Why don't ppl believe in the concept of multiple gods when....?

Question

in the bible god is often talking to other beings, such as when we were created "Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness" keywords us and our, meaning two or more, and belonging to two or more

but the bible also said the sons of god, meaning more than just one

Jesus also debated the old testements so we cant say he was a part of a trinity if he can debate it, jesus would say the same thing Im saying how could, and why dont, In fact he has a way of explaining himself, were he talks about the conversation between David and God, where in it he says the lord says to the lord

Answer 1

OMG! Awesome question! I ask this one myself ALL THE TIME! No clue why Christians are all weird about believing in one god, when in Genesis god does indeed use "our" (and that guys answer of "trinity" doesn't hold up because in Genesis Jesus isn't born yet).

I also love this Catholic concept of having saints - which in my opinion is just a fancy way of having multiple little gods to pray to. You pray to a certain saint for specific things; ie: you pray to St. Anthony of Padua for help with a harvest....or the Greek goddess Demeter, your choice! The majority of saints have their own specific prayers and amulets honoring them, most churches are named after a patron saint, and there are statues and such. If you look back at any major ancient religion with multiple gods there was ALWAYS a main head god and little gods below that dealt with certain issues (like the harvest). If you wanted a certain thing, you prayed to that smaller god for help - now tell me what the difference is between THAT and praying to a saint? Many cultures had multiple gods and Catholics/early Christians used saints as a way to pull in more pagans during the dark ages and such (the same way they made all their holidays near or the same day as pagan ones and used pagan symbols).

Another great one is the first of the Ten Commandments:
"I AM THE LORD THY GOD, THOU SHALT NOT HAVE strange gods BEFORE ME."
Many historians have analyzed this and in the context of the times, it didn't mean thou shalt not have any other gods but me, it instead meant you shouldn't worship another god more than me or have one greater than me - littler ones are okay. But due to Catholic/Christian church B.S. this has been skewed to mean whatever they want. besides, if people read the bible literally and understood this first commandment all the saints would be out of a job.


Anyway, i dint know if that helped or not but it's my answer none the less.

A bit about my background:
Let's see, I was baptized as a baby, went through 12 years of Catholic schooling, went trhough my conformation and graduated college still considering myself and unstatisfied "Catholic." I now no longer consider myself a Catholic, and instead find my faith not in what others tell me, but in what i find in my own heart and mind. I believe in a power greater than myself and have a set of morals that surpasses a normal Catholic's and their automatic get-out-of-hell-free pass in confession/forgiveness of sins. I believe in reincarnation as well as moral/honest/good people going to a better place after they die (like a heaven) and immoral ones being punished (pedifiles, rapists and serial killers have to have some form of holy justice in my opinion). I like to think you have the choice between eternity in "heaven" or being reincarnated. I have a strong sense of faith, I just refuse to belong to a congregation that believes in Jesus - whom spread a message of love and acceptance - yet refuses to accept gays and women as equals.

Answer 2

There are many polytheistic religions in the world. Hinduism is a prime example of that. Both the roman, egyptian and greek civilizations believed in multiple deities. In fact most religions in the world were polytheistic until the advent of judaism and later christianity.

It could be argued that modern christianity is somewhat of a multi deity faith. There is the devil, christ and god. While both christ and god are worshipped there is still the belief in a devil deity. You can even look at the devil and christ as lesser gods created from one supreme being. In the ten commandments it does state that one should not have strange gods before it for it is a jealous god. What would god need to be jealous of?

If you had multiple gods then those gods would need an origin, a type of overgod. Of course you could ask the question where did that overgod come from. By the nature of asking that question you open up the plausibility of there being multiple deities.

Christianity by design is fairly simple when compared to other polytheistic religions such as hinduism. The concept of a singular deity is easier to believe in and follow, it also tends to make more logical sense.

Answer 3

Well now, the original Gods on Earth was a group called the Annunaki from a distant planet.
They are the ones who changed the DNA on primitive man and created Homo Sapien and HomoSapien Sapien. May answer the question to two creations in Genesis. They took primitive man first and changed the DNA but did not do a thorough enough job, because they could not procreate!. The did the job a second time changing the genomes to allow for procreation. This group, called the Annunaki were very warlike and may help to answer why earthlings are very warlike, we certainly aren't very peaceful! They Influenced Sumerian civilization and the early, early Hebrew nomads and they made the Egyptian Society exactly as they had on their home planet.Technologically, they were a very advanced race and all three major religions can be traced back to a direct descendant of this ET race-Abraham

Answer 4

i'm confident that folk believe it because they prefer to sense that there is a reason and a reason in the back of each thing. the theory that activities are random bothers them, so that they convince themselves that God has a reason or plan, no matter if or not they do no longer understand what that's. i imagine also that some human beings do not prefer to imagine that we do not understand how our universe replaced into created or why we ensue to be right here, so that they tell themselves that God made the universe. It facilitates them sleep at evening. i'm completely comfortable with randomness and not understanding, so i'm an agnostic.

Answer 5

it is difficult to get by the argument that all life originates some where and we beleive that one point of origin is the answer one god all power full not many that god has help does not diminish the fact man can only consider one as the force behind the begging of all things and the only thiing that makes any sense where did #2 come from .#1 and so one creator who may have help but one --one --one creator .oh and the bible is a nice story like star wars is an ok movie. no reality just fantasy .

Answer 6

This is hard to explain, but God was referring to the Trinity -- He, Jesus and the Holy Spirity. The Lord is also Jesus and the Holy Spirity all rolled into one. The Trinity is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. It all begins and ends with the Trinity.

Answer 7

Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Trinity.

Answer 8

A colleague of mine and I were having a conversation about people who interpret the bible to suit their own needs. he said that most people approach it as a "choose your own adventure" book. they pick out small parts that they agree with and mold their entire faith around only those parts.

But wasn't God also a Jealous god? and didnt he also say something like thou shalt not worship any other gods but me? this could add to your argument.

Answer 9

almost every "religion " including current christianity,
has god, the deity, represented in some way as that multifaceted diamond...
one face of many gods?

they choose not to see that...in blind faith..or ignorance?

prehaps also.....we are created...in the image of them...like beings
from another plant....and god or the creator.....had the best computer/program/ game... for designing and creating live modules...

free your mind...
who knows what might follow...

Answer 10

i don't believe in one god, and i don't believe in the one god.
there is more than one supreme being, entity, deity, creator-thing
why have just one supreme being? that sounds too much like a king, being the top of the food chain, everything under his control-and who the hell said god was a man? MEN, of course!