When I ask questions about god so many people assume (incorrectly) that it's the christian god. He's just one of the many bullies on the block.
2006-09-01 07:56:36 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They are all valid
2006-09-01 07:58:50 · answer #1 · answered by Christina H 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm sorry, but the Christian concept is the only valid one.
JESUS IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE and
honestly the only real God who created us (which other
so-called God did?), came to live among us for 33 years,
and died as planned for us and then rose from the dead.
What other so-called God has done that either? None
that I've ever heard of. So, why should I compromise what
I know to be the truth just because some others think
differently? I guess the other so-called Gods believe in the
"big bang" therory of life as I've not heard a one of them tell
how we came into being (not from them or anyone else).
Is that what you non-believers think too (big bang)???? Ha.
(and don't bring up evolution.....that's a farce)
2006-09-01 08:08:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible that Christians are wrong and Muslims to be right and vice versa. They both can be wrong, but they can't be true at the same time. Christians claim that Jesus is the son of God. Muslims say he is a prophet, which is something other than the son of God. If the Muslims are right, then Jesus is not the son of God, and the Christian faith is invalid. One cannot change this aspect of Christianity by omission or redefinition because it would not be Christianity by definition.
Universalists claim all religions are true. If some religions are false, then universalism can't possibly be true. For example, if Christianity and Islam are not the same, then at least one of them is false, which makes universalism false.
So yeah, all concepts of God are valid so as long as the concept of God is unique and mutually exclusive from other concepts of God, but this doesn't mean that they are all true.
2006-09-01 08:16:18 · answer #3 · answered by The1andOnlyMule 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My concept of a God is a power that can't be seen, heard, felt or understood because it is so great. And I don't think that power "hung around" to peek on the earth and it's inhabitants. I don't believe that power has, or had any human qualities. That power could have been the "Big Bang" or just some stardust that happened along the way to start the evolution process here on earth. And no I don't believe we descended from monkeys either. The power to create all this in such order is greater than we frail, humans can imagine. And it's probably off way the heck out there doing some other wondrous things.
2006-09-01 08:29:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If God exist (and He does) then he really is like something.
That's like saying "is this expert on alligator's concept of them the only valid one" Can't other concepts - like alligators fly, are pink, and are nice to people also be true?
No, there can only be one "truth" about God. He can't be Zeus, Jupiter, Krisna, Jehovah, Allah, Mother Nature, and Jim Darwin all at the same time. One is true, the rest are not. Jesus can not be just a Jewish teacher, a special anointed but only human prophet, a demented voice-hearing lunatic, and God in the flesh at the same time. One of them is right. The rest are wrong.
While every religion can have some truth in it, and some valid points to it (such as most have something like the "Do unto others..."), in the end, one is right and the rest are wrong.
So no, all concepts of God are not just as valid.
2006-09-01 08:07:55 · answer #5 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well not all conceptions of God can be valid. God either exists or God doesn't exist. God is either a trinity, or God isn't. Jesus is either the son of God or he isn't. And so on. It simply can't be the case that Jesus is God's son and not God's son at the same time. That's illogical.
Some religions simply have incorrect beliefs about God. Some people are wrong or mistaken about the nature or existence of God. We can't all be right. Obviously figuring out which religion is correct is not an easy task . . . but that doesn't mean that all religions are equally "valid."
2006-09-01 08:05:34 · answer #6 · answered by Sass B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are as many understandings of God as there are believers. For some interesting reading go to www.unity.org
Here is a very partial list of beliefs taken from that site:
What are the basic tenets of the Unity teachings?
First: God, Divine Mind, is the Source and Creator of all. There is no other enduring power. The nature of God is absolute good; therefore, all manifestations partake of good. What is called "evil" is a limited or incomplete expression of God or good. Evil's origin is ignorance.
Second: We are spiritual beings, ideas in the Mind of God, created in God's image and likeness. The ideal expression for every human being is the pattern every person is seeking to bring forth. Each individual manifests the Christ in his or her own unique fashion. The perfect expression of the Christ is, therefore, different for each person.
Third: Jesus was a special person in history who expressed perfection and thereby became the Christ, or Jesus Christ. He was a Teacher who demonstrated the importance of thoughts, words, and deeds in shaping the life and world of the individual.
Fourth: Jesus' teaching was based on prayer, which to Him was conscious communion with God. Preparation for prayer involves the use of the spoken word, the creative power of God, which is made practical through denials and affirmations. Unity teaches that repeated use of statements of Truth (denials and affirmations) establishes right patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting. This is one way individuals use the creative power of God to take dominion over mind, body, and affairs.
2006-09-01 08:08:27 · answer #7 · answered by Chuck N 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are all valid? That sounds like more nihilistic pabulum you get from the public schools. Isn't there such a thing as truth? Isn't there such a thing as reality?
When you mix mindless tolerance, mystical environmentalism, poor education, and cafeteria spirituality, this is the kind of nihilistic garbage you get. A is a, but in order not to offend anyone, a can also be b, or c or d. Heck, it can even be transgendered, since it is all just a social construct anyway.
We are so doomed.
Is it so terrible a thing to accept that there is a such thing as truth, reality, and that it can be measured, tested, observed, using reason?
2006-09-01 08:04:42 · answer #8 · answered by BrianthePigEatingInfidel 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All God concepts are valid. Christians automatically think of Jehovah when God is mentioned.
2006-09-01 07:59:15 · answer #9 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Truth is not the same as validity. Validity is a formal matter of how a conclusion follows from premises. For example:
p1) I drank rum and coke on monday and got drunk
p2) I drank bourbon and coke on tuesday and got drunk
p3) I drank whiskey and coke on wednesday and got drunk
Conclusion: Coke makes me drunk
Based on the previous three premises, the conclusion is valid, by the logical matching of the only explicitly consistent element in the premises. We all know it is not true, but that requires special knowledge about the world (about alcohol), not logic. Unless I know what premises someone is proceeding from, I cannot make a validity claim about anything they state. Our scientific knowledge about the world, however, makes it clear that Christian theology is neither valid nor true. I would need your premises to comment on your idea, but most ideas of a personality that created everything are simply (logically) indefensible.
2006-09-01 08:04:36 · answer #10 · answered by neil s 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Everyone has there own idea of a Higher Power. The Power which is greater than yourself is the only one that you need to help you. An individual's concept of a Higher Power is valid for that person, and after all, isn't that what matters?
2006-09-01 08:02:08 · answer #11 · answered by stacey a 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋