Reply To: What is God?

[Kyrani Eade]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

@Kyrani Eade. Welcome to the site. (Note I am a theist but of no particular religious persuasion)…. You seem convinced that Adam and Eve actually existed so you are either a Christian or a Muslim.

First, thank you for your welcome.

Adam and Eve may have existed or may be mythical. It is not relevant. It is only a spiritual /religious point that is important. I don’t have any problem with Abraham being a mythical man and still have tripped on the first journey down the mountain where he had broken the two tablets with the 10 commandment so that he had to go back up to get another set.

I do not believe that Jesus is God. I see that as blasphemy. I believe he is an avatar of God, same as Krishna. And an avatar is in the same position as a prophet, so Mohammad as well.

I have been involved in Sufism and I hold the same position as Muslims, that there is only One God, so I am a Muslim. But I see this as the true position of almost all religions.

Hinduism, looking in from the outside, appears to uphold the existence of 330 million gods and goddesses, but there is only One Godhead, Brahman. So it is monotheistic. And that is also true of the Ancient Greeks (unlike the Romans). They appear to have 12 gods on Mt Olympus but all those arise out of the One Unknown God, they are attributes of the One God, so they are monotheistic.  They got betrayed by Paul /Saul “the apostle”, who I believe was a Roman agent sent to betray them.

The Romans by contrast had no conception of a One God. And they worshiped many of their emperors as gods as well. This is one of the reasons why they crucified Jesus for sedition. And why later Caligula looked to incite the Jews by wanting to have his own statute set up in the temple in Jerusalem to be worshiped as God.