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Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 18:23:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman writes:
> 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.
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> OK, so that would be (b) then?
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> 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?
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> --Todd
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 problem with Christ being an avatar of God, but whether they
recognize that particular God exists in some fashion, I'm clueless. Buddhism
doesn't really address gods - you can believe in them or not, but that has
nothing to do with the eight-fold path.
Corrections to the above encouraged.
Bruce
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