corrupted by his followers later.
If you come to India you can see many of these buses and rickshaws worshipping Christian and Muslim gods along with Hindu gods(like pic related).
The point is you see lots of Hindus venerating non hindu gods and saints but you never see the same in the reverse direction, I've never seen a Hindu god or saint being venerated by a Christian. In fact it looks like they hate us as much as Muslims do, only the hate is subtle. I attended a catholic school and I remember the school punishing Hindu children for celebrating Hindu festivals, distributing anti-hindu pamphlets that depict hindu gods as demons, fear mongering people saying that only Christ can save and anyone who doesn't is doomed for eternal damnation, etc…
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9ab448 No.827451
>>827446
Wrong. Just recently India made a law which gave easy citizenship status for Christians from neighbouring states that face persecution from Muslim theocrats.
If you kept up with the news paid anti hindu media only talks about hindus being given easy citizenship but the truth is it gives all minorities from neighbouring regions citizenship, not just hindus.
There are lots of tensions between Hindus and Christians because of evangelism, not because they have a problem with Christians worshipping some other god.
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066fe9 No.827453
>>827449
>Sure. Christians aren't as rabid add Muslims when it comes to proselytising but it doesn't change the fact they hate Hindus and other pagans too.
We don't hate you. We think only one name will help, when we end this life. We want you to know that name, before it's too late: Christ. Just because we say this doesn't mean it's done out of hate. From my perspective, it's more like giving road directions. Perhaps it's unsolicited and you don't want the directions. So be it. You can tell us to leave and we will.
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013b26 No.827454
>>827453
>>827453
Why only one name that can save?
If God is one and God is all powerful, he can have any form or name too. He can be anything you imagine. He can also be a she, or both.Simultaneously, even. Maybe He was always a She. Could also be cow, or monkey, or both. Can be rat, even. That is if God is all-Powerful. By denying that god cant take form and have any other name is denying that God is omnipotent.
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066fe9 No.827459
>>827454
>Why only one name that can save?
Because Christ and his Apostles said so. You got a problem with that, take it up with them. I simply don't have the gall to.
"God is One" doesn't mean God is All. God is not part of any of us or anything else.
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6dd8a6 No.827522
Hi Hinduanon, thanks for visiting. I’ll do my best to answer your question.
First, I’d like to point out that we agree there is a higher power above human beings.
Because there is a higher power, we must understand that the world does not exist for our pleasure or convenience, but for the pleasure or convenience of the higher power who created it.
Truth is often inconvenient. In a convenient world, there wouldn’t be death, plague, war et all. These things are inconvenient for humans because existence is not meant for the pleasure of humans.
The mentality/idea that “oh everyone is equally right about God with there religion, we all have our paths to paradise” is one that could only work in an existence based on human convienece. It’s a convenient idea but it’s incomplete opposition to the cruel world we live in.
You have to think of existence like a movie, book, or video game. Most of movies books and video games have violence, death, sufferings. This is not convenient for the characters experiencing it. But these characters only exist for the pleasure of the creator and the story he wants to create.
Similarly, we exist only to please our creator (God) and to be a part of his grand story.
If the creator, God, telling is to worship only him is inconvenient for us, it does not matter. We exist to please him.
And tbh if I created a universe, and my creations went around worshipping goofy little statues or demons that told me to go f myself, I’d be really pissed off.
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6b28c8 No.827528
>>827441
>If God is one and God is all powerful, he can have any form or name too. He can be anything you imagine.
If God could be anything, wouldn't it also be possible for him to become the God of a global religion that wishes to end all other religions and differing interpretations of him?
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8bdffe No.828017
>>827459
>Because Christ and his Apostles said so
Yes, Hinduanon, this is what it comes down to for Christians: the reliability of Jesus' and his followers' words as described in the new testament.
We have no way of knowing the extent to which Hinduism, in terms of the stories with Krishna in the Gita etc, are based on historical fact, so long ago are the events described they're more like myth or lore. You have no way to evidence they actually happened in history and are not just made up or allegorical (and therefore no way to discern if Hinduism us based on truth or falsehood).
Similarly, yogis or gurus say Jesus teaching was corrupted by his followers? Where is the evidence? There is none.
Muslims say Jesus didn't die on the cross and a doppleganger was put in his place and the scriptures were corrupted again? Ok, provide the evidence. There is none.
By contrast, there is oodles of evidence that contributes to a very strong case that the Jesus we read about I'm the gospels was a real person in history who was who he said he was and did what he is described as doing and subject what he was subject too. No other religion has the same level of historicity backing it up.
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dbc624 No.828020
>>828017
Could you please provide or link me to some of these evidence?
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34107a No.828023
>>827441
I don't hate Hinduism, but the fact is that Abrahamism (specifically Christianity imo) has the best ethics.
Hinduism has a dumb caste system and used to burn widows until Catholics told them to just cut that s— out. Hindu metaphysics is incapable of producing an ethics that considers the individual. I'd argue the same for Buddhism, which I dislike even more than Hinduism due to its McMindfulness adoption in the west.
Do I think only Christians are saved? No. Do I think Hindu scriptures are interesting, worth reading, and contain truths? Yes. But you still s— in the streets, and think it's selfish to help poor people.
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bf4967 No.828028
>>828023
catholics used to burn "witches" and infidels, and modern hygiene was not introduced with christianity(the bible actually has Jesus discourage hygiene). The caste system could be compared with christian slavery and segregation.
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34107a No.828035
>>828028
Burning heretics and witches is not at all the same thing as saying, "Your husband died. Now you HAVE to die too."
Christian slavery and segregation? Dumb s— that Americans did or do doesn't count. American "Christianity" is not inherent to the faith and the overwhelming majority of Christian history takes place in Europe and MENA.
Burning heretics is because they committed a crime. In Hinduism, widows and low caste people don't commit any real crime. It's the Hindu perspective that voids human individuality that makes Hindus think that life doesn't matter and if a husband dies before the wife, the wife needs to die as well, and low caste people are born into misery because it's basically their own fault and by helping them you're egoistically clinging to maya.
There is nothing in Hinduism that affords basic human dignity. You treat cows better than you do humans and you s— in your holiest river.
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bf4967 No.828043
>>828035
>Burning heretics and witches is not at all the same thing as saying, "Your husband died. Now you HAVE to die too."
well witches didn't do s—. At least the widows are guilty of being widows.
>actions of christians don't count!
well that's convenient, so much for judging the fruits.
>In Hinduism, widows and low caste people don't commit any real crime
witchcraft and heresy aren't real crimes either. Hindus have as much reason to burn widows as you have over fake crimes and wrong thoughts.
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34107a No.828046
>>828043
There's nothing in this worth replying to.
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b748d9 No.828051
>>827441
Honestly, tell me, what is even the point of your religion if you consider it such a relative thing? If you are of the mind that not only you could be right, but that we could be right as well, and your doctrine/theology supports this, Hinduism must have very weak conviction in its own truth. And be that the case, it undermines its own system of morality.
Perhaps God may take many forms, but this is not in accordance with our scriptures. Our God inflicted terrible destruction upon his own people for worship of anything other than Himself (referred to in the Bible as "Idols"). This was probably the most commonly maligned sin in the Old Testament, practically all 49 OT books bring it up. It is the first among the Ten Commandments handed down to Moses: "I am the Lord your God and you shall have no others before me."
In Catholic and Orthodox doctrine, it follows from this that receiving the sacrements handed down to us by Christ and his Apostles are absolutely necessary for salvation and without at the very least Baptism, you are guaranteed damnation. There is no room for interpretation on what the sacrements are or how other religions may practice them. God in the Old Testament struck down His followers for improper worship; why should we believe that He, an all-powerful deity outside of time, would not hold to the same principles today? God is unchanging. Any worship outside of the church is simply worship of Satan.
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0ca9f1 No.828053
>>827441
>If God is one, then why not let others worship god like how they want to and and learn to live and let live?
You've got it backwards, friend. It is precisely because God is One that there cannot be "other ways" to worship him.
God reveals Himself to mankind. He does this not merely in an impersonal, generic way - He does not merely make it known that there is a "higher power" watching over mankind - but instead, He reveals himself personally, and specifically. He reveals to us, for one, that He exists as knowable Persons - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit reveal themselves to us. And through this personal revelation, we come to learn many concrete things about these Persons who are God - about how God created Mankind and all the rest of creation, what He intends for us, how He has interacted with us throughout history and today, and how we are to interact with Him. Human beings are not just random creatures, but rather, we are specifically made in the Image and Likeness of God - in particular, of God the Son.
We learn, as a result of this revelation, that God is One, and is the Only-Existing One, and that the purpose of all human life is to find Him, and live according to the nature He created us in. To live contrarily to God is not merely to have a "different method" of living - rather, that is a fundamental divergence in what it means to be a human being. Our Faith is not merely some vague, spiritualist attempt to reach towards the "higher power" - it is, rather, a direct, personal relationship with discrete Persons, who are known to us as they ARE, not by any proxy.
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fce09b No.828070
Because God incarnated and told us how to worship Him so there is no further need for guessing and nothing to be learned from other ways of worship because that would put in question Christ's divinity. So it is our duty to bring the news of God made flesh and save souls.
As to Jewry they dont care about saving others, and islam only cares about subjugation not soul saving.
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22fb57 No.828128
>>827441
>Live and let live
It's impossible for Christians to permit any of the following Hindu practices and call himself Christian:
>Suti (widow burning)
>Scheduled castes (untouchables)
>The caste system
>Polytheism
>Religious law
Basically you're worse than Buddhists and the Muslims are more civilized; at least in Sharia all people are theoretically equally subject to Sharia. But for you hypocrites, the Brahmin is not under the same law as the untouchable, and the widow must die on the bier of her husband. Thank God both Muslims and Christians have worked to contain your terrible, immoral, hypocritical cow-dung flinging religion to the subcontinent.
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aa19e1 No.830889
>>828017
>By contrast, there is oodles of evidence that contributes to a very strong case that the Jesus we read about I'm the gospels was a real person in history who was who he said he was and did what he is described as doing and subject what he was subject too. No other religion has the same level of historicity backing it up.
Stop making s— up.
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aa19e1 No.830891
>>827522
>we must understand that the world does not exist for our pleasure or convenience, but for the pleasure or convenience of the higher power who created it.
That's dismissing the possibility that the world was made with altruistic or mutually beneficial intent, or completely independent of any notion of pleasure or convenience.
>And tbh if I created a universe, and my creations went around worshipping goofy little statues or demons that told me to go f myself, I’d be really pissed off.
Yes, because the one omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient God is clearly not above the earthly feeling of being "pissed off" over the creation that he gave free will, exercising free will. How can you, a puny shortsighted human, lacking in imagination and prone to jumping to conclusions, dare to even begin imagining bearing your purpoted God's insight?
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53b065 No.830894
>>827441
>>827441
>Why is Abrahamic religions so hell-bent on insisting that only their methods of worship is valid and other methods ought to be destroyed?
The nature of truth is to discern the real from the illusory, the finite from the infinite, and most importantly the unholy from the Holy. You should be familiar with this concept, yes? Atma, Maya?
The nature of truth means that it is inherently exclusivist, not allowing any drop of deception, lies or falsehoods to enter into its power and contradict it.
Christ literally said that he is the Truth, the way, and the life, and no man cometh to the father but by Him. So as Christians we are obliged to do as he says, to the exclusion of everything that goes against him.
>If God is one, then why not let others worship god like how they want to and and learn to live and let live?
Authentic worship comes from God, is prescribed by God and is aimed at glorifying God. The parameters are set from above. Any worship that comes from man comes from below and is a form of idolatry and paganism (things Hinduism is rife with), man attempting to reach God by his own means and diverse rituals is futile, the religions of the world are psychically creating a "tower of babel".
God has his religion, his religion is expressed in the incarnation of his Son and what he preached.
What is there to argue? Either you hear the Word and respond accordingly, or you revert to pagan non-Christian rituals and an empty life.
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0d64af No.830896
My friends and I were in Bangaluru. One of them went out praying for people in a park across from a shrine. He prayed for a guy in a wheelchair. As he did, a college student walked up and my friend told him to pray with him. He did and everyone left except the student. My friend asked him what brought him over and he said he was at the temple across the street praying and felt like he should go over there. My friend told him the Bible says, "When Jesus is lifted up, he'll draw others in." The student wanted to hear more. He eventually gave his life to Jesus and knew death was a possibility especially since he was from a very devout Hindu area.
One day I was walking the streets and I saw a Mormon missionary. My friend chatted with him and confirmed their weird beliefs. He planted the seed of doubt in him when he mentioned Isaiah 43:10. That verse can't work with Mormonism.
Another time some friends and I were wondering and we were brought to a suicidal Muslim who believed more in Jesus than most other Muslims. We got to share with him.
Another story I'll tell, we were in another town. We were sitting at the base of a tree. An old guy walked over, he opened up the little shrine, grabbed a rag and began the wipe down all the idols. He told precious care to do this. It was meticulous. But it was sad. Those idols couldn't hear him, couldn't answer his prayers and didn't care for him. He put the rag away, sealed it back up and left. I wanted to cry.
These instances above lead me to believe there's a right way to worship God and a wrong way. God is drawing people in and drawing them away from other religions such as Hinduism which is a false religion and does not honor God, it worships idols.
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a45cc3 No.830914
>>830891
if you are also a puny, shortsighted human, how do you know any better?
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aa19e1 No.830915
>>830914
I'm not the one claiming to be able to relate to what a purpoted supreme being feels like.
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c0de4b No.830922
>so hell-bent on insisting that only their methods of worship is valid and other methods ought to be destroyed?
because that type of behavior gives you toilets for your civilization :^)
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a45cc3 No.830952
>>830915
You claim to know that it's not what that guy says it is.
We claim to know because the supreme being deigned to give us direct instructions. What do you have besides "nuh uh?"
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6c1674 No.830962
>>830889
none of that is made up
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483ee7 No.830968
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dc4783 No.830970
There need not be a man to tell you that you can see yourself the ultimate form of light and love is creation, and in all moments you are walking through that creation on the turtle, the Brahman, the earth, and all things here are electromagnetism, the energy we all felt at chi, and was told was magic, but it's not magic, it's all things that be, and the greater concept cannot come through a microscope but only from within
Let no man sheathe over your eyes the darkness that divides you from the avatars you know to trust
The Messiah, the child of the ultimate avatar, who loves all; who's name need not any truly above all else
The Yeshua and his true word, his own, and not the word of man first, the Krisha, or any avatar that need not a name nor form to be the absolute divine, for any man to come up with the concept that that is whole above all is being misguided
The Buddha for it is the absolute love, and the destination of perpetual muddah all men hope to attain
The absolute truth above all
Is to spread love
For the fire of hate, and all of the emotions that go along with the feral and primitive aspects of the mind that can otherwise not yet see it's future within the greater beyond that does not thrive on what will corrode it
For the separation between the feral and primal; and the domesticated and civil as it truly is, not as the ones with perpetual fueling upon their cast which leads them astray as slaves
But to erase the negative, with wisdom and logic, rational reasoning, compassion, and unity, upon any flag that stands below the divine absolute love that could be, the love itself being the energy itself, the gathering of souls being the energy itself, and the very walks of the cosmos being the energy itself, and all that was or shall be
An abashment cast upon the world by the primal urges of humanity, and the otherwise movement with or without the primal beyond it, and it's eternal struggle to maintain a feral minded grip on it's reality around it, for those urges were always the likely target as already existing, that Balaam would use perpetually against men
So I say for you man, Malaab, for whatever it name be or anything it shall represent, the truth be told that the true vulnerability lay in the mans, individual, decisions to otherwise ultimately see themselves in the true dominion, for it has been reduced to rubish alongside minds
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b5f18b No.830974
>>827441
You're one of those assblasted Indians still mad about the british colonisation, aren't you?
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cdd677 No.830992
>>827441
>only their method of worship is valid and other methods ought to be destroyed.
Others can debate you on God specifically. What are your methods of worship? Christianity has blessed many countries when it abolished practices such as human sacrifice and temple prostitution. Otherwise pagan and hindu gods have made licit, if not outright endorsed, polygamy, concubinage, necrophilia (those weirdos in india who love hangin out in trash and dead people, idk their names), raiding and stealing from your enemies, dying in battle, beastiality, homosexuality, pederasty, etc.
You don't need to believe in the Christ to know that these practices are contrary to humanity. Thats why Plato and other virtuous pagans are honored in the Church. Insamuch as there are "virtuous dharmics," insamuch as you will not only see your faith enhanced by accepting the Christ, but enhance the faith.
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cdd677 No.830993
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634880 No.831020
>>827441
What if someone says that their religion demands that they cut off your hands and feet so that they can rape your daughter in front of you without you being able to stop him? Why can't Hindus just accept such people are learn to live and let live? You Hindus are so racist for wanting to stop others from practicing their religion.
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a2d72d No.831112
>>830952
>We claim to know because the supreme being deigned to give us direct instructions
What do "direct instructions" have to do with being able to relate to a world creating entity? What prevents the One Almighty God of Divine Omnipotence from simply wishing his mistake away in an instant instead of kvetching about it? Because that's his "plan" that you don't understand? So you claim to not understand his reasoning, but still claim to be able to relate to him?
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0ca9f1 No.831154
>>831112
We understand His plan perfectly fine. God intends to create a race of beings which can truly be called His Children in the fullest possible sense. We are to be co-heirs of God the Father alongside Christ, who is the Son of God and God.
In order for this to be the case, we ourselves must freely consent to come to God, just as He freely willed to create us. God could force human beings to worship Him, He could instantaneously alter human nature in every man to reverse the effects of the Fall without us even being aware of it. But if He did so, then we humans would not be His children, nor even His slaves, but just dolls, play-things, beasts of the field with no real personhood of our own.
But this is not what God intends for the human race. And so, instead, He interacts with us on an intimate and directly personal level, and always allows us the core freedom to reject Him.
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a2d72d No.831203
>>831154
>We understand His plan perfectly fine
Then what's the divine purpose of evil and suffering? What's God's justification for Down syndrome?
>God intends to create a race of beings which can truly be called His Children in the fullest possible sense.
He made humanity "to his image", except he didn't because he actually made them different from himself?
>We are to be co-heirs of God the Father
Supposedly we are subject to God's laws. God isn't subject to human laws. There is no equal standing there at all.
>we ourselves must freely consent to come to God, just as He freely willed to create us.
Whatever free will God gave humanity is merely relative and you must be a man of low imagination to not see it. He didn't give us the choice to pick how many appendages we are born with. He didn't give us choice whether to be herbivores or omnivores. He didn't give us choice whether to be a fierce warrior or a calm farmer. To say that supposedly God didn't predetermine our existence to a significant degree is a fallacy, and runs contrary to your stated plan of wanting humanity to accept him out of sheer free will. If somebody is born with 20IQ and can't even conceptualize God let alone "come to him", does he have a choice to accept God or not? Or do you just handwave such a man as an "animal" and cowardly dodge the question, like so many before you tried to do?
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fadc23 No.831210
>>830992
>polygamy, concubinage, necrophilia (those weirdos in india who love hangin out in trash and dead people, idk their names), raiding and stealing from your enemies, dying in battle, beastiality, homosexuality, pederasty, etc.
Find me one Hindu scriptural evidence for this. The ideal relationship as told by Ramayana was a monogamous life long commitment as displayed by Rama-Sita. Dharma shastras explicitly prescribe social outcasting as punishment for faggotry.
And the entire reason for Mahabharata war was Kauravas did unforgivable sin of molesting a woman.
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a2d72d No.831211
>>831210
Why should faggotry be detestable in hinduism anyway? Isn't it just another means of attaining kama?
>unforgivable sin of molesting a woman
Uh, about that…
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7e7c71 No.831213
>>831211
>it is
No
>pic
Are you too low IQ to not understand the difference between endorsement of a practice and defining a term? Does Wisdom, chapter 2 defining the mind of a ungodly men mean Bible is endorsing people to be ungodly?
Paisacha literally means demonic/evil in Sanskrit, that explicitly is stating that it's not a practice that should be done. The term literally means evil marriage, explicitly stating it is not to be done.
Why don't you just find a scriptural evidence and and end this debate already? Or here's an easier one. Find one scriptural evidence from the Shruti literature for any of the practices that is generally considered as 'evils of Hinduism' like Sati, caste system, etc…
Protip: You can't.(You can at best only find from Smritis, which aren't word of God but just interpretations by men like books written by luther or aquinas and there is ample evidence these evils didn't exist in the past, like how a sutaputra Karna became the second greatest warrior in the universe despite being from a lower class or that Sati was not recorded in any one of the Hindu epics, it was pretty much a lie perpetuated by Christian missionaries using few documented and isolated cases).
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055283 No.831233
>>827441
>Why is Abrahamic religions so hell-bent on insisting that only their methods of worship is valid and other methods ought to be destroyed?
That's what the Christian Bible teaches.
>John 14:6
>Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
>1 John 5:11-13
>11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
>If God is one, then why not let others worship god like how they want to and and learn to live and let live?
Anyone who truly believes in the Christian Bible would warn others that their path is leading them to death if it's not in Jesus Christ. The whole "live and let live" isn't true either. If I just let people be, they wouldn't be living, they'd be dead.
>Matthew 23:27
>Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
>Ephesians 2:5
>Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
Also, most modern Jews claim to be Jews but are not and are the Synagogue of Satan (Rev 2:9, 3:9). Islam was created by the Popes and Catholicism isn't Christianity. Most Catholic followers have been deceived into thinking it is Christian, but they don't read a good Bible translation to verify what they're being taught. In fact, many Catholic leaders refuse to let their followers read the Bible. The Catholic Church claims Jesus isn't needed and that even "good" atheists go to heaven (which is a lie – or at least unbiblical if you don't believe in the Bible truths).
https://www.remnantofgod.org/anti-Jesus.htm
https://www.remnantofgod.org/chrislam.htm
https://www.remnantofgod.org/PopeKoran.htm
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b5f18b No.831256
Abrahamic religions are so "hell-bent" on insisting that only their methods of worship is valid because that's what they teach
If you've got a problem with that then you should take it up with krishna, since he or who ever the one god your talking about is, I don't give a s— about your designated s—ting streets religion apparently felt the need to tell the people of israel that only their religion is true
Me? I'll trust the word of the Guy who came back to life with 400 or so witnesses who each went to their violent deaths for refusing to deny His resurrection
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d27cdf No.831333
>>831256
>Me? I'll trust the word of the Guy who came back to life with 400 or so witnesses who each went to their violent deaths for refusing to deny His resurrection
>according to the book whose intent is to promote the guy's viewpoint
If I wrote down that I wrestle lions, lift mountains with my bare hands and wrote a testimony in third person that 400 people saw me do so, would you believe me?
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