If you have a singular (omnipotent) god technically its still monotheistic no matter how many demigods or expansions of the one one god's personhood are in existence.
Why worship?
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But they aren't expansions of this omnipotent god. They are individual agents created by the overgod but with free will. Just like some argue humans have free will.
And also worshipped individually...
If that's monotheism I think it's a weird definition of it...
If that's monotheism I think it's a weird definition of it...
Norse mythology also alludes to an "overgod" or "Allfadur". Most people consider this just to Odin, but there's some kind of reason to think otherwise. Might have just been the whimsy of 19th-century writers, can't recall completely.
Sorry, what exactly do you mean here?
You were the one who said 'removal' first. OK fair enough, I now know what you hope to gain from it. But why would a god care one way or the other where you end up?
Well there's only a few options. Completely dead, reincarnation, or moving to a higher plane. If you are hoping to be removed of the human experience that must mean you believe that you will be reincarnated as a human should you not pray.
Says who?
Why are you interested in what's in it for God?
What do you hope would be resolved with getting an answer to your question?
When an artist creates a masterpiece whats the first thing he usualy does?, put's it on display for others to "admire" because he wants peopleto acknowledge what he has done.
Find me an artist (apart from myself) who spends ages painting a master piece and then burns it.
Peace.
Find me an artist (apart from myself) who spends ages painting a master piece and then burns it.
Peace.
You can think of them similarly as of the President's secretaries: The secretaries are not the President, but they have some connection to the President. If you want to get to the President, you need to get through the secretaries so it pays to do as the secretaries tell you.
what's your point?
Seems to fit too much in with human nature and how humans operate.
People always seem to want to give god human weaknesses or to see him as a type of human like thing.
peace.
And yet you called God "him". seems like human nature. My point about OP was accepting these qualities as human qualities or even just common human weaknesses manifesting themselves.
Find me an artist who punishes his work for not telling him how great he is. :bugeye:
When have you ever been told by god that he will punish you if you dont say how great he is. looks like he gave you free will to me, and even as much free will that you would even insult him thats how mercifull and lenient he is.
peace.
Looks like one's will has to match God's will… or burn, but, don't worry, for "looks like" don't do anything, plus God cannot exist (see Lori's thread).
And here you go again not trying to prove anything but still saying how it is.
that despite there being several personalities involved, its really just a question of one and several others being afforded positions to the degree that they are acting on the behalf of the one.
You see the same phenomena in contemporary hinduism. Those with a polytheistic view work out of the understanding that you have to worship the demigods in order to receive the favour of them and those within monotheism view that that the collection of demigods are servants of visnu and that any worship they receive is subsidiary to visnu. (For instance in some temples all the demigods are offered identical offerings whereas in others one offering is made to visnu and then the same one is made to several other demigods in respect for their position).
God's never said anything to me. I'm just going by what his book says.
Well what else can I say when i know the truth?, I can't sit here and lie to myself or others thats dumb.
Like say you found a potof gold and then you were asked if you found the pot of gold are you going to say "nah i didnt find anything"
peace.