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Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan 225 themselves Kings over them. As the Kings and Priests wielded their power, Jesus came down strongly against them and presented to them a God of love. They crucified him. The followers of Jesus even experimented with a sort of communal living where "each according to their ability and to each according to their need" was the principle. It failed miserably because men and women were still Aninias and Saphiras. Hence the need for a redemption. Perception and Inference in Carvaka Philosophy The essence of epistemological approach is summarized by Purandara a follower of Carvaka (7th Century) thus. “The usefulness of inference in determining the nature of all worldly things where perceptual experience is available is not questionable. However, such inference cannot be employed for establishing any dogma regarding the transcendental world, or life after death or the laws of Karma for which ordinarily there is no perceptual experience. The main reason for upholding such a distinction between the validity of inference in our practical life of ordinary experience, and in ascertaining transcending truths beyond experience is this: Any conclusion based on Inductive generalization by observing a large number of cases of agreement together with total absence of disagreement is true. But in the case of transcendent sphere, such agreement cannot exist because; they cannot be perceived by the senses“ (Purandara in Kamalasila's Panjika) In the Christian reasoning too, the above argument is sound. We cannot make arbitrary assumptions based on possible inferences. This is especially true on matters that are of eternal consequence. How can we know the reality of God and his purposes. Can these be perceived by our senses? The historical verification of matters of faith had been very important to Judeo-Christian tradition. Prophets and seers were respected and accepted not because of their logic, of their declaration power, or because of signs and wonders they performed. They were accepted based on whether their declaration tallied with verifiable historical facts. There
Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan 226 are two such points of contacts. The two pillars on which Christianity stands are: 1. The Mosaic covenant ceremony where Yahvh met with 74 elders of the Israel while all Israel, a tribe of over two million watched from afar. They heard Yhvh speaking to them when He gave them the Ten Commandments. Deu 5:22 "These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them to me. 2. Over 150 disciples who walked and talked with Jesus of Nazareth witnessed his glory of resurrection from the dead and his ascension. All the scriptures of Christian faith rest on these two solid verified and verifiable experience of the transcendent power of God. God entered into history so that we may be able to perceive him. Hence we still refer to these revelations as Old and New Testaments, because they depend on the Testimony (witness – objective experience of many) of a large number of independent witnesses. We not only check for logic and reason, but also for historicity and evidence. It is not proof alone, but
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