Monotheists, how do you know there is only one God?

Question

If there is one, how do we know there are not hundreds, thousands or millions?

Answer 1

cause there book tells them that there is only one

its funny cause the old testament mentions other gods and even uses the term elohim when describing creation elohim means gods

then paul came around and was like al other gods are fake yours is the only real one

and the muslim god says its the only one and there are no other gods yet it will get angry if you say other gods are real

how can it get angry if you say something that doesnt exist is real?

Answer 2

Simplicity....Occam's Razor. If you're going to believe in a god of some sort, its more likely that there is only one than thousands or millions. I'm better classified as a pantheist than a monotheist though.

Answer 3

i will attempt and answer as suitable i'm able to :) unquestionably, as a Jew, it is not no longer uncomplicated for me to have faith in the validity of others' non secular reports. initially, the Jewish G-d replaced into no longer the deity of all human beings, everywhere, yet in certainty in simple terms a 'community god' who watched over the Israelites. the thought the Jewish G-d replaced into all efficient and for all human beings developed over the years. subsequently the Jewish commandment, 'thou shall have not have been given the different gods till now me'. that's a sparkling sign that lower back then, different 'gods' have been known, or fairly, human beings's ideals in them have been recognized. My thought of G-d comprises a perception in a organic goodness/justice and that i've got not got any difficulty with the thought folk hook up with this in diverse techniques. Who am I to declare that my direction is any further 'valid' than that of somebody else? i does no longer dream of doing so. besides, i for my area think of what *relatively* concerns is how a individual's faith/deity/deities evokes them to handle their fellow human beings. that's what counts.

Answer 4

Very simple. God is the source of all virtues/ read positive qualities e.g. knowledge, power, love etc. Thus, there could not be several infinite gods, because how could two infinite powers, for example, coexist?

Answer 5

Well thier logic is because the Bible says so. But the Bible also states that he is a jelous god, so of COURSE he's going to say they don't exist. And that's like saying "I know for a fact he didn't cheat on me. He said so." Yeeaaaah. Like he is going to admit it if he did......

Answer 6

The answer is "faith", it can not be proved or disproved with logic. You believe or do not believe. If you believe in one GOD, then it is so..., if not , then it is also so...reality is in ones own perception. One GOD of many faiths is also a truth if you believe.

Answer 7

These kinds of arguments are stupid, for example i could just as easily say how do pagans know there are many gods.
ITS WHAT THEY BELIEVE, for example, the bible says there is one God, therefore Christians believe in one god.

Answer 8

And your Ilah (god) is one Ilah (god - Allah), La ilaha illa Huwa (there is none who has the right to be worshipped but He), the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
( سورة البقرة , Al-Baqara, Chapter #2, Verse #163)


Or were you witnesses when death approached Yaqoob (Jacob)? When he said unto his sons, "What will you worship after me?" They said, "We shall worship your Ilah (god - Allah), the Ilah (god) of your fathers, Ibrahim (Abraham), Ismail (Ishmael), Ishaque (Isaac), one Ilah (god), and to Him we submit (in Islam)."
( سورة البقرة , Al-Baqara, Chapter #2, Verse #133)


By the way the quran is GODS SPEECH

And to answer the question below, If you had children wouldnt you get angry if your child says that your not his dad and disobeys your orders and makes things up about you.

Answer 9

for me it's simple.... there's got to be at least two... in the rest of the Creation, there's two of everything... male and female... don't make a bit of sense to me that there is only one, male , especially since he knew enuff about females to make one!!!....

Answer 10

To quote Jesus Christ "there are gods many"
But the gentiles are all worshiping demons.(False gods) Not the creator, not the holy father.