Hinduism versus Christianity

[~¤LilacSky¤~]

Hinduism versus Christianity: Hinduism and Christianity Compared
By www. hinduwebsite.com




hinduism and christianity: hinduism vs christianity

hinduism is a continuously evolving religion and is not founded by a particular person or prophet. Central to christianity are the words of jesus christ described by witnesses.


Organized church or hierarchy

christianity has an organization called church to control and regulate the activities of Christians. hinduism does not have a centrally controlled set up. The temples do bring people together and create a sense of belongingness. But they do not have the kind of influence some of the powerful churches like the vatican or the church of England have.


tolerance

hinduism tolerates christianity, but christianity has an uncompromising attitude in matters such as the infallibility of the bible and allegiance to jesus christ. Any form of worship not approved by the bible is an anathema to the christian world.


conversion

hinduism does not believe in conversion of people. In the bhagavad gita lord krishna preaches not to follow another's dharma however superior it may be for it would hamper ones spiritual progress. christianity does not think so. christianity accepts conversion as a way of bringing non believers into the fold of believers and saving them from a certain damnation.


judgement Day

hinduism does not believe in judgment day. According to hinduism man is a victim of his own karma and the laws of dharma judge him continuously. christianity believes in a final judgment day.

www.experiencefestival.com/a/Hinduismvs_Christianity/id/54138

[goodboy]

That is interesting. Though it is not my place, I can see a few faults.

[incubus]

I agree with much of the Hindu religion. I like that it is constantly evolving in their beleifs, and that they are open to this, and other religions. Although I believe karma is your own choice I think it certainly effects where you will go next. After all I think we are made up of solid, liquid, gass, and ENERGY. And energy pools. Negative attracts negative, and vise versa. So when you 'die' if you are in a negative state you will 'pool' there. And I think there are the four levels of exsistance that we make up, and their is a God(dess) for every level. . I find much of their beliefs coincide with christianity, however christianity frightens me in their 'closeness', and I find too much information hidden and kept secret. I beleive for control, and other negative reasons. I like that they beleive in the creator, the preserver, and the destroyer, however different representations of the One God. Henotheistic They beleive in meny God(dess) all from the same God. Interesting post.

[altairyard]

If hindu is the real religion. But, If i'm not a hindu. Then i'd be alright isn't ?. I do a goodness, its positive. But if other religion(that believe in the day of judgement) is the real religion. I'd be alright too because i believe. ?

[~~section8...]

I feel like this is a hard comparison to make! There are just so many differences. The amount of gods in Hinduism is immense!

But this is a nice quick breakdown, Lilac.

[~¤LilacSky¤~]

yah, I just like comparing different religions , always interesting to me.

[Dancing Bear]

I like to compare religions too Lilac.
or explore all religions anyway..
I dont follow any religion myself.
I couldnt even lable myself to any written religion.
As i cant bring myself to believe a religion that was written solely to control the masses.
as the time the bible was formed there were so many belief systems, and it was to bring them all togehter into one.
but unfortunatley they depicted our cernnunnos (druids/pagan horned forest god) as the devil ..
Cernnunnos taught his followers the ways of the land and steered his followers away from greed. Unfortunatley he was misinterpreted (whetehr on purpose or not is another question)
he was turned into the devil and represented all that came with material greed.

So I find exploring other religions rather interesting, as it gives me an understanding of the mind set of the time it was written.. even the history surrounding the writing of a religions gives us insight to the mind set of the times, what was going on and why... therefore a deeper understanding of the reasons why a lot of what is written as gospel.
Not that i agree, but it gives me and understanding.

[Dancing Bear]

Hinduism and Christianity dont really have too much in common.. to fairly compare them really.
Hinduism is a much gentler religion.

[bezjak]

Apples and oranges. Beetles and People. Hmmm. Comparing these living entities is not really a difficult task. But most are prone to favor one or the other. Religion is the same....well almost the same anyway, experience with others from said religion influence how one sees and believes....

[Lena]

I agree with Bez, that in practice most religions are very similar because in individual practice, there is more influence of that particular individual, than there is of their chose religion. For example, some Christians pray every single day, upon arising and going to sleep and also have their special temple or icon. My great grandma was like that, no matter what she would pray every single day and it was quite a show to watch too. Some Christians will not do this and will have more theoretical knowledge of their religion, such as reading Bible. So Christians are gnostics, and practice astral projection and developing psychic powers, etc.

A few years ago, I took a History of World Religions class. This was a while ago, so all I remember are general impressions that I was left with. The best part of the class was having guests come and speak about their religion. One Christian person talked about achieving enlightenment and surety of his connection with God. He was so sincere and the whole experience seemed so transcendental, that I was amazed. We had a Hindu lady come speak and she was so beautiful and kind, and spoke about her personal practice, and having a temple at the house with her spiritual teachers and deities on it, and communicating with them every single day. I loved that aspect of Hinduism, which was also present in Wicca, when I practiced it for a while, and seemed so much more personal to me, than say Buddhism or Taoism, two others ones I really enjoyed learning about. Buddhism always seems a bit sterile and impersonal to me. I don't know why, maybe just my own impression, although Buddhists that I have met have always been amazing, charismatic people with their inner power just shining through their humble manner.

[crazycat]

Most of the time when people compare christianity to hindu, they use the example of the Catholic religion as their christian basis. There are many christian religion that see the Catholic religion a cult and the Catholic see the opposite a cult.

Many talk of the Gnostic religion as a christian religion, but the Gnostics will let you know fast that they are not christian. LOL! Really to them, Jesus was just another prophet as all the other prophets in the bible. They do not teach that Jesus was God in human form so they are not chrisitian.

So to lump them all together as the same is a little ridiculous!

There are also many different Hindu types ..they called them lineage rather than religious branches.

In the last three years since I have been gone from here, I have been learning a lot about the hindu religion and also the esotric jewish religion of Kabbalah and christian mystics many other religions, of course they do not call themself a religion, but it seems all the branches of belief makes that statement about themself. From what I have learned there are more beliefs that are alike or similiar than there are differences. They just use a different word to represent the same common belief. Such as Karma is really the same word as sin for the christian. If you know the bible the christian person has to work out their salvation the same as the hindu working out their karma. The bible clearly states that faith without works is dead. Going by Buddha, no one can ever pay or equal out their own karma, even in many, many lifetimes. Many hundreds of years before Jesus came into the world to become the sacrifice for all of mankind's karma, buddha prophecied of his coming and the reason for his coming. You can read of buddha's prophecy here: www.bibleprobe.com/buddhatoldofjesus.htm


Even though the Hindu have many so called gods, these gods are more a symbol of their various beliefs. They do believe in the one Creator God source. The Christian religion also have many names for the one God which represents various espects of the Creator. The kabbalist say every character in the bible respresent or is a symbol of a belief even though the character may or may not have been a real person. They said the first person who was a kabbalist was Adam the father of all regions. So going by them all religions have the same source, Adam.

If you all have watched the zeitgeist movie, you will see that all the religions do have much in common and do seem to come from the same source even though none of then want to admit it. LOL!

I say the person who said that the hindu religion evolves and that the christian ones are closed to new ways is so very wrong and to don't know much about the christian religions of today. Even the Catholic religion, which I think is the most conrtolling of all the so called christian religions, now teach yoga classes at their churches as a side activity. Just in my lifetime the christian religion in general has changed big time.

The way I see it all the religions have a piece of the puzzles and they all have value in the enlightenment and salvation of mankind. All the religions and how they come to believe what they do is very fascinating. Even most of the New age teachings are from the bible with a little add twist here and there.

My two cents!
Linda

[~¤LilacSky¤~]

I agree cc that religion plays a part, however the part is gettin shuned/shot down as we grow, the more humans evolved the more they realize they dont need it..and honestly Im one of them for many reasons, the information is outdated and I see most churches as another form of control and power over man but this opens up another debate lol

[crazycat]

I agree Ronni that organized religions have become more like social clubs rather than a place to seek spitituality, but in hard times people tend to go back to their roots and a spiritual revival takes place. There have been dry times throughout history but I don't see religion being done away with, not as long as we still exist anyways.

Going by the bible, even the God source itself has rules it abides by. If not, all would be chaos. That really is what religions is, rules /laws that people live their life by rather it is an organized religion or self made one.

This topic you started is about the differences and similarities between the religion of Hinduism and Christianity. I do not see one as any better than the other, but rather they compliment each other. Both inspired by the same God.

I would say, all the religions will be around and out last us. LOL!
Unless the muslims to do take over the whole world (as they claim they are going to do) and kill off all those (us infidels) who do not follow their rules. Hehe!

[govinda108]

BHAGAVAD-GITA AS IT IS Text41: Know that all opulent, beatiful and glorious creations spring from but a spark of My splendor.

[crazycat]

Wonderful truthful words, govinda108