reason and religious belief....?

Question

1. is it possible for 2 gods to exist?

2. why is God worthy of worship?

3. how did God create the world?
a. ex deo- out of God's own being
b. ex-nihilo-out of nothing
c. out of pre-existing material

4.can God create a square-circle, climb the highest mountain?

5. how do we reconcile God's providence/ power with human freedom?

6. does it lesser one's appreciation of divine power to say that God cannot do things that are logically impossible such as changing the laws of arithmetic?

Answer 1

No, since God is infinite He could be multiple persons but not multiple beings
If God is Eternal and Infinite Love he would have to be more than one person since love can only exist in relationship between or among persons.

God is Eternal,Infinite,Immutable, All-Good,All-Love,All-Just,All-Merciful,All-Compassionate,Almighty,etc and ,hence, worthy of worship.

b ex nihilo since only God is Eternal and creation does not have the perfection or infinity of divine being,substance or essence.

God cannot contradict himself
God is eternal Spirit and except as incarnate in Jesus does not climb mountains

Free will is necessary to be in God's image and providence is an exercise of God's free will as well as His goodness
Free will makes it possible to reconcile God's Goodness and Omnipotence,both divine free will and that of rational creatures ,including that of devils, is needed to explain the state of the world

No,not at all
but God can and does perform miracles

Answer 2

1 I don't believe even 1 god exists. There is no scientific evidence and I have no faith.

2 A God who does not exist is not worthy of worship

3. There are several scientific explanations for the origin of the Universe and god does not figure in any.

4. Squares and circles have mathematical properties which define what they are. We as humans could arbitrarily change our labels for these mathematical entities and call an planar object with four equal sides at right angles to each other a circle but why bother? And vice versa!! God would have nothing to do with it.

5. Unfortunately Man has the freedom to make war or live peacably and help to provide for his fellow Man. Many wars are fought in the name of God and each side believes that God is on their side. How can this be true?!!? It is the same God....the God of the Christian, Jews and Moslems is the same. The God of the Catholics and Protestants is the same God.

6. Make reason and logic your God and you will be less confused

Answer 3

This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering that I have seen...


A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.
They talked about so many things and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said:
'I don't believe that God exists.'

'Why do you say that?' asked the customer. 'Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist.
Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?
Would there be abandoned children?

If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.
I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things.'
The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument.
The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.

Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard.
He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber:
'You know what? Barbers do not exist.'
'How can you say that?' asked the surprised barber.
'I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!'
'No!' the customer exclaimed. 'Barbers don't exist because
if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside.'

'Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me.'
'Exactly!' affirmed the customer. 'That's the point! God, too, DOES exist!
That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him for help.
That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world.'

BE BLESSED & BE A BLESSING TO OTHERS !!!!!!!

Answer 4

1/ one of two are critical answers against the rule of nature(egg first or bird first)?

2/ God did not worship, only man worship.

3/ God created his world, not mine and yours.

4/ square and circle is only a concept of view which is changing. Climb the highest mountain by heart not by body. The uneven heart created mountain and sea. The more higher the mountain, the more willing to overcome.

5/ Gods' power is created by you and me.

6/God cannot change you and I minds otherwise there will no necessy to have religious to help people.

You and I are God as coded by Hindru's Veda, for both you and I respective each others.

Answer 5

1. The existence of any number of gods is always the same, and equals zero.
2. No reason.
3. god created the world from his domain, which is human imagination, or in other words, He did what humans imagined he did.
4. God can create anything humans can imagine, and the result is also imaginary.
5. we reconcile it by recognizing that we are free to believe anything about god, and whatever we imagine god to have, that is what he can have.
6. No amount of reasoning or fact finding is relevant in any way to the level of personal worship, since worship and reason are mutually exclusive domains.

Answer 6

1. it is not possible for 1 god to exist.
2. - 6. refer to answer 1.

Answer 7

Can God create a stone so heavy he can't lift it?

Answer 8

If you add question No. 7 as:......

7. does God really exist?

It answers all your other questions.

Answer 9

if there were 2 thyed fight