Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
ought not to have been a fallen one; but the Bible itself leaves no room for doubt on this point;
(3) it is not easy to see the unlawful nature of intermarriage between the Sons of God and the daughters of men;
(4) sexual promiscuity fails to explain the origin of the evil tendency in the Sons of God which prompted them to come in unto the daughters of men; and
(5) racial sin by intermarriage, or fornication, leaves no room for individual salvation, and would make redemption itself dependent on the possibility of racial regeneration,
It is not the prevention of intermarriage that would lead to the redemption of mankind, but celibacy. The particular passage in Genesis (VI. 1-6) on which Revd. Sampson has based his theory of sexual segregation, has. nothing to do with the idea of Nirvana, or with that of the fall. It merely shows how sexual lust perverted the hearts of men at a certain period in the history of the world, and led to the shortening of the duration of life, from a thousand years or so to 'an hundred and twenty.' To this extent the passage in question may be said to be historical. The doctrine of the fall, as well as the first recorded' sacrifices of Abel and Cain, however, are purely allegorical and have no historical basis. To read them historically, therefore, can only lead to confusion.
*It is interesting to compare this period of longevity with the long lives of men at the time (about 86,500 years ago) of Sri Nemi Nathji Bhagwan, who, according to the Jaina Puranas, resided at Dwarka with His cousins, Sri Krishna and Balaram, and lived for a thousand years in this world.