Is it possible to steal God?
Kyra
2012/07/27 15:17:22
I have been told that Christians stole God from Jewish people, who stole God from pagans. Does this make God any less yours or mine, or real or fake?
Is it possible to steal God?
Is it possible to steal God?
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Philo-CommieHater! 2012/07/27 18:02:36
+3No. God chooses to reveal Himself as He will - through nature, the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. Don't let pagan revisionist history fool you.
Gods, as they are envisioned by all people, belong to everyone and no one, much like the sky, or the sun. As such, they can not be owned, and therefore cannot be stolen.
Later on, the idols and Gods had to be represented according to their functions and they had to be mighty with supernatural human aspects. Legends, counts and myths based partly on non-existing and existing heroes, on dreams and on imagination. With the increasing knowledge and culture, new religions developed and were often spread by conquest. Often, religions and deities were adopted by conquered and conquerors, if they suited beliefs. Many different cultures had similar deities.
The innovations came from Monotheism, with the Jews, then the first Christians and later on the Muslims. But religious rules were mostly man-made, appealing to justice, solidarity, a common identity and devoutness.
But leaders, prophets, kings, emperors and other chiefs added more and more rules and rites to control entire populations, assure their power, their descendence and hide disasters and crimes behind "God's will". There was no stealing of God, His "principles" were either ad...
Later on, the idols and Gods had to be represented according to their functions and they had to be mighty with supernatural human aspects. Legends, counts and myths based partly on non-existing and existing heroes, on dreams and on imagination. With the increasing knowledge and culture, new religions developed and were often spread by conquest. Often, religions and deities were adopted by conquered and conquerors, if they suited beliefs. Many different cultures had similar deities.
The innovations came from Monotheism, with the Jews, then the first Christians and later on the Muslims. But religious rules were mostly man-made, appealing to justice, solidarity, a common identity and devoutness.
But leaders, prophets, kings, emperors and other chiefs added more and more rules and rites to control entire populations, assure their power, their descendence and hide disasters and crimes behind "God's will". There was no stealing of God, His "principles" were either adopted or transmitted, sometimes in an other form and with other backgrounds, and spread, either by His disciples (with the early Christians, for instance) or transmitted by the rulers to their subjects, by laws, conquest and oppression. Unfortunately, many misinterpretations and abuses of the great religions gave rise to conflicts, diverse currents, sects, fanatics, injustices, crimes and wars.
What's startling is, that most religions consider women as unworthy, irresponsible and as
sin, condemning them to slavery, submission, mistreatment and suffering, with no life and no spirit of their own. I don't believe that God hates women. I rather believe that the anti-feminist rules are man-made.
Jesus showed that women and children were to be considered like all humans, as he had female disciples, although he did not incite them to rebel against their poor conditions, nor did he support the Jewish rebels against the Roman conquerors. He preached peace and non-violence, but most people did not understand his teaching in these times of war.
No, God could not be stolen, belief is our conscience.
Mildly amused by those stating that God doesn't exist - a sign of our society, where people who have no clue and refuse the concept of faith are going to broadcast their disbelief.
Generally speaking they don't have a leg to stand on. It's like a case of a bit of bacteria in your body refusing to believe in you,... You are too vast to be concieved of by something so small and limited,... yet there it is - you have folk in society who "need" to believe that God doesn't exist because they can't wrap their head around it.
They are in good company,.. folk who believed the world was flat, that the human body cannot survive the stresses of traveling faster than 45mph, that anything not easily observable to their immediate unaugmented senses does not exist.
(ignore the reality that at any one time a third of our tech is based on stuff not easily observed.)
You need to believe that there is no God,.. or that "God" was stolen from earlier peoples - it's on you - just realise how weak and limited your thinking is.
Peace.
The only thing that get's stolen is the Marketing of God! One could consider that Mohammed simply comes along 600 years after Christ and a few thousand after Judaism and takes the marketing on a new twist!