RE: Brahma and Abraham
September 19, 2020 at 3:58 pm
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2020 at 4:17 pm by GrandizerII.)
We tend to be very unforgiving towards theists when they make weak cases for particular beliefs they hold. We should be just as unforgiving in this case.
And the Bible doesn't say Abraham hailed from India or anything close to it. Yes, you posted some Bible verses, but a read of these verses doesn't lend much support to your pov. Not that it matters anyway because the argument isn't whether ancient Hindu thinking had some influence on Judaism. The argument is whether we have something beyond fantasy-thinking to suggest/conclude that the character of Abraham is based on the character of Brahma. The OP is a grasp at straws attempt, and there has been no scholarly reference yet presented here that specifically establishes the link between the two figures. The only people I've seen online arguing for the Brahma-Abraham link are spiritualists quoting other spiritualists or anti-Christian atheists, both happen to be unreliable sources.
We can have a look at the accounts themselves, see that they are too dissimilar, note the lack of scholarly work suggesting otherwise, look at what the OP says and note its fallacies, and when we do so, the reasonable conclusion I can make is that the link is imagined.
You'll have a much better time making the case that Dumbledore and Gandalf are related instead (and based on Merlin himself). And yes, maybe even Angel and Buffy as well. The case to be made first, though. It's not enough to assert or to grasp at straws or to allude to some work that doesn't specifically address the case being argued.
And the Bible doesn't say Abraham hailed from India or anything close to it. Yes, you posted some Bible verses, but a read of these verses doesn't lend much support to your pov. Not that it matters anyway because the argument isn't whether ancient Hindu thinking had some influence on Judaism. The argument is whether we have something beyond fantasy-thinking to suggest/conclude that the character of Abraham is based on the character of Brahma. The OP is a grasp at straws attempt, and there has been no scholarly reference yet presented here that specifically establishes the link between the two figures. The only people I've seen online arguing for the Brahma-Abraham link are spiritualists quoting other spiritualists or anti-Christian atheists, both happen to be unreliable sources.
We can have a look at the accounts themselves, see that they are too dissimilar, note the lack of scholarly work suggesting otherwise, look at what the OP says and note its fallacies, and when we do so, the reasonable conclusion I can make is that the link is imagined.
You'll have a much better time making the case that Dumbledore and Gandalf are related instead (and based on Merlin himself). And yes, maybe even Angel and Buffy as well. The case to be made first, though. It's not enough to assert or to grasp at straws or to allude to some work that doesn't specifically address the case being argued.
