Thursday, May 7, 2015

Hinduism And Christianity - The Differences


I have been trying to understand different doctrines lately and do a comparative study. Just wanted to share some of my observations.

Feel free to share your comments and observations.

Hinduism
Christianity
Brahma/God is unknowable
God is love
Sin does not exist; good and evil exist in the mind; there is no duality.
Man is basically sinful – which is the cause of all evil in this world.
God is inside man.
Man’s sin has alienated man from God.
Yoga/meditation/mystic practices are used to reach the God-head within oneself.
God’s forgiveness and purification through Jesus’s death (for man’s sins) unites man to God.
Self-realization is the highest goal.
Love is the highest virtue.
Moksha/salvation/heaven is attained through certain practices like meditation and doing other good deeds – man can work out his own salvation.
Man is incapable of coming out of his sin. He desperately needs God’s grace and mercy to be united back to God (or saved).
There is no one truth or one way. All roads lead to God.
There is only one truth and one way – which is repentance for sins and acceptance of the gift of grace through Jesus.
Reincarnation based on karma – this means that the soul can have many lifes through rebirths.
Man has only one life.
Idols can be used to worship God.
Idols cannot be used. One should worship in spirit and truth.

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