Do we not find answers to the after life both in the ancient vedas and in the Bible?

Question

For a believer in Jesus as God, Lord and Saviour, eternal life is the answer, an assurance to where the believer would go after death.

Answer 1

I don't think that you will find the answers because you don't know the questions.

Answer 2

I believe the the ancient vedas advocate an afterlife only for those of priestly status others must be reborn untill they serve as priests, also the Rig Vedas worship multiple gods. It is not untill Zarathustra's reform of the religion found in the Gathas hyms of the Avesta, some time after the Vedas writing, that one God, Ahura Mazda, and afterlife for all is proclaimed.

Answer 3

Praise the Lord. God Bless you all.

Answer 4

Amen

Answer 5

answers? you make such a thing sound certain when you know we really have no idea.

put your faith in a giant pink ostrich - you'll have just as much chance of coming up with the "answers"

Answer 6

You may find all sorts of answers, but you're not going to find any proof. Without that, why fret over it?

Answer 7

There are no answers, so if you are finding some you better get yourself checked.

Answer 8

No

Answer 9

What you find are two different answers to the after life. Both of them cannot be true because they contradict one another. Here is a comparison of what people learn from the Hindu Vedas and the Christian Bible.

Hinduism and Christianity
On the subject of God, Hinduism's supreme being is the undefinable, impersonal Brahman, a philosophical absolute. Christianity, on the other hand, teaches that there is a supreme being who is the infinite, personal Creator. The God of Christianity, moreover, is loving and He is keenly interested in the affairs of mankind, quite in contrast to the aloof deity of Hinduism.

The Bible makes it clear that God cares about what happens to each one of us:

And call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you and you will honor Me (Psalm 50:15, NASB).
Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28, NASB).

The Hindu views man as a manifestation of the impersonal Brahman, without individual self or self-worth. Christianity teaches that man was made in the image of God with a personality and the ability to receive and give love. Although the image of God in man has been tarnished by the fall, man is still of infinite value to God. This was demonstrated by the fact that God sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die to redeem sinful man, even while man was still in rebellion against God.

The Bible says,
For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man, though perhaps for a good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own loved toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:6-8, NASB).
Namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:19-21, NASB).

In Hinduism there is no sin against a Holy God. Acts of wrongdoing are not done against any God but are mainly a result of ignorance. These evils can be overcome by following the guidelines of one's caste and way of salvation. To the contrary, Christianity sees sin as a real act of rebellion against a perfect and Holy God. All acts of transgression are ultimately acts of rebellion against the laws of God.

The Scripture states:
Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, and done what is evil in Thy sight, so that Thou art justified when Thou dost speak, and blameless when Thou dost judge (Psalm 51:4, NASB).
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23, NASB).

Salvation in Hinduism can be attained in one of three general ways: the way of knowledge, knowing one is actually a part of the ultimate Brahman and not a separate entity; the way of devotion, which is love and obedience to a particular deity; or the way of works, or following ceremonial ritual. This salvation is from the seemingly endless cycle of birth, death and rebirth. By contrast, in Christianity salvation is from a potentially eternal separation from God and cannot be obtained by any number of good deeds, but rather is given freely by God to all who will receive it.
The Bible says:

For by grace have you been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast (Ephesians 2:8,9, NASB).

He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:5, NASB).
He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son shall not see lire, but the wrath of God abides on him (John 3:36, NASB).

Hinduism views the material world as transitory and of secondary importance to the realization of Brahman, while Christianity sees the world as having objective reality and its source in the creative will of God. Hindus see the world as an extension of Brahman, part of the absolute, while Christianity views the world as an entity eternally different in nature from God, not part of some universal or monistic one.

The Bible says that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1). Since the earth, therefore, was created by God, it is not to be identified with Him or His eternal nature.

These contradictions represent major diversities between the two religions. Many other differences remain which we cannot discuss in this small space. However, even with this limited spectrum of differences, one readily can see that the two faiths of Hinduism and Christianity never can be reconciled. The basic foundations on which each is built are mutually exclusive.
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