If you pray to "it", does that make it a God? Many Catholics, right or wrong, pray to the Virgin Mary and to Saints. Does that mean the Virgin Mary is a God? Ancient Greeks prayed to Demeter for the harvest, but recognized Zeus as the most powerful God. Isn't that very similar the Catholics praying to the Virgin Mary for protection but recognizing "God" as the most powerful God?
2006-10-25 06:12:22 · 8 answers · asked by Math Guy 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I define the word "god" as the highest power (real or imagined) you see as fit to worship. I myself don't find anything worthy of worship.
2006-10-25 06:15:51 · answer #1 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thats one of the many things wrong with catholics. Mary, peter, john, ect... were just HUMANS doing the will of God. The only person that can save you is Jesus Christ
2006-10-25 06:17:01 · answer #2 · answered by kittykat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Historically, the criteria has been that someone thinks it up. The christian faith was twisted from the beginning. Most people who converted to christianity did so to save their lives. They knew nothing of Scriptures because they weren't written until many years later and when they were, they were written in Latin so that common people couldn't understand them. So the commoners continued to practice their pagan Roman religions. Christianity's answer of course, was to assimilate the holidays and rituals of the pagan religions. A great deal of christian ideology reminds you of Greek and Roman practices because that's where the christians got it from.
2006-10-25 06:43:32 · answer #3 · answered by theswedishfish710 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not know how well this will help as an answer but there are many gods but one GOD.
What people pray to as their gods are just different elements of nature. Different forces of nature.
2006-10-25 06:16:26 · answer #4 · answered by Osunwole Adeoyin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The creator defines His creation, not the other way round.
2006-10-25 08:10:56 · answer #5 · answered by daliaadel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A god is what your worship. THE god is the Creator of the universe.
2006-10-25 06:15:23 · answer #6 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I call to Wakan Tanka
Waho
2006-10-25 06:14:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
WE CATHOLICS USE MARY AS A CONDUIT TO HER SON, JESUS, THE SON OF GOD.
2006-10-25 06:15:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋