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by Anonymous on October 15th, 2005

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Does the fact that different religions have a different types of deities nullify the concept of God?

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  • by ErikMartin on October 11th, 2006

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    Sure, just like the different concepts of the moon held by the ancients nullified the concept of the moon. I for one think they were all nonsense. A big white thing moving across the sky. YEAH, RIGHT!

    But seriously, I think the more constructive thing is to look at how the ideas are not so different. Sure the Greeks had their "gods", but they also had "God". If you read Plato, he says we know of "the gods" only from tradition, but we know of "God" also from reason. The things he said about God were scarcely different from the likes of Kierkegaard 2000 years later. The Greeks would sometimes use a god (Zeus) to personify God. This was the exact same with Egypt, from which the Greek religion came: gods and God, with sometimes a god (Isis, Osiris or Ra) used to personify God. Exactly the same situation existed and exists with Hinduism, gods and God. (This applies to the central thinkers and writers of these religions. For the material minded, there were just the gods, and they'd do their sacrifice and get on with their life.) The same religious structure existed among all the religions of the American Indians. There were spirits, and there was the Great Spirit.

    The central idea of God is basically unchanged in human history, although the peripheral manifestations change radically. God is the source of life. Mankind is his creation. He is compassionate. He is good. He commands goodness in us. He is the provider of truth.

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