Comparing Hindu's Third Objection To Christianity

Hindu’s Third Objection to Christianity:

On another note, a popular acronym known as Y-O-L-O stands for “You Only Live Once” — meaning that people can aspire to live their lives to the fullest or to whatever their hearts’ desire. With this phrase, Hindus strongly disagree for they believe that through the process of reincarnation people cycle through rebirth numerous times. Hence, the Hindu belief as to why reincarnation stands for the procession of a soul’s indestructibility transmigrating from one body to another (according to the Law of Karma) (“Hinduism”). Hindus believe that an individual's body needs to duplicate perfection, requiring one to reincarnate multiple times until they reach “perfection”. To illustrate, in the Bhagavad Gita 2:22 it states, “Just as a man discards worn out clothes and puts on new clothes, the soul discards worn out bodies and wears new ones”

Christians, however, knowing the impossibility of such a state, strive to live their lives in a manner pleasing to God. Considering these statements, the Hindu principle of reincarnation entirely contradicts the Christian principle of salvation through faith. Reincarnation in and of itself consists of a principle based entirely upon the “impersonal law of karma” (Tennent). Karmic force does not recognize the existence of “mercy, forgiveness, and grace”, the quintessential foundations of Christianity (Tennent). The concepts of “mercy, forgiveness, and grace” exist as vital pillars in every community and culture, past and present (Tennent). By ignoring these virtues that occur day-in and day-out, karmic law essentially denies their existence. To deny the existence of principles that irrefutably present themselves on a continual basis screams of the flawed nature of the “impersonal law of karma” (Tennent). Recognizing the shortcomings in karma, the basis of the cycle of rebirth, reincarnation cannot logically