There is only one god

This is your God.
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What makes the God of Abraham more real than, say, Sol Invictus?
 
I think humanity's purpose is not to believe in and serve Gods, it's to kill them and become them ourselves.
 
Doesn't matter how many gods there are, they are all in your head and nowhere else. It's man who created gods, not the other way around.
 
Whichever gods there are, they are all kinda assholes, so, you know, fuck them.

Serve the God-Emperor instead.
 
MutantScalper said:
Always kind of liked Shiva and Thor myself. And Väinämöinen, what Tolkien based Gandalf and other Middle-Earth stuff on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Väinämöinen
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The other day I was tracing gods/words, cus... you know, that's a thing to do when you're bored.

I looked at Jupiter. The name roots are "Diu" and "Piter" - "djupiter"
Diu is of proto Indo-European origin and is a cognate with both day and god (Dia and Deus in Latin, for example)

The Latin word for "God" in fact comes from an ancestral term for "Day" or "Daylight", Piter is obviously cognate with "Pater"/"Father"

Jupiter means "Day-Father" or sky-father, or light-father, or even "lord of the sun", he was a supreme deity to Indo-Europeans, and is the predecessor to such deities as Jupiter, Zeus (cognates with "Deus") and Tyr (who remains fairly mysterious within the Norse pantheon)

How these concepts then get associated with celestial bodies BESIDES the sun and the moon I'm not sure, but humanity have always been able to separate the visible planets (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and Venus) from the other stars by following their unique movements across the sky.

A lot of the the gods of the different Eurasian polytheistic religions are traceable to stone-age primary figures, often originating in the Middle East or the Indus valley, in particular the primary deities. Another example is Venutian figures, who corresponds overall with gender (almost always female) as well as role (the earliest is one of my favorite goddesses, Sumerian Inanna, who was goddess of love and war in a very all-encompassing dichtonomy of life and death. She is also described with a very feminine personality, almost caricaturish, as in she is spontaneous, short-sighted and easy to offend. She has one of her ex-boyfriends raped to death by demons, and in a later story she has to be reminded of this, since she quickly forgot about it. She also destroyed a mountain because it dared to be so good looking as to challenge her own hotness.)
 
The only god is the chad Zeus! Always sneaking out of the Gods palace to come and bone some human women.
 
I mean, even the bible doesn't suggest there's only one god. Just that the Israelite God is greater than the other gods, being the one true God that is the one true source of everything.

So far as personal belief goes, I tend to probably fall as some weird denomination of Christian - like most Americans probably, but not deluding myself claiming to adhere to a specific subset, failing to uphold it, and then acting like *I'm* the one going somewhere good. I do like the concept of only needing to appeal to a singular forgiving Divinity and a continuation of my own consciousness, though, largely because without it I'd hold life as almost valueless. Regardless, since I'm a bit of a non-criminal monster by my own beliefs and I'm trucking to hell anyway, I intend to try sin-eating on behalf of several friends and relatives on the way though just in case I'm wrong that the divine being actually cares about denominations and specific faiths and all that. I'd like to get the good people I know in who are atheistic or just made mistakes while I'm about it. Worst that happens if I'm wrong is I have to drink some bitter beer from a wooden bowl and eat some brown bread. Also I'll cease to exist at the end so this is all a sublime joke anyway, might as well be a punchline.
 
Rheios said:
I mean, even the bible doesn't suggest there's only one god. Just that the Israelite God is greater than the other gods, being the one true God that is the one true source of everything.

So far as personal belief goes, I tend to probably fall as some weird denomination of Christian - like most Americans probably, but not deluding myself claiming to adhere to a specific subset, failing to uphold it, and then acting like *I'm* the one going somewhere good. I do like the concept of only needing to appeal to a singular forgiving Divinity and a continuation of my own consciousness, though, largely because without it I'd hold life as almost valueless. Regardless, since I'm a bit of a non-criminal monster by my own beliefs and I'm trucking to hell anyway, I intend to try sin-eating on behalf of several friends and relatives on the way though just in case I'm wrong that the divine being actually cares about denominations and specific faiths and all that. I'd like to get the good people I know in who are atheistic or just made mistakes while I'm about it. Worst that happens if I'm wrong is I have to drink some bitter beer from a wooden bowl and eat some brown bread. Also I'll cease to exist at the end so this is all a sublime joke anyway, might as well be a punchline.
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According to the bible there is one god with three aspects. Father, son, holy spirit.

Christians, Jews, and Muslims all worship the same god, they just have different views on stuff like prophets/messiah that has led to where we are today.

To the Jews nothing has changed and no great prophet or messiah has come along
To the Christians Jesus is the messiah
To the Muslims Jesus is known as Isa and is a great prophet of Allah and a precursor to Mohammed.

So in the end there is only one "god" for these three religions the "god" of Abraham.
 
The bible mentions other gods, explicitly as lesser things to be ignored and unworshiped, pretty frequently ('You shall have no other gods before Me', 'our God is the God of gods, and Lord of lords', 'I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt' * '' . Beyond that, you're right. Paul, iirc, tries to clear things up into only one god but I tend to distrust most of what he writes, as I don't entirely buy his Saul to Paul "see the light" miracle and his supposed call to divine insight on exactly how every other Christian sect should be following their faith. I tend to wonder if he wasn't just a guy who saw an untapped power base and was canny enough to sell a tale to tap it as opposed to doing his job of attacking it. But, I'm a pessimist and hell-bound so its not something I overly worry about.

* I pulled most of those from here: https://christianity.stackexchange....ge-other-gods-does-that-mean-that-they-litera not memory or anything. Its been years since I read the bible back to back, back when I first started college. There's even some counter argument quotes to what I said in there.
 
Rheios said:
The bible mentions other gods, explicitly as lesser things to be ignored and unworshiped, pretty frequently ('You shall have no other gods before Me', 'our God is the God of gods, and Lord of lords', 'I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt' * '' . Beyond that, you're right. Paul, iirc, tries to clear things up into only one god but I tend to distrust most of what he writes, as I don't entirely buy his Saul to Paul "see the light" miracle and his supposed call to divine insight on exactly how every other Christian sect should be following their faith. I tend to wonder if he wasn't just a guy who saw an untapped power base and was canny enough to sell a tale to tap it as opposed to doing his job of attacking it. But, I'm a pessimist and hell-bound so its not something I overly worry about.

* I pulled most of those from here: https://christianity.stackexchange....ge-other-gods-does-that-mean-that-they-litera not memory or anything. Its been years since I read the bible back to back, back when I first started college. There's even some counter argument quotes to what I said in there.
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Your link states much the same as I was taught. Just because it mentions them, that does not mean they exist so much as acknowledge that other people worship these non-existent gods, but there is no other god but the one.
 
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