gods god?

[cal]

If god does exist, how did he come to be and since he was created, does this mean we have to worship him/her/it? Does the buck stop with god or does the god theory spiral further down the rabbit hole into even more mind splinters? I wonder.....

[johnny tahalele]

The Bible says that God's attributes are infinite.
1Co 1:20 Where is the wise? Where the scribe? Where the lawyer of this world? Did God not make the wisdom of this world foolish?
1Co 1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save the ones believing.
God made us foolish so that we might know him better. If we knew everything about God then why should we worship him? The purpose of being a christian is to know God better. The Bible says the only way we can do that is through salvation in Jesus Christ. We're not meant to know yet how God has always been.

[Fryan]

The Bible says that God's attributes are infinite.
1Co 1:20 Where is the wise? Where the scribe? Where the lawyer of this world? Did God not make the wisdom of this world foolish?
1Co 1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save the ones believing.
God made us foolish so that we might know him better. If we knew everything about God then why should we worship him? The purpose of being a christian is to know God better. The Bible says the only way we can do that is through salvation in Jesus Christ. We're not meant to know yet how God has always been.
Just a minute. First you say God made us foolish so we might know him better. How does making someone foolish help them to know anything? Then you say if we did know him, we wouldn't want to worship him. So God made us stupid to hide the fact that he's not worth worshipping? Then you say the purpose of being a Christian is to get to know God better. But then why would you worship him?

I don't know why I bother. I may as well just bang my head against a brick wall.

[Tenspace]

If god does exist, how did he come to be and since he was created, does this mean we have to worship him/her/it? Does the buck stop with god or does the god theory spiral further down the rabbit hole into even more mind splinters? I wonder.....
Welcome to the forums, but I think you're gonna regret your choice of names.

:lol::lol:

[Choobus]

God did not rest on the seventh day, he had to go to church.

then he had a shit (let there be shite!), and Lo, katia was born, and it was not good

[Baphomet]

If you look back at hebrew mythology, it's quite interesting to see that there is evidence there were multiple gods...

For instance, god says "Let US make man in OUR image"... and he's not talking to himself, or jesus, he's aparently talking to the Elohim. Elohim is plural for god, so it means yahweh is actually talking to other gods.

If they never made it a monotheistic religion, it could have probably been more tolerant, and a little more interesting, though a MYTH nonethless...

[The Kenosha Kid]

If you look back at hebrew mythology, it's quite interesting to see that there is evidence there were multiple gods...

For instance, god says "Let US make man in OUR image"... and he's not talking to himself, or jesus, he's aparently talking to the Elohim. Elohim is plural for god, so it means yahweh is actually talking to other gods.
Interesting point. Also, I seem to remember someone seeing Zeus in the Bible. I can't remember the exact passage, though.

It's also possible that the "us" and "our" were sort of a regal "we," the way the King or Queen will refer to him or herself in the plural. Of course, I'm no Bible scholar; anyone know if the earliest texts used the plural, or if this first popped up in the English translations?

If they never made it a monotheistic religion, it could have probably been more tolerant, and a little more interesting, though a MYTH nonethless...
What? Christianity is monotheistic? When did that happen? ;) Which reminds me, I've also heard that god's use of the plural pronoun is "proof" that the trinity existed even before Jesus came to earth. :lol:

The Kenosha Kid

[The Kenosha Kid]

God did not rest on the seventh day, he had to go to church.
Blasphemer! Eddie Izzard states very clearly that God spent the seventh day rushing around, finishing all the crap he hadn't gotten around to, like Rwanda and a sense of humanity in football hooligans. He had to break his own rule about resting on the sabbath.

And Izzard spaketh: "Later people were coming back, saying, 'Rwanda doesn't work right. The infrastructure's fucked.'"

I love that guy.

The Kenosha Kid