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Contemplating on ReligonThis is just a random though which I have had, and decided I wished to put out there, though I know that many will most likely not agree, that is quite fine by me.
Contorary to what most people beleive Christanty is in fact not a true monothesic relgion, though they like to say that they are, and it is true that they do only worship one God, but if you look at it closely you will see what I mean. For starters if you go back to the roots of Christanty, it never started as a beleif in just one God, in the very begening it started out as a polothesitc reglion, the now Jedu/Christan God, orignally started as being little more then a tribal God, and one of many such Gods, and basicaly the tribe which worhisped him decided that he was surperior to all the other Gods, and that all the other tribes should abandon thier own Gods to worship him. But they still acknowleged that other Gods were in exsistince they only saw those other Gods as being inferrior to thier own God.
The whole One and Only God, monothestic thing was something which began to develop over time, it never started that way. It was never as if one day someone just woke up and said, "hey wait a mintue there is Only God" Basicly it began more or less as a "My God is bigger then your God" thing, and it was through the demorlization of the other Gods which began to give people to interpet it as monotheism. But even so there was never an offical denial that other Gods did indeed exisit they were just seen as lesser Gods.
If you look at the wording in the Bible itself it states,
"No other Gods shall be worshiped before me"
Now that line does not conclusively deny the exsistince of other Gods. Nowhere in there does it acutally refer to the Jedu/Christan God as being the One and Only God. If you think about it the line is more of acknowelgent that there are indeed other Gods, you should not worship them, you should only worship me. This is not about montheism it is about surpemecy which are two different things. To view something as inferiror is not to deny that it is in exsistince.
If you really think about this deeply and take the time to mull it over, if Chrisanity was true montheism and if the beleif was sincenrely that the Juedo/Christan God was in fact the One and Only God, and that no other Gods exsisted at all whatsoever, then why would have to address something which was not even there?
If the Jedu/Christan God was truly the One and Only God, then he would not have bothered to tell people not to worship any other Gods, but there would be no other Gods for people to try and worship, and a singular God would not insult himself by giving the title of God to lesser beings.
For instance like look at it this way. With the whole contriveroy over the Presidency and did Bush really win, or did Kerry really in. No one follows Kerry as an alternitve President, even though he might have been more popular. No one refers to him as being the President, and Bush does not have to make statments saying that No other Presidents will be followed before him, because there is only one President like it or not.
And it would be the exzact same way with relgion if Christanty was truly monothesitc. Granted, there are some obvious differences as by law Kerry could not try and act as an alterntive President, but people can still belive what they want reguardless, and if they so choose to worship a wheel of cheese as a God, but the point is such things would not have been acknowleged as being Gods at all in the Bible to begin with if there was in fact only One true God
Now granted Chrsitans today can refuse to acknowlege any other such beings as being Gods, and they probaly will, but even so that does not change the words used in the very text they follow, that is just thier opinion of it. 2:33 PM - 7/5/2006 - post comment
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