isn't perfect anymore.  And why does He say there's no other Gods when he has a father (El I think his name was), mother, sister and two brothers?
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Not necessarily.\n\nFrom a purely philisophical point of view, we need to consider the transcendance of time that omnipotence necessarily includes. Therefore our base conceptions of how a constant state is defined are obviated. Very little headway can be made by hypothesizing what the hyperdimensional state of perfection would embody.\n\nAddressing your second question, it is also not reasonable to assume a seperation of entities amoung such a hypothetical divine family. From a mathematical (in particular set theory) point of view, all divine incarnations could conceivably be contained in the 'God' set which could deride any paradox there.\n_________________________________________\n\nTrivially, we could just define God as the union of all godsets. (okay, so this language is getting pretty weird) Perhaps the act of slaying 'bad brother godset' for "raping" the 'sister godset' is what allowed 'good brother godset' to combine like Voltron to form the 'unified godset' or whatever. The point is that when you are hypothesizing about the divine state you can't rule out the superconnectedness of all divinity, let alone the many other possible paradigms including the time-honored favorite God/Devil duality.\n\nAlso, I don't think it is just me making up the idea that an omnipotent being might transcend our concepts of time. Certianly it is common to imagine God knowing all that is, was, and ever will be. I don't know about you, but I know that if I were omnipotent I sure wouldn't operate on 'human time'.
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Well, throughout history, there has been thousands.  Just about every culture had the own gods.  Greeks had over 40 gods, Egyptions had over 60 gods, and those are just the obvious ones.  What about the Inka's, and various American Indian cultures.  Even the middle east before Mohamed brought Allah and Jesus brought Christianity had hundreds of Gods... One for just about everything.  Exact numbers, I don't think any would ever be able to give you that, but I could be wrong, let's see what is posted (other than the Christians who say only one god, and muslims who say only one allah).
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god is what it's faithful want it to be. It's the perfect idol. They can carry it, talk to it, offer themselves for judgement, pretend it hears, and pretend to be guided. It has no face or body but its hypothetic son's, has no house but the one people built for it, has no color, race or language but the one people gives to it. No wonder it's uneradicable. You suppress it here and it'll grow stronger there, especially where there is misery. In short: god is a metamorph...
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I think there is only one God.  Men have called Him many things; God, Jehovah, Great Spirit, Allah... the list is quite lengthy.  I doubt that He really cares what you call Him, as long as you do call.
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God isn't black OR white, silly! He's hispanic. Thats why he named his son Jesus (hay-soos)
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THAT is the irony of it all... the SAME GOD is being expressed by three different names and being taught using three different sets of dogmas.\n\nAnd, as a result, the same struggle continues after thousands of years!\n\nPeace be with you.
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Jesus even said MULTIPLE times that he is the SON. and to worship his Father. \n\nAS well as saying that he was SENT by the Father. \n\nhow could he be a medium or a spritist, when he was only working for the one whom sent him?\n\nJesus is not God (please not the capital) but he is a god (note: no capital). many worship him, yes. but the question should be... why dont they worship God? when clearly Jesus did?\n\n...*shrug* and thats my 2 cents
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Exactly my friend....Exactly....Sadly Christians will never understand full what they are talking about....they can easily write off any other story ever written about Gods or things like that...but when it comes to what they believe it has to be real and true! Mucho props to you!
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Someone posted a question trying to justify incest with his daughters using the OT example of Lot as an example. I spent quite a time answering this, only to find the next morning that the question had been removed. Just in case anybody else has problems with the passage, here's my answer anyway.\n\nLot and his Daughters\n\nThank you for raising this question, it's caused me to get my Bible out and read the story again for myself. If anybody is actually interested in understanding it properly, they need to go back to Genesis 11 and start from the beginning.\n\nAn old pagan called Abram is worshipping one day at the local ziggurat in Ur of the Chaldees and Yahweh comes and reveals Himself to him. The Bible doesn't tell us that Abram did anything special to earn or merit this revelation, just that God, for His own reasons, chose to reveal Himself to him. This really upset the religious locals, who followed a mixture of astrology and Babylonian mystery religions. Abram was rejecting their pantheon of Gods and going round telling people there was only one true God. Talk about upsetting the neighbours. And you should have heard the gossip!\n\nAbram leaves Ur with his father Terah, his nephew Lot and their households. They passed through the Euphrates (a type of baptism) and arrived at Harran, where they got too comfortable and stayed until Terah dies. At this point Yahweh gives Abram a kick up the backside and points him towards the Promised Land.\n\nSome time after they arrive in Caanan there is a famine, and what happens next has a direct bearing on Genesis 19 as cited.\n\nAbram, taking Sarai his wife and Lot with him, goes down into Egypt (always a type for the world). Here they encounter all the corruption of Pharaoh’s court and the fleshpots of the most advanced nation on earth. After moving back to Caanan, Lot sits round the campfire and dreams of the forbidden things he has seen. If you carefully read the start of chapter 13, you will see that when Lot separated from Abram, he looked to the east, towards Sodom, and chose that because it reminded him of Egypt and the forbidden pleasures that he had been dreaming of.\n\nFast forward now to chapter 19 and Lot has given up farming on the plains outside of Sodom and has allowed the lure of sin to draw him inside the city. Lot had abandoned his God to the extent that he was prepared to allow his daughters to marry those that God called detestable, but even so, God did not abandon him.\n\nWe know what happened next, but if you really think that God condoned the sin you have to be crazy. The offspring of those illicit unions went on to form the Moabites and the Ammonites, two of the most cursed tribes in history.\n\nThis is a classic morality tale of reaping that which you have sown and is recorded not only as historical truth, but as an admonition to all of us. Genuine queries on any of this are welcome.
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He's a jealous God in the way a husband is jealous for his wife or vice versa. He doesn't want to share his chosen people with other (false) Gods. In the OT, the jewish nation promised to be faithful to him only, in a covenant which is like a marriage. They kept being unfaithful.
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Do you know of any other person that died and rose again to life under His own power? Jesus alone. Quite unique. Jesus is God incarnate. Unfortunately there are those false religions that rose up after the fact to deny His uniqueness and deny His deity. One fellow said God can't have a son. How can you say God "can't" have whatever He wants??!! But Christ is God Himself, (God, the "Son"). The eternal God came down to our level, and added to His nature a human one. This can only happen because God is 3 in one, and the Son is not to be confused with the Father, and neither are to be confused with the Holy Spirit, yet the three share the one eternal substance; GOD.
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No logic brother Aziz...well i m confused about many other thing.......like how could God lived a human life?? why was he killed when he was god? if a god can't save himself from killing , how could  he save all christanity??how come God has a son? No logic at all..( sorry no offence)\n\nN most importantly , everyone has to pay for ones sins and no one else can suffer  for that even if he is prophet , this is what our Allah  called justice....so simple is that Jesus(pbuh) was a prophet,
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He has declared Himself to be Father and sent His Son to be the Saviour of all that believe in Him.\n\nSince He has thus revealed Himself you are extremely foolish to contradict Him.
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i think many gods,only one creator.-
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god is NOT perfect, moron (to poster above)\n\ngod, whi is infallable, omniscient and omnipotent anlong with omnipresent) seems to be making alot of mistakes, i agree. \n\nmore evidence that its bullsh*t....obvious evidence.
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Uh, no. \n\nThe concept of a trinity is nothing new. While the word itself isn't in the Bible, the concept was around for a long time before; that's why and how the apostles understood it even without it being specifically named. But it doesn't work at all the same as any mythology.\n\nThere's a blog on my 360 that explains it in detail, but there's too much to include here and still hope to be literate. Anyway, the idea has nothing to do with Adam, Abraham, or Moses. The message of Jesus is hardly to worship 3 gods, nor is it to worship the trinity. He did say to worship the God who sent him, but made very clear comments about his own deity.
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There just wasn't.  God is God, he doesn't have to operate on human understanding.  Remember, He was there before even the world was created.