How many diffrent gods are there to belive in. Like for diffrent religions, thanks i really need this information for a school project!! THANKS!
2006-12-13 12:50:35 · 14 answers · asked by miekaonfire!™[NObama] 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What major gods, commonly know, names please
2006-12-13 12:59:55 · update #1
God, Allah, Zeus, Jupiter, Hera, Juno, Aphrodite, Venus, (all the other Greek and Roman gods), Jah, Ngai, Mi'kmaq, Bhagavan, Brahman, Baquan, etc.
2006-12-13 13:03:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might want to narrow down your question. Like are you including ancient religions that believed in gods like Zeus and Hera and stuff? Or are you looking for the gods of the currently practised religions? And if you're looking for currently practised ones you might even want to narrow that down to the more widely practised ones like Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc etc.
If I were you I'd do an online search for "major world religions" then you'd have a list of religions to start with. You can look each one up and find out what god or gods they believe in..
Also, keep in mind that Christianity, Islam, and Judaism all believe in the same god.
Good luck with your project.
2006-12-13 21:45:48 · answer #2 · answered by Jen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scripture, which of course is not definitve. Indicates multiple gods both in Genisis ( "they have become like us") and in the commandments ("thou shalt have no other god before me")
Excuses have been made for the plural usage as being similar to the "royal "we"" that british monarchs use when speaking for the state.
The commandment, however, implies not only the existance of others gods but one's freedom to whorship them as long as they are still whorsipped as being secondary to the god of the Jews.
2006-12-13 21:02:53 · answer #3 · answered by Zarathustra 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Literally thousands.
Thor -- mythological head god of the vikings
Ra -- mythological Sun god, head god of the Egyptians
Jehovah/Yaweh/"god" -- mythical god of the hebrews and christians
Allah -- mythical god of the Muslims
Jupiter -- mythical head god of the Romans
Zeus -- mythical head god of the Greeks
Marduk -- mythical head god of ancient Babylon
Most of these gods also had "subordinate" gods (that includes christianity, with jesus)...these subordinates were under the head god, and were kind of "in charge" of certain areas of mystical life. Example: Osiris, the son of Ra in Egypt, supposedly died and had his body torn apart...then he was resurrected by Ra and made whole, and became the one that would judge all people in the afterlife. Sound similar to the jesus story? Yep -- only it was Egyptian myth thousands of years before jesus came along. Osiris even had an evil brother, Seth (or Set), who tempted men and made them do evil things (he's the one that tore Osiris' body apart) -- Seth became the devil in hebrew and christian myth.
2006-12-13 21:10:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
in my opinion, untold billions.
even if two people use the same words, the same texts, on some level they have different interpretations of god or gods. Pat Robertson's Jesus is not Jesse Jackson's Jesus. Multiply in a billion interpretations of the thousands of Hindu gods, and we're off the scale entirely.
2006-12-13 20:56:12 · answer #5 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
(in my opinion) there is only one God. One God that controls the whole of creation. becasue if there are more than one god that contributed in creating this universe than that means that Gods have limited power and that could never be so. there is only one god and that God alone controls everyhting and creates everything that is as big as humans to the littlest ant breathing in oxygen. everything happens only by God's will. God alone is divine.
2006-12-13 21:12:43 · answer #6 · answered by ms.tari 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Going back to ancient times, too many to count. Deities predate the written word, so there are probably many tribal gods no one has ever heard of.
2006-12-13 20:57:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
its too difficult but---
"The LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else."
There is only one God who is omniscient and omnipotent, Who created all things. He is one in nature, yet has 3 different expressions: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. That is a difficult truth for our finite minds to grasp, but that is what the Bible teaches. 1 John , which is quoted above, describes this fact perfectly.
In the case of gods(small “g”), these are demons who try to usurp the one God’s throne by having humans worship them. They are false deities completely different in nature from the true God, and they are limited in power. That is why the above Psalm says that God is above all gods, not all other gods. In the case where gods and God are being discussed together, the lowercase god is used for both, for purposes of consolidation in speech.
2006-12-13 21:00:14 · answer #8 · answered by akansha a 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Hindus have more than 1 million gods!!!
2006-12-13 20:53:34 · answer #9 · answered by bill_spenser777 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God's word teaches us that He alone is God and that there is none other God but Him and it is written, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Ex. 20:3
How many gods does God say there are? Scriptures that show there is only one God and it is written,
"Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me." Isa 46:9
2006-12-13 20:57:22 · answer #10 · answered by House Speaker 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋