nature of religion assessment (1 Viewer)

[**freakstar87**]

i have almost completed my studies of re assessment due mid-next week but i can't find any information for the following questions i need to answer below.

Q. What is the origin of: the universe and human existence according to both jewish and hindu beliefs?

and

Q. What is the nature and purpose and human life according to both jewish and hindu beliefs?

If you know the answer please post any answers soon and thanks heaps

freakstar

 

[snapperhead]

This is for Year 11 right?
What a horrible assignment to start you off.......
Try Exploring Religion and Living Religion as a start
Jewish stuff try here www.jewfaq.org
the hindu situff shouldnt be too hard if you google it........

 

[**freakstar87**]

i can't understand the second question because when it comes to the nature of human life, it's almost exactly the same question as the 1st one!!! can anyone plz help me still? i like jewfaq but the hindu stuff on these 2 questions are hard to find .

 

[snapperhead]

They are actually 2 separate and distinct "things" ie whilst they appear to be the same, theyre not.
Purpose = the "why are we here" stuff. Varies from tradition to tradition, culture to culture eg higher purpose, guardians of the earth, to populate the earth, values. morals etc. *TRYS TO ANSWER THE BIG QUESTIONS* (usually from the earliest texts+ other texts)
Nature="how did we get here", what happens when we die etc (sorta like our "direction" in life/what happens when....)(combination of early texts-no need for interpretation as such)*Trying to answer the "simple" questions (but they are really big q/ so go figure)*
Yes, it is tied in with origin of human existence but in the context of the question(s) , the origins stuff really revolves around "creation" of which the human story is a little part.
(Need to really separate these two so they are not the same ie he focus is on creation)
(eg Judasim, the focus is on the 7 days of creation where 1 day is about ppl- your purpose stuff revolves around what happens after Adam and Eve + other writings from later on)

The nature of human life is the reasoning/purpose of how did we get here.

For the Hindu stuff, again try google but look at beliefs and texts as a start
Hope this helps.... (and is right!! The Nature of Religion is such a small part of the syllabus, usually gets brushed over so you can do the phenomeological approach stuff....)