@Joseph a' Christian It's probably inspired by demons NOW, but I read a few years ago that Hinduism isn't a religion at all. It is just a case of people not paying attention to Abraham and Sarah when they were travelling from place to place - they have been deified akin to the way that Paul and Barnabas were mistaken for Mercury and Jupiter in Acts 14 . For, "Brahma" is a corruption of the Hebrew name of "Abraham" and "Saravista" is also a falsification of the real "Sarah" The name of "Hagar" is found in Hinduism also.
Throughout the Hebrew Scriptures - Christ is prophecised - and on their travels, Abraham must have spoken of the awaited Christ - his listeners didn't listen properly and "Krishna" is a falsification of the expected Messiah.
Buddha - I learned years ago, was evangelised by a travelling Hebrew - however, one thing he could not accept - he could not understand the reason for suffering. To solve the problem, he accepted certain aspects of the Hebrew Religion, but those bits he could not accept he altered to fill in the gaps in a manner to please himself. Therefore, to explain away suffering, he created the need for Reincarnation. Yet, -only through understanding the power of redemptive suffering, and gaining full knowledge of Christ - do we truly understand the reason for suffering. I know many people who like "Buddha" can not understand why there is suffering, - without Christian evangelisation , it appears totally meaningless. It takes Grace and spiritual enlightenment to grasp the truth that unless there is suffering throughout our earthly existance, there is a tendency for us to become really cold, horrible, spoilt, & rotten, people.
I learned this of Zoroaster (aka Zarathusta) It seems he was a descendant of Judah. (He's shown in our family tree on Ancestry.com. There is a strange prophecy connected with him that the Messiah would come from his family . It seems his prophecy was accurate - Our Lord DID come from his "family" - for Zoroaster, according to the evidence of our tree, was an unmarried person a few generations after Judah. To all appearances a GGGGGGGG Uncle of the Incarnate Son of God.- but clearly not in the branch of Judah which became Our Lord's Messianic Line.
