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Just out of curiousity...why just one God?
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Theweirdtophat
Well-Known Member
I'm not sure either. It's possible there is more than one god responsible for creating and/or maintaining the universe. I think there is a source of creation and believe everything has a spirit, even the universe itself.
Theweirdtophat
Well-Known Member
Although I don't worship gods, I don't deny the possibility. I am definitely not an atheist as I think it's possible there is more than one god. I think the gods of ancient times actually did exist at one point, but I just don't think of them as "gods" but really powerful folk. The way I define a god is someone who helped create or sustains the universe in some way. I believe in nature spirits and try to work with them, believe in the afterlife and reincarnation as well. I always thought if there was a all powerful God, it wouldn't be a he or a she but more of an "it" like a source, a force that creates and destroys, a force that brings everything in motion. So I think there is a source but not an all powerful deity like the one in the bible portrays.
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
Simplicity? I know it is easier for me to believe in more than one God, if I did. It doesnt change he diversity we have in life no matter what "plain" we believe we are on. I guess people needed a central focus rather than trying tonfind out what each God wanted. That, and it could be political and control. If I believed in one god, Id be bored. It would confuse me that one being would be everything (like my having mutitple personalities, no pun intended). There is always diversity.
That would be my take if I believed in deities. The archetypes I am getting to know are easier to believe in than one person because, like saints, we can identify with whom we find ourselves connected to.
With one god, I dont see that connection. It justifies the "my way (one way)or the high way". I never cared for that.
Nam.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
What about a quantum god, where there are simultaneously none, one, and infinite gods?
popsthebuilder
Active Member
Everything in existence was created in some form or another. With evolution being a fact of life then it's safe to say that everything was started. Everything was started by one God and made with one substance known as darkness. All other gods angels demons or other beings or alive we're all created by the will of the one Creator God. This is known to all monotheistic religions including Hinduism. Of course some Hindu practitioners will argue that there's not one Creator God evidently they do not read the Gita. It's not that there is only one God it's that all other gods are subsidiary to the one Creator God. And henceforth should not be worshipped without understanding that they are subsidiary to the one Creator God
Because only one God has reached out to me. Plus, polytheism never really jived with me. In my thinking, even if there are multiple divine beings, it stands to reason that there is a Source. So I'm cool with thinking that the deities in polytheistic religions (like the Greek, Roman or Norse religions) are more like nature spirits in a hierarchy of beings.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Aesthetic appeal?
I think God must be dignified and unique by having no comparative limitations, or at least no attributes other have that are superior to His, otherwise I believe He would not be worthy of warship. Also if there were different gods, they would have conflicts with each other bringing the world to an end in no time. Having a supreme god over them could make the odds better, but then again, they could mutiny against him.
Disclaimer:
Please know that I don't mean any disrespect to those believing in more than one god, nor I impose my belief on others as facts except on my own self.
Disclaimer:
Please know that I don't mean any disrespect to those believing in more than one god, nor I impose my belief on others as facts except on my own self.
MD
qualiaphile
There is no logical reason to believe in one God, two, three, or many. I believe in the greater potential for a more universal nature of God, if God exists. The ancients had many diverse beliefs in multiple Gods mixed with animism. The belief in any one religion as the view of God or Gods is not rational nor based on a sound logical basis. Judaism, Christianity and Islam believe in an evolved concept of God, from the polytheism and hierarchal
polytheism to monotheism.
My objection is not how many Gods there are, but how can so many different religions can claim absolutely to 'know' how many Gods there are and the be intimate to the absolute nature of God or Gods they have n objective evidence for these claims.
Jonathan Ainsley Bain
Logical Positivist
One God is not the same as:
One True God.
And by that I mean:
One Truth
and by that I mean:
Truth is Conscious
:
Absolute Truth is Absolute Consciousness: which is GOD.
How do you define the 'One True God?'
From the traditional Christian perspective the 'One True God' is only the Judeo-Christian God.
Jonathan Ainsley Bain
Logical Positivist
The keyword is Truth.
That which is God is True, that which is True is God.
There is a vast difference between typical false assumptions in many pseudo-christian traditions,
and the real philosophy of the Bible itself. I can see no essential ethical difference between Christianity
as its specifically explained in the Bible, and Hindu philosophy. Though I am certain many will disagree
with that because they have never studied the Bible closely.
This is in harmony with my Bah'i belief. God is an apophatic God not definable by any one religion. church or belief system. Though I do not think things are specifically explained in any one religion. There is definitely a universal thread that is apparent in all religions that indicates a commonness in the light of progressive Revelation in in the evolving spiritual nature of humanity.
