rrosskopf
LDS High Priest
do those who would identify as Theists beleive in one supreme god or multiple gods ?
to you Is god omnipotent ?
is god omnipresent ?
is god omnicient ?
is god eternal ?
Blissfull ?
and full of Knowledge ?
is God a personification of love ?
In the Judeo Christian religion, there is an Almighty God, who is God over all the gods, and Jehovah - who is the God of Israel. Each nation was watched by their own archons or Gods. These gods were the premortal spirits of men, assigned to their tasks by Almighty God through his spokesman, Jehovah. Jehovah was assigned from the beginning to be born as the physical son of Almighty God.
Jehovah was born as Jesus, and Jesus knew who he was. When he told the Jews that he was the Son of God, they wanted to stone him. He argued that in the scripture (Psalms 82:6), Almighty God called the other archons gods, and therefore it wasn't blasphemy for him (Jesus) to call himself the Son of God. They didn't go for it and still tried to stone him.
The gospel of the Son of God was taught many hundreds of years before Jesus was born, but at the time of his birth, this doctrine had fallen out of fashion. Jesus, however, grew up in Egypt, where apparently the doctrine was still taught.
Almighty God was a living God who ruled from an actual throne in the heavens. He wasn't everywhere-present and he wasn't a spirit. The idea that God was an omnipresent spirit is a late heresy that came from Greek philosophy. Philosophers have imagined a God without limits, virtually defining God out of existence, for everything that is real has properties or limits.
Although the word "Eternal" is often used to mean for ever, the original Hebrew meaning was often "from time unknown". God was God from "time unknown". No knowledge of the origins of God can be found in the Holy Writ.
When God sends a representative, that person then speaks for God. The angel who appeared to John the Apostle in the book Revelations, starts out by calling himself "Alpha and Omega", but later acknowledges that he is just an angel, and not actually God himself. This is called the divine investiture of authority, and apparently has been going on for untold millennia.
So it may well be that all those who are called gods are actually only acting as Gods, representing those or he who has come before.