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163 that lead to the same destination, but that the Hindu religion was the best of these paths. This solution was of no help either, for it was open to two serious objections. The first was that if all reli - gions, as we find them today, are from God and lead ultimately to Him, why do they contain fundamental differences? There could be differences in matters of detail but how can there be differences in the fundamentals? Many roads may lead to a mansion but it would be absurd to think that roads coming from the east should reach it via the west or the north or the south. There can be minor divergences but the general direction should be the same. There can be no disparity in eternal truths. It may be understandable that God taught various people various modes of worship, but the sane mind cannot comprehend how He could say to one group ‘I am One’; to the other, ‘I am two’; and to a third that He is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; and to a fourth that Divine powers reside in thousands of idols; and to a fifth that everything is God; and to a sixth that God transcends all and cannot appear in material form; and to a seventh that He can incarnate into a human body; and to an eighth that He can adopt the guise of the lowest of creatures, even swine; and to a ninth that life after death is real; and to a tenth that there is no life after death; and to an eleventh that the dead do not return to this world; and to a twelfth that man keeps returning to this world in new incar - nations. In short, while it is possible for God to reveal different commandments to different people, He could never teach them contradictory beliefs about eternal truths and verities. Since all religions, as they exist today, differ from one another not just in terms of their commandments but also in terms of eternal truths,