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Does your God have a God?

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
Staff member
Premium Member
I wasn’t making reference to any specific belief system.
The term 'Worship' is an overloaded operator, so what I think worship ought to be for everyone, everywhere, if it were up to me is...that we'd all do things for other people. Everyone would work willingly without needing, without the pressure of hunger or anything like that. We'd sing for people and make crafts and accepts gifts. We'd research how to make every person's life better. This would be true worship. All the other stuff is just wishful song and dance.
 

George-ananda

Advaita Vedanta, Theosophy, Spiritualism
Premium Member
In your religion or worldview, does your God have a God? Is there a hierarchy?
In my Advaita Vedanta philosophy Brahman is eternal consciousness. It is a mystery we can not get behind.

Do you work with or worship a lesser God than what is considered the supreme God? For what reason?
I believe gods (lower-case 'g') are incarnations of highly advanced souls that take incarnation on the lower planes for the purpose of aiding mankind.
 

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
Most Hindus are polytheists. So there are many Gods and Goddesses. Each one knows the other.
We have a hierarchy also. Not all Gods are equal. Indra leads the lesser Gods in his heaven.
Same is true of the Goddesses also. Those who are forms of Mother Goddess Durga are the higher Goddesses.

Aryans had different Goddesses. Only Saraswati out of them is still worshiped. Ushas (Dawns) have been forgotten.
Many of the Gods in Indra's heaven are Indo-European deities. The lesser Goddesses are generally indigenous.

That is about theists, I am an atheist and I am myself Brahman, eternal, changeless, form-independent and uninvolved.
 
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metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
In your religion or worldview, does your God have a God? Is there a hierarchy?

Do you work with or worship a lesser God than what is considered the supreme God? For what reason?
Is "I don't know" an answer? If so, that's mine.
 

syo

Well-Known Member
In your religion or worldview, does your God have a God? Is there a hierarchy?

Do you work with or worship a lesser God than what is considered the supreme God? For what reason?
In paganism, there aren't lesser and supreme.

Why?

Uniqueness. The Gods don't cross other Gods.
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
In my belief system there are "states of God" as illustrated below. God in the beyond the beyond, God in the beyond, God in evolving forms, God in human forms, God in the path of involution through the planes. There are also figures on the planes that can be called angels who have specific duty and sometimes these figures are called gods.

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Katzpur

Not your average Mormon
To me, "God" is the Godhead comprised of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, as described in the Bible (and not in the fourth and fifth century Christian Creeds). This means that I direct my worship primarily to God the Father, while also recognizing that His Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are also divine. But since Jesus referred to God the Father as both His and our God, I see the Father as being the supreme being. Jesus prayed to the Father and instructed us to pray to the Father, but to do so in His (i.e. Jesus' name), which is what I personally do.
 

robocop (actually)

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
*PLEASE NOTE BEFORE RESPONDING* - This is Religions Q&A, which is not a debate forum.


In your religion or worldview, does your God have a God? Is there a hierarchy?

Do you work with or worship a lesser God than what is considered the supreme God? For what reason?
I cover this and a lot of related concepts as scientifically as I can in my sixth book.
 

The Anointed

Well-Known Member
*PLEASE NOTE BEFORE RESPONDING* - This is Religions Q&A, which is not a debate forum.


In your religion or worldview, does your God have a God? Is there a hierarchy?

Do you work with or worship a lesser God than what is considered the supreme God? For what reason?

The Logos, who is the essential divine reality of the universe, the eternal spirit from which all being originates and to who all must return, is the eternal energy which can never be created nor ever be destroyed, having neither beginning or end, and manifests itself as the living universe as it has evolved to today.

It is within the Eternal Logos God, that a supreme personality of Godhead has developed, much the same as 'YOU' the invisible mind, is the supreme personality to have developed within that body which is the tent/tabernacle of your evolving parental spirit, the gathering of the spirits of all your ancestors, human and pre-human, who dwell behind the veil of the flesh within the innermost sanctuary of his temporary tabernacle/tent as he awaits the creation of his new glorious Temple of light, which Temple is the Most High on the ladder of evolution.

My God is the Great thought, that has neither beginning or end, of who Paul speaks of in Romans 1: 18; God's anger is revealed from heaven against all the sin and evil of the people whose evil ways prevent the truth from being known. God punishes them, because what can be known about God is plain to them, for God himself made it plain. Ever since God created the world, his invisible qualities, both his eternal power and his divine nature, have been clearly seen; they are perceived in the things that God has made.

To know the Logos God, know the world in which he has made himself manifest, know the Lord of Creatures who developed within the Logos, and know his Son, "The Son of Man,' who is my Lord God and savior.

My God is the Father and the Son, and the divine spirit which is the essential reality of the universe from which all being originates and to which all must return at the close of each period of universal activity.

According to the ancient cultures, we live in an eternal oscillating universe that expands outward and contracts back to its beginning in space time, a living universal being who is all that exists, and in who, all that is, exists. A universe that exists in the two states of seemingly visible matter and invisible energy=anti-matter.

“Universe after universe is like an interminable succession of wheels forever coming into view, forever rolling onwards, disappearing and reappearing; forever passing from being to non-being, and again from non-being to being. In short, the constant revolving of the wheel of life in one eternal cycle, according to fixed and immutable laws, is perhaps after all, the sum and substance of the philosophy of Buddhism. And this eternal wheel has so to speak, six spokes representing six forms of existence.” ---- Mon. Williams, Buddhism, pp. 229, 122.

There you have 'MY GOD.'
 
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Clara Tea

Well-Known Member
Christianity and Islam derive from Judaism. Jews were originally polytheists, then dropped many Gods to worship just one. Was it edited with divine authority or edited by some human? The fact that other Gods were written out of the bible, might question the validity of the edited bible. The only thing that we know about God is found in the bible.

(source: When the Jews believed in other gods). This shows an ancient Hebrew bull God.

Exodus 15:11 "Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods?" Obviously that is plural gods.

The Old Testament God, Hadad, was called Baal (storm God). Baal is another name for God or Lord. For example Islamics worship the lying God (whom they figure is playful, not evil), Baal Zebub (Lord of the Flies), from which we derive the modern name Beelzebub (Satan).

There was an apocryphal battle between Yahweh (modern God) and Hadad (Baal) fought on Mount Carmel, Israel, in which Baal's fire didn't ignite. The heavens rained fire.

1 Samuel 5 discusses the Philistine capture of the Ark of the Covenant (box containing shards of the 10 commandments, with magical powers). The Ark was taken to the Temple of Dagon in Ashdod (Dagon was Baal's father, and El was Dagon's father). El was a Hebrew God.

Moloch was another Hebrew God, and demanded child sacrifice.
 

Pipiripi

End Times Prophecy.
There is one God and a one Meditator between man and God.
Jesus is God because His Father is God. My child is human, because I am human. God only is THE ONE TRUE GOD. THE GOD (FATHER)
 

Jainarayan

ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
Staff member
Premium Member
Well, in Hindu paganism Shiva, Vishnu and Mother Goddess Durga are the highest.

My view also, with Vishnu as primus inter pares, first among equals. This represents for me, “God”: the conjoined Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswati (Tridevi); the conjoined Shiva and Vishnu (Harihara). While I worship and pray to all of them at some time or another, the Vishnu form of God is my focus.

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Saint Frankenstein

Wanderer From Afar
Premium Member
Odin is the chief god in Norse religion. He didn't create the universe (as it wasn't created) but he helped form it into what it is now, fathered the gods and helped create humanity. It's not so much a strict hierarchy but a difference of function. Odin functions as the archetypical chieftain who defends and leads his people, just as Thor is the archetypical brave warrior who fights for his people.

As for a Supreme Being, Kali is my favorite image of that, but that's more a vision of the overall unity of the cosmos and reality than strictly a personal being who rules over anything.
 
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