Tiapan
Grumpy Old Man
The Abrahamic religions define themselves by their monotheism, it is a corner stone of their doctrine, yet they concurrently believe in angels and many other supernatural entities.
A god is super natural and not human, an angel is supernatural and not human, are they not both "godlike" with similar properties. It seems the only difference is the hierarchical ladder of power with restrictions on lower limits, so the term God was modified from the family of godlike species to indicate only the top dog of the species. Is this a fair interpretation of the term "God".
As I see it there is a very close correlation between modern monotheistic and ancient polytheistic cultures, where a God ruled a mythical world of lesser gods. Consider the parallel God=Ra=Jupiter=Zeus=Wotan etc, and Gabrielle gods messenger = Mercury the gods messenger etc.
The Romans defined Mercury as a god, however the Jews and therefore Christians and Muslims demoted their definitions of these lesser gods so now they are angels, is there actually a difference other than semantics?
I wont mention Cherabims, Seraphim, Satan, Archangels etc etc.
Is this not polytheism in disguise?
Cheers
A god is super natural and not human, an angel is supernatural and not human, are they not both "godlike" with similar properties. It seems the only difference is the hierarchical ladder of power with restrictions on lower limits, so the term God was modified from the family of godlike species to indicate only the top dog of the species. Is this a fair interpretation of the term "God".
As I see it there is a very close correlation between modern monotheistic and ancient polytheistic cultures, where a God ruled a mythical world of lesser gods. Consider the parallel God=Ra=Jupiter=Zeus=Wotan etc, and Gabrielle gods messenger = Mercury the gods messenger etc.
The Romans defined Mercury as a god, however the Jews and therefore Christians and Muslims demoted their definitions of these lesser gods so now they are angels, is there actually a difference other than semantics?
I wont mention Cherabims, Seraphim, Satan, Archangels etc etc.
Is this not polytheism in disguise?
Cheers