Yes. Are you saying the Vedas can be superseded? The Srimad Bhagavatam can be rewritten, reinterpreted? Rituals can be set aside? That’s some big hairy coconuts. You’re denying that these religions’ teachings were established by their gods. But I’m forgetting they’re false gods.
When I said superseded I meant superseded by a newer revelation from God. I believe that all revelations from God are superseded by the revelations that come next in succession.
You said that these religions’ teachings were established by their gods.
How were they established? Do you even know or do you just believe?
Who wrote these scriptures?
Vyasa
According to tradition, Vyasa is the compiler of the
Vedas, who arranged the four kinds of mantras into four Samhitas (Collections).
Vedas - Wikipedia
You can believe it but understand you’re going to get some vehement blowback from those practitioners. It’s like someone, let’s say a friendly visit by a school administrator, coming to your house and telling you all the things you do wrong in keeping house and raising your children. You would kind of bristle at that wouldn’t you?
I am not coming to anyone's door telling them they are doing something wrong. I just have a certain belief.
You are the one telling me I am doing something wrong just for having a belief. Jews, Christians and Muslims also have a different belief that they believe superseded Hinduism, why not get after them for their beliefs?
It most certainly is co-opting Hindu belief by changing it to suit someone’s idea or “vision”. You claimed that non-Abrahamics claim your God is a false God. Well, by taking Krishna as just a messenger of your “one true God”, you’ve turned Krishna into a false God. He’s not God anymore, but a messenger is what you’re saying. That’s offensive, an affront.
So you believe that Krishna is a God? This is no different than Christians who believe that Jesus is God. You are free to believe whatever you want to but I will
never believe that any man became God. That is just as offensive to my beliefs as what you believe is offensive to your beliefs and I am sorry of you cannot understand why.
Moreover, if Krishna is God how can Jesus also be God? Oh, I almost forgot, there is more than one god. Try telling a Christian that Krishna is God and see how far you get.
Wrong. Right there that says you have absolutely no idea what Hinduism is, and are speaking from a monolithic Abrahamic position. Hinduism isn’t
one religion. And there are core beliefs that make one a Hindu or not. The Vedas, for one. They are
apauruṣeya, “not of man”. So tell us what men changed it, and how? Now you’re really grasping at straws. I strongly recommend studying this site
Himalayan Academy
BASICS OF HINDUISM
Religions come from God. You tell me how Hinduism came from God.
Sorry, wrong. The problem is that “one true God” belief. There is no need for “one true God”.
I could say the same thing. there is no need for more than one God. The there is only one God was straightened out by Abraham so don't blame the Baha'is for that belief, go after the Jews.
And I would again point out that Bible verses, from your God himself, acknowledges the existence of other gods. He says “strange gods”, “foreign gods”, “no other gods before me”. He himself acknowledges other gods. He just wants to be top dog.
Where? Where, except possibly in Paul’s writings, are the words “false gods”? Implied isn’t good enough in a belief system that has no room for interpretation.
Sorry but no. The Bible does not acknowledge the existence of more than one God so you cannot use the Bible to prove that, you will have to stay with your own scriptures.
"Rather than throw out or ignore those simple, straightforward verses, we should throw out the explanations that contradict them. In theological terms, this is the correct exegetical approach. The Bible proclaims plainly and clearly that there is one and only one God. When the Bible says that God is one, the word one does not refer to a “God Family,” but to one God. Let’s begin by looking at passages in the Old Testament.
Old Testament verses
Deuteronomy 4:35:
“You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides him there is no other.”
Deuteronomy 4:39: “Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.”
Deuteronomy 6:4-5: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.”
Deuteronomy 32:39:
“See now that I myself am He! There is no god besides me.”
1 Samuel 2:1-2: “There is no one holy like the Lord; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.”
2 Samuel 7:22: “How great you are, O Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.”
2 Samuel 22:32: “For who is God besides the Lord? And who is the Rock except our God?”
1 Kings 8:60:
“So that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God and that there is no other.”
2 Kings 19:15-19: “Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: ‘O Lord, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. Give ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to insult the living God. It is true, O Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands. They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by men’s hands. Now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O Lord, are God.’…”
Psalm 18:30-31: “As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is flawless…. For who is God besides the Lord? And who is the Rock except our God?”
Psalm 83:18: “Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord — that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.”
Isaiah 43:10,
13: “‘You are my witnesses,’ declares the Lord, ‘and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me. I, even I, am the Lord, and apart from me there is no savior…. Yes, and from ancient days I am he. No one can deliver out of my hand. When I act,
who can reverse it?’“
Isaiah 44:6-8: “This is what the Lord says — Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God. Who then is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and lay out before me what has happened since I established my ancient people, and what is yet to come — yes, let him foretell what will come. Do not tremble, do not be afraid. Did I not proclaim this and foretell it long ago? You are my witnesses. Is there any God besides me? No, there is no other Rock; I know not one.”
Isaiah 45:5-6: “I am the Lord, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me, so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting men may know there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is no other.”
Isaiah 45:18: “This is what the Lord says — he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited — he says: ‘I am the Lord, and there is no other.’”
Isaiah 45:21-22: “Declare what is to be, present it — let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the Lord? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none but me.”
Isaiah 46:9:
“Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me.”
As you can see, there is no question about the biblical fact that there is one and only one God, not two or more “Gods.” God speaks in the singular, as “I,” saying that he is the only God, and there is no other being that is even like him. That’s why God commands us, “You shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3).
The idea of more than one being in a family of gods is condemned throughout the Scriptures. That was precisely the concept that the polytheistic nations surrounding Israel taught. polytheistic is a word that refers to a belief in more than one god (poly = many; theos = god). The Bible teaches that there is only one God, a belief called monotheism, from mono (one) and theos (God).
A family is made up of more than one being. The pagan hierarchies of gods were made up of more than one “god being,” and at the top of the hierarchy were usually a father god, a mother god and one or more son and daughter gods. The Bible condemns the concept of a family of gods."
How Many Gods Does God Say There Are? | GCI Archive
So what is the one true God of all the religions? Vishnu, Shiva, Ahura Mazda, the Great Spirit of Native Americans? Which? If I were a gambler I’d wager the answer is going to be the God of Abraham.
The one true God is not the God of anyone, it is the God of everyone. No religion owns God.
