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Comparing the Bible to other religions
As we have already mentioned in our last post, now that we have written
how the Bible describes creation and the creation of man, let us compare the
Bible to the Indus religions for a start, which is again one of the larger
religions of the world.
Now, to talk about religions is hard indeed, since we usually have to
repeat the same things again and again just to create that atmosphere of
belief, to read and understand a religious book might be okay, if allowance is
made to fill the voids that have purposely been made as they always leave
doubts within your mind, but when it comes to tell the public and you have to
repeat what you have learned, then the trouble starts, because the best thing
is to read the book to them. However most times this cannot be done and in this
case because we are writing would be a copyright infringement if we write
everything down the way that has been written in the book.
In order to overcome that we have to find a way that keeps the
information as close as possible to the text we have learned, but at the same
time allows us to say the same thing in a different way; for example; We would
like to write and inform the readers about the Laws of Manu, which is one of
the main sacred Indus books and perhaps the best book to explain creation and
the creation of the castes according to the Indus religions.
Now, because we cannot read from the book since we are writing and not
talking, first of all, we would like to find somebody that knows a bit about
Hinduism and The Laws of Manu, perhaps an Indian who knows about religions. Now
hoping the he does not mind to help us, we will ask him about what his religion
says about creation and the creation of man, which in this case will be the castes,
since in India there are castes and how these castes came about. We would like
to know about the castes because here we are writing about the creation of man.
Let me say this, we are going to ask this Indian about religions and see
what he has to say, at the same time we will be reading and checking with The
Laws of Manu book just to make sure that we don’t end up saying something that
doesn’t make sense, because we want to stay with the main stream of the Indus
religions and in particular with the Laws of Manu, since we believe that it is
the best religious book to follow.
Now let us see how the Indus religions start, according to the Laws of
Manu sacred book:
Briefly speaking the great sages asked the great Manu about the creation
and the creation of the castes, and Manu answered them accordingly.
Here we are not able to continue until we talk to our Indian friend
Butta as soon as we are able to, because as we have said we would like to know
also from real people what they think about their own religion.
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The Laws of Manu creation
In this article we are going to talk about
the Laws of Manu, but to do that we are going to talk to some Indian people
about their religion, we know some Indian people and therefore we are going to
talk to them and see what they say about their religion. In our case we already
know that in India there are many sorts of religions, and we know also that as
soon as anyone asks an Indian about their religions, they are going to say that
it is not easy to talk about just a religion, because there are too many
divisions in their religions. Having this in mind, we are going to ask our
friends, how their religious leaders explain creation, because we believe that
the creation of the world and creation of man would be mostly the same in all
Indus religions.
Finally we have been able to talk to our
Indian friend Butta and a few other Indian people and we told them that the
other day we were talking with some of our friends about the world creation and
the creation of mankind; of course we were talking about our own Christian
religions and our beliefs of how everything started. Now just out of curiosity
and perhaps to compare two different religions, we would like to know how the
Indian religions describe creation and the creation of mankind, it took us a
while to convince our friend to talk, but in the end he said:
Look, I don’t know a lot about religions
because I am not a Brahman, but I can tell you a few things that I have learned
during my life. It seems to me that what you want to know is too much from me
to explain, so I would suggest that you read The Laws of Manu, where these
things are explained, however I am telling you what I can.
You see in the Laws of Manu there are these
sages that ask the divine Manu these same questions that you are asking me, so
if you want to know exactly how everything was created and everything else read
this book. Now just to give you an idea how the world started it goes like
this:
This universe existed in the shape of
darkness, wholly immersed, as it were, in a deep sleep. And then the divine
Self existent Svayambhu, appeared with creative powers dispelling the darkness.
Desiring to produce many kind of beings
from his body, he created the waters and placed his seed in them, his seed
became a golden egg and from the egg was born Brahman, the progenitor of the
world. Brahman being the progenitor of the world created everything else, this
is how the world started, and now let us sees how the four castes or mankind
started.
Mankind was started from Brahman, and it is
said that in order to protect the universe, the most resplendent one assigned
separate occupations to those that sprang from his mouth, arms, thighs, and
feet.
The Brahmans who sprang from his mouth he
assigned teaching and studying the Veda, they are like the priests or the house
of Levi in the Bible, if one wants to compare them to the western religions.
Now, because the Brahmans sprang from Brahman’s and possesses the Veda, he is
by right the lord of all creation.
The Kshatriya he commanded to protect the
people, to study the Veda and other duties.
The Vaisya to tend cattle, to offer
sacrifices, to study the Veda and other duties
The occupation of the Sudra is to serve
meekly the other three castes.
If you want to read more about The Laws of
Manu,
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Conclusions
Now let us talk briefly the pagan religions,
that were the main religions in the western world before Christianity, this
religion had many gods and goddesses and many other things and beliefs. Anyhow
here is a hub link to check it out, it is good to know, just click on this
link,
What we have written above are the three main religions of the world,
and it is worth to compare them in order to learn about ourselves. It is
necessary to learn all this since today we have also to take into consideration
evolution, and other religions that explain their own ways about the creation
and the creation of mankind. So we should wonder which one of these theories is
the closest to the truth.
Anyhow we would like to add more articles about creation later on if we
can, but for the time being we are happy to say that these three religions
cover most about creation, the only other thing we can say is that there is no
real creation in the ancient religions. So these religions say very little
about creation, and when they say anything is very vague; In Greek and Roman
mythology it seems that creation started with Mother Earth and the sky, somehow
the god Eros was born from them and he started to stir thing up and most things
were created from this chaos that Eros created and many other strange things,
of course some of this information is also in the link above, (hub me/agotl).
Of course we may believe that if we mix all religions and what is
believed about creation in religions, we might come to believe that perhaps
evolution has the upper hand, but this is not to say that God and other
spiritual being have not played a part in creating every living thing, because
we believe they have, as we are going to mention this in our religious theory
of Reconciliation of the universe, in this third part of our religious writings.
In this very complex world of religions and religious beliefs, one may
wish that there is a supernatural power to help him, and thus I say; May God
guide and help me to say the right things in these religious writings.
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Man needs God
Talking about creation
IS TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, compare the Bible creation to other religions
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