Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

such a pitch of enthusiasm as the visions of Daniel
disclosing the coming of their Messiah. The
Hebrew prophet made it clear that this Anointed
One was to be a suffering mediator, a substitute in
His death for sinners. (Daniel 9:24; 7:27) While the
Brahmans did not grasp this phase of the Messiah’s
mission any more than did the Pharisees, they were
aroused to the significant appeal which a divine
mediator would have upon the misses. Therefore,
they invented new teachings without
acknowledging the source of their inspiration. They
began to teach a Hindu trinity, a rival to the Old
Testament Godhead. An illustration of this can be
seen outside of Bombay, in the rock-cave temple
on the island of Elephanta, visited annually by
thousands of pilgrims and travelers.[57]
Besides giving to their votaries the three-headson-one-body
type of trinity, the priests employed
the heathen doctrines of pantheism, nirvana, and
transmigration. In pantheism they taught that the
Godhead was the sum total of the universe.
Material things, as one saw them, did not exist.
Every visible object was an illusion, all things were
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