Are ALL "Gods" the same being?

Question

My Barber is a Muslum, and that's fine with me, But he tells me that he reads the Bible, Quran and the Torah?(I don't know if the last one is correct or not) But he says that they ALL refer to the same "God", BUT with different beliefs. Do you think that this is true? If it is true, then Why can't ALL "Gods" agree"? I REAllllly need/want to know.

Answer 1

I suspect that all references to 'God' refer to the same entity. The pure concept of the Divine has different names with different groups. It's the rules and regulations that differ and these, I also suspect, are invented by humans.

Answer 2

Some say yes, some say no. In the case of Jews, Christians and Moslems, however, the answer is yes - Christianity and Islam are both based on Judaism, which is why Jews and Moslems have many of the same dietary laws, etc. The reason that they don't all agree is because the different groups have different interpretations of the will of their god.

Some religions teach that we are all connected, and that God is the cosmic consciousness created in that connections. Others say that the gods are all individuals, some of whom hate each other just like mortals would. Personally, I think that the gods probably get along better than their followers do, and that they'd like to smack a good number of us for getting into arguments over whose god is better.

Answer 3

Islam states that Islam, Judaism and Christianity are all valid and that they all worship the same god by different names. This refers only to those 3 religions however, not the dozens and dozens of others. Islam refers to the believers of the 3 religions as 'people of the Book', and considers that all 3 texts have a certain degree of validity as well, but that the Quran is paramount. They consider that Muhammed, Moses and Jesus were all prophets but that none of them were God.

Is it 'true'? As far as many of us are concerned, NONE of it is true. It is all ancient mythology.

Clear now?

Answer 4

There is one commandment which the Bible, Quran and Torah all agree as being the highest commandment, and that is "love thy neighbor as thyself."

Now I'll just copy/paste the answer I just wrote about polytheism and monotheism, because it relates directly to your question too. Here it is:

First of all, what is polytheism?
Polytheism is the belief that many forces influence us; and monotheism is the belief that one force influences us.

Everyone who thinks that they have to do as their school teacher, their mother, their boss, their friend, or their associate commands...if these people stand in the way of thinking that there is one force governing you, then you are considered to be polytheistic. That is, you submit to the belief that you are being influenced by an authoritarian force other than the one force that stands behind them all.

If, however, you are able to look behind all of these influences, and see that there is only one force operating everything, and you always aim to relate to these seemingly different influences around you as one single, perfect entity; then you are called "monotheistic."

In such a state, you relate to just one force which governs all the other forces: love.

And this force is perfect and eternal, while every other force that we perceive with our five senses is transient and leads to death.

Also, you asked: "Isn't peace the ultimate aim?"

Love is the ultimate aim, and along with it comes peace and a pleasure that doesn't have to submit to the restrictions of our five senses: an unbounded, always increasing pleasure, that comes from existing in love in its unrestricted form.

The question is, how do we achieve this sensation of unbounded love?

Answer 5

Yes there is ONE GOD... First he brought the Torah, then the Bible, but people started worshiping Jesus, so He sent Muhammad, and The End! So there is one God and he sent many messages...

Answer 6

Well, all gods *are* the same in one way -- they're all figments of somebody's imagination. Made up. Creations of people's minds. NOT REAL.
Other than that, they're all pretty different -- teaching different things, giving different commandments, demanding different rituals from their followers. Doesn't it make you wonder how there could be so much variation if there really is only one god? Perhaps it's because they're all NOT REAL :)

Answer 7

Yes, there is only one God but people throughout history have believed different things about him. God has not changed, but our understanding of him has and still does change as we advance both spiritually and intellectually. God periodically sends us revelations to enhance our understanding of him based upon our current level of growth. Sometimes he sends major revelations of epochal significance. The 4th epochal revelation was presented to us 2000 years ago in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. The fifth was presented to us in the early 20th century in the form of a book - the Urantia Book. This is what the UB has to say about our various religions. ("Urantia" is the name God's celestial government has given to our planet.)

92:7.3 The many religions of Urantia are all good to the extent that they bring man to God and bring the realization of the Father to man. It is a fallacy for any group of religionists to conceive of their creed as The Truth; such attitudes bespeak more of theological arrogance than of certainty of faith. There is not a Urantia religion that could not profitably study and assimilate the best of the truths contained in every other faith, for all contain truth. Religionists would do better to borrow the best in their neighbors' living spiritual faith rather than to denounce the worst in their lingering superstitions and outworn rituals.

92:7.4 All these religions have arisen as a result of man's variable intellectual response to his identical spiritual leading. They can never hope to attain a uniformity of creeds, dogmas, and rituals -- these are intellectual; but they can, and some day will, realize a unity in true worship of the Father of all, for this is spiritual, and it is forever true, in the spirit all men are equal.

Answer 8

That's not up to me. I just believe what the Bible says. It says that the only way to eternal life is through Jesus Christ. If I refused to believe this, I'd refuse to believe that the Bible was the word of God, and I'd refuse to believe that the God described in it was truly God.

Answer 9

The only true God, of false/true Gods?
The only wise God, of foolish/wise Gods?
The living God, of dead/living Gods?
That God, of this/that Gods?
Two spirits to test drive?
One is the spirit of error?

I will forsake you vs I will never leave nor forsake thee?

Come now, let us reason together,
either two Gods or one schizoid God to fear.

Hint: those recovering from getting "high" speak of a "higher" power that is helping them get over such destructive law law.

Hint: it's both a fearful thing and a fall to fall into the hands of the God, on high, in plural and divided heavens. Fall from where?

Hint: Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Higher God: grace
High God: law law

The God of all comfort...The God of all grace
The God of dis-comfort...Law: Yahweh, Jehovah, Allah, etc

Your choice, of law or grace, by whatsoever ye bind or loose on earth is bound or loosed in heaven. So then, what sort of heaven would you like to have for an eternity: awful lawful or grace us?

Translators of the Bible kinda SHOUTED a hint in their Epistle Dedicatory, is unanimously written by learned men all, as if making three wishes for king and kingdom thereof: Grace Mercy Peace through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. And let's not forget through J->C ends with C: the end of the law, which is also called peace with God(Grace).

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 10

Jesus said, 'This is eternal life that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent' (John 17 v 3). Jesus' statement concerning eternal life is very important. We live in a very 'pluralistic' culture which has many 'gods'. People have created their own special gods based upon their own particular beliefs.

Hope this helps