2006-09-15 00:34:58 · 25 answers · asked by passion flower 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Is this not what Christianity teaches? Believe in God, Jesus, Mary & the Holy Spirit. Oh no, hang on, they are just ASPECTS of the one God, right?
Is it any wonder why religion is responsible for so much anger & frustration?
I believe in God/Love/Spirit (whatever label you want) but am not going to be told how to believe. Your belief is up to you, so I guess my answer, simply, is Yes.
2006-09-15 02:06:04 · answer #1 · answered by fruitbat7711 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, because the one God would not have need for there to be other Gods. If you believe in one God then how can you also believe in many Gods? if you believe in many Gods, then you believe in more than one God - how can you believe in many Gods but also in only one?! That's why many people during the times not long after Christ, when the Word began to spread from the Romans and others, abandoned their religions of many Gods and came to believe in just one God
2006-09-15 07:39:16 · answer #2 · answered by big pup in a small bath 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The first of the 10 commandments says: "You shall have no other God but me".
And Jesus said: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength." He also said: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me"
So it is clear that, from a Judeao-Christian perspective, there is only one God.
The answer to your question depends on what you mean by "believe in one God and many gods". The Devil believes in God; but does not follow him or worship him.
Likewise, what do you mean by "gods".
People treat many things as gods - not just Hindu or Greek or Roman mythology - today people worship money, power, possessions and have turned those into gods. So it is possible to believe in lower-case gods as in accepting that people are worshiping these other things.
But if you want a relationship with God then you can't do that if you want to worship other "gods" as well.
2006-09-15 07:42:37 · answer #3 · answered by stafflers.t21@btinternet.com 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Just remember that the same people that made the Bible legal for the "layman" to read committed more crimes than Hitler, Lenin, and any other dictator you can think of.
It kills me when people get gung ho into their beliefs yet don't know the history of it.
Read, people. Question the truth. Stop bashing everyone else's belief system and claiming how eveyone else but you is going to hell when you probably don't follow or even know your own religion yourself!
Oh and getting back to the question, sweetheart, we don't know.
And for those who claim you do know, you don't. And I refuse to believe that Jesus, Allah, Buddha or whoever's chillin up there would send me to hell because I thought there was one God instead of a million of them or vice versa. Sounds like a dictator to me....or one of the dictators who organized what is now called the Bible. F$%^ King James.
2006-09-15 07:53:45 · answer #4 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, of course. It's an Asian way of thinking. For Westerners, we might call it "adding another layer to the onion." For example, in Indonesia, most Muslims have a strong underlying Hindu perspective, and under that, they are still animists, too. Not logical by Western standards, but totally consistent by Oriental standards.
2006-09-15 07:38:15 · answer #5 · answered by Ever Learn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, We just only can worship one true God(The father , The Son and the Holy Spirit).Because God doesn't like us to serve the other God in the same time.God love you. : )
2006-09-15 08:13:55 · answer #6 · answered by LoveStefanie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
If there was not more than one God, who was God referring to when he said 'us'?
2006-09-15 07:43:20 · answer #7 · answered by uselessadvice 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No obviously if you believe in many Gods then there isn't just one!
2006-09-15 08:56:37 · answer #8 · answered by good tree 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is one Supreme Lord and many demigods who are all His servants. If you worship the on Supreme Lord, there is no need to worship demigods separately, because they cannot give you anything without the permission of the Supreme Lord.
2006-09-15 07:46:11 · answer #9 · answered by H. B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes
God/Brahman/supreme reality/Krishna is one and only one but his aspects are millions. In Hinduism it's Devas (aspects of one Brahman/Supreme reality) which is wrongly called as gods in english because there is no correct translation of Sanskrit word Deva in english.
2006-09-15 07:38:14 · answer #10 · answered by Kwel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋