humanity has taken it upon itself to anthropomorohize this thing we call God. The image we are most familiar with is that of the Judeo-Christian religious mythologies. This image of God is father, male, loving, white, jealous, son, friend, Lord, warrior, etc. Is this some kind of vanity on the part of humanity, to imagine the divine as just like us? Is it our inability to imagine something other? Is there truth in these images of the Divine??????
It seems that there can not be an absolute truth in religion and belief. There cannot be an absolute truth because so many people claim that their religion is the right religion. Some claim that they have heard or felt God but it is not the same for everyone, so I would have to say that religious beliefs have to be subjective
2007-03-19 09:54:05 · 7 answers · asked by confused 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I think you answered your own question. I would like to add my opinion, but am not entirely sure where to begin.
You say that we have created god in our own image, but most christian religions stated the exact opposite - that we were created in God's image. Because of this foundational belief - that we are born from god's image, is way so many human traits are given to god.
As for god being male, This was not always the case, Before christianity most 'pagan' religions worshiped the female. The Goddess, because like all animal populations the female of the species brings life into the world and acts as the nurturer and the males in a species wage war and bring death.
Religion is subjective.
But I think there is a way to simplify all religions and it is rather obvious; God whether this divine being is male/female or animal, or mineral - does not care how we invision him/her/it as long as we have faith in his/hers/its message. And that message is; that all creatures whether big or small are all connected to each other by a single thread. And the thread is Love.
2007-03-19 10:12:16 · answer #1 · answered by AthenaGenesis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course beliefs are subjective- a belief exists within the mind of the believer. It is the product of their own thought processes, and they have a special kind of privileged access to it that nobody else has (i.e., nobody can really know what another person believes unless they're told, we can't read each other's minds).
However, disagreement is NO reason to believe that there isn't an objective truth. Just because we can't agree on the right answers to questions of the ultimate or divine doesn't mean that there are no right answers. We just don't have a consensus on what they are. There is almost nothing that everyone agrees on, but that doesn't mean that there is almost no truth.
2007-03-19 17:04:21 · answer #2 · answered by IQ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, many religions have animals as gods or human/animal hybrids. The one that the WEST is most familiar with is a "man".
There is no truth in any image of the divine, or religion. It's all fiction
2007-03-19 18:03:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand what you are saying about all claiming they have the "right" religion, but absolute truth is not found in any religion, on in Jesus Christ. Because Jesus said in John 14:6 "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
Through this statement, Jesus is saying that He is absolute truth, now whether you accept or reject Him is up to you. Jesus abolished all controversies on absolute truth with this statement, and it is up to us where to go from there.
2007-03-19 17:07:08 · answer #4 · answered by Light Bringer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"...and if I were a goose surely god would be a golden goose." - Gavin Frost
2007-03-19 20:28:19 · answer #5 · answered by tony n 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
whew!!! You go!!!! You took the words right out of my mouth and hit the nail on the head!!! Thanks!
2007-03-19 17:15:30 · answer #6 · answered by sherry s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what you did.
2007-03-19 17:01:22 · answer #7 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋