Hindu Polytheism

[Contarini]

How interesting in that this contradicts everything that the catholics, who have said there is a hindu trinity, have been saying. Still I would prefer the sources themselves to that of a modern hindu’s idea concerning them if only for the sake of seeing the idea in its non developed and simplistic form.

Not that your view or perspective is bad or anything, but I get the feeling what some have done is look at what seems to me more akin to a triad, a group of Gods and have confused it for the trinitarian doctrine which has been very well defined in Christianity.

The difference is, if anything, the other way round. At least in the Advaita Vedanta version of Hindu philosophy, the distinctions among the gods (and indeed between gods and anything else) are not ultimately real. The one Reality manifests itself in many forms. So any Hindu Trinity, at least according to that philosophy, will be in our terms “modalist.”

Christians believe that there is a real eternal relationship among the persons of the Trinity, and between the Trinity and those created beings who have been drawn by grace into the life of the Trinity.

Now Hinduism is very diverse, so I don’t want to overgeneralize.

Edwin

 

[Gary_Sheldrake]

I am not going to scour through hindu texts to find proof of a subject you say is absolutely there. You need to provide the references to the text itself. I don’t let the atheists and skeptics get away with not providing references so I won’t let Christians get away with it either.

I have given you the texts, and have also explained that the whole premise of the Bhagavad Gita is about an incarnation of Vishnu, who is part of the Trimurti. Now, as to whether or not you read the texts or chose to disbelieve that they exist is really of no consequence to me. I am not an atheist, a Hindu or a skeptic. Skeptics are not really skeptics by the way, as they have their own belief system and their own set of dogmas, and their outright rejection of anything that goes against their belief system of disbelief is a reaction like any other belief system when confronted with that which disagrees with their beliefs. I have presented the facts and the materials and have “gotten away” with nothing.