According to monotheist orthodoxy, are Hindus destined for hell?

[GenMarshall]

As a Christian, it doesn't bother me at all, since i believe that the Bible take on this issue is incorrect. Many portions of the Bible is questionable, therefore it is no problem for me to rationalise the crazy parts of it away. My opinion is that the Bible was written by biased people living in a different time from us.

So that is the basis on how you reconsile with what MobBoss stated during my arguments with him in the "Born Again Christian" thread? Since I see myself as a Soft Trinitarian Universalists (soft or non-dogmatic who believes that God wants everyone to be saved and that it is possible for God to save everyone but, at the same time, will not limit God's sovereign right to choose not to save everyone. Karl Barth and Catholic theologian, Hans Urs von Balthasar are soft Universalists.)

 

[aneeshm]

Why go backwards if we can move forwards?

Probably because we've taken a wrong path at a fork in the road and reached a dead end, and thus there is no way forward, only back to the fork, where we try out the other way?

 

[Mirc]

I would like to point out that this is the opinion of Catholicism and maybe Protestantism, but in my denomination, Orthodoxy, we do not think "non-believers" will go to hell, we think that as long as they live a good life they have good chances to go to heaven. It's true that there are some close-minded priests that don't believe this, but our church is generally more tolerant. Also we never had missionaries, except the small group of people who first brought Christianity to this part of the world, that might be considered this.

 

[Uiler]

Yes, Hindus are going to go to Jewish/Christian/Islamic hell.

Don't worry, I'll be there with you

 

[GenMarshall]

I would like to point out that this is the opinion of Catholicism and maybe Protestantism, but in my denomination, Orthodoxy, we do not think "non-believers" will go to hell, we think that as long as they live a good life they have good chances to go to heaven. It's true that there are some close-minded priests that don't believe this, but our church is generally more tolerant. Also we never had missionaries, except the small group of people who first brought Christianity to this part of the world, that might be considered this.

Wait? Youre an Eastern Orthodox Christian?! . I apologise if I did not see that note . However, the parts that I highlighted is what I truly believe. However, I just returned (again ) to Christianity after blowing up infront of MobBoss over this argument. And yes, I am still a new Christian.

 

[Uiler]

I'm not Hindu, so not familiar enough with Hinduism perhaps, but I think that Hinduism actually can coexist with all religions. Hinduism, to the best of my knowledge, does not have large fundamentalist groups like Islam does, which attack other religions, and Hinduism doesn't have a large active missionary tradition. I know that there are Hindu missionaries (isn't the tradition called Shuddhi, I believe I've heard the term?), but, as far as I understand, Hinduism isn't actively seeking to convert non-Hindus. Christianity, however, does have many missionaries that are active (I can even say that from experience) and is actively trying to get more followers.

I guess you're right. Christians and Muslims, currently, do try to spread their religion actively, and do have conflicts with other religions. Judaism, in fact, not only doesn't try to spread religion, it also discourages converts. So that's one thing that makes Hinduism and Judaism similar - the lack of aggressive conversion/spreading efforts.

Actual Hindus do have fundamentalist groups. For example look up the case a couple of years back when they killed a Christian missionary and his young sons for trying to convert Hindus to Christianity. And they clash a lot with the Islamic fundamentalists and Sikhs as well (?).

However I do think you're right about them not seeking to actively convert people and I don't know enough about the fundamentalist Hindu groups to compare them with fundamentalist Islamic and Christian groups, of which I am much more familiar.

The only religion I know of which doesn't have violent fundamentalist groups is Buddhism and I could be wrong about that.

 

[Mirc]

Wait? Youre an Eastern Orthodox Christian?! . I apologise if I did not see that note . However, the parts that I highlighted is what I truly believe. However, I just returned (again ) to Christianity after blowing up infront of MobBoss over this argument. And yes, I am still a new Christian.

Yes I'm an Eastern Orthodox Christian. I belong to the Romanian Orthodox Church, though I am not very happy with our patriarch.

Well, I'm glad someone else here beleives same as me.