How do you know?? If you don't know, but merely believe, then you could just as well be wrong-- for all you KNOW. (Right?) Then perhaps you beliefs ought to be more tentative, more humble, and less aggressive.
You don't have God. You have a CONCEPT for God, one that is culturally-bound and so limited. I see no reason to insist on a primitive Hebrew concept for the Supreme Being, when that Being necessarily transcends all human concepts.
2007-02-19 06:05:53 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A relationship? It should be embarrassing for an adult to have an Imaginary Friend.
Also, Moses did NOT write ANY of the OT. Add the OT predicts NOTHING, except by wild interpretation and mangling of the text.
2007-02-19 06:35:03 · update #1
Personally, as a Deist, I do believe in a God. However, I do not believe in a concept of God. What God wants us to know, we can find out through his genuine creation. Revealed religion is not the creation of God, it is the creation of man. The only true eternal and unchanging laws of God are the laws of nature.
2007-02-19 06:13:25 · answer #1 · answered by Wisdom in Faith 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Agressive...like if I were to say something like:
"You don't know anything. You think you do, but you are short-sighted. I don't see any reason to believe that everything happened by chance alone or that everything came from a cow."
Irritated? That's basically what YOU just said (insert the word "God" for the word "knowledge") about Christianity.
Try turning your own powers of logic on yourself....maybe you should also be more humble; after all, you are insulting the largest religious group in the world, a few of which MIGHT just be smarter than you.
2007-02-19 14:49:55 · answer #2 · answered by bwjordan 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This "primitive hebrew" concept for supreme being is the only one we have. 3000 years ago, when others gave human sacrifices, or killed others, or enslaved others, for their conception of local-culture small gods and godesses, the hebrews, using their God, created a unique and original way of thinking and morale. I am a christian, who doesn`t go every Sunday to church, but it doesn`t mean I`m not thinking of God. Now Brahma is not a monotheistic Divinity; I`m sorry, but your not informed enough about him to say that brahma, or the conceptions about him, are truely monotheistic or serious (excuse my expression). Read Mircea Eliade`s work about religions, and you`ll understand that Yahweh is the only true human conception and perception of God. Most humans don`t like Yahweh, because he`s too restrictive. Humans don`t want a sacred God, they want a profane one, who would let them to sinn how they desire. This is not about culture; YOUR CONCEPTION of God is not about a GOD, but about a permissive Creator, who may possibly never existed, and who lets the humans act as if they were animals (killing, fornicating, liing, stealing, etc). If this you think is the true perception of God, and not a boring "hebrew concept", then I must say that you are more limited than those, whom you call "culturally limited". Bye!
2007-02-19 14:28:18 · answer #3 · answered by X Ray 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I personally do not believe that any one religion is right in their name or description. What important is that billions of people believe that there is something other than human and greater than us out there, some choose to name it.
If more people realized that we all had a CONCEPT as you say not conceret evidence of what "God" is, then religions would get along better - but religion was never about "God" once men realized the power they held.
2007-02-19 14:15:35 · answer #4 · answered by David M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God does transcend all human concepts. A belief is what we choose, yet all belief(by definition) is that ther is no proof. Therefore, no one can be right or wrong. You are right, we should be more tentative, humble ad less aggressive. We are not, due to lthe fear we have of being wrong. If we can convince others, it is easier to convince ourselves.
2007-02-19 14:15:56 · answer #5 · answered by Redshanks 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, is the God who has manifested Himself in human history, particularly through his dealings with the Jewish people.
Over 3500 years ago, He wrote this to the Jewish people by the hand of Moses:
"So it shall be when all these things have come upon you (see preceding verses for details), the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind in all the nations where the LORD (Yahweh) your God has banished you, and you return to the LORD (YAHWEH) your God and obey Him with all your heart and soul according to all that I command you today, you and your sons, then the LORD (YAHWEH) your God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD (YAHWEH) your God has scattered you. If your outcasts are at the ends of the earth, from there the LORD (YAHWEH) your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed (THE LAND OF ISRAEL), and you shall possess it; and He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers." (Deuteronomy 30:1-5)
This is merely one prophecy which God has fulfilled.
In 1948, 700,000 poorly armed Jews successfully defended themselves against 40 million heavily armed Arabs who were intent on driving them into the sea, and thus the Nation of Israel was established, according to the word of God and this, and other prophecies.
According to Dr. Hugh Ross, Ph.D.:
Unique among all books ever written, the Bible accurately foretells specific events-in detail-many years, sometimes centuries, before they occur. Approximately 2500 prophecies appear in the pages of the Bible, about 2000 of which already have been fulfilled to the letter—no errors. (The remaining 500 or so reach into the future and may be seen unfolding as days go by.) Since the probability for any one of these prophecies having been fulfilled by chance averages less than one in ten (figured very conservatively) and since the prophecies are for the most part independent of one another, the odds for all these prophecies having been fulfilled by chance without error is less than one in 102000 (that is 1 with 2000 zeros written after it)!
So then, tell me what has the god Brahman foretold, and fulfilled?
2007-02-19 14:27:42 · answer #6 · answered by William F 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What guys like you don't seem to get is that we have a personal relationship with Christ. It isn't a concept and not something out-there that we have no contact with. Brahman doesn't interact, our Lord does. Learn more about the faiths you choose to attack.
2007-02-19 14:12:23 · answer #7 · answered by Love Shepherd 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
God has unlimited names, because He has unlimited qualities. Jehovah means, "causes to create", and Krsna means, "all attractive", and Buddha means, "the enlightened one". God is named according to His qualities, which are unlimited. People try to limit God according to our limitations, but God is unlimited. When people say, "God can't....", then their knowledge is limited. God is absolute, and you are correct, He transcends all human concepts. Ordinary persons cannot comprehend His unlimited qualities, and so they attempt to define God according to their own concepts, and so people are confused.
2007-02-19 14:12:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I have seen, I have witnessed , I have believed the witness of the miraculous in my life through Chriist living in me. Believe annd you will see. To most seeing is believing. Faith is believing without sight. Trry itNo dont try it.Trust in GOD.
2007-02-19 14:17:18 · answer #9 · answered by Tribble Macher 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, it's not a concept, it's a relationship. Maybe he's not better than brahman in your eyes, but I love him.
2007-02-19 14:14:07 · answer #10 · answered by IKB 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋