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originally posted by: windword
The Biblical God made the claim to be the greatest of gods. Remember the contest in Egypt? The Israelites believed that there were other gods, otherwise, they wouldn't have made the Golden Calf and worshiped Baal.
The whole point of the contest in Egypt, and the similar contest involving Elijah, was to distinguish between the real thing and the fakes. This is the Rolex analogy all over again.
Israel made the Golden Calf at a time when their thinking was going astray, so what they thought at that moment is not the Bible's view;
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: knoledgeispower
God presides in the great assembly;
he renders judgment among the “gods”:
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“I said, ‘You are “gods”;
you are all sons of the Most High.’
7But you will die like mere mortals;
you will fall like every other ruler.
biblehub.com...
Osiris and Zeus weren't people claiming to be gods. The biblical God laid no claim to the people of Egypt or the people of Greece. They weren't his people, not did he reach out to them. They had their own gods, the gods that were "allotted" to them, not fake gods.
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: knoledgeispower
Why should I care about anything the Pope has to say?
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: knoledgeispower
LOL! The Pope is going to tell me I'm wrong?
HAHA
Sure other religions have different names for their god but it is still one god along the different denominations of the Catholic & Christian faiths. Just their interpretations of what that god wants is different.
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: knoledgeispower
Sure other religions have different names for their god but it is still one god along the different denominations of the Catholic & Christian faiths. Just their interpretations of what that god wants is different.
If it's all just "God", if that's the case, why then does the Old Testament god guy get so pissed about "other gods", like Baal, for example?
Also, why do think that there's only one god? Where there's one, most probably there's another.
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: knoledgeispower
I know Christians say that there is only one god and all others are "false" gods. But to the people who were worshiping Horus, Mithra, Krishna etc., their gods were very much real and true.
Personally, I don't believe in a deity called God. But I do believe that if there is a god, there can be 2 gods, or even an infinite number of gods.
it's all the same higher being.