Here's what these videos summarized as the MAJOR differences between the Religions. NOTE: These are just the NUTS and BOLTS of the differences, there are far many more. Let's start with the basics.
Comparison of Hinduism with Christianity:
- What is God? (Hindus - God is NOT a person, God is the Universe. God is the Ultimate state of being which you reach by living a life of the best Karma. Reincarnation is how you are punished for bad Karma. As long as you keep getting reincarnated, you are not allowed to reach the Ultimate state. Christians - God is separate from the World. God CREATED the world and is not an Illusion. God is fixed, defined and definite. Sin is very real and is punished for on Judgement day unless you embrace Jesus Christ who can save you.)
- Hindus tolerate ANY way to reach the "Ultimate" aka God. It is even said that Hindus accept Jesus Christ as "The God of The People Who Call Themselves Christians" (for example). Christianity does NOT accept any other faith as even a possibility and their writings state that believing in anything else is the greatest sin.
- Hinduism can be seen as "all inclusive" and Christianity is considered "Highly exclusive."
- Hinduism believes that all around sin is still an illusion, however, sin still creates your Karma.
- The Caste System in Hinduism is a part of the "tracking devices" used to track your prior life Karma. Technically, one is not supposed to interfere with the Karma of another. Essentially, this gets translated to: "helping the poor is not right, you're messing up their Karmaic balance."
The summary here is that these two religions are HIGHLY HIGHLY different. Hinduism allows for room in the belief to be more open and accepting. However, that same openness complicates understanding the religion.
Only interesting thing I want to note is that Hinduism seems to have roots that are older than even the Old Testament - so it's been around longer?
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