Good News for Hindus

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

Missionary and writer Don Richardson wrote a book entitled Eternity in Their Hearts, in which he demonstrates how God has, by his grace, sovereignly placed in every culture some representation of the good news of Jesus Christ. So when the Apostle Paul presents the gospel in Athens, he quotes both Epimenides' Cretia and Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus, when he says "For in him we live and move and have our being," and "We are his offspring."

Similarly, Sankara, who is considered by many to have been India's greatest philosopher, once said:

Salvation is eternal and works are temporal; therefore, salvation cannot come through works.

This is exactly true, and the point of contact with the Christian good news. Thus Paul says, "...no one will be declared righteous in his sight by obeying the law; rather through the law we become conscious of sin; But now a righteousness from God, apart from the law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify." (Romans 3:20-21) Again, he says "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith —and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God —not by works, so that no one can boast" (Ephesians 1:13).

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