Lax16,
Since the word “polytheism” is, as noted in the definition you posted, derived from the Greek, as is “monotheism”, which means that those words come from Greek philosophy and Greek thinking and the Greek mindset, then “polytheism” is not a word I deal with in studying true religion. I not only don’t come from that background in my thinking about God and His purposes for the creation of this earth and of the heavens, but I happen to know that that background is false as to truths pertaining to religion or pertaining to God. So, the “either or” word for you is not the “either or” situation for me. Further, Greek philosophy is exactly the foundation that is tied to the apostasy, so of course that foundation does not lead to an “either or” situation for truth in simple words.
What about these Greek words that appear in the Book of Mormon? Do you have trouble with these Greek words as well, seeing as they come from Greek philosophy and Greek thinking and the Greek mindset?
Alpha – Greek
Apostles – Greek
Baptize – Late Latin/Greek
Bible – Greek
Blasphemy – from the Latin from the Greek
Christ – Latin, Greek
Christians – Latin, Greek
Church – Greek
Cross –Latin, Greek
Crucified – Greek
Doctrine – Greek
Epistle – Greek
Genealogy – from the Latin from the Greek
Gospel –Greek
Govern, governor, government & derivatives – from the Latin, from Greek
Holy Ghost – Holy is Latin & Greek, Ghost is Greek
Inasmuch – Greek, Indo-European roots
Insomuch – Middle English from the Greek
Jesus – from the Latin, from the Greek
Jesus Christ
Jesus is the Christ
John – Greek
Know & derivatives – Greek
Lamb of God – Lamb is Greek –
Martyr & derivatives – Greek
Messiah – Greek
Mystery – Greek
Omega – 24th Letter of the Greek alphabet
Priesthood – Latin & Greek
Prophecy – from Latin from Greek
Prophet – from Latin from Greek
Stratagem – Latin from the Greek
Timothy – Greek
btw - there is a picture of Socrates on the BYU Department of Philosophy homepage (he was a Greek)
You may take John 17:22 (KJV), collapse it into a single word that is representative of what you believe that verse means in one word, and then you’ll have your word and you’ll have your definition. Greek philosophy will not get you there–they didn’t believe in Christ, nor in God the Father, nor in the Holy Ghost, and certainly didn’t believe in the intercessory prayer nor in what Jesus was saying in His loving prayer for humankind as translated into English in John 17:22.
Obviously, you are going off on a tangent trying to avoid defining polytheism.
Anywho, the English language is comprised of words from Latin which was used by the Romans who were blood-thirsty pagans who persecuted Christians and from the Germanic tribes which were all pagans…which ancient language can we talk to each other in that would have been used by an ancient Christian sect?
True Christianity, of course, as in the Godhead: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, which are One God. (Mormon 7:7; Alma 11:44)
The words in red are derived from the Greek so I don’t think you would agree to using them.
They are self-existing. Answer, then, is “no one.”
If God’s parents are self-existing, then they are the beginning. Were they gods?
Don’t you believe that God was once a man?
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