ManusJustus said:
The Old Testament sums up the God of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The argument covers other gods with human characteristics as well. I cannot think of a God in any religion that does not have human characteristics (please feel free to prove me wrong). |
God and gods of Hinduism: Brahman:
For Hinduism there may be millions of gods!... however, these gods are not God, they can not make stars, nor roses, nor human hearts... they should not be adored.
"Brahman" is called the Absolute, the only one real God.
Though believed by many Hinduism to be a polytheistic religion, the basis of Hinduism is the belief in the unity of everything. This totality is called Brahman, the Absolute, the Supreme Being, the Ultimate Reality, the Divine... also called "Bhagvan", or "Ishvara"... the purpose of life is to realize that we are part of God and by doing so we can leave this plane of existence and rejoin with God.
Everything in the universe is part of Brahman, (including each one of us), but Brahman is more than the sum of everything in the universe.
Hindus believe that each soul is an individual, and yet is also a part of the Divine; is part of "God".
Brahman is not a personal being in the sense that Christians think of God as a personal being. For most Hindus this God is not a person but a force, an energy, a principle... Brahman is entirely impersonal, and entirely impossible to know or to describe. Brahman is a supreme, perfect spirit or force that permeates everything.
Different aspects of Brahman:
There is only one ultimate reality, Brahman. But that ultimate reality shows itself in many forms or functions, and some of those formsor functions are called gods, they are not separate gods but they are valid to worship, according to Hinduism.
The gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, for example, are different epic aspects of Brahman:
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