Our number system was invented by the Hindus: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Do you use those evil Hindu numbers?
Everything I have read says the Egyptians invented the number system about 3000 BC. I did not find the Hindus mentioned anywhere.
Everything I have read says the Egyptians invented the number system about 3000 BC. I did not find the Hindus mentioned anywhere.
Our number system was invented by the Hindus: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Do you use those evil Hindu numbers?
Apples and oranges.
Yeah well looking at the history of India until the the British came, they didn’t seem to do very well with their “mathematics”, now did they!
“‘You men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious . For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, “TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.” whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him I declare unto you. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he
is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing,
Seeing he gives to all
life, and breath, and all things;
And
has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we
live, and move, and have our being;
as certain also of your own poets have said, “For we are also his offspring.” Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men every where to repent: Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained; whereof he has given assurance unto all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.’ And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, ‘We will hear you again of this matter.’ So Paul departed from among them. Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.”
• Acts 17:22–34”
It is not surprising that in the millenia before Christ, men groping for God might receive some muted guidance and blessing from him. The greeks invented the basis of modern geometry for example, indeed felt that the divine could be reached thru the study of numbers and mathematics.
The inhabitants of ancient India were very smart people and there seems to be evidence that India was the home of one of the first supercultures (after the dispersal of the peoples from Babel), perhaps having the power of flight. The sanskrit translations I’ve read of a supposed conflict with another super culture(, perhaps of which the Atlantis legend was born) are hair raising as it describes a battle of psychic spiritual power against an advanced scientific culture leaving both sides wiped out and parts of the Earth devastated. Proto Hinduistic ancients had left us an ancient cautionary tale of what happens to immature cultures unable to wield power and technology in a peaceful manner from some 5000 years ago....Then some several centuries after such a conflict, a certain man name Abram left his Mesopotamian home...and God began his plan to insert himself bodily into our history and this matter universe we live in!