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INTRODUCTION
other and abound in flaws. His main point is that the Heaven's sense as embodied in the Hindu Śāstras is very deep and generally incomprehensible and it cannot be dismissed simply because ignorant or inconversant people find fault with it. He then shows that far more serious flaws are found plentifully in the Bible which he logically proves to be a work of purely human composition. He finds fault with the treatment in the Bible of a number of problems, e. g., necessity of belief in Christ's divine powers as the only means of salvation, the fate of non-believers and ignorant persons after death, blind and other sorts of crippled persons being restored to their eyesight and other respective senses by Christ simply due to their faith in him, non-eternal character of soul and non-recognition of past and future life and action, Christian conception of God, God's creation of the world and worldly beings and the mode, motives, etc. relating to the same, His conferment on men of intellect and freedom of will and action which often lead them astray and prove impediments in their way of bliss, thereby contradicting the conception of God as all-knowing, all-compassionate, etc., the cause and purpose of human suffering, punishment to sinners and non-believers, the Satan's evil operations on human mind, advent of sin and evil on the earth and absence thereof in the heaven, conception of salvation as enjoyment of celestial pleasures, non-recognition of salvation etc. in the case of birds and beasts, etc., etc., and demonstrates logically how rationality really goes with Hindu Metaphysics and not with Christian Meta
1. Ct. St. Matthew 9, 17, etc., St. Mark 5, 7, 8. etc., etc.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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