Article by: Kenneth J. Ester
Hinduism and Why I believe it is False
Hinduism: The religion that has all the answers you want, depending on which ones you want to believe.
In looking up other religions, it was actually quite easy to disregard them as false religions because they all had sacred texts that had verses which were contradicting in some way or form. All I had to do is find the contradiction that had no clear answer to explain it. Once I found one of those, I could see it was not the correct religion and as I continued to research that religion I could usually find multiple problems, either in their text or in their logic. Usually both.
Hinduism is an entirely different beast. There doesn't seem to be any official writings to state exactly what the religion believes. You can read what it believes according to one Hindu follower and then read something a bit different from the next, and then something entirely different in the next. Now most all religions have this problem to a point, but where this becomes a real problem is that Hinduism believes that all religions are right and have their own path to the true God. That the one God has many representations of part of himself. So no matter what one Hindu believes that may contradict another Hindu, they are all right. According to them, every religion is just a different path. Since they don't have any official text as their belief standards, you simply cannot say the religion is wrong because it contradicts itself. In other words, the only way to decide if it is right or wrong is to try and use logic.
First to decide if all religions can indeed be right. They believe that all religions are just different paths to the same God. They seem to believe that God almighty is too powerful for us to really understand Him, so the different Gods we create are all just different factions of the one true God. Almost like someone identifying with the calm loving side of God so they choose one religion, someone else identifies with the powerful controlling side of God and they choose another religion. Someone else might identify with the challenging side of God so they choose a religion that is filled with challenge. I find this to be impossible to be correct.
God told Christians that there is only one way to heaven. Through his Son Jesus. Anyone who does not accept Jesus will be cast into the Lake of Fire for all eternity. If this is just one path to God or one personality of God, then God would have to be a liar. How can God say there is only one way to heaven, and yet that religion be only one of many paths to God? So either the God who told Hindus there are many ways, or the God that told Christians there is only one way, must be lying. Which means that both religions cannot be right!
How does Hinduism explain the Mormons? The religion is under 200 years old still. A man is confronted with an angel and given golden plates with all of their scriptures etched into them. The angel gives this man a stone that will translate the text word for word and will not move onto the next word until the previous word is written down correctly. Yet there have been many changes made to their bible over the years. So either it was not translated correctly, or God made mistakes! This religion is without a doubt a false religion. How can the Hindus possibly say it is a correct religion and just another path to God? For Hindus to believe that Mormonism is another path to God, is saying they believe the Almighty God makes mistakes or lies! But if the Hindu agrees that Mormonism is a false religion, then they can no longer hold onto the belief that all religions are correct and just different paths to God.
Why is it Hinduism believes God is too large and complicated for us to understand s we need to break Him down into multiple facets of God by believing in many different Gods? Yet Christians have no problem understanding God as God. And yet Hindus are the ones who reach enlightenment?
I am also not seeing the way the world came about as in agreement with Hinduism. Yes they believe there is one true God who created everything, but what I don't understand is why. According to Hinduism, God made all of the souls using a portion of himself. These souls go through life after life after life until they reach the state of enlightenment, and then they return to God and become a part of Him again. At least that is one of the explanations I have read of it. So basically it is saying God gives up a portion of Himself to make the souls, for one and only one real purpose. To return to him and be as they were before he made them. So why make them in the first place?
When someone makes a sandwich, they do it with the purpose of eating it because they are hungry. In some cases they may make it because they want to satisfy their taste buds craving for the flavor. You know what nobody ever does? Nobody will ever make a sandwich for the sole purpose of eating it so that they don't have it anymore. Because if their purpose was to not have it, they just wouldn't make it to begin with! Yet that seems to be the entire reason Hinduism believes God made the souls. So they can struggle for millions of years to reach enlightenment and return to where they were before He made them. In the end, we no longer truly exist, and God benefited not one bit from it all. Where is the logic to that?
If there is one thing I am certain of, God would only create something if it served some sort of purpose. God simply is not going to make something for no other reason than to just make it. God doesn't make mistakes and God is not bored. God is a purposeful God. The only purpose I believe we could possible truly serve is to praise Him. God made us to worship Him. Yet if that is true, then that in itself is another reason to believe Hinduism is wrong.
Hinduism believes that all religions are essentially worshiping different factions of the same God. But God doesn't make all these hundreds and thousands of religions around us. How would I know that? Because there simply would be no reason for it. When God made people and put souls in the bodies there were very few of them to start. Would he gives them different religion rules to live by? No. God would lay down one set of rules. The population grew from 2 to 200, to 2 million, to 20 million. Would God look at it and say, "You know what? Lets create more religions just to confuse them and give some of them something to debate over." Of course not. Why would God create something that would cause confusion and resentment, all for the sole purpose of creating disharmony? I mean it wouldn't matter how many people there were in the world, God wouldn't have any reason to create more religions instead of letting everyone continue following the rules he set for us. Yet there are more religions. Why? Because Man made them!
IF there is one thing mankind has proven over and over, if there is a rule he doesn't much care for, he tends to ignore it or look for a way to change it. You see, God would have absolutely zero to gain by creating a bunch of different religions. Man however, well following the rules he is comfortable with and changing the rules he doesn't like is right up his alley. Look at homosexuality. IT has been considered an abomination by every culture and every land since the beginning of time. The only times it is mentioned as accepted in the Bible were times when God destroyed the cities it was happening in. It has never been accepted as normal or okay until a couple decades ago. Now many states are making it legal for gay couples to marry. When man doesn't like a rule, he tends to find ways to change it. And that is where all of these different religions came from. Man! Not God!
Why does it make a difference? Because if God has no reason to create more religions, and it was man who created them, then how are were creating religions where the Gods are so different from each other, and yet still creating religions that follow the same God? Does it make sense that God is so desperate for our praise that he will follow us to any belief we choose to make up and take on that representation just so we will continue to worship Him? That is something an insecure man would do trying to stay with the woman he loves. Not what God would do for man. No, God would grow angry with man for not following His rules. God might wipe mankind out if we rebel enough, but God is not going to take on any form we want him to just to make us happy!
God is a loving God. He is a compassionate God! But we need to recognize who God is! God is not just some god we like. God is God! The God who created the universe. The God who has been around for so long that a hundred billions years is a blink of an eye to Him. God doesn't "need" us. God loves us, but God expects us to praise Him! Not change to whatever we want him to like a prostitute role playing! God is a holy God! He is also a jealous God and can be an angry God! God is not going to jump through loops to appease us! That is backwards. God expects us to jump through loops of burning fire to appease Him! And if we do so in faith, God will show us his love for us and protect us!
How many souls are there today? Hinduism believes there is a soul in every living creature. That would mean there are simply trillions and trillions of souls. Probably a trillion times a trillion! Just how long is this world supposed to last? I read once that someone who is high up in Hinduism said that she was positive that in the last 150 years, only two souls have reached true enlightenment. So if we used that math, two souls every 150 years, it would take another 75 Million years just for 1 million souls to find enlightenment. Imagine how long it will take to see trillions and trillions of souls to get there. I can guarantee you one thing, this world will not last that long. Does it make sense that God would make so many souls for no other purpose other than to return to the state before he made them, and then make so many and make it so difficult to reach enlightenment that the Earth cannot possibly last long enough? Again, God does not make mistakes. So why would God do this?
Another thing I don't like are the idols they use. Now many believe they worship these idols. Many Hindus will argue that they do not worship the idols but they worship the God and use the idol to help them focus. Again I have to ask the question, why? I have prayed to God. I have worshiped God. I have gone to churches where we spent an hour worshiping and praising God and then another hour listening to the pastor speak. I have meditated on God for lengths of time. Never once have I needed any statue to help me focus. I guess maybe I would if I had so many Gods I believed in that I had a hard time keeping them straight, but to focus on the one true God? No help needed. God doesn't need idols to help him!
By the way, the God I know said it is wrong to worship idols. It is wrong to worship other Gods. He doesn't ignore the problem, he states it right out that it is wrong. Not in the newest books but in the oldest of them in our Bible. Books written over 6,000 years ago when the majority of the population was gathered in one area of the world. Are you saying that even back then with the population of the world so minimal, that God was confused at what his own rules were? But that's my God we are talking about here. What does your God say? That there were many Gods? But I thought they were all the same God. If we all believe in the same God, why would mine tell us it's wrong to use idols and wrong to worship other Gods and say clearly that he is the One True God and there are no other Gods before him and we should not worship any other gods because they are false Gods? Why would God tell us that and make up completely different rules for you? Obviously one of our Gods who gave us our rules to believe were either lying or mistaken.
So it begs the question. We know that we could not possibly be listening to the same God. So which of our Gods is mistaken or lying? You would say mine is wrong and I would say yours is wrong. But I can tell you how you know for sure which one is right. Only one of our Gods said that all religions are different paths to the same God. And we have essentially shown that cannot be correct. I will stick to believing the God that hasn't already been proven to be wrong.
There are problems with the simple theory of reincarnation as well, but that has been explained in the Buddhism article already. You can read it there.
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In looking up other religions, it was actually quite easy to disregard them as false religions because they all had sacred texts that had verses which were contradicting in some way or form. All I had to do is find the contradiction that had no clear answer to explain it. Once I found one of those, I could see it was not the correct religion and as I continued to research that religion I could usually find multiple problems, either in their text or in their logic. Usually both.
Hinduism is an entirely different beast. There doesn't seem to be any official writings to state exactly what the religion believes. You can read what it believes according to one Hindu follower and then read something a bit different from the next, and then something entirely different in the next. Now most all religions have this problem to a point, but where this becomes a real problem is that Hinduism believes that all religions are right and have their own path to the true God. That the one God has many representations of part of himself. So no matter what one Hindu believes that may contradict another Hindu, they are all right. According to them, every religion is just a different path. Since they don't have any official text as their belief standards, you simply cannot say the religion is wrong because it contradicts itself. In other words, the only way to decide if it is right or wrong is to try and use logic.
First to decide if all religions can indeed be right. They believe that all religions are just different paths to the same God. They seem to believe that God almighty is too powerful for us to really understand Him, so the different Gods we create are all just different factions of the one true God. Almost like someone identifying with the calm loving side of God so they choose one religion, someone else identifies with the powerful controlling side of God and they choose another religion. Someone else might identify with the challenging side of God so they choose a religion that is filled with challenge. I find this to be impossible to be correct.
God told Christians that there is only one way to heaven. Through his Son Jesus. Anyone who does not accept Jesus will be cast into the Lake of Fire for all eternity. If this is just one path to God or one personality of God, then God would have to be a liar. How can God say there is only one way to heaven, and yet that religion be only one of many paths to God? So either the God who told Hindus there are many ways, or the God that told Christians there is only one way, must be lying. Which means that both religions cannot be right!
How does Hinduism explain the Mormons? The religion is under 200 years old still. A man is confronted with an angel and given golden plates with all of their scriptures etched into them. The angel gives this man a stone that will translate the text word for word and will not move onto the next word until the previous word is written down correctly. Yet there have been many changes made to their bible over the years. So either it was not translated correctly, or God made mistakes! This religion is without a doubt a false religion. How can the Hindus possibly say it is a correct religion and just another path to God? For Hindus to believe that Mormonism is another path to God, is saying they believe the Almighty God makes mistakes or lies! But if the Hindu agrees that Mormonism is a false religion, then they can no longer hold onto the belief that all religions are correct and just different paths to God.
Why is it Hinduism believes God is too large and complicated for us to understand s we need to break Him down into multiple facets of God by believing in many different Gods? Yet Christians have no problem understanding God as God. And yet Hindus are the ones who reach enlightenment?
I am also not seeing the way the world came about as in agreement with Hinduism. Yes they believe there is one true God who created everything, but what I don't understand is why. According to Hinduism, God made all of the souls using a portion of himself. These souls go through life after life after life until they reach the state of enlightenment, and then they return to God and become a part of Him again. At least that is one of the explanations I have read of it. So basically it is saying God gives up a portion of Himself to make the souls, for one and only one real purpose. To return to him and be as they were before he made them. So why make them in the first place?
When someone makes a sandwich, they do it with the purpose of eating it because they are hungry. In some cases they may make it because they want to satisfy their taste buds craving for the flavor. You know what nobody ever does? Nobody will ever make a sandwich for the sole purpose of eating it so that they don't have it anymore. Because if their purpose was to not have it, they just wouldn't make it to begin with! Yet that seems to be the entire reason Hinduism believes God made the souls. So they can struggle for millions of years to reach enlightenment and return to where they were before He made them. In the end, we no longer truly exist, and God benefited not one bit from it all. Where is the logic to that?
If there is one thing I am certain of, God would only create something if it served some sort of purpose. God simply is not going to make something for no other reason than to just make it. God doesn't make mistakes and God is not bored. God is a purposeful God. The only purpose I believe we could possible truly serve is to praise Him. God made us to worship Him. Yet if that is true, then that in itself is another reason to believe Hinduism is wrong.
Hinduism believes that all religions are essentially worshiping different factions of the same God. But God doesn't make all these hundreds and thousands of religions around us. How would I know that? Because there simply would be no reason for it. When God made people and put souls in the bodies there were very few of them to start. Would he gives them different religion rules to live by? No. God would lay down one set of rules. The population grew from 2 to 200, to 2 million, to 20 million. Would God look at it and say, "You know what? Lets create more religions just to confuse them and give some of them something to debate over." Of course not. Why would God create something that would cause confusion and resentment, all for the sole purpose of creating disharmony? I mean it wouldn't matter how many people there were in the world, God wouldn't have any reason to create more religions instead of letting everyone continue following the rules he set for us. Yet there are more religions. Why? Because Man made them!
IF there is one thing mankind has proven over and over, if there is a rule he doesn't much care for, he tends to ignore it or look for a way to change it. You see, God would have absolutely zero to gain by creating a bunch of different religions. Man however, well following the rules he is comfortable with and changing the rules he doesn't like is right up his alley. Look at homosexuality. IT has been considered an abomination by every culture and every land since the beginning of time. The only times it is mentioned as accepted in the Bible were times when God destroyed the cities it was happening in. It has never been accepted as normal or okay until a couple decades ago. Now many states are making it legal for gay couples to marry. When man doesn't like a rule, he tends to find ways to change it. And that is where all of these different religions came from. Man! Not God!
Why does it make a difference? Because if God has no reason to create more religions, and it was man who created them, then how are were creating religions where the Gods are so different from each other, and yet still creating religions that follow the same God? Does it make sense that God is so desperate for our praise that he will follow us to any belief we choose to make up and take on that representation just so we will continue to worship Him? That is something an insecure man would do trying to stay with the woman he loves. Not what God would do for man. No, God would grow angry with man for not following His rules. God might wipe mankind out if we rebel enough, but God is not going to take on any form we want him to just to make us happy!
God is a loving God. He is a compassionate God! But we need to recognize who God is! God is not just some god we like. God is God! The God who created the universe. The God who has been around for so long that a hundred billions years is a blink of an eye to Him. God doesn't "need" us. God loves us, but God expects us to praise Him! Not change to whatever we want him to like a prostitute role playing! God is a holy God! He is also a jealous God and can be an angry God! God is not going to jump through loops to appease us! That is backwards. God expects us to jump through loops of burning fire to appease Him! And if we do so in faith, God will show us his love for us and protect us!
How many souls are there today? Hinduism believes there is a soul in every living creature. That would mean there are simply trillions and trillions of souls. Probably a trillion times a trillion! Just how long is this world supposed to last? I read once that someone who is high up in Hinduism said that she was positive that in the last 150 years, only two souls have reached true enlightenment. So if we used that math, two souls every 150 years, it would take another 75 Million years just for 1 million souls to find enlightenment. Imagine how long it will take to see trillions and trillions of souls to get there. I can guarantee you one thing, this world will not last that long. Does it make sense that God would make so many souls for no other purpose other than to return to the state before he made them, and then make so many and make it so difficult to reach enlightenment that the Earth cannot possibly last long enough? Again, God does not make mistakes. So why would God do this?
Another thing I don't like are the idols they use. Now many believe they worship these idols. Many Hindus will argue that they do not worship the idols but they worship the God and use the idol to help them focus. Again I have to ask the question, why? I have prayed to God. I have worshiped God. I have gone to churches where we spent an hour worshiping and praising God and then another hour listening to the pastor speak. I have meditated on God for lengths of time. Never once have I needed any statue to help me focus. I guess maybe I would if I had so many Gods I believed in that I had a hard time keeping them straight, but to focus on the one true God? No help needed. God doesn't need idols to help him!
By the way, the God I know said it is wrong to worship idols. It is wrong to worship other Gods. He doesn't ignore the problem, he states it right out that it is wrong. Not in the newest books but in the oldest of them in our Bible. Books written over 6,000 years ago when the majority of the population was gathered in one area of the world. Are you saying that even back then with the population of the world so minimal, that God was confused at what his own rules were? But that's my God we are talking about here. What does your God say? That there were many Gods? But I thought they were all the same God. If we all believe in the same God, why would mine tell us it's wrong to use idols and wrong to worship other Gods and say clearly that he is the One True God and there are no other Gods before him and we should not worship any other gods because they are false Gods? Why would God tell us that and make up completely different rules for you? Obviously one of our Gods who gave us our rules to believe were either lying or mistaken.
So it begs the question. We know that we could not possibly be listening to the same God. So which of our Gods is mistaken or lying? You would say mine is wrong and I would say yours is wrong. But I can tell you how you know for sure which one is right. Only one of our Gods said that all religions are different paths to the same God. And we have essentially shown that cannot be correct. I will stick to believing the God that hasn't already been proven to be wrong.
There are problems with the simple theory of reincarnation as well, but that has been explained in the Buddhism article already. You can read it there.
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