Rick123123
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I seem to be seeing many people reffering to God as if there is more than one. People seem to be seperating the God from their religion from others. So what is it? Is God one being or many?
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One God or many?
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For me, there is one God, and he is the God in the Holy Bible. There, we are told that God is represented as the trinity. I have taken an extracy from:- www.newadvent.org/cathen/07409... , which defines the trinity thus:-Rick123123 said:
The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion -- the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another. Thus, in the words of the Athanasian Creed: "the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God." In this Trinity of Persons the Son is begotten of the Father by an eternal generation, and the Holy Spirit proceeds by an eternal procession from the Father and the Son. Yet, notwithstanding this difference as to origin, the Persons are co-eternal and co-equal: all alike are uncreated and omnipotent. This, the Church teaches, is the revelation regarding God's nature which Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came upon earth to deliver to the world: and which she proposes to man as the foundation of her whole dogmatic system.
The reason I took this reference is because, to be quite frank, getting to grips with the holy Trinity is not an easy task, and I would have hated to have made a mistake.
Other Christians denominations believe in the same God.
That is for me, as a Christian.
Rick123123
Member
Yes but do you al lthink that the God that is proposed in the bible is exactly the same God that is spoke of in the koran, or the torah?michel said:For me, there is one God, and he is the God in the Holy Bible. There, we are told that God is represented as the trinity. I have taken an extracy from:- www.newadvent.org/cathen/07409... , which defines the trinity thus:-
The Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion -- the truth that in the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another. Thus, in the words of the Athanasian Creed: "the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God." In this Trinity of Persons the Son is begotten of the Father by an eternal generation, and the Holy Spirit proceeds by an eternal procession from the Father and the Son. Yet, notwithstanding this difference as to origin, the Persons are co-eternal and co-equal: all alike are uncreated and omnipotent. This, the Church teaches, is the revelation regarding God's nature which Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came upon earth to deliver to the world: and which she proposes to man as the foundation of her whole dogmatic system.
The reason I took this reference is because, to be quite frank, getting to grips with the holy Trinity is not an easy task, and I would have hated to have made a mistake.
Other Christians denominations believe in the same God.
That is for me, as a Christian.
Duwayitheru
Member
I believe in one Divine, with many names or aspects. I believe that the Gods of my religion, and all other religions, are all really parts of the same Divine.
Feathers in Hair
World's Tallest Hobbit
Gardenia put it very well, I thought.
I think of Diety in forms of 'gods' and 'goddesses', even though I percieve the entirety of them (and the spirits of humans, plants, animals and stones) as being simply aspects of what I tend to call the "Great Mystery".
I think of Diety in forms of 'gods' and 'goddesses', even though I percieve the entirety of them (and the spirits of humans, plants, animals and stones) as being simply aspects of what I tend to call the "Great Mystery".
The Lord is one, demons are many...
Feathers in Hair
World's Tallest Hobbit
(Sorry, I must have missed this post when I read through it the first time.)Sunstone said:
I agree. I would imagine prefering (as opposed to believing) in one god versus many would probably be an aspect of personality. I wonder what traits would contribute to one or the other...
Scott1
Well-Known Member
Agreed....michel said:Obviously, because of my Christian, label, I believe in one God.
Above all guard for me this great deposit of faith for which I live and fight, which I want to take with me as a companion, and which makes me bear all evils and despise all pleasures: I mean the profession of faith in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. I entrust it to you today. By it I am soon going to plunge you into water and raise you up from it. I give it to you as the companion and patron of your whole life. I give you but one divinity and power, existing one in three, and containing the three in a distinct way. Divinity without disparity of substance or nature, without superior degree that raises up or inferior degree that casts down. . . the infinite co-naturality of three infinites. Each person considered in himself is entirely God. . . the three considered together. . . I have not even begun to think of unity when the Trinity bathes me in its splendor. I have not even begun to think of the Trinity when unity grasps me. . .
-St. Gregory of Nazianzus
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
I believe there is an opposite force to everything. I side with the many gods side of the debate. I have come to believe there is one god and goddess, and the patron gods as being spirits who have reached the highest level of spiritual enlightenment.
Well, that is if you believe in demons. I wouldn't refere to my patron gods or guardian spirits as demons, primarily because there not.
alowyn said:
Gardenia said:
I agree pretty close to these beliefs/thoughts because to me it makes the most sense.
Though it makes all of these religious wars and divisions between religions all the more ironic and sad. We kill Each Other, we kill Nature and we kill God through our stupidity.