Identify the similar belief of christians and hindus?

Answer 1

I can't think of any similar beliefs.

Pastor Art

Answer 2

The Beattles really "dug" Hinduism. They said that they were more popular than Jesus Christ, and their song "My Sweet Lord," was sung in Christian churches but it lists many Hindu gods and goddesses in it and it lead many people away from Christ, BUT THEY STILL CALLED THEM SELVES CHRISTIAN, while worshipping these false gods and goddesses.

The similarities between Christianity and Hinduism, if there are any, are deceptive.

Answer 3

Christians believe in deities who require faith and a reliance on tradition for belief. So do Hindus.

Its all based on personal impressions and emotions and both have holy scripture that they argue over.

Answer 4

Trinity is a similar concept.

~ Eric Putkonen

Answer 5

Many Hindus attribute Christianity's original interactions with Hinduism to British colonialism, but in fact, Christianity has a long history in India. The earliest recorded Christian to arrive on the subcontinent was St. Thomas, who settled in Kerala around 53 A.D., less than a century after Christ's death. St. Thomas was an original disciple of Christ and should be of great interest to Hindus for the same reasons the Vatican and most Christian denominations do not emphasize his life and writings: The Gospel of Thomas, discovered in 1945 and believed to have predated all the other gospels, has created a stir amongst Christian historians and theologians alike as it provides a fascinating re-telling of Christian religion and philosophy – one that is very different from modern conceptions of Christianity, but has strong parallels with Hinduism.

In fact, the similarities between sects of Hinduism and Christianity/Judaism are numerous.

1) Both believe in one Supreme God distinct from any minor dieties or angels.
2) Both believe in life after death
3) Both believe in salvation/liberation
4) Both believe in a Holy Spririt (Hindu's call Super soul sanskrik: Paramatma)
5) Both believe in the existence of the soul and both promote avoiding pleasures of the flesh.
6) Both believe that God's word is brought by prophets and incarnations (krisna vs Jesus).
7) Both believe that God brought a flood that purified the earth of evil souls.
8) Hindu's have Manu,, Christians have Noah. Both stories have similar narrative.
9) Both religions share historical mythology: The Tower of babel, Jonah and the whale etc
10) Both believe in a kingdom of God
11) Both believe in a world called Hell (Yamaloka)
12) Both believe in a purificatory world called purgatory (Naraka).
13) Both believe humans have free will.
14) Both believe in angels (hindu's call them demi-Gods).
15) Both faiths have aspects of abstainance and penance for wrong doing.
16) Both faiths have evolved to ban animal sacrifice (Judaism to Christianity, Vedantic Hinduism to Shaivism/Vaisnavitism).
17) Both faiths see belief in a benevolent God as vital to one's salvation/liberation.
18) Both faiths include traditions such as purificatory bathing
19) Early Christians had similar initiation proceedures as some Hindu sects (40 days/nights in solitiude), 3 years probation before full admitance, babtism.
20) Both believe that the material world will end in fire and brimstow.
21) Both believe the supreme God to be eternal and ineffable.
22) Compare the Hindu belief that the soul is smaller than a "mustard seed" to the mustard-seed-of- faith reference in Matthew 17:20, and he compared the notion of man's not living by bread alone but by "every word that proceeds from the mouth of God" (Matt. 4:4) to the Hindu claim that "man does not live by breath alone, but by him in whom is the power of breath."
23) Revelation 1:8 ("I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty") is extremely similar to the Bhagavad Gita verse 10:21 ("I am the Self, O Gudakesa, seated in the hearts of all creatures. I am the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings").
24)Galatians 6:7 , "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Less known is Proverbs 26:27 , "Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein, and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him." Both express the Hindu principle of karma (the sum and the consequences of a person's actions during the successive phases of his existence), but since no direct connection can be deduced, we'll merely consider it an interesting coincidence and move on.
25) The Brahmin caste of the Hindus are said to be "twice-born" and have a ritual in which they are "born in the spirit." Could this be the ultimate source of the Christian "born again" concept (John 3:3)?
26) In the Jesus story, the Divinity takes human form, god becoming man. This is a familiar occurrence in Hinduism and in other theologies of the region. Indeed, one obstacle to the spread of Christianity in India, which was attempted as early as the first century, was the frustrating tendency of the Hindus to understand Jesus as the latest avatar (incarnation) of Vishnu.
27) "Krishna also said that "by human calculation, a thousand ages taken together is the duration of Brahma's one day" (BG 8:17), which is very similar to 2 Peter 3:8." "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day,"
28) “And when [Jesus] was demanded of the Pharisees, ‘When the kingdom of God should come?’ He answered them and said, ‘The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”. This concept is the same as the hindu concept of God residing within oneself as paramatma.

“The truth is one; sages call it by many names”.

Answer 6

multiple manifestations of a single god.