VideoGameJunkie Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 Christians worship God, while Hindus worship an elephant Ganesha, Buddhists believe in Buddha, there's also Krishna, and an assortment of other gods throughout religion and history. Just look at the Greeks with all their gods. So where did these all come from if we are to believe the story of Adam and Eve and their descendants and Noah's descendants populating the world. Where did these other religious figures originate and how could people believe in them so powerfully like we believe in Heavenly Father and Jesus? Believing in false gods just seems like a dangerous path to live.
The Nehor Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 Well, according to a friend of mine there are actually devils named Zeus, Quetzalcoatl, Marduk, Dagon, Brahma, etc. He is a bit crazy though. What makes you think people cannot believe powerfully in fake things? I know people who swear by chiropractics and know someone who hired a horse psychic to figure out why their horse was moody.
6EQUJ5 Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 From the very beginning the truth of the Gospel became distorted and twisted. Even after the Flood false traditions and beliefs sprang up very quickly. All of the gods you mention are a part of that. Especially as the descendants of Ham, Shem, and Japeth spread further and further away the Promised Land. Hard to keep things pure without a living prophet around. Men -- with the help of the Adversary -- will always corrupt the teachings of God. But God loves all people no matter what gods those people may believe in. Good people will be redeemed in the end.
VideoGameJunkie Posted January 19, 2016 Author Posted January 19, 2016 23 minutes ago, The Nehor said: Well, according to a friend of mine there are actually devils named Zeus, Quetzalcoatl, Marduk, Dagon, Brahma, etc. He is a bit crazy though. What makes you think people cannot believe powerfully in fake things? I know people who swear by chiropractics and know someone who hired a horse psychic to figure out why their horse was moody. Oh I know people can believe in them, I'm just curious who thought of them and where they came from in teaching and belief.
The Nehor Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 6 minutes ago, VideoGameJunkie said: Oh I know people can believe in them, I'm just curious who thought of them and where they came from in teaching and belief. Some are probably derivatives from corrupted forms of the gospel and some were just made up.
VideoGameJunkie Posted January 19, 2016 Author Posted January 19, 2016 1 hour ago, The Nehor said: Some are probably derivatives from corrupted forms of the gospel and some were just made up. It just seems odd how different cultures have different gods and beliefs. Like the Indian Hindus have their god, the Asians their's, etc. It seems religion is just like a culture thing to them.
The Nehor Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 11 minutes ago, VideoGameJunkie said: It just seems odd how different cultures have different gods and beliefs. Like the Indian Hindus have their god, the Asians their's, etc. It seems religion is just like a culture thing to them. For many it is.
Hamba Tuhan Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 What I'd like to know more about is the irreligious gods... 2
The Nehor Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 21 minutes ago, Hamba Tuhan said: What I'd like to know more about is the irreligious gods... That Deism god is always out there not being religious. 2
VideoGameJunkie Posted January 19, 2016 Author Posted January 19, 2016 I forgot to mention the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
The Nehor Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 4 minutes ago, VideoGameJunkie said: I forgot to mention the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He demands meatball sacrifices on full moons, solstices, and equinoxes. He is a demanding ball of pasta.
VideoGameJunkie Posted January 19, 2016 Author Posted January 19, 2016 16 minutes ago, The Nehor said: He demands meatball sacrifices on full moons, solstices, and equinoxes. He is a demanding ball of pasta. Let him reach out to you with his noodly appendages.
VideoGameJunkie Posted January 19, 2016 Author Posted January 19, 2016 I just find it funny and sad that with world population, more people believe in Ganesha and Buddha than Jesus.
RevTestament Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 1 hour ago, VideoGameJunkie said: I just find it funny and sad that with world population, more people believe in Ganesha and Buddha than Jesus. The eightfold path taught by the buddha, actually has a lot of gospel principles. It is the other areas of Buddhist teaching that bother me. It seems to hold over some Hindu religious beliefs while decrying Hindu gods ie reincarnation, etc.
Sevenbak Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 Opposition in all things. There's a reason "no other Gods" is part of the 10 commandments.
thesometimesaint Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 TTBOMK in Hinduism all some 2000 deity's are but manifestations of one God.
Robert F. Smith Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 (edited) 6 hours ago, VideoGameJunkie said: Christians worship God, while Hindus worship an elephant Ganesha, Buddhists believe in Buddha, there's also Krishna, and an assortment of other gods throughout religion and history. Just look at the Greeks with all their gods. So where did these all come from if we are to believe the story of Adam and Eve and their descendants and Noah's descendants populating the world. Where did these other religious figures originate and how could people believe in them so powerfully like we believe in Heavenly Father and Jesus? Believing in false gods just seems like a dangerous path to live. There are a variety of theories: Some people think that man invented his religions and his gods in his own image (anthropomorphic gods). Some see religion and the gods as a metaphor (behind which is the ultimate truth): Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time (Boston: Gambit, 1969/ Godine, 1977). Some (esp Jungians) see all religion and gods as archetypal and expressing the collective unconcious of humanity: The commonality of all ancient traditions was best demonstrated by Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1st ed., Bollingen Series 17 (N.Y.: Pantheon, 1949); 2nd ed. (Princeton Univ. Press, 1968/1990); Campbell, with M. J. Abadie, The Mythic Image, Bollingen Series 100 (Princeton Univ. Press, 1974/ reprint Princeton Univ. Press, 1981). For Mormons, all that makes perfectly good sense, since true religion on Earth began in the Garden of Eden and devolved from there into multifarious cultural expressions worldwide, based ultimately on a Father God who is the father of our spirits, and who speaks to us in our own separate languages and cultures. See the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley, 19 vols (FARMS/Deseret Book, 1986-2010). ETA: Buddha is not a god, but merely an Enlightened man. Buddha means "Enlightened-one," the title given to Lord Siddharta. Edited January 19, 2016 by Robert F. Smith 3
Hamba Tuhan Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 (edited) 3 hours ago, VideoGameJunkie said: I just find it funny and sad that with world population, more people believe in Ganesha and Buddha than Jesus. Not true. There are about 2.2 billion Christians in the world but only about 1.1 billion Hindus and around 500,000,000 Buddhists. Edited January 19, 2016 by Hamba Tuhan 2
thesometimesaint Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 9 minutes ago, Hamba Tuhan said: Not true. There are about 2.2 billion Christians in the world but only about 1.1 billion Hindus and around 500,000 Buddhists. Buddhism in the world is practiced by an estimated 488 million, 495 million, or 535 million people as of the 2010s, representing 7% to 8% of the world's total population. China is the country with the largest population of Buddhists, approximately 244 million or 18.2% of its total population. Buddhism by country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hamba Tuhan Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 12 minutes ago, thesometimesaint said: Buddhism in the world is practiced by an estimated 488 million, 495 million, or 535 million people as of the 2010s, representing 7% to 8% of the world's total population. Sorry, yes. I meant 500,000,000.
Thinking Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 Perhaps different cultural leaders created religion and the gods that go with them in order to control the people. 1
Hamba Tuhan Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 15 minutes ago, Thinking said: Perhaps different cultural leaders created religion and the gods that go with them in order to control the people. 'And thus ye lead away this people after the foolish traditions of your fathers, and according to your own desires; and ye keep them down, even as it were in bondage, that ye may glut yourselves with the labors of their hands, that they durst not look up with boldness, and that they durst not enjoy their rights and privileges. Yea, they durst not make use of that which is their own lest they should offend their priests, who do yoke them according to their desires, and have brought them to believe, by their traditions and their dreams and their whims and their visions and their pretended mysteries, that they should, if they did not do according to their words, offend some unknown being, who they say is God—a being who never has been seen or known, who never was nor ever will be'. 3
Stargazer Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 1 hour ago, Thinking said: Perhaps different cultural leaders created religion and the gods that go with them in order to control the people. Been reading Marx a lot lately?
thesometimesaint Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 6 hours ago, Hamba Tuhan said: Sorry, yes. I meant 500,000,000. No problem.
Tacenda Posted January 19, 2016 Posted January 19, 2016 Funny, how even in the Bible, God is like a multi personality. To me it's authors making up junk, to get their way, or to justify their ways. 1
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