Hinduism_ A Christian Heresy

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Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan 173 importance for the study of early Christianity because it formed the focal point of the early church's conflict with paganism in Asia as well as in India. Thus every god was of Royal family. Intrigues of the royal family feuds formed the background for mythical stories. Alexander the Great seems to have wished to be a god in his lifetime and the Hellenistic monarchies followed suit. They received what are called (isotheoi timai) honors equal to the gods: priests, sacrifices, and worship. Political tribes were named after them. Ttheir birthday and day of ascension were celebrated like religious holidays. The kings assumed titles associated with their godlike actions: ktistes (founder), euergetes (benefactor), soter (savior). As the Angels and Saints are venerated, local heroes came to be venerated. They were real benefactors who helped in material realms They came to be deified and formed the pantheon of gods.. Iskander was the first Aryan monarch to be deified. (Emperor Worship and Roman Religion ITTAI GRADEL, University of Aarhus, Denmark) See:http://www.ualberta.ca/~csmackay/CLASS_378/Emperor.Worship.h tml and http://www.theologywebsite.com/history/rulercult.shtml In a research study Dr.N. Gopala Pillai establishes that Skanda is simply the deified Alexander the Great and Skanda Purana is the mythologised history of his life and conquest. (http://murugan.org/research/gopalapillai.htm - from the Proceedings of the All-India Oriental Conference Vol. IX (Trivandrum: Government Press, 1937), pp. 955-997} The same argument will hold for Rama, Krishna, Pandavas, Kauravas and all others. Further References http://www.relst.uiuc.edu/Courses/121/oct11john.html http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0103/articles/oakes.html
Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan 174 Images of the Divine: The Theology of Icons at the Seventh Ecumenical Council (Studies in the History of Christian Thought, Vol 54) by Ambrosios Giakalis http://www.udayton.edu/mary/resources/icon4.html Thomas Dydymus – Apostle to India
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