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  • No. The concept of God does not depend upon the different views of others. If you believe that God is the one and only diety then there cannot be any others. If you believe that there are many gods then there cannot be only one. Only if all concepts were true would they nullify/cancel each other out, making none of them true (everyone can't be right but that doesn't mean that no-one is).
  • Of course not. I could start a new religion tomorrow that contradicts someone else's beliefs. The fact that my new religion contradicts another can not invalidate what someone else believes or nullify another's concept of God, the afterlife or anything else. If two religions hold irreconcilable contradictory positions it proves only that one is wrong, but not which - and both may be. _______ I am dismayed by the feedback so far... a little logic lesson: The logic of this question is equivalent to asking "Does the fact that experts disagree about who killed JFK (lone gunman, conspiracy, etc.) nullify the concept of JFK's assasination." The concept of truth requires that he was either killed by a lone gunman or he was not. Disagreement about a concept only requires that some postions are wrong either in facts, deductions or definitions - not that the concept is invalid. The fact that religious teachings disagree does not mean God can not exist, but just that some teachings are wrong. Major religions are based on messages communicated by people telling stories and writing things. Most of those messages are not truth. One belief system says there is a God, another says there is not - one of those teachings/beliefs is WRONG. The sum of all the wrong messages is not that God can not exist, but just that people believe a lot of wrong things. If you believe God is a giant chicken, your friend believes God is an ancient tree and another believes there is no God. Your disagreement does not "nullify the concept of God." Logic and correct understanding of language dictate that if two sources hold contradictory positions one or both is/are in error. On another point, most beliefs are either right or wrong. If you believe Kennedy was killed by an extraterrestrial alien conspiracy, you are either right or wrong. People have different beliefs about who killed JFK, but there is an objective true and right answer. The same is true of God. If God is an objective reality and you believe it, you are right. If true and you don't believe it you are really, objectively wrong. It is literally nonsense to say God is true and real for one person and not for another - the world was created by God or it was not: truth does not depend on whether you believe it.
  • Yes. Me thinks you got it/ Give the concept of god a miss/ Forget morals enter ethics/
  • I believe a cheetah is the fastest land animal, you believe a 3 toed sloth is the fastest land animal. Does the fact that our beliefs disagree disqualify the concept of one animal being faster than the other? No. The contradiction of beliefs doesn't mean all beliefs are wrong, it merely means that all the beliefs cannot be right.
  • Yes. There is no more reason to beleif in christianity, then there is in believing Greek mythology, or Pagism, Santa Claus, or any other super natural belief. Because neither one can be prooved or disproved, so they are all as valid as the other. Your belief in either one depends on where and when you were born.
  • 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.
  • Not at all. Anybody can visualize God in anyway you want. It is beyond your 5 senses. So any image you give to God, it works.

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