Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
Where were you when I was being crucified for saying that
Could have done with the help.
"My God, my God, why hast thou abandoned me?"
- some Bible verse
Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
Well, because they are all interpretations of the same thing that is a standard that they are all based in some form of truth...assuming its the correct God.
Right, thus my 3rd option of partially true, partially false. With the infinite ways in which a hypothetical divine being might exist, and what qualities it would have, and also creating a mathematically even premise of 50/50 for whether or not a God exists (since we can't know for sure), the odds are with them being either mostly or entirely wrong.
But that's strictly talking in terms of objective probabilities, and doesn't take into the account the beliefs themselves or their justifications.
Originally posted by lord xyz
The christian god is the god who created the Earth in 6 days, then he flooded it, then sent Moses to tell us what to do, then sent his son (Jesus) to tell us what to do.
The muslim god is the god who created the Earth in 6 days, then he flooded it, then sent Moses to tell us what to do, then sent Jesus (who isn't his son) to tell us waht to do, then sent Muhammed to tell us what to do.
The jewish god is the god who created the Earth in 6 days, then he flooded it, then sent Moses to tell us what to do.
Very different.
Yes yes, why didn't we see it? It's all the same thing, and each religion is nearly identical to the others in beliefs and practices.
Simplification and selective cropping of facts FTL. Take a look at the religious cultures of the world and tell me they're worshipping similar gods.
Ironically, we should add in a few mythologies that parallel those sentences as well. Egyptian flood myths in particular, culminating in the coming of Ra's son Horus, would work particularly well. Of course, drawing connections between religions that people no longer believe in is usually perceived as a threat to established religions, so it wouldn't go over nearly as well as the "it's all 1 God" advocates.
I'd amend it to "its all 1 mythological system intended to instruct human beings through various aspects of their lives." It strips religions of literal import and actually does focus on the connections between them, which become more numerous when you interpret them as metaphors rather than dogmatic truths.
jk
