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My main aim is to show that both Hinduism and Christianity are similar and are united against idolatry and polytheism.1simlititude on monotheismVEDIC MONOTHEISM AND BIBLICAL DOCTRINE OF TRINITY1. VEDIC MONOTHEISMVedic philosophy revolves round singularity of God. There is no mention of plurality of God in Vedas. Vedic religion is pure unadulterated Monotheism. According to Hoy Vedas, God is one, not many :sa eYa ekx ekxvaRdokx eva |à Aqava-vaod 13ó4ó20Verily He is oneSingle, indivisible, supreme reality.- Atharva Veda 13/4/20Oneness of God is the axis round which the philosophy of Vedas revolves. None but God alone reigns and rules over the whole universe. True kingship belongs to Creator of the cosmos. He alone is the Supreme Sovereign of the universe :ekxao ivaEvasya Bauvanasya rajaa |à Pgvaod 6ó36ó4He is the sole sovereignOf the universe.- Rig Veda 6/36/4There is none who equals him. He is One, without parallel :ya ekxao Aista dMsanaa maha^M {ga`ao AiBa va`taO: |à Pgvaod 8ó1ó27He is one, unparalleledThrough His wondrous, mightyAnd formidable laws and deeds.- Rig Veda 8/1/27Vedic philosophy does not approve of polytheism. There are no gods except one God, who is the Lord of lords. Only He is worthy to be worshipped and fit to be adored :ekx eva namasyaao#ivaXvaIDyaa: |à Aqava-vaod 2ó2ó1There is only OneWho ought to be adoredBy the people.- Atharva Veda 2/2/1Holy Vedas declare that God alone is the unchallenged Lord of the whole creation. All sorts of eulogy, adoration and prayer befit Him only. Man does not deserve to be eulogised and deified by man. The deification of man by man is not permitted by Vedic religion. Therefore, it behoves man to worship the Great Lord of the cosmos only :maa icadnyaiW SaMsata saKayaao maa irYaNyata |[nd`imatstaaotaa vaRYaNaM sacaa sautao mauhur]@qaa ca SaMsata ||à saamavaod 242O friends,Adore none else but ProvidenceWho is supreme bestower of blissAnd thus thou wilt not suffer;Eulogise Him in congregationAnd sing songs of His glory repeatedly- Sam Veda 242God is singular, but his names are plural. All the epithets mentioned in Holy Vedas are ascribed to one God, who is Creator of the cosmos. Shiva, Shankara, Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh, Ganesh, Indra, Mitra, Varuna, Agni, Yama etc. are the epithets of one Supreme Being, who is formless, featureless, birthless and bodiless. He is unborn, eternal, immortal and everlasting. He has no agents, no intermediaries, no representatives, no incarnations and no partners. He has neither father, nor mother. He has neither wife, nor sons, nor daughters. He has no attachment. But He is Benevolent Father of all his children, and imparts equal love impartially to all his creatures. He is kind to all, cruel to, none. His first name is Om. But He is evoked and adored by several other names which are written in Vedas[nd`M ima~aM var]Namaignamaahurqaao idvya: sa saupaNaao- gar]tmaana\ |ekMx saiWpa`a bahuQaa vadntyaigna yamaM maatairEvaanamaahu: ||à Pgvaod 1ó164ó46He is One BrahmaThe Creator of the cosmosWho pervades and protectsAnd enlightens aft beingsHe is One Supreme EntityWhom sages call by various namesSuch as Indra, the gloriousMitra, the benign friendVaruna, the greatest, the noblestAgni, the resplendent, the brightYama, the dispenser of justiceMatarishwa, the almighty.- Rig Veda 1/164/46He is Omnipotent, Omnipresent and Omniscient. He is All-powerful and All-pervasive. He pervades, permeates and penetrates all things and all heartssa#Aaota: pa`aotaEca ivaBaU: pa`jaasau |à yajauva-od 32ó8He, the all-pervasivePervades all beingsWithin and without.- Yajur Veda 32/8He reigns magnificently and munificently over the whole universe. He is unparalleled and unequalled emperor of the cosmos created by Him. He is the One and the sole Sovereign of all creation, animate and inanimate. He is the unchallenged Master of. the whole cosmos :dovaao dovaanaamaisa |à Pgvaod 1ó94ó13Thou art Lord of lords.- Rig Veda 1/94/13God does not have face, form, features, signs and symbols. He has no body. He is formless, featureless and bodiless. He is birthless and deathless. When He does not take birth, He cannot assume body. He cannot be seen, He can be felt. Hence no picture or portrait, idol or statue of God can be made.na tasya pa`itamaa#Aista |à yajauva-od 32ó3God has no image.- Yajur Veda 32/3The Western scholars, who drank deep from Vedic spring, have never lagged behind in admiring and appreciating the oneness of God as revealed in Vedas, from the core of their hearts. Count Bjornstjerne, the Norway�s national poet, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1903, observes :�These truly sublime ideas cannot fail to convince us that the Vedas recognise only one God, who is Almighty, Infinite, Eternal, Self-existent, the Light and Lord of the Universe.�- Count BjornstjerneColebrook, the British scholar, states :�The ancient Hindu religion as found in the Hindu scriptures (the Vedas) recognises but one God.�- ColebrookCharles Coleman acknowledges in his book �Theophany of the Hindus�, the oneness of God as revealed in Holy Vedas as under :�The Almighty, Infinite, Eternal, Incomprehensible, Self-existent Being, He who sees everything though never seen is Brahm, the one unknown, True Being, the Creator, the Preserver and Destroyer of the Universe. Under such and innumerable other definitions is the Deity acknowledged in the Vedas.�- Charles ColemanLivi, the famous Arabic poet, honours and admires the blessed land of Hindusthan and Holy Vedas as under :�Blessed land of Hind (Hindusthan), thou art worthy of reverence, for in thee has God revealed true knowledge of Himself. What a pure light do these four revealed books afford to our mind�s eyes like the charming and cool lustre of the dawn ! These four God revealed upon His prophets (Rishis) in Hind. Those treasuries are the Sama and Yajur which God has preached. O my brothers, revere these, for they all tell us the good news of salvation. The next two of these four, the Rig and the Atharva, teach us lessons of universal brotherhood. These two (Vedas) are the beacons that warn us to turn towards that goal (universal brotherhood).�- LiviDara Shakoh, the son of king Shah Jehan and elder brother of Aurangzeb, comes to the conclusion in Persian language as under :�After gradual research, I have come to the conclusion that long before all heavenly books like the Quran, the Old Testament and the New Testament etc., God had revealed to the Hindus through the Rishis of Yore, of whom BRAHAM was the chief, His four books of knowledge, the Rigveda, the Yajurveda, the, Samveda, and the AtharvaVeda.�- Dara Shakoh2. BIBLICAL DOCTRINE OF TRINITY(i) (a) Doctrine of �three in one� and �three equal to one�Unlike Vedic religion, which is pure Monotheism, Holy Bible preaches the doctrine of Trinity, i.e. the existence of three Gods : God, the Father, God, the Son (Christ) and God, the Holy Ghost (Spirit). The Christians believe that each God is equal in power and glory, and that these three are one. Thus Christianity revolves round the theory of �three in one� and �three equal to one�. And they still call it �monotheism� ! They claim that their doctrine of Trinity or Trinitarianism amounts to monotheism.(b) Three Entities are oneThe New Testament says1. �7. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one.�- 1 John, 5/7The above text appears on page 1279 of the authorised (King James) version of the Holy Bible printed by the Gideons International in U.S.A. in 1979. But, later on it is omitted from the Bible. In this connection W.P. Ball and G.W. Foote write in their �The Bible Handbook� as under :�This verse, being demonstrated a forgery, is omitted from the Revised Version. It is the only text distinctly asserting the doctrine of the Trinity, which is really a Christian invention or development of later date than the Bible.�31- W.P. Ball and G.W. FooteThomas Jefferson, the third President of U.S.A. who was the founding father of secularism In government in the modern West, exclaimed :�The incomprehensible jargon of Trinitarian arithmetic, that three are one and one is three.�32-Thomas JeffersonJames A. Haught states :�In A.D. 385 at Trier. Germany, bishops put to death Priscillian and his followers for doubting the Trinity and the Resurrection.�33- James A. HaughtLeo Tolstoy, the renowned Russian writer and thinker, opines :�One may utter words that have no sense, but one cannot believe what has no sense - one cannot believe that God is, at the same time, both One and also Three���34- Leo Tolstoy(c) Convert and baptize all nations in the name of three entitiesThe New Testament instructs the Pope and all Christian missionaries to go and convert all nations of the world by baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Here is the text :2. �19. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.�- Matthew 28/19It is on account of the above text that Christian missionaries bluntly refuse to stop converting Hindus to their faith. They claim that it is God�s command to them that they must convert and baptize all people of all nations of the world. When Shri Omprakash Tyagi presented a �Freedom of Religion Bill� in Parliament, which recommended that there should be no conversion from one religion to another, more than three lakh Christians demonstrated in protest against the bill in Mumbai, Calcutta, Chennai and Delhi. They claimed that under Article 25(1) of the Indian Constitution it was their fundamental right to convert non-Christians to Christianity. They knocked the doors of High Courts and even Supreme Court to get their �right to convert� upheld judicially. But the then Chief Justice, Shri A.N. Ray rejected their claim in his judgement. In spite of the judgments of Supreme Court, the Christian missionaries, under direct and indirect patronization of pseudo-secular Hindu politicians, continue to convert the poor, illiterate and innocent tribal Hindus with political motive on the plea that, it is God�s command to them that they must baptize and convert all persons of all nations on the earth.(d) Eternal damnation for blasphemy against the Holy GhostThe New Testament declares that the man who blasphemes against the Holy Ghost will be damned eternally :3. �29. But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost bath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.�- Mark, 3/29(e) God sent His only begotten SonThe New Testament states that God manifested His love to the people by sending His only begotten Son to the world4. �9. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.�- 1 John, 4/9(f) Christ in God, God in ChristThe New Testament declares that Jesus Christ is in God, and God is in Jesus Christ.5. �11. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me;��- John, 14/11(g) God and Christ are oneThe Holy Bible (the New Testament) confirms oneness of God and Christ in the following verse :6. �30. I and my Father are one.�- John, 10/30(h) God gave all powers to ChristThe Holy Bible (the New Testament) mentions that God gave all powers to Jesus Christ not only on the earth, but also in heaven.7. �18. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.�- Matthew, 281188. �35. The Father loveth the Son, and bath given all things into his hand.�- John, 3/35(i) Christ was equal to GodThe New Testament states that Christ was in the form of God and that He had full right to be equal to God :9. �Who (Christ), being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God;�- Philippians, 2/6(j) Foolishness of Biblical God !The New Testament dubs God Almighty as foolish and weak, though His foolishness (?) is wiser than men. Here is the verse :10. �25. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.�- 1 Corinthians, 1/25It is nothing but blasphemy to call God Almighty, the Supreme Lord, as foolish and weak !(ii) Laelius Socinus rejected the Doctrine of TrinityAn Italian scholar Laelius Socinus (b. 1525-d.1582) emphatically rejected the doctrine of Trinitarianism as irrational and unacceptable to reason. The theory of �three gods in one� was not acceptable to him. He started preaching �monotheism�, the principle of one God. Consequently, he was declared a heretic and expelled from the Church. Any one who preached �monotheism� was a heretic, not a true Christian in the estimation of the Church. In 1546, Laelius Socinus joined a Secret Society, which preached that the doctrine of �three gods in one� (Trideism or Trinitarianism) was untenable and that many tenets of the Roman Catholic Church were repugnant to reason. Consequently the Secret Society was banned by the Church and its several members were massacred because of their only fault that they did not believe in the cult of Trinity. Laelius Socinus had to flee to a foreign place of safety. While in exile, he breathed his last at Zurich. Even today when the Church condemns any person for his secular ideas, it brands him as a �Socinian�.(iii) Unitarians were burnt aliveIn 1662, about two thousand priests were expelled by the Church under the Act of Uniformity, because they had declined to accept the doctrine of Trinity and professed �monotheism� which they called �Unitarianism�. They considered Christ as a mere mortal and believed in one God. Consequently thousands of Unitarians were burnt at stakes not only in England but also other countries. Ultimately in 1813, the Church, under pressure of public opinion, agreed to accept �Unitarianism� as one of several �isms� into which Christianity is divided and subdivided today.(iv) Rev. William Adam embraced Vedic ReligionRev. William Adam was assigned the duty of converting Raja Ram Mohan Roy to Christianity. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a staunch monotheist. So instead of being converted to Christianity, he influenced and impressed William Adam to give up his belief in three Christian gods and embrace Vedic monotheism. Thus Rev. William Adam, a Christian missionary, who had set out to convert Raja Ram Mohan Roy to Christian trideism, ultimately became a Vedantist35. He was, therefore, expelled from the Church and declared a heretic and a Socinian. His conversion to Vedic religion was reported in the �Annual London Report of the Missionary Society� as under :�We mention with deep regret that Mr. Adam had embraced opinions derogatory to the honour of the Saviour, denying the proper divinity of �Our Lord Jesus Christ�, inconsequence of which the connection between him and the Society has been dissolved.�36(v) Superiority of the Vedic ReligionMr. W.D. Brown, the British philosopher, admits in his �Superiority of the Vedic Religion� as under :�Vedic religion recognises but one God. It is a thoroughly scientific religion, where religion and science meet hand in hand Here theology is based on science and philosophy.�- W.D. brownMr. Count Bjornstjerne, the Norway�s national poet, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1903, observes :�These truly sublime ideas cannto fail to convince us that the Vedas recognise only one God.�- Count Bjornstjerne====================================�Dharma is the repository of the nation�s soul. If Dharma is destroyed, the Nation perishes. Any one who abandons Dharma, betrays the nation�� Since Dharma is supreme, our ideal of the State has been Dharma Rajya�� What constitutes the good of the people, Dharma alone can decide. Therefore a democratic government Jana Rajya must also be rooted in Dharma i.e. a Dharma Rajya.Since in the West injustice and atrocities were perpetrated, bitter conflicts and battles were fought in the name of religion, all these were en bloc listed on the debit side of Dharma also. We feel that in the name of Dharma also battles were fought. However battles of religion and battles of Dharma are two different things. Religion means a creed or a sect, it does not mean Dharma. Dharma is very wide concept. It is concerned with all aspects of life. It sustains the society. Even further, it sustains the whole world. That which sustains is Dharma.�- Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya====================================Footnotes:31W.P. Ball, G.W. Foote, John Bowden, Richard, M. Smith : �The Bible Handbook�, Revised Edition, 1986, U.S.A., p. 9632Charles Smith : �The Bible in the Balance�, published in the West, reprinted by Hindu Writers� Forum, New Delhi, p.433James A. Haught : �Holy Horrors�, published by Prometheus Books, New York, 1990, p. 5334(i) Leo Tolstoy : �Essays and Letters�, translated by Aylmer Maude, Oxford University Press, London, 1911(ii) N.S. Rajaram : �Christianity�s Collapsing Empire and It�s Designs in India�, New Delhi, 1999, p, 1535�Anglo India�, Vol. III, p. 23836�The Annual London Report of the Missionary Society�, dated June 20, 1822Back to Contents Page Back to VOI Books Back to HomeOpenBible.info Geocoding Topical Labs BlogWhat does the Bible say about?A ‣ B ‣ C ‣ D ‣ E ‣ F ‣ G ‣ H ‣ I ‣ J ‣ K ‣ L ‣ M ‣ N ‣ O ‣ P ‣ Q ‣ R ‣ S ‣ T ‣ U ‣ V ‣ W ‣ Y ‣ Z49 Bible Verses aboutMonotheismIsaiah 44:6 ESV / 81 helpful votesThus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.Deuteronomy 4:35 ESV / 68 helpful votesTo you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.Isaiah 43:10 ESV / 42 helpful votes“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.Deuteronomy 6:4 ESV / 42 helpful votes“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.Genesis 1:1 ESV / 33 helpful votesIn the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.Isaiah 45:5 ESV / 31 helpful votesI am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me,Mark 12:29 ESV / 22 helpful votesJesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.John 1:1 ESV / 19 helpful votesIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.Exodus 20:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes“You shall have no other gods before me.Psalm 86:10 ESV / 17 helpful votesFor you are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God.John 17:3 ESV / 15 helpful votesAnd this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.Psalm 83:18 ESV / 15 helpful votesThat they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.Psalm 82:1-8 ESV / 14 helpful votesA Psalm of Asaph. God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. ...Deuteronomy 4:39 ESV / 14 helpful votesKnow therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.1 Corinthians 8:6 ESV / 13 helpful votesYet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.Genesis 1:26 ESV / 12 helpful votesThen God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”Ephesians 4:6 ESV / 11 helpful votesOne God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 9 helpful votesIn the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 8 helpful votesGo therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”Psalm 86:8 ESV / 8 helpful votesThere is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.1 Timothy 1:17 ESV / 7 helpful votesTo the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.Malachi 2:10 ESV / 7 helpful votesHave we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?Isaiah 41:4 ESV / 7 helpful votesWho has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.Exodus 18:11 ESV / 7 helpful votesNow I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because in this affair they dealt arrogantly with the people.”Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 7 helpful votesThus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...Genesis 1:1-2:4 ESV / 7 helpful votesIn the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...Jeremiah 31:9 ESV / 6 helpful votesWith weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.Isaiah 45:18 ESV / 6 helpful votesFor thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the Lord, and there is no other.Proverbs 8:22-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes“The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth, before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world. ...Psalm 90:2 ESV / 6 helpful votesBefore the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.Psalm 8:1-9 ESV / 6 helpful votesTo the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. ...1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 5 helpful votesFor there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,John 10:30 ESV / 5 helpful votesI and the Father are one.”Psalm 2:1-12 ESV / 5 helpful votesWhy do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision. Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, ...Exodus 4:22 ESV / 5 helpful votesThen you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son,Deuteronomy 32:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes“‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.Exodus 3:1-22 ESV / 4 helpful votesNow Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” ...Genesis 3:22 ESV / 4 helpful votesThen the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”Revelation 3:3-13 ESV / 3 helpful votesRemember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’ “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. ...James 2:19 ESV / 3 helpful votesYou believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!Romans 1:20 ESV / 3 helpful votesFor his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.Isaiah 47:8 ESV / 3 helpful votesNow therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children”:Isaiah 46:9 ESV / 3 helpful votesRemember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,Psalm 95:3 ESV / 3 helpful votesFor the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.Psalm 82:6 ESV / 3 helpful votesI said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;Psalm 82:1 ESV / 3 helpful votesA Psalm of Asaph. God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:Job 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votesNow there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.Deuteronomy 32:8-9 ESV / 3 helpful votesWhen the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God. But the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.Deuteronomy 32:8 ESV / 2 helpful votesWhen the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.Suggest a VerseEnter a Verse Reference (e.g., John 3:16-17)Visit the Bible online to search for words if you don’t know the specific passage your’re looking for.Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Contact me: openbibleinfo (at) Gmail. Cite this page: Editor: Stephen Smith. Publication date: May 30, 2020. Publisher: OpenBible.info.OpenBible.info Geocoding Topical Labs BlogWhat does the Bible say about? Simlititude in condemnation of idolatry.A ‣ B ‣ C ‣ D ‣ E ‣ F ‣ G ‣ H ‣ I ‣ J ‣ K ‣ L ‣ M ‣ N ‣ O ‣ P ‣ Q ‣ R ‣ S ‣ T ‣ U ‣ V ‣ W ‣ Y ‣ ZHome Slideshows Idol Worship Prohibited In VedasIdol Worship Prohibited in VedasBy: One ReasonNov 26, 2014, 13:34 IST1. An IntroductionThe following are some references from Hindu scriptures. The following are only few references, you may find many more once you go through it.Most of the Hindus denies some Purana's (myth) and Ithihasa's(like Ramayana, Mahabharatha) which contains more imaginations. Besides Purana and Ithihasa, the main Hindu scriptures are Bhagawat Gita, Vedas, Upanishads and Manu Xmriti (Manu Smirthi).Bhagavad Gita : Most popular and the maximun number of translations available amongst all the religious scriptures of the Hindus.Vedas : Amongst all the religious scriptures of the Hindus, the most sacred are the Vedas. Principally there are four Vedas and amongst all the Vedas, the Rigveda is the most sacred and oldest.Manu Smirthi : The Holy Book and Hindu Book of Laws2. From VedasProhibition of Idol Worship in Yajurveda"There is no image of him. He is unborned and He should be worshipped" (Yajurveda, Chapter 32, Verse 3)"god is bodyless and pure" (Yajurveda, Chapter 40, Verse 8)"They are entering darkness, those who worship the natural things(like air, water, fire etc.), they are sinking more in darkness who worship created things." (Yajurveda, Chapter 40, Verse 9)Monotheism in Rigveda"Say this, all one God in many names" (Rigveda, Book 1, Hymn 164, Verse 46)"Do not worship anyone besides him alone, praise him alone" (Rigveda, Book 8, Hymn 1, Verse 1)"Praise him would matchless and alone" (Rigveda, Book 6, Hymn 45, Verse 16)3. From Bhagavad Gita"Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship demigods" (Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 7, Verse 20)4. From UpanishadProhibition of Idol Worship in Upanishad"There is no likeness of him" (Svetasvatara Upanishad, Chapter 4, Verse 19)"His form cannot be seen, No one can see him with the eyes" (Svetasvatara Upanishad, Chapter 4, Verse 20)Monotheism in Upanishad"God is one and only, not a second" (Chandogya Upanishad, Chapter 6, Section 2, Verse 1)"Of him (God), there is no parents, no Lord" (Svetasvatara Upanishad, Chapter 6, Verse 9)Monotheism in Vedantha"There is only one god, Not a second one, not at all, not at all, not in a least bit" (Brahma Sutra)5. References** Rigveda - English Translation by Satyaprakash Narayan and Satyakam Vidhyarangan** Yajurveda - English Translation by Devichand** Upanishad - English Translation by S. 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Learn more from our list of Bible verses about idolatry below!1 Corinthians 10:7 Chapter Parallel Compare7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.”1 Corinthians 10:14 Chapter Parallel Compare14 Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.1 John 5:21 Chapter Parallel Compare21 Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.Colossians 3:5 Chapter Parallel Compare5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.Isaiah 45:20 Chapter Parallel Compare20 “Gather together and come; assemble, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood, who pray to gods that cannot save.Jonah 2:8 Chapter Parallel Compare8 “Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God’s love for them.Judges 10:14 Chapter Parallel Compare14 Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!”Leviticus 19:4 Chapter Parallel Compare4 “ ‘Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.Psalm 16:4 Chapter Parallel Compare4 Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more. I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods or take up their names on my lips.Galatians 4:8 Chapter Parallel Compare8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.Revelation 9:20 Chapter Parallel Compare20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.Galatians 5:19-21 Chapter Parallel Compare19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.Psalm 135:15-18 Chapter Parallel Compare15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by human hands. 16 They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see. 17 They have ears, but cannot hear, nor is there breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.Exodus 20:3-6 Chapter Parallel Compare3 “You shall have no other gods before me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.Isaiah 44:9-20 Chapter Parallel Compare9 All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame. 10 Who shapes a god and casts an idol, which can profit nothing? 11 People who do that will be put to shame; such craftsmen are only human beings. Let them all come together and take their stand; they will be brought down to terror and shame. 12 The blacksmith takes a tool and works with it in the coals; he shapes an idol with hammers, he forges it with the might of his arm. He gets hungry and loses his strength; he drinks no water and grows faint. 13 The carpenter measures with a line and makes an outline with a marker; he roughs it out with chisels and marks it with compasses. He shapes it in human form, human form in all its glory, that it may dwell in a shrine. 14 He cut down cedars, or perhaps took a cypress or oak. He let it grow among the trees of the forest, or planted a pine, and the rain made it grow. 15 It is used as fuel for burning; some of it he takes and warms himself, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. But he also fashions a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it. 16 Half of the wood he burns in the fire; over it he prepares his meal, he roasts his meat and eats his fill. He also warms himself and says, “Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.” 17 From the rest he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships. He prays to it and says, “Save me! You are my god!” 18 They know nothing, they understand nothing; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds closed so they cannot understand. 19 No one stops to think, no one has the knowledge or understanding to say, “Half of it I used for fuel; I even baked bread over its coals, I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make a detestable thing from what is left? 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