Email Response to a Hindu Brother
Email Exchange - May 11 2017
Abhinav: I recently came across your video about Hare Krishna. where you appear to be so confident, that is good i would like to talk with confident people.so here i am.and i hope you will response to me without showing back to me. so that we can have better understanding of Religion.
Glory Apologetics: Dear Brother, Thank you for writing to us. I appreciate your interest in knowing more about Christ whom we call as our lord and saviour. I am glad that you have raised some questions and my assumption is that you want to analyse the truth claim made by us. I will describe each points in detail with lot of examples. Hope you don’t get bored in reading.
Abhinav: i have following questions to you. Q1-we see that some body is born poor,some body is rich some body is healthy some body unhealthy,handicapped so why is there discrimination.is God discriminating them.is God cruel,masochist.so what answer do you have in Christianity.
Glory Apologetics: This is an interesting and painful question, which disturbs every individual irrespective of his/her faith. I would like to answer from a biblical perspective as requested.
Firstly, the question assumes that everything from the beginning is in a bad shape, which is not true. Poverty, Disease, physical infirmities etc. are the after effects of SIN. Bible in the first chapter of Genesis repeatedly claims “Everything that God was good”. However, due to the fall of Adam and Eve, sin and curse took control over their descendants that resulted in poverty, disease, infirmities etc. In Romans 3:23 we read that we have fallen short of the glory which is why there is so much of suffering and evil in this world. Broken communion with a perfect God cannot promise a perfect life because he alone is perfect. God never discriminates because he loves us unconditionally. His love manifested on the cross, brings us the promise of re-union with the perfect God for a perfect eternal life when Christ appears again. I invite you to accept the Perfect God’s Perfect offering on the cross for a perfect life in eternity.
Abhinav: Q2.you talk about original sin, father committed sin so son should also suffer. What is the logic in the that.why should son suffer.
Glory Apologetics: I am glad that you already anticipated our response to your first question and framed the second question accordingly. It might seem difficult and illogical to accept the fact that everyone is born as sinners because of two people who we never met. However, we need to keep one thing in mind that we are talking about spiritual things. Since you are talking about Logic, let me try few examples on how I see this.
1 – Let’s assume my father takes a huge loan of 10 crores from XYZ bank and buys a house, car and other things for us. Unfortunately, he dies before paying it off. Will the bank let us free? Will they not ask his legal son (Me) to continue paying the EMIs on behalf of my father? If I deny, will they not seize all our property? We may come on streets and poverty will hit us bad. Should we tell the bank official to ask my dad not me because he is the one who took loan? What was my fault? Why should I pay the loan? Is that your logic?
2 – Take example of Hiroshima/Nagasaki bomb blast. The after effects and genetic disorders are still seen in their descendants. What was their fault? They were not even born. Why should they be suffering?
Above two examples are still materialistic but we are talking about spiritual thing. Let me give one more example to make it very simple.
3 – When you plug a LED bulb to the power source it glows. You can have many bulbs connected to the same wire one after the other. All bulbs will start glowing, until its main plug is connected to the power socket.
What will happen when you remove the plug? Will the 4th or 5th bulb continue to glow? It cannot, because the main plug that supplies the source is not connected to the main socket. Similarly, God is the Main source and Adam and eve are the first bulb connected to the source. Will the wire meaning their descendants carry power to glow? They are unplugged from the Perfect source. How can we expect their descendants to be perfect?.
You can relax and be rest assured now. Because Jesus helps us to re-unite to the main source. Hence, he says “I am the way the truth and the life”. The bulb cannot connect itself to the source. It needs someone more powerful or may be the owner/creator to do it. Jesus being God does it for you! He will give you eternal life.
Abhinav: Q3.when Jesus says that thou shall not kill but you interpret it as.thou shall not murder.why is that .do you want to say Jesus does not have a understanding of English words. is that so.Jesus ate meat in emergency situation, we dont find description anywhere else throughout the bible Jesus eating meet
Glory Apologetics: There are many problems in the question. Let me try to answer as clearly as I can.
First, the question completely ignores the context. In Matthew 5:21-26 Jesus is quoting the sixth commandment from Exodus 20:13 in the Old Testament.
There is a context for both Exodus 20:13 as well as Matthew 5:21-26
Let us see the overall context for Exodus 20:13.
According to the Bible not all killing is murder. Murder is the unlawful taking of a human life. The command not to murder applies to human beings and not to animals. God gave animals to mankind for his use (Genesis 1:26-30; 9:1-4). But, this does not mean that humans have the right mistreat animals and the environment (Genesis 2:15; Deuteronomy 22:6-7; 25:4; Proverbs 12:10).
Under the Old Covenant ancient Israelites were allowed to kill other humans under very special circumstances such as punishment for certain sins, for example, murder (Exodus 21:12-14, Leviticus 24:17, 21) and adultery (Leviticus 20:10, Deuteronomy 22:22-24). God also allowed the Israelites to engage in warfare and even gave them instructions about waging war (Deuteronomy 20:1-20). God also recognized that humans might accidentally kill each other, and he made provisions for this (Numbers 35:9-34; Deuteronomy 19:1-13).
The primary reason God hates murder is that out of all creation, only human are made in his image and likeness (Genesis 1:26-27; 9:4-6). Even before the codification of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai, the murder of other human beings was wrong (Genesis 4:8-12; 4:23-24; 9:4-6; Exodus 1:16-17). While on earth, Jesus spoke out against murder (Matthew 5:21-26; Mark 10:17-19). We also see in the writings of Paul (Romans 1:18, 29-32; 13:8-10; Galatians 5:19-21), James (James 2:8-11; 4:1-3), Peter (1 Peter 4:15-16) and John (Revelation 9:20-21; 21:7-8; 22:14-15) that murder is wrong. (from bible.org)
Secondly, In Matthew 5:21-26 Jesus amplifies the meaning of the sixth commandment "thou shall not kill." He brings out that to commit murder means more then just killing someone, it means having an angry and unforgiving attitude towards them.
Please go back to my video and check the references I quoted where Jesus is eating meat. He is not eating under any emergency. Please read it once.
Abhinav: Q4.you say animals have no soul. I don't know which world you are in .how can you have such blind faith without any reasoning.we are in a scientific world .we know even plants have life so they do have soul what to say of animals.that's the reason that people even where Christianity originated have given it up and they are either turned atheist or hare Krishna. but still you are believing such things. what proof do you have that animals have no soul.because human and animals have the same symptoms of life as the animals have.if that logic is extended then human beings also does not have soul.
Glory Apologetics: The problem with your question is that you are blindly trusting Amogh Lila. Moreover, based on his answers, you are raising such questions. In one of his videos, he tries to argue that humans and animals have same function of eating, mating, sleeping therefore both have soul and are equal which is completely wrong.
We do live in a world of science and it is not against what we Christians believe. Please do little research on Soul and Spirit.
Biblically, we believe that human beings are made in the image of God (Genesis 1:26) but animals are not. In the bible, Soul and spirit are interchangeably used but both are separately described which is best understood when read in context. To make it very simple, I will use the below format to explain.
Human beings have:
Flesh – Material that returns to earth after death
Soul – Living source (Breathe) ceases once man is dead
Spirit – Immaterial that never ceases to exist and goes to heaven or hell.
Bible makes many claims about the eternality of human spirit. However, there is no reference for animals being in the image of God. Unlike human beings, Animals do not have spirit because their existence in only limited to earth not to eternity.
Science does not have answers for spiritual enquiries. Science is limited to this finite world and we are talking about the infinite world. Science may not be able to prove that humans have spirit but it cannot disprove either. Therefore, you cannot use this argument.
People who struggle with these kind of questions not only leave Christianity but other faiths too. I wish everyone were as serious as you are. Bible has answers for everything.
Abhinav: Q4these are the reason Christianity is incomplete in its understanding. the people whom Jesus were preaching to were indeed were very fallen that s the reason one of the best disciple cheated him.we can understand the mentality of the people that one man is coming to save them but they betrayed him for small amount of money.in Hinduism we have never seen such disloyal people till today and throughout history.this proves they were most fallen whom Jesus were preaching to.what understanding these people can have about religion who can not even practice morality.
Glory Apologetics: Dear brother, you are attacking and mocking the Christian faith without studying it. Please refrain from such things for any worldview. You cannot make such statements unless you have studied it. Nevertheless, I will answer your question.
You are talking about Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver coin. Because of this you are brutally insulting the people of Jesus’s time and his disciples. This is sad!
Yes! Judas betrayed Jesus because he was a normal human being with a sinful nature but there is a powerful lesson for all of us. Just being a Christian one does not become the true follower of Jesus. He has to have Jesus in him. Unfortunately, Judas let his evil desires take control of him and betrayed Jesus later he regretted. However, do you know what did the other disciples do? I am sure you do not know because you have never read the bible. They gave their life in preaching the gospel. Please read the bible and do not trust anyone who preaches misleading ideas on social media.
I do study Hinduism, but I am surprised that you can make such claims. I am sure you have not read your scriptures too. Please read “Valmiki Ramayana”. “Rama” who you call god cheats his war opponent “Vali” and kills him from behind the tree, which is against the war code. Rama the one who doubts his wife’s loyalty. Morality? Did you ever read “Krishna leela”? I can give many examples. Please study and research before making such claims.
Abhinav: Q5.you say Jesus is God but we say he can be son of God not God himself.other how is that people are crucifying him.in your understanding God may be killed but in Hinduism God is never killed rather he kill the demons always by his supreme prowess .
Glory Apologetics: You can watch our videos where I have given 50 reasons proving Jesus is God.
About Jesus dying on the cross, you can watch this video:
Are you sure that in Hinduism gods were never killed? I encourage you to read about
Krishna and the hunters arrow
Rama and Bali
Rama, Lakshmana and their fate in sarayu river
Lord Narasimha(Avatar of Vishnu) getting killed by Sharaba(Avatar of Shiva)
I can go on as there are many more. Please read all the sources and then comment.
Abhinav: I hope you will have some answer for these question and will reply back soon.
Glory Apologetics: Dear brother, as requested I have spent good amount of time in writing this email response because we love you. Please remember, Only Jesus can offer eternal life. His love is so great that he gave his life as a sacrifice to save you and everyone from the eternal hell fire. He rose again to give us new life. Please research more as we are not inviting you to a blind faith but a reasonable faith.
If you need more answer, please do not hesitate to write to us. Hope to hear again.
Jesus is waiting for you!
Regards,
Francis
Glory Apologetics
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After this email response, as usual typical hindutva goons would do, he became vicious and threatening on his email hence I chose to ignore responding!
