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Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 06:16:17 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bill Farkas writes:
> > That's a great question! But more than that, what I wanna know is whether
> > God (THE God):
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> > (a) admits that other deities exist and disallows their worship, or
> > (b) disavows the existance of other deities, or
> > (c) whether His answer to that would be "splunge."
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> He says many times that there are no other gods beside Him. All other gods
> are fabrications.
OK, so that would be (b) then?
How about other non-God deities (from other religions)? Do those gods deny
the existance of other gods? (Obviously the Greek gods, for instance, don't
fall into that category.) That is, is Christianity the only religion in which
its deity insists that it is the only true deity, or is this a common thing in
the religions which have flourished?
--Todd
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| (...) IANAM(1), but I believe that one of the basic beliefs is that "That there is no god but God and that Mohammad is His messenger". Though, they mean the same God, so maybe that doesn't count. This leads me to wonder: Is there a term to describe (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) The Vikings didn't seem to have a problem with gods from other religions existing. The God of the Jews, Christians and Mohammad is the one and only, as far as I understand their collective faiths. Hindus I don't know - they shouldn't have a (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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