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One God

syo

Well-Known Member
One God. Period.

In Orthodox Christianity, God is a trinity, so he isn't exactly one.

BUT in a few religions, God is absolute One. How is that possible? What are the characteristics of only One God? Why only One God?
 

Iymus

Active Member
BUT in a few religions, God is absolute One. How is that possible?

Tanakh says

Psa 96:5 KJV For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

NT says

1Jn 5:20 KJV And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
1Jn 5:21 KJV Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

What are the characteristics of only One God?

Usage of Singular pronouns

Descriptive adjectives such as alone, no other, only true, etc

Why only One God?

Life or energy seems connected and possessing an origin.
 

Kenny

Face to face with my Father
Premium Member
One God. Period.

In Orthodox Christianity, God is a trinity, so he isn't exactly one.

BUT in a few religions, God is absolute One. How is that possible? What are the characteristics of only One God? Why only One God?
Again... I find it quite easy to understand.

Man is a trinity... spirit, soul and body - each with a different materiality and a different purpose but still one man. God is also a trinity but just one God.

Why just one? Maybe because only one could have started the process?
 

syo

Well-Known Member
Again... I find it quite easy to understand.

Man is a trinity... spirit, soul and body - each with a different materiality and a different purpose but still one man. God is also a trinity but just one God.

Why just one? Maybe because only one could have started the process?
What about a nontrinity God? There are a few religions where God is absolute one and not a trinity.
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
I don't understand.
My belief is that nothing exists but God but that we don't experience it because there are 'veils' over our innermost nature. So God is not a 'super person' but all pervading and the statement that God knows the falling of a leaf is from that God is the falling leaf and everything else.

Mystics affirm this. For example Kabir:
God is within
but people think that he is somewhere outside.
O! Irony of ironies!

and

Does Khuda live in the mosque?
Then who who lives everywhere?
Is Ram in idols and holy ground?
Have you looked and found him there?
Hari in the East, Allah in the West -
So you like to dream.
Search in the heart, in the heart alone:
There live Ram and Karim.

 

syo

Well-Known Member
My belief is that nothing exists but God but that we don't experience it because there are 'veils' over our innermost nature. So God is not a 'super person' but all pervading and the statement that God knows the falling of a leaf is from that God is the falling leaf and everything else.

Mystics affirm this. For example Kabir:
God is within
but people think that he is somewhere outside.
O! Irony of ironies!

and

Does Khuda live in the mosque?
Then who who lives everywhere?
Is Ram in idols and holy ground?
Have you looked and found him there?
Hari in the East, Allah in the West -
So you like to dream.
Search in the heart, in the heart alone:
There live Ram and Karim.
God is in us? You and I are two people, so is God two people?
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
If God is only one, how then everything was created in the image of God? A rock, an apple, etc. how they were created? Are not things images of Gods?

I like the fun quote from "Good Omens" because it illustrates my view very well in this excerpt

Maybe it's all part of a great big ineffable plan. All of it. You, me, him, everything. ...It has to be just very complicated Solitaire.”
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
God is in us? You and I are two people, so is God two people?
That's the illusion we all have that appears to be two separate people but is really only one.

Another image is two drops in the ocean. There is only one ocean but the drops think of themselves as separate from the ocean.
 

syo

Well-Known Member
That's the illusion we all have that appears to be two separate people but is really only one.

Another image is two drops in the ocean. There is only one ocean but the drops think of themselves as separate from the ocean.
Why the illusion then? Couldn't God skip the illusion?
 

Kenny

Face to face with my Father
Premium Member
What about a nontrinity God? There are a few religions where God is absolute one and not a trinity.
I don't see where it runs cross-grained. As I perceive God, I see Him as an absolute one just like I am absolute one.

Like a cell. A cell is a composite of its individual pieces but still absolutely one cell.

Perhaps the other religions are just seeing the "cell" or "God", so to speak, without looking at His characteristics.
 

syo

Well-Known Member
I don't see where it runs cross-grained. As I perceive God, I see Him as an absolute one just like I am absolute one.

Like a cell. A cell is a composite of its individual pieces but still absolutely one cell.

Perhaps the other religions are just seeing the "cell" or "God", so to speak, without looking at His characteristics.
That is I'm trying to comprehend.
 

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
Paganism.

... what? I mean, I get that some contemporary Pagans will Christianize aspects of Pagan theology (in part because it's difficult not to when you are raised in that cultural environment), but... what?
 
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