Posted by on February 25, 2010 at 17:01:31
In Reply to: Re: Prof. M.M.Ninan Emergence-of-Hinduism-from-Christianity posted by Farmer on February 24, 2010 at 05:36:19:
Farmer:
Sorry about all the typos, etc.
By the way, on the link I gave, I wanted to say that I see God too big (I.e. INFINITE) so as to NEED a "pre-Adamic flood". Adam, according to both Jesus and Paul, was the first man, and his/Eve's Fall brought death to the entire universe; personal, universal and geological/biological. Lucifer's/fallen angels' fall was confined to earth, and occured at an undisclosed time.
I do believe Scripture where it says that in the days of Peleg, the "earth was divided", and that that was LATER than the Tower of Babel, and had HUGE geological ramifications, the greatest in history so far, then (the dividing of the Pangea continent created in Genesis' early chapters).
I believe that the breaking up of the "fountains of the deep" the dissolution of the original vapor covering oover the planet, "that it my not return again to cover the earth", and that available geological/geophysical data (which I have studied professionally, by the way) expresses the catastrophism of the results of a world-wide Flood; the one in Genesis. If Hinduism is so old, and knows so much, why is there no mention of the Genesis flood?
I believe that "Templecraft", if you will, along the lines of The Epic of Gilgamesh (demon-influenced counterfeit story of the Flood) was the beginning of Hinduism, and promoted an "I AM, and none beside Me" demon/self worship.
The "Epic" story made the Genesi record look ridiculous, and Hinduism tried to replace its necessity--man as a sinner, needing the to-come promised Messiah of Genesis 3:16 AND John 3:16.
Hinduidsm's old. So what? It's as evil as you can get; claiming to literally fulfill the "Ye shall be as Gods" false promise of Satan, along with the arrogant limiting and questioning of Gods' simple communication to Adam and Eve; of His ability to reveal His will as well as insulting His motives, and love for His own creation.
Oh, and by the way, the Nag Hammadi library proves that classic Gnosticism arose in the 2nd Century; NOT that Christianity was a corruption of IT. Wrong.
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