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    Default How to think about God.

    The first distinction is between monotheism and polytheism
    Whether there is one God or many.

    The second distinction is between a personal God or impersonal God.
    A personal God has features of human consciousness. An impersonal God is a principle or activity.

    Third is God as creator or God as a being.
    A creator makes the world itself. God as a being is not the cause of the universe.


    For example, an atheist could deny monotheism but be a polytheist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    The first distinction is between monotheism and polytheism
    Whether there is one God or many.

    The second distinction is between a personal God or impersonal God.
    A personal God has features of human consciousness. An impersonal God is a principle or activity.

    Third is God as creator or God as a being.
    A creator makes the world itself. God as a being is not the cause of the universe.


    For example, an atheist could deny monotheism but be a polytheist.
    Eternal separation by a Divine entity, or eternity separating each ancestor as biologically centered as timed apart evolving here now?

    What do creation theology and evolution theory have in common? They never discuss the kinetic self evident view of life only existing as timed apart individually here spontaneously since conceived simultaneously mutually evolving until decomposed regardless which generation passed through the moment here reproducing the lifetimes adapting in the moment where geographically displaced...
    Every brain born has a lifetime conflict with ancestral displacement and intellectual social position within the population present. Why, life is a compounding connection between inception, conception, death, extinction life doesn't exceed what exists now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by serenity View Post
    Eternal ..
    You are a mentally ill troll. ignore

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    The first distinction is between monotheism and polytheism
    Whether there is one God or many.

    The second distinction is between a personal God or impersonal God.
    A personal God has features of human consciousness. An impersonal God is a principle or activity.

    Third is God as creator or God as a being.
    A creator makes the world itself. God as a being is not the cause of the universe.


    For example, an atheist could deny monotheism but be a polytheist.
    How so very presumptuous.
    This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawkeye10 View Post
    How so very presumptuous.
    Yet you having nothing to say about it. No refutation.

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    I am reminded of the Mind Molders who write headlines of the sort "Everything you need to know about XYZ".

    Vox was one of the first to do this constantly.

    I will decide what I need to know.
    This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.

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    Discussing religion is inane, to use the Platonic design, you either believe in some form of Higher Being or you don't, and all the attempts to rationalize faith or attack faith is a waste of time

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    Discussing religion is inane, to use the Platonic design, you either believe in some form of Higher Being or you don't, and all the attempts to rationalize faith or attack faith is a waste of time
    You should read Plato, then. Because you know nothing about him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    The first distinction is between monotheism and polytheism
    Whether there is one God or many.

    The second distinction is between a personal God or impersonal God.
    A personal God has features of human consciousness. An impersonal God is a principle or activity.

    Third is God as creator or God as a being.
    A creator makes the world itself. God as a being is not the cause of the universe.


    For example, an atheist could deny monotheism but be a polytheist.
    That last is not correct. An atheist ("a" = without, "theo" = god(s)) cannot be a polytheist (believer in many gods).
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    That last is not correct. An atheist ("a" = without, "theo" = god(s)) cannot be a polytheist (believer in many gods).
    No. Atheism was defined by monotheists as not believing in their God.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    No. Atheism was defined by monotheists as not believing in God.
    Or in gods, plural. My husband is an atheist. He is not a polytheist. A Hindu would be an example of a polytheist; he would not be an atheist. Poly = many. Atheism is the absence of a belief in deity, period, whether one or many.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Or in gods, plural. My husband is an atheist. He is not a polytheist. A Hindu would be an example of a polytheist; he would not be an atheist. Poly = many. Atheism is the absence of a belief in deity, period, whether one or many.
    No. Atheism was invented by Christians to attack the beliefs of the ancient Greeks. Wrong God, wrongs Gods.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    No. Atheism was invented by Christians to attack the beliefs of the ancient Greeks. Wrong God, wrongs Gods.
    We need to define terms then. Are you saying that Christians invented the WORD "atheism," or that they invented the concept? Where did you get the idea that it has anything to do with Xtians other than they use the word as a hammer sometimes?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    We need to define terms then. Are you saying that Christians invented the WORD "atheism," or that they invented the concept? Where did you get the idea that it has anything to do with Xtians other than they use the word as a hammer sometimes?
    From early Catholic theology like St Anselm, Augustine, Thomas.
    They privileged believing in God as the essential feature of theology and religion.
    Anyone not believing in their God was an atheist (not a term they used).

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    You should read Plato, then. Because you know nothing about him.
    Not true, faith falls exactly into Plato's realm of concepts, in fact, he has God as its' highest point

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