Interesting

Posted by Lisa Keyser May 26 - #Faith - 35 views

With no offense inted,I'd like to ponder this;in the Christian faith God states 'thou shalt have no other gods before me',yet if we are to believe then he is the only God si the need to say this is not really necessary is it?. As I further my own religious studies I've come to as so far find that there are quite a lot of similarities throughout the whole worlds religions.I question could this be a result of let's say the tower of Babel when the people were scattered and the tounges confused as so we couldn't speak and be understood by one onother?.

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Andrew Tatler-Burgess This does come across as being tautological. In philosophy reductio ad absurdum is used to determine if an argument or thought is viable. If you can reduce it to the absurd, then it is considered absurd. Even if there is/are no god(s), w... more
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Gail Dobson The 3-in-1 Christian god is already more than one, i.e., father, son, holy ghost. The other local cultures all had their own deities (Enlil & Enki, Inanna/Ishtar, Brahman, Ahura Mazda, probably others). The Tower of Babel, a talking snake in the garde... more
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Andrew Tatler-Burgess A visit to the Egyptian Book of the Dead would certainly demonstrate the many similarities between ancient Egyptian religion, Judaism, and Christianity, as an example. I believe religion is a construct and an institution kept in place to regulate th... more
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