Comparing Christianity And Hinduism

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All religions are all linked in one way or another and it has been like this since the beginning of every faith. Among the most influential religions around the world, Christianity teaches about an aspect of life and punishment after death whilst Hinduism all preach also the same thing about life and punishment after death. These religions are the biggest religions in the world and they have obtained many followers. Christianity preaches that people are going to resurrect after the last and final day of the earth and they are all going to stand after God for their judgement based on whether they are going to heaven or hell. On the other hand, Hinduism think and teach otherwise, they all believe that human beings reincarnate, meaning that only the physical body dies but the subtle body is transmitted to another physical body. This shows that not every religion believes in same after life aspect and this paper will examine their differences.

Christianity’s ideology is based on the “life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus” (Fisher 302). Even though Jesus was born into Jewish faith, his teachings are the starting points to Christianity. The death and resurrection of Jesus made a lot of Christians believe that they will once die and resurrect at some point for judgement. These teachings that are mentioned in the New …show more content…

One of the oldest religions that has no single founder. Hinduism is the biggest religion in India with a lot of followers. In this big religion in India, one of the biggest things that they believe in is the idea of Karma and reincarnation. Karma, the universal law of cause and effect is the root of their religion and they have built their basis for their religion based on Karma and reincarnation. Hinduism believes that when you do bad things, karma will follow you until something bad happens to you, they believe that this karma can follow you even to your

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