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Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?
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Sat, 4 Mar 2000 01:20:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Peter Callaway writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Shiri Dori writes:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Peter Callaway writes:
> > > > Whether or not other deities exist is an entirely different
> > > > argument.
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> > > Yes, but what about whether or not this 'deity', aka God, exists?
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> > 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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> > --Todd
Despite the size of this thread, I don't feel this question has been answered
yet.
There are many places in the Bible that God specifically says "there are no
other Gods (deities)". So God clearly denies the existance of other Gods.
(See a few sample references below my signature.)
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Peter Callaway writes:
> ...
> The question about other deities is interesting one, and I'm not entirely
> qualified to answer it, but I'll try. God has never denied the possibility of
> other deities existing in the spiritual sense.
> ...
In the Old Testament, God DOES deny the existance of other deities, especially
in the spiritual sense. The other 'gods' that exist, which are not to be
worshipped, are imaginary deities, or pieces of stone or wood, etc. While
these can be worshipped, such worship is empty, and meaningless. Furthermore,
doing so detracts from knowing the real God.
--
David Schilling
Deuteronomy 4:39-40
(39) Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the Lord
Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
(40) You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I
command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after
you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord your God is
giving you for all time.
I Kings 8:57-61 [Solomon, the wisest person on Earth, speaking; see v60:]
(57) May the Lord our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He not
leave us nor forsake us, (58) that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to
walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His
judgments, which He commanded our fathers. (59) And may these words of mine,
with which I have made supplication before the Lord, be near the Lord our God
day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of
His people Israel, as each day may require, (60) that all the peoples of the
earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other. (61) Let your heart
therefore be loyal to the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His
commandments, as at this day.
Isaiah 44:8 [God Himself speaking:]
(8) Do not fear, nor be afraid; Have I not told you from that time, and
declared it? You are My witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Indeed there
is no other Rock; I know not one.’
Isaiah 45:5 [Here there is no ambiguity. God says clearly there are no other
Gods.]
(5) I am the Lord, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me.
Isaiah 45:18
(18) For thus says the Lord, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed
the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain,
Who formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord, and there is no other.
Isaiah 45:21-22
(21) Tell and bring forth your case; Yes, let them take counsel together. Who
has declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Have
not I, the Lord? And there is no other God besides Me, A just God and a
Savior; There is none besides Me. (22) Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends
of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
Isaiah 46:9
(9) Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I
am God, and there is none like Me, (10) Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, ‘My counsel shall
stand, And I will do all My pleasure,’
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