(Short post tonight. I’m working on an essay for a class. Here is a part of it).
Myself possessing little knowledge of the internal nature of Hindu scripture apart from the brief overview provided in the text and a personal enjoyment of a few Hindu myths, I’m somewhat hesitant to draw any real comparison between the Bible and these writings. There is an obvious overlap of categories, laws and rituals being found in either camp, and yet the category of epic seems the closest the Hindu scriptures come to the historical narratives found in such books as Kings, Ezra, or even Samuel. This, I think, harps on a real divide between the worldviews of our disparate beliefs: A large part of the Bible makes itself out to be literal truth, i.e. something happened in the year of such and such a king—Christianity is built upon one historical claim, the death and resurrection of Christ—but within Hinduism, and on the topic I am still greatly ignorant, I have heard no such claim to this form of truth. All the truths presented are friendly, metaphorical truths, open to interpretation. There is nothing like the dividing sword of Jesus found in it.
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