the hindou trinity

Quratulaine

Quratulaine

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what is this what is this website in reference to? it's just comparing hinduism and christianity and the trinity...

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justoneofmillion

justoneofmillion

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assalam, don`t you people get it?or do you want me to send you pics from Mitra and dionysus with their respective biographies also?:confused:

wassalam
 
kayleigh

kayleigh

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Some of the comments on this thread confuse me, and I'm not really sure what the point of posting this was, but based on my knowledge and years of experience in Christianity with only very limited knowledge of Hinduism, I do find them similar in more ways than Christians would like to admit.

Some argue about whether either is actually monotheistic or polytheistic. I know a lot of people, skeptical of Christianity, who claim that it's polytheistic. There are even more people - most people, I would say - that claim Hinduism is also polytheistic. They would be wrong on both accounts. Both are technically monotheistic, and all Hindus I've met agree.

And yes, both religions share the God-becoming-man aspect and the idea that God exists in many forms. In Christianity, God exists as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. In Hinduism, God is in everything and all the hundreds (or thousands?) or other gods are part of him - which is why people say that it is monotheistic - because it all goes back to the one God (Brahma, in this case).

If there's anyone who has more knowledge of Hinduism (I'm sure there are plenty), or any former Hindus here, please do correct me if I'm wrong.

Although one question, if anyone knows: In the article it states that Lakshmi is believed to be the goddess of love and beauty. I was always under the impression that Lakshmi was supposed to be the goddess of wealth and money...?
 
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Sister_X

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kayleigh said:
Some argue about whether either is actually monotheistic or polytheistic. I
Although one question, if anyone knows: In the article it states that Lakshmi is believed to be the goddess of love and beauty. I was always under the impression that Lakshmi was supposed to be the goddess of wealth and money...?
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Yeah, i think i have read in my religions class back in high school that lakshmi is the goddess fortune and prosperity.
 
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hussain.mahammed

a lonely traveller
These hindus have made sick ideologies, which they themselves do not follow. The whole system of hinduism is corrupted. Even the word hindu or hinduism are not as ancient as you would think. Their lies get to my nerves.

In fact the word Hindu has no link whatsoever with the subsequently developed creed, ‘Hinduism’. Because the emerge of the word ‘Hindu’ was far more ancient than the surge of the creed, ‘Hinduism’. And as a matter of fact the word ‘Hinduism’ have been coined far more later (i.e. round about after 2000 years) for the creed of the ‘caste-rule’ (i.e. Vern Ashram) by the western orientalists - and thus the word ‘Hindu’ had not been derived from Hinduism, for that could have not been done.

The word Hindu is admittedly a corruption of ‘Sindhu’ - a native of ‘Sindh - Valley’ (i.e. Indus - Valley). And today also the local natives of Sindh, in Pakistan, are called Sindhi, as a common noun from the word Sindh; the local name of the river Indus. Actually when the closest neighbors Iranians invaded the India, in about first half of the first BC millennium, they pronounced the word ‘Sapta Sindhus’ as ‘Haft Hindus’, for in Persian language the word ‘haft’ also denotes seven - and as such the word ‘Haft-Hindus’ is the Persian corruption of ‘Sapta Sindhus’ the then name of the Sindh Valley or Indus Valley. In this way if the word ‘Hindu’ is admittedly the corruption of ‘Sindhu’ - then the word ‘Hindi’ is obviously the corruption of Sindhi.
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check this out
http://www.icssa.org/article_detail_parse.php?a_id=1116&rel=

wa/salam
 
Quratulaine

Quratulaine

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justoneofmillion said:
assalam, don`t you people get it?or do you want me to send you pics from Mitra and dionysus with their respective biographies also?:confused:

wassalam
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it seems that these "gods" have influenced christianity? i found this on wikipedia:

It is possible that Dionysian mythology would later find its way into Christianity. There are many parallels between Dionysus and Jesus; both were said to have been born from a virgin mother, a mortal woman, but fathered by the king of heaven, to have returned from the dead, to have transformed water into wine, and to have been liberator of mankind. The modern scholar Barry Powell also argues that Christian notions of eating and drinking "the flesh" and "blood" of Jesus were influenced by the cult of Dionysus. Certainly the Dionysus myth contains a great deal of cannibalism, in its links to Ino (however, one must note that Dionysian cannibalism has no correlation with self-sacrifice as a means of propitiation). Dionysus was also distinct among Greek gods, as a deity commonly felt within individual followers. In a less benign example of influence on Christianity, Dionysus' followers, as well as another god, Pan, are said to have had the most influence on the modern view of Satan as animal-like and horned.[16] It is also possible these similarities between Christianity and Dionysiac religion are all only representations of the same common religious archetypes. Furthermore, it is worth noting that the story of Jesus turning water into wine is only found in the Gospel of John, which differs on many points from the other Synoptic Gospels. That very passage, it has been suggested, was incorporated into the Gospel from an earlier source focusing on Jesus' miracles.[17]

According to Martin A. Larson in The Story of Christian Origins (1977), Osiris was the first savior, and all soteriology in the region borrowed this religion, directly and indirectly, including Mithraism and Christianity, from an Osirian-Dionysian influence. As with their common dying and resurrected saviors, they all share common sacraments, ostensibly grounded in their reliance on seasonal cereal agriculture, having adopted the rituals with the food itself; Larson notes that Herodotus uses the names Osiris and Dionysus interchangeably and Plutarch identifies them as the same, while the name was anciently thought to originate from the place Nysa, in Egypt (now Ethiopia).

The subject of Dionysus is complex and baffling. The problem is further complicated by the fact that he appears in at least four characters: first, as the respectable patron of the theatre and the arts; second, as the effeminate, yet fierce and phallic mystery-god of the bloodthirsty Maenads; third, as the mystic deity in the temples of Demeter; and fourth, as the divine savior who died for mankind and whose body and blood were symbolically eaten and drunk in the eucharist of the Orphic-Pythagorean celibates. Beyond this, almost all barbarian nations had their own versions of Dionysus under many names. And yet there is a simpler explanation: Dionysus, Bromius, Sabazius, Attis, Adonis, Zalmoxis, Corybas, Serapis, and Orpheus himself are replicas of their grand prototype Osiris; and the variations which appear among them resulted from the transplantation of the god from one country to another, and reflect simply the specific needs of his multifarious worshipers (37-38).
 
apocalypse77

apocalypse77

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hussain.mahammed said:
These hindus have made sick ideologies, which they themselves do not follow. The whole system of hinduism is corrupted. Even the word hindu or hinduism are not as ancient as you would think. Their lies get to my nerves.



check this out
http://www.icssa.org/article_detail_parse.php?a_id=1116&rel=

wa/salam
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they have a classing system for pple who come to their temples and yes in hinduism can is everythnig adn can do anything..no wonder the god become man concept is so pagan
 
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