Why Hindus Should Reject Jesus

The Evangelical Christians have declared a war on Hinduism and are pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into their pernicious agenda of converting a many Hindus as possible.  Hinduism is the oldest of the world's religions and has always rejected the concept of proselytisation. It spread throughout South East Asia through the truth of it's teachings that were absorbed spontaneously by the local populace. Hindus have never sent out missionaries to convert others and have always welcomed other religions and have given them space to build their churches, mosques and synagogues — even contributing to their construction. Now the same people that we welcomed as guests have now these ingrates have begun to deconstruct the house in which they were welcomed!

My position is that Christianity is a false religion. It is one in which I was baptised and which I have rejected. The reasons being many, but above all it is a religion based entirely on false  premises  such as Adam & Eve, talking snakes, original sin, vicarious sacrifice, resurrection of dead bodies etc. The God of the Christians is an angry, unstable, cranky, spiteful, ungrateful malicious being — who is even worse than the Asuras of Hinduism.

The entire edifice of evangelical1 Christianity is the Bible.  All the evangelical churches claim that the Bible is “The Literal Word of God” in it's entirety, revealed by the Holy Spirit. Modern textual criticism has shown that the Bible is a work of multiple authors who wrote pieces of it over many centuries. It is exactly what we Hindus call a Purana. It has a few extracts of history but consists mainly of tribal legends, myths, magic, hymns etc. The Bible is divided into the Jewish Scriptures called The Old Testament, and the Christian addition which is called the New Testament.  The Old Testament in it's fixed form was put together by the rabbis at the Council of Yavneh in around 70 CE. The New Testament was cobbled together by vote at the Council of Niceah by a council of 300 bishops.

In this article I base all my arguments  entirely on the Bible itself, assuming for the sake of debate that it is Truly the Word of God. Now if  this is so, then Christianity must  fulfil all the conditions that are prescribed in the Bible for it to be considered a valid religion and Jesus must be validated by the Bible  for who he claims to be. So in this article I lay before discerning readers evidence from the Bible itself for each and every thinking person to decide for him/herself. I do not present any Hindu arguments for or against. I merely take the Bible as evidence. I personally do not accept the Bible  as the word of God but  my personal opinion is irrelevant for this discussion, what matters is what the  Christians themselves claim and believe and ask us to believe too! Many Hindus take a very accommodating  attitude and include Jesus among the great Yogis  or even an avatara of Vishnu himself. There is absolutely no historical evidence that Jesus even existed let alone textual evidence that he became a Yogi or an enlightened being! As for being an incarnation of Vishnu — the idea is ludicrous!  So I ask my readers please to have an open mind and allow the text to speak for itself.

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Comments

[Dilip]

This article seems fanatical at best!
this sentence "There is absolutely no historical evidence that Jesus even existed let alone textual evidence that he became a Yogi or an enlightened being"
One can also say the same thing about sri ramanuja, chaitanya mahaprabhu...and as kali yuga advances people may even question the existence of mahatma gandhi.
This article could have promoted the view that Jesus was a vaishnava preaching love of god to his people in a way they could understand at that time and place...and people should simply love god instead of being stuck up in the mundane rituals of a book or religion (christianity)