Do you think all gods/faiths/otherwordly powers all emanate from the same source?

Question

Is God/Allah/YHVH/Satan/Vishnu/Odin/Zeus/Jupiter simply different cultures perceptions of a singular higher power? Or are they all gods in their own right, but somehow coexisting in our plane? Is all mythological and spiritual belief merely different peoples relating to the same natural world in their own way?

Answer 1

Yes. Okay, I think it's all One God many Names to the Divine. I do agree with you. I just wish more people did.....God's got to be getting pretty annoyed about all this killing in Their Names.

Answer 2

The all have the same source. The human imagination. Religon has always been a vehicle to explain things that people could not or do not understand.

Thunderstorms, comets and shooting stars are all on the list of things that were once attributed to God's will or act of one god or another. Now these things are simply answered by science.

Another thing that makes this obvious to me is that people generally accept the religion they are brought up on. This has a profound affect of solidifying religion as "truth" because people generally like to think that their parents were not fools for believing in something that doesn't exist.

Answer 3

This makes a lot of sense to me. Especially when viewing how
we perceive what's going on around us.

It doesn't matter how many people are around you that say they
understand something. Until you personally give meaning to
that something, it doesn't really exist. Even if you accept the
meaning that another shares with you, it still requires your
participation in accepting that definition as your own.

So to me, everything is the same one thing being viewed through
different perceptions and definitions.

And I don't believe that it matters which definition you align with.
It's only when people try to say that their definition is the one
true definition and everyone else is wrong or deluded in their
understanding and definition.

If we can learn to accept differences, then maybe we will more
easily see that there isn't as much difference as first appears.

Answer 4

Absolutely not. I believe there is only one true God, who you can find out about by reading the Bible. I think other cultures who have their own gods create them because they feel an emptiness inside them. This emptiness comes from needing God and needing to serve something or someone higher than themselves. The only way they feel they can fill this emptiness is to create their own gods to serve.
Also, I can't believe you would put Satan and God in the same group. Satan is NOT a god, and you are only playing right into his trap if you think he is.
I hope I helped you out with this question. I will keep you in my prayers that you will find the one true God who is seeking for you.

Answer 5

Yup ...All Gods, faiths and otehr worldly powers all emante from the same source...They all started out as storys...storys to tell people for generations to come where they came from and what shaped there views of the world. All of the Gods where basiclly the same from one culture to another ...Zeus and Odin wehre called All-fathers..the bible called the modern God..All-Father too...so you could say they are the same God jus different culutres different names forthere Gods...Whatever his name is it the same..well escept the Romans and Norse beileved in a bunch of gods ..but for Christianity too work they had to be different from the otehr bad reiligions so they narrowed it down to one god !!! ..Soo They are all the same.

Answer 6

I think that most religions are expressions of Man's attempt to reach God. I was an atheist my whole life - times got rough - I appealed to God in a half-assed way - and he appeared to me, and he was God - like Jesus's Dad, the guy in the Bible. So my take is this:

Man knows there's a God. We're always looking for him. We see him in weird places, and we misinterpret him, etc. - but he sent his Son to us so we couldn't misunderstand anymore. Or at least, Jesus tried/tries to make it clear for us. Hence, the Trinity is God, and Jesus expresses God to the world - God in his true form.

Of course, and this is again only my take on things, Satan (whether he is seen as an individual being or as a concept) is always going to use misunderstandings to keep us further from true God, and he has hijacked parts of many religions for his own ends. He has hijacked parts of Christianity for his own ends, that's for sure...

Answer 7

It's possible and why not? I am one person, but am different to many. I am a mom, grandma, sister, daughter, councelor, teacher, nurse, friend, employee, fashion consultant, etc., depending on who I'm dealing with.
On the other hand, what is so difficult about accepting that there are many spiritual entities in existance?

Answer 8

no.

You want to hear someone say yes they are, and that this source is otherworldly and therefore potentially a unifying foce.

There is no-one. As the first responder states, the common origin of 'god'
lies in characteristics we ought to have shed by now, namely fear, ignorance, the need to rely on a higher power - which, incidentally, ultimately absolves one of one's mistakes, as we are as children, or so the priests of religions will tell us.

It's not as much fun when one realizes we are alone, is it.

Answer 9

They all came from the same source. God is like this Ocean of Consciousness. These Gods and Goddesses are "personalities" or "aspects" of the formless aspect of God. Gods/Goddesses are "forms" for our minds to project on.

God is unlimited in its expression.

Answer 10

They all come from the mind of man. Ideas like these evolved in the minds of men as their minds themselves evolved. As the human brain and its neural network grew and changed, man experienced auditory and visual hallucinations that became the "voice of god."