Most Westerners can hardly tell the difference between any old cow and the sacred cow of India. This
ignorance is excusable when one considers how ordinary the holy cow
seems. It grazes, chews the cud, and after allowing for the masticated
mess to move through the seven sacred stomachs, it fertilizes the field
just as any other cow would. If one were tramping through that field—or
were a pedestrian in Delhi—and happened to plant your foot in that
freshly fertilized spot, you might fail to appreciate the privilege of
encountering a holy cow pie. And every report I’ve heard from visitors
to India include a special mention for the ubiquitous postprandial
packages strewn all over the city streets. So holiness is often in the
eye of the beholder. To a Hindu Indian the cow represents something
wholly different than it does to, say the average MacDonald’s customer. Keep Reading...
Scriptures teach consistently that faith comes through the proclamation of the gospel, not through good works. Christ himself was not arrested and arraigned because he was trying to restore family values or feed the poor...The mounting ire of the religious leaders toward Jesus coalesced around him making himself equal with God and forgiving sins in his own person, directly, over against the temple and its sacrificial system. Michael Horton
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Holy Cow: The Holiness of Hindu Herds by Clint Archer
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