Christian vs. Hindu: What is the Best Explanation of Past Life Experiences? 

hindus who are realise the truth of hindusim they convert

Incidentally, Arjuna, are you VEGAN? 🌱

Hinduism is not pagan and im saying that as a muslim

@@theguyver4934 Some consider themselves Pagan or polytheist but yes some schools of Hinduism even consider themselves monotheist.

May I ask what being a pagan means to you? (I.e., what is a brief summary of your spiritual belief?)

@@jecolibri1803 I appreciate your question. So I am a Māori the indigenous people of Aotearoa commonly referred to as New Zealand. We are a Polynesian people. Māori tradition holds that all of existence is sustained by the supreme being whom we call Io Matua Kore. Io is a distant detached deity that we have nothing to do with though naturally respect. We don't however incorporate worship of her or whatever into our daily lives. Beneath Io is the sky father Ranginui & the earth mother Papatūānuku. We respect both of these dieties though we don't worship them. The primordial parents had 70 sons all of whom control different elements such as the sea, the forest, etc. Although we respect all of them minus Whiro (the god of death & disease) we worship none of them except for 2 of them. The war god Tūmatauenga (who is the protector of the Māori people) & the peace god Rongomatane. The Māori people are divided into waka (tribal federations), iwi (tribes), hapu (clans), & whanau (extended family units of 3 generations). Every waka (tribal federation), iwi (tribe), hapu (clan), & in the case of nobility whanau (extended family unit) has one or more gods or goddesses that they worship. The traditional religion of the Māori people is called Māoritanga & we do not want converts. In fact one can't convert. One has to be born into it. Over half of all Māori still adhere to Māoritanga however unfortunately many have gone for other religions. Christianity in particular is one such religion. I worship the goddess of my family, the god of my clan, the god of my tribe, the god of my tribal federation & of course the war god Tūmatauenga & the peace god Rongomatane. Again we don't want converts. We have no interest in forcing or persuading others to worship as we do. I personally want ALL Māori that have fallen astray to return home.

​@brycepardoe658 as a hindu I'm concerned that that might be impossible,considering the amount of people converting to Christianity & Islam nowadays,dharmic & tribal religions will hardly exist in the future

My guy I’m Indian born a Sikh and excepted Christ into my heart about 2 weeks ago. Looking to be baptized soon. Roman Catholic is not in line with christs teachings. The pope is evil. He’s related spreading the gospel to jihad calls himself god. That’s a huge nono that’s why you felt the “Holy Spirit” all along cause it wasn’t the Holy Spirit it’s evil Hinduism to Catholicism it’s pagan practices

Make sure, be certain of your salvation. I believe you. But it's generally a good thing to be certain with God, because God's Word is certain :) I'm not encouraging doubt, I'm encouraging faith. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man comes to the Father except through him. God bless you.

You were never with Hare Krishna's. There's no such thing as "Hari Krishnas"

The crazy thing is that we forget about our past lives, so being "alive" feels terrible. You will never truly know that you lived the life that you lived and you will be looking at what seems to be another human.

@@TheSpacePlaceYT I do not think there is such a thing as a past life.

The purgatory concept is not biblical.

​@@TheSpacePlaceYT these answers already have been explained in better way. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KQb0qEyFG8s.html

According to the Bhagavad Gita it is the combination of unfulfilled desires/Karma that keep living entities coming back for more(like smokers wanting another Cigarette? 🤔😆). And as Krishna explains to Arjuna(not the guy in the Debate 🙂)the living entity is naturally limited/forgetful while inside the physical body, which is just a temporary vehicle/dress/tool for the Jiva(living Entity)to experience the material world/do stuff(like sex/food/sports etc). Once it is out of the body, it is free from its physical/mental restraints. But it still has desires it wants to fulfill, which lead to reincarnation and inevitable impermanent enjoyment/suffering. That's why Krishna advises Arjuna to surrender to him/follow his teachings to escape the cycle of rebirth.

Good Girl! 👌 Incidentally, are you VEGAN? 🌱

I gotta watch the full debate .

​@@ReverendDr.Thomasweird comment

​@@newglof9558, I guess I am a weirdo. I would LOATHE to be a "normie".

thank you for this comment

Think about it this way, the Hindus claim that you have a physical gross body(Sthula Sharira), a subtle body(Sukhshma Sharira)to move around with once the soul leaves the body and the Causal Body(Karana Sharira)where the reactions to your Karma are stored and which causes the living Entity to reincarnate due to previous actions and desires. I can't say anything about the Causal Body, but we definitely have a gross(physical)body. And many accident victims tell of being able to float outside their bodies in the Hospital and being able to listen to the conversations of the medical Staff, even away from their location, lets say in the Break Room or outside of the Hospital. And to be able to see even if blind when inside the physical body.

Great and lowly are RELATIVE. 😉 Incidentally, are you VEGAN? 🌱

@@andymetternich3428 yes but how does Hinduism account for the many people throughout the world that claim to have seen the all powerful all Loving being of light and coming back to believe in God in one way or another . Hinduism can’t explain this aspect of the NDE and this is seen by atheists as well as theists alike . In dr Jeffrey longs study there were a few dozen atheists who saw this perfect being of light and he tracked them over 16 years and after those 16 years only one of those atheists remained an atheist . Dr long himself is a pantheist . Great guy and has always responded to my emails with humility and kindness

@@ReverendDr.Thomas no. Everything else would be hypocritical.

Then you need to look at inclusivism which is even better .

Can you elaborate? @cjs1986 and @angelbrother1238 lol

@@jecolibri1803 inclusivism says that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and that what he did on the cross is more widespread then what exclusivists believe . Inclusivism says that Jesus died for our sins but under inclusivism you can only be judged by knowingly denying Jesus as lord and savior, not for what you unknowingly deny . If you were born in a Muslim country and never had a chance to know Jesus , how can you be judged for what it innocently don’t know . Justin martyr one of the first Christian apologists called the pagan atheists of his time that performed acts of goodness and godliness towards others unconscious Christian’s or friends of Christ . There are many Christian’s that believe in Christ but believe in him because they were born into the faith . And then there are some like me who were born into it , questioned it and became atheists and then delved deeper and came back to Christianity again . Most people in this day and age work too many hours and are so busy that they simply don’t have the time to look through the evidences . In fact most of my fellow Christian’s don’t even know the evidence for Christ . CS lewis was a Christian inclusivist , William lane craig was also an inclusivist and pastor billy graham was an inclusivist . Graham’s inclusivism was so strong that he said that certain atheists can also make it to heaven . Here are some good quotes . wesleyanarminian.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/respected-inclusivist-theologians/ Justin Martyr, 103-165: “We have been taught that Christ is the first-born of God, and we have declared above that He is the Word of whom every race of men were partakers; and those who lived reasonably are Christians, even though they have been thought atheists; as, among the Greeks, Socrates and Heraclitus, and men like them; and among the barbarians, Abraham, and Ananias, and Azarias, and Misael, and Elias, and many others…” (The First Apology 46) Billy Graham, Evangelist, 1918- “I think that everybody that loves Christ knows Christ, whether they’re conscious of it or not, they’re members of the body of Christ… Whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world, or the Christian world, or the non-believing world, they are members of the body of Christ because they’ve been called by God. They may not even know the name of Jesus, but they know in their hearts they need something that they don’t have and they turn to the only light they have and I think they’re saved and they’re going to be with us in heaven.”(Billy Graham, Interview with Robert Schuller) William Lane Craig, Apologist, 1949- ” But the Bible says that the unreached will be judged on a quite different basis than those who have heard the gospel. God will judge the unreached on the basis of their response to His self-revelation in nature and conscience. The Bible says that from the created order alone, all persons can know that a Creator God exists and that God has implanted His moral law in the hearts of all persons so that they are held morally accountable to God (Rom. 1.20; 2.14-15). The Bible promises salvation to anyone who responds affirmatively to this self-revelation of God (Rom. 2.7)..” (Craig, Can a Loving God Send People to Hell?) C.S. Lewis, Apologist, 1898-1963: “…But the truth is God has not told us what His arrangements about the other [unreached] people are. We do know that no man can be saved except through Christ; we do not know that only those who know Him can be saved through Him.” (Lewis, Mere Christianity)

@@jecolibri1803 did my response help you to understand Christian inclusivism ?

If you think God wouldn't be so cruel to have us reincarnate, then wouldn't the same question apply to having us take one birth? What if reincarnation makes it so more people are saved? Couldn't some people who rejected God in this life accept him in a future life?

@@TheologyUnleashed That question would only apply to non-saved people. To me, it wouldn’t make sense to reincarnate people who are already saved. Such a notion relies on the assumption that people are only products of their environment, but if human beings have free will, then such rebellion would carry over to other lives. This also relies on the notion that God wants us to be perfect beings through trial and error, but grace is a gift offered by God, not a right. The goal of Christianity is to know Christ, not to be perfect. Scripture is also clear that a man dies once, and then the judgement.

@@batman5224 of course you don't reincarnate if you're saved.

@@batman5224 changing different experiences can help us grow and learn in different ways. It's common for Christians to give soul building theodicies to explains why there's suffering in the world. It seems to me that many objections to reincarnation create problems for soul building theodicies.

@@TheologyUnleashed Soul-building doesn’t work with reincarnation because in most cases, people don’t remember their past lives. It’s basically restarting a game and hoping the results will be different. That’s the very definition of being arbitrary.

Ricebag insult was coined for folks like you. It's okay if you're Grandfather or you choose to follow Christianity but don't spew hinduphobic crap especially when you're clueless about the Metaphysics of Hinduism. Also Idol worship isn't a thing. We worship God through statues and icons

😂😂😂 yea illusioned mind u have become now

You went from worshipping Hindu gods, to worshipping a god that demanded a human blood sacrifice in a cross and that is racist and believes that Israel is superior to other nations.

@@tafazzi-on-discord Still a racist arbitrary god unworthy of worship.

Lol come on we all Indian very well know how your grandfather was converted 😂😂 monthly rice bags during famine caused by colonialism

John the Baptist was not a reincarnate of Elijah. It has been refuted well enough. Look over on the internet for correct interpretation. Don't fall for anything which is shown to you without confirming it with the scriptures. It's really dangerous.

You are not really a Christian The devil has blinded you

"If reincarnation is true all shoukd remember" whats the argument for that?

"Any punishment is only of value if you are coscious of your misdeeds"...lol...obviously not. We dont let non moral agent humans go without punishment. Plus karma is more naunced. Fire burns wheter you know it will burn or not.

​@@Nathan-rn7wl If some people are able to remember incidents from their previous birth, it means that memory resides in the soul that migrates. Because physical brain is destroyed at death. If memory is carried into the next birth through the soul tht migrates, then every soul should remember incidents from previous births. Not just one previous birth.

​@@Nathan-rn7wl "We don't let non moral agent humans go without punishment " All human beings are moral agents. They all have a moral compass of right and wrong and also self will. Thus to murder is a moral decision of an individual. And the individual is punished because he is conscious of his choice. And the punishment has meaning because he understands that he has been punished for his wrong moral choice. When a person has no memory of any wrong he has done, how can any suffering be " reaping of what the person has sown" when the person has no consciousness of what he has sown. So a baby born with mental abnormalities is unnecessarily suffering for something the baby is not responsible in this birth. It is a great injustice.

@@augustinewilliam3855 "all human beings are moral agents" Arw you a child? Or really that naive?

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KQb0qEyFG8s.html

How do you think karma differs from you reap what you sow?

@@TheologyUnleashed Karma vs ‘you reap what you sow’. Personally, I like the one word definition but as I have traversed the subject of reincarnation and karma to rebirth and you reap what you sow I have found them both to have different meanings to many. You being a practising Hindu would have three different types of understanding of karma whereas I from a western use of the word would use it in the only context of ‘you reap what you sow’. Because of these different definitions I do no use the word karma when discussing judeo Christian belief unless you define the definition at the entry to the discussion.

@@can_do_nz2272 you haven't explained the differinf3 features. I'm interested to know what features you have in mind.

@@TheologyUnleashed Interesting. Is this an inquiry to understand how little or much I may know about Hinduism? I certainly am no scholar on Hinduism myself and would expect a shramana such as yourself to have a handle on the topic.

@@can_do_nz2272 your stated they differ. You must have some differences in mind. How is the idea you reap what you sow not karma by another name and interpreted a little differently. For background, I'm into perrenialism, the idea that God started various traditions and gave different kinds of teachings based on where people in that time and region were at.

Don’t worry, As an atheist I see no evidence that you ever will. Heaven is just as fictitious as reincarnation.

Who would? I would. As well as countless others

@@extract8058 why ? I’d rather be in heaven . You wanna go through millions dying of starvation , untold suffering of this finite existence ???? I don’t know about you but I’ll take the perfect love of Jesus and heaven for all eternity . I’d say it’s just a slight bit better :)

​​@@angelbrother1238lol there is something called moksha or you may know it as nirvana ..and once you achieve that you don't go to heaven like in your abrahamic religion...you become one with the divine...I would say becoming one with the divine is way better than any other heaven 😊

Absolutely right

😂😂😂 Jesus left 2000 years ago and He ain't coming back 😂😂😂

God allowed "Genocide of non-hebrews who were willingly sacrificing their children in fire to Baal.". That would not end there, you should search for canaanite worship of baal and sacrifices you would get to know the whole truth of the matter. It was God's judgement on them. If their children ever grew up they were following the same patterns all over again. So yes, in a nutshell, it was righteous of him to wipe them out. A life is a life valued when it is looked upon as a person made in the image of God, not in the image of Satan.

Plus - All religions are not the same. Hinduism as portrayed in general is much more vulgar and filthy in the scriptures. You won't get to read it unless you really want it to. I'm from India, born a Hindu, but willingly chose to follow Christ. I've had fair share of in depth knowledge of both scriptures and can assure you there is no one holy as Christ. The God of the Bible is ABSOLUTE TRUTH.

​@@buntasticbuns769 Nice joke

@@buntasticbuns769 in a roundabout way that is what Hitler and the Nazis thought about Jews. Jews were evil and had to be destroyed and their Property given to the good Aryan People. Plus it makes perfect sense to kill all male toddlers/small children of another tribe(but hypocritically keep small female children/virgins alive for your own use) because some adults in that tribe sacrifice children. And I guess the Milk and Honey land grab had absolutely nothing to do with it? Sometimes you wonder how People are able to justify gross misconduct in the name of Religion.

@@buntasticbuns769 whatever misconduct or hypocrisy Hindus are guilty of, it doesn't compare to the mass murder/genocide/robbery and other fun stuff committed by eager converts in the name of Christianity and Islam. God got to be shaking his head.

Exorcist?

@@ZamWeazle yep.

@@pdxnikki1 kind of weird. Why would an exorcist have a better explanation? They are good at removing bad spirits and demons. Reincarnation is a pretty different field.

@@ZamWeazle many have encountered things like this before and have professional experience.

Lol you wanna talk about the stupid Bible as well?!

haha foolish u r😂😂

can i ask u a qstn ?

Says a Christian lol....our religion is 8000 years older than your christ 😅

Neither, cz he doesn't exist.

@@buntasticbuns769 Precisely my point.

Do you believe Jesus was a real guy?

@@masterpassword2See Braude (2003) for a nice discussion. The evidence for reincarnation is worth taking seriously

​@@TheProdigalMeowMeowMeowReturnsno reincarnation is not real ...and 99% don't know what's their past life is. And in 1% people majority of them come from one religion believing in reincarnation

So you said you know how atheists feel and said both of them sound crazy one being Christian and one being Hindu Are you an atheist yourself?

@@CedanyTheAlaskanI see no solid evidence to support reincarnation or any form of consciousness that survives the death of the brain.

@@CedanyTheAlaskan the Christian wasn’t arguing for Christianity. He said himself that he didn’t believe the explanations that he was giving. They just seemed bizarre.

Wow...thanks for your inteligent input of your fee fees

As an atheist what is your views on cow called as mother?