I've been wondering, why would there be only one deity? Seems to me any being capable of emotion would want the company of someone on their level.

I believe there is only one..but thts just me..for all I know there could well be more than one..after all there are those that have faith in more than one

Yeah, but do you believe that because you've been told to believe it or do you have some reason to believe it?

I was taught to believe it and follow my faith as a Catholic...but when I gree older I droped it all..the faith , the bible and church..I dont bother with them...as for holding on to my faith in God..thats something I have chosen to do myself...I follow my heart....when I was part of a faith and went to church...I never had the luck I have now that I worship God in my own way. My God is not like the christian God either...my God accepts ALL, even Non believers..after all he created us all and he understands those that dont believe in something they cannot see or hear..my God wont judge you and cast you into hell, just because you didn't follow him...but thats my beliefs

I could ask the same question from the other side: WHy would there be many gods? Or any gods?

See that's the thing, most people who deny the possibility of more than one god are influenced by the monotheistic religions.



Well assuming there are any higher beings, and assuming they have any type of emotion similar to ours it seems to me they would desire the company (And most depictions of God/Gods seem to have them with emotions of some sort).

I dunno Pa..I gues for those that believe there is more than one..in the same way you and I believe there is only the one...as to WHY anyone would believe..its just faith

I think science can answer that in a better way for our current age than our ancient texts to where it is the most easily understandable to many.
Think of sentience as spirit and spirit as energy.

Unified field theory
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In physics, unified field theory is an attempt to unify all the fundamental forces and the interactions between elementary particles into a single theoretical framework. The term was coined by Einstein who attempted to reconcile the general theory of relativity with electromagnetism in a single field theory. His quest proved elusive and a unified field theory, sometimes grandiosely referred to as the Theory of Everything (TOE, for short), has remained the holy grail for physicists, the long-sought theory which would explain the nature and behavior of all matter.

In physics, the forces between objects can be described as mediated by fields. Current theory says that at subatomic distances, these fields are replaced by quantum fields interacting according to the laws of quantum mechanics. Alternatively, using the particle-wave duality of quantum mechanics, fields can be described in terms of exchange particles that transfer momentum and energy between objects. Crudely speaking, objects interact as they emit and absorb exchanged particles, in effect playing a subatomic game of "catch". The essential belief of a unified field theory is that the four fundamental forces (see below) as well as all matter are simply different manifestations of a single fundamental field.

A unified field theory aims to reconcile the four fundamental forces (or fields) of nature, namely:

* Strong force: Force responsible for holding quarks together to form neutrons and protons, and holding neutrons and protons together to form nuclei. The exchange particles that mediate this force are gluons.
* Electromagnetic force: It is the familiar force that acts on electrically charged particle. The photon is the exchange particle for this force.
* Weak force: Responsible for radioactivity, it is a repulsive short-range interaction that acts on electrons, neutrinos and quarks. It is governed by the W boson.
* Gravitational force: A long-range attractive force that acts on all particles. The exchange particles have been postulated and named gravitons.


So to the ancient mind the Strong force, Electromagnetic force, Weak force, and Gravitational force would be four separate equally powerful gods at first.
Then in the next step of comprehension they would become lesser beings like demi gods subservient to the king of gods.
The next phase of comprehnsion after that would be that they were not gods at all but something more powerful than humans subject to the will of a single god.
Most of the human race is pretty much stuck in phase four, trying to grasp that they are individuals and at the same time not individuals but a part of a consiousness that includes those above and those below mankind who are also individuals and not as they are, all held under a framework of cause and effect controled by a super sentience that is an individual and yet is not. At this point brain fry has set in. It is too multi dimensional or something for most to truly get a handle on it. Our thinking is still very concrete when it comes to this.

We'd be worse off than we are today. Because then people would ascribe right of ownership to the one and judge, criticize and over throw those who saw the one, differently!

The only way to save the world, really save it, is if we in our arrogance and self-destructive authority destroyed 98 percent of the global population due to our stupidity. Leaving only those 18 and younger to survive. The older one's would know enough about what was done not to ever let it happen again as they planned, in their innocence and limited experience, to re-form the global society. And the youngest babies would be raised to appreciate life as they were raised by the older one's in the midst of the regrowth of the global unit, so that they as the future of the next generations, learned what it meant to have to take stock and begin again, by taking notice of what uncontrolled ego's , greed and ignorance can do to all people.

Prayerfully this is just a projection and not anything that could actually happen. Then again, it's early and we are quite full of ourselves ever since we realized splitting an atom makes one the baddest bully on the block!

"We have bomb! We want oil at 50 dollars a barrel!"
We don't have bomb, so OK!

God's what we won't do just to harvest old bones that we imagine will get us somewhere. (fossil fuel)

So I don't have to repeat myself.
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum...5&#entry1148584

I agree with ya, Avinash. No reason for there to be only one God. Deversity is the way of life.

People can worship as many Gods as they wish...who's to tell them they are wrong?....no wait I just remembered even those that follow the one God are still told they are wrong cuz they arent following the same faith as them - D'OH how did I forget such a thing like that

science and nature are the true gods ,but most theologians have yet to understand the simple concept, only wiccans and the like have a grasp of nature and it's place in our hearts and minds

I thought Hindu's do too

You can include Druids in that club too.

Interesting that no-one says that they are God.
Look into the eyes of another and you see God.
God is in all things, let go of the illusion that you are separate.

turtle,

that is because when one reaches that perspective, there are no gods.

The restrictive constructs get retired.

Only ONE diety!

I think Ephesians 4:4-6 is a perfect fit for this thread.




I hope I answered your question!

Nope, because you're bringing up the Bible as proof, you've been told there is only one deity by the people who worte that story, but that story was written by men, its not a definitive answer on the topic.

If that is what you believe - that is what you believe! I am okay with that!

Fair enough

Turtle if we are all one being then why are we so different? Why do I have MS and you don’t? Why, because we are not the same spirit. We are two different clumps of similar energy floating in energy of a Universe that is one of many all different and similar as we are. I once heard a physicist explain why gravity is a weak force she said it was because it is not from this Universe or dimension it originated from some place else. I can’t remember who she was but she was beautiful. So if the hypothesis of multiverse is right it would only make since there are multiple God beings who live in different realms or dimensions.
When you look into my eyes you see my God-self, but you also see an individual and when I look back I see another God-self unique and wonderful in his own right.

How about the awareness of no gods( enlightenment) you took the words out of my mouth PA...

The Christians believe their is only one god because that is what fits into their theology. Wiccans believe there are several gods/goddesses because that is what fits their belief system. Atheists believe there are no gods at all.

So really there are many gods. Each designed to fit the personal needs of the individuals that serve them.

Tengu:

You are absolutely correct! Our (Christians, Catholics) God, if you will, does not share the spotlight with other gods. We adamantly feel that there is one God because, it has been expressed through Him (God) that he is the only TRUE God as referenced in 1Corinthians 8:4-6.



Essentially in one paragraph, the Lord informs the masses on a couple of different ocassions that he is the only TRUE God. Surely this isn't a typo or merely coincidental!

Yah, that's what I meant by "or any gods". Maybe I should have said "no gods".... ah well. The effect's still the same......

Well actually what it says is for them there is only one god

yet for us there is but one God

He doesn't actually say there are no other Gods, he just says for them there is only one, kind of seems to follow Tengu's line of reasoning.

That's an easy one,


If there were multiple gods that means that something had to have created those individual deitys, this is because there would be a break against the laws of the universe let's say if those gods came across conflicts, there is only one God, however you'd look at it.

Avinash_Tyagi:



I won't go into semantics. If you think a grey area exists, you may want to read 1Corinthians 8:4-6 yourself!

You did say NO gods i think, i ws touched you included us Nb's lol

What if the one God was all the other different Gods; and each God was a different asect of one God.

Each aspect for a purpose in the past yet as time past, and humanity changed, we cam to need only one aspect.

Why would something have to create those deities, many beliefs indicate our souls are eternal and were never created, so why not any deities as well, also why would there be conflict between any deities, if they are eternal then they can't be harmed so any conflict would be pointless.



Wouldn't work as many people still have different beliefs, in fact it would be nearly impossible to get everyone to agree, since each person is shaped by forces in their lives which are unique to that person, so only one aspect wouldn't work, in fact multiple aspect would have to exist at any one point, also the question would be asked about these aspects are they all the same or are they individual, and further, are we all the same, or individual.



I'm just going by what you quoted, it seems that they are referring only to their own beliefs.

Its intresting we all have different thoughts about this. For all we know all the Gods could be up there working together.

Whether there is one or a million there is something bigger here I belive in a single God...God im christian. But from my back ground I think that everyone needs to find their God in their own way no matter what religion and no matter how many they pray to or believe in.

Exactly...in their own way and in their own good time...thats what I have done and it makes me happy...well said Jesspy and you are right..for all we know the gods may well be working together..its a big universe out there....

How many gods do you need? If there were more than one God, they would be fighting over whose right and whose wrong. Really. Ya know, left right up down back forward ying yang. Why make things so complicated.

Why would they fight? If the Gods are so powerful and respectful...they could well controll their part of the universe...who says they all control the one place???

It all sounds Ancient Greek to me!... The gods of old were always trying to outwit each other why should it be any different in your argument BM?

still searching.

The faster our lives the more one stop shopping is prefered.

lol i like that. It does seem our lives are getting faster which is why we need to enjoy every moment.

The stories of the Greek Gods were influenced by the infighting between the greek city-states, the culture of the society seems to influence how the stories come out.



So your God is the Wal-Mart of Gods

Yes AT, i know, for me that is the point of any god's existence, to give meaning to ourselves and our behaviour. My god is better than your god because we won. God is always on the side of 'right', and you are 'wrong'. God's reflect our agressive side so gods are angry unmerciful creations.
But as a humanist i must learn to stand on my own two feet and take responsibility for my actions.

Why we afraid of death.. if this life is so nice.. why can't GOD grant this for ever... did God belive in recycle...???

I believe there are multiple deities as we think of it of only one true creator which is really a part of everything.

But if I were to think of it from a biblical point of view I would have to ask this, if there is only one God and no other deities in some religions than why in the bible does God appear jealous and tell people not to worship other Gods before him? It seems like he is in competition with other Gods to me.

now everyone should afraid to become a enlightened one... because once u become enlighten.. you may refer yourself as supreme or one in that.. whatever you try to explain to others... going to make a fasle interpretation by others.. because they may not reached your level.. you cannot explain graduate course to lower standard class.. still u want them to know.. thats going to make different religion and different views..

Because we only hear what he says... not what he feels.. only once you fall in LOVE.. u can know your lovers feeling..

TRUTH IS SILENCE... SILENCE IS GOD

I just want to make sure I'm getting what you are saying. Are you saying that God gave teachings to these people and they didn't understand because they weren't advanced in an enlightened sense?

The other nations all worshipped their own gods. BUt they were just pieces of wood and metal. God was the true and Living God, as opposed to gods who were trapped within the confines of what man can build.

On a more personal level for us today, we all create gods for ourselves. Money, power, prestige being the most obvious. Drugs, alcohol.

Anything we put first in our lives can be seen to be our "god", though people may not choose to look at it like that.

Just a thought.

Regards, PA

Yes... because word gives so many different meaning to so many people.. we cannot explain god... unexplainable.. infinity.. ethernal.. if we try to dig to find the truth.. its going to end with us again.. it is a cycle..

so you will never able to answer what came first egg or the hen ?

I agree that the wooden and metal gods are spatial representations of their god just as the cross or statues, texts, icons and images that millions of Christians kneel down and worship, in direct contradiction of god's word, (insert something about graven images here..) but to simply dismiss them as you do beggars belief. You need your god, other nations as you put it need theirs. Other nations also have their creation myths just like you do in many cases their god came thousands of years before yours. They have sacred texts giving them the truth and they may have lived good lives because of that. Monothesistic religions that are 'revealed' are based on hearsay at best, pious fictions at worst.

Critical thinking i say.

So we just quit asking questions and yet an unfounded faith in something will give us the answer?

Just bury your heads in the sand everyone. It seems that in order to sustain a prejudicial position of how things should to be, the believer once again has to close his/her mind to ever more evidence to the contrary. When that happens the believer chooses emotionally to ignore evidence because it challenges their belief. There is nothing wrong with critical thinking

PA

They weren't just pieces of metal and wood to those people just as the God you believe in isn't just written in a book.

However I liked you're point about money, power, etc.... Very true this is. People worship things too mcuh and in doing such they make them "Gods" in their own minds. This is never good. I tend to think it is never good to worship anything except find that which is the core and live by it humbly.

Gotcha and I agree completely. It is a cycle and digging very deep can be like plummeting down the rabbit hole....perhaps the end leads to the beginning again. But if digging leads to better understanding of oneself than dig dig dig.......even if you can never understand God.

Very well put.