In Hinduism God is the manifested cosmic vibration that permeates and upholds all things. You need to attune your consciousness to this force through meditation if you want to experience God. God has manifested his being through creation, and our bodies, and part of realizing God is realizing this truth in Hinduism. But is God really a force that permeates this creation and our bodies, or does He live outside of this creation? Talking about God in Hebrews 7:26, the bible says; “For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.” Here the bible says that God is separate from sinners, yet God is absolute.
God is also sovereign, performing His will above the will of man. Read Ephesians 1:11 “In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.” In Hinduism as well as Christianity we are co-creators with God, but in Hinduism it is man becoming God that does the creation where as in Christianity it is a divinized man creating with God, or with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives inside of the redeemed. Man doesn’t realize his godhood, God lives inside man making him holy, and living out the plan and purposes of God through man, not in man.
While man is called to holiness, in Christianity it is never apart from the purpose and Divine counsel of God. Through sin, man rebelled against God and part of the purpose of man is to be restored to fellowship with God. This is done through accepting the free gift of salvation offered through Jesus Christ. When we are restored this way through being born again, we live with a new purpose and a new Master. Our battle is against sin, for which we now have a Saviour helping us, and guiding us home. The goal is not to become God, as in Hinduism, but to become like God in our character, until one day, at the resurrection we will be made fully in God’s image. This is Mike.
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