If it is as easy for a child born and raised a Hindu to recognize the "one true god" as it is for a child born and raised Christian, let us see the proof of it.
2006-09-16 12:14:26 · 5 answers · asked by bobkgin 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wat a surprise. Not one answer fits the claim.
2006-09-16 12:50:59 · update #1
i was raised to hate hindus and meatloaf (the singer)
2006-09-16 12:15:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I can demonstrate that it is NOT "as easy...". I know this from personal experience within my immediate family.
When my children were born, I understood unconditional love for the first time. I deduced that the christian model in which I had been raised did not acknowledge that the same God who made me, gave me the ability to Love unconditionally and that He therefore (necessarily) must also Love that way too...it is impossible for it to be otherwise.
Confused by the dicotomy of...on the one hand feeling that my Christianity was part and parcel of all that I had become, including my ability to Love this way...and the obvious mis-statement of God's nature (as the original Lover) by my religion...it was tantamount to feeling that my free will to choose had been damaged or destroyed.
The only way to save my children from this fate and to allow free will to reign (which the faith says that God gives every one of us) was to NOT indoctrinate them into the faith. My husband and I agreed to raise our children with Christian morals...that is to love our neighbors as ourselves. We also taught them to use all the gifts of their humanity to become their true selves...to think, to feel and to ask questions, to take measured risks. I believed that if the Christian faith were true, when our children sought answers about what is true, they would find God and be able to freely choose Him. No confusion.
Guess what (no surprise to you)...it hasn't turned out that way. They have grown into happy, loving, responsible adults. One is even a philosopher but not Christian. What do we make of this?
I think (and have said so to every pastor I have every known) that Hindu children will have been indoctrinated in the same way... that they too will have lost pure free will. Hinduism will likely resonate deeply within them - not because they are less spiritual or honestly searching. Will God reject them? Is God there? For me He is, but I may never be able to know for sure that this belief is not just a holdover from so many years during my development of having every event of my life explained through a Christian Perspective.
Thank you for an important question.
2006-09-17 09:49:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
FIND YOUR OWN PROOF LIKE THE REST OF US HAVE. I was raised christian,but the bible and christian misunderstanding of the bible only confused me. I knew in my heart God existed and that I was part of his body from the age of four. When i was 38 year old I prayed directly to GOD,send me a teacher,He did, a Siddha Guru from India,he taught me how to enter my own heart and have direct communion with GOD,now i understand the bible. my teacher(GURU) taught the same truth as jesus only with much more clarity.
2006-09-16 19:33:22 · answer #3 · answered by Weldon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The following link would make it appear that the Christians are attempting...but the Hindu's are resisting conversion. Is this their free will?
2006-09-16 19:23:30 · answer #4 · answered by asafam23 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was born and raised christian and converted to hinduism, I don't know what your point is tho.
2006-09-16 19:16:20 · answer #5 · answered by a_blue_grey_mist 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋