Peace,
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Originally Posted by
powerofdharma
"In Islam, God does what He wills and He is independent of us. While we are in need of Him."
In Hinduism, the soul is a part of God. Thus God is not independent of us. There is a relationship between God and His devotee.
I recommend you study Islam, in Islam God is All-Powerful and independent of everything.
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"Do you worship the creation while it cannot bring you any benefit or harm?"
Hinduism preaches us not pray for gaining any benefit. Praying to God in Hinduism is just an expression of our love for him.
If there's no benefit in praying and it's useless, why pray then?
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"How can the creation be above the Creator? In Islam parents are held in high status and we are commanded to respect and be kind towards our parents. However, God is above everything."
In Hinduism, the creator and His creation are NOT different things. It has a bit of duality. God in Hinduism teaches us that our parents and teachers come before Him.
If humans come before God, I suppose He isn't that important then? And according to Hinduism because a person is God's creation, he is also the creator (as they aren't different things)? So people are god?
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"Can't God, the All-Powerful be loved without the help of idols?"
Of course he can be loved without the help of idols. So many Hindus worship(love) him without the help of idols. God has given free will to his devotees. He has not made it a compulsion to pray to Him. It is totally based on the devotees choice. If someone adores God, he gets closer to Him.
Why even believe in God then?
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"Is God what a human perceive Him to be? What if someone else perceives him differently than you? Does this mean there are many gods?
For example, person A sees that god has a wife while person B sees God is One, without sons, without any partners. Does this mean there are two gods?
Does everyone have his own god? Does this mean person A has one god and person B another god? Wait, doesn't this mean there are two gods? 1+1=2"
Suppose there are many pots (full of water) lined up under the Sun. As the Sun is reflected in each pot, a pot might think that the Sun is his own. But the sun is only one. Similarly, in Hinduism every Hindu thinks that God is his own. He perceives him however he feels like. He adores him in his own manner.
This analogy fails, because the Sun is independent of how the pot thinks and sees it. It is still yellow, warm and has the same qualities. It doesn't matter in the least how we see it. This doesn't apply to God, in your definition, as it is what people perceive Him to be, and needless to say people perceive him differently. My question remains:
- For example, person A sees that god has a wife while person B sees God is One, without sons, without any partners. Does this mean there are two gods?
Does everyone have his own god? Does this mean person A has one god and person B another god? Wait, doesn't this mean there are two gods? 1+1=2 -
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"How can God, who is Perfect and capable of everything, be a slave of some imperfect and erroneous humans?"
Because God is unlimited, He likes to enjoy an unlimited number of relationships, each unique. We each have a unique relationship with God, revealed when our love for Him matures. While impersonalists want to become one with God, devotees can attain the position of being greater than God. In the intimacy of pure love, they can tell God what do to, and He loves to hear it.
Shouldn't Hindus then tell those higher devotees to tell God to remove poverty from the world? That is if God hears and obeys them.
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"Now did God change into creation? Maybe it's time to make up one's mind, is God a creation or Creator?"
In Hinduism, God is omnipresent. We donot classify creator and creation differently. Hindu God incarnates on this planet.
That means God is in creation also as he is omnipresent. Does this mean God is created? By who?
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"I thought you said God is how the slave perceives him? If two people perceive God differently, then He wouldn't be the same for everyone."
Yup! But the power behind the appearance remains the same.
If two people perceive the power differently, then the power wouldn't be the same for everyone. Right?
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"Didn't God, the Guider, give you any guidance? "
In Hinduism, God never gave us any guidance on how to pray to Him. He guided us on how to become a better person. He told us about our role in the society. He taught us how to love. Infact, he never asked us to pray to Him. He just asked us to love Him. In Hinduism, saints and wise men are regarded higher than God. So their guidance is considered to be supreme.
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" Islam isn't created by man. It's a religion ordained by God. Because in Islam, we do not decide what we are allowed to do and what not according to our whims and desires. Rather we submit to Allah's will and follow His will."
We believe that God never created religion. It is His devotees who created the religion. A devotee who has reached the highest level of spirituality via his devotion, wisdom and good deeds is considered to be a saint. We thus follow such wise men.
Is god stupid, does bad deeds and isn't devoted in Hinduism and so you follow wiser men?