Only one God created this world

[dattaswami]

Hindus say that Brahman is the creator, Muslims say
That Allah is creator, Christians say that the creator is
Jehovah, all say that the creation is this entire world.
If Hindus say that Brahman created India, and if
Muslims say that Allah created Arabian countries and
If Christians say that Jehovah created the western countries,
The problem is solved, there can be three Gods together,
Who have created the three parts of the earth separately.

But this is not so, each religion says that their God only
Created the entire world, unfortunately there is one world!
One world only! Come on, all of you sit together here
And give me the final conclusion after debate, otherwise,
The scientists are laughing on all of you! Shame to all!

They criticize that these religions do not have even
The basic logic, which is the fundamental common sense.
Because of you, the greatest God is also mocked by them
They say that the religions are rigid conservatisms!
Even a small boy is putting this question to all of you.

Stop all your discourses and first answer this question.
If you want to say that God created the entire world,
You have to accept that there is one God only always
And that His names are all the above three names.

We see in the world a single person having three names.
If there is one God, He only created this entire world.
All the human beings are invariably His children only.
No Father is partial to a single child and therefore
He must have preached the same knowledge to all
In different languages and in different methodologies
To different levels, this is Universal Spirituality.

At the Lotus feet of Datta Swami

ANIL ANTONY

 

[twhicke]

God does have three names: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit

dattaswami:

Hindus say that Brahman is the creator, Muslims say
That Allah is creator, Christians say that the creator is
Jehovah, all say that the creation is this entire world.
If Hindus say that Brahman created India, and if
Muslims say that Allah created Arabian countries and
If Christians say that Jehovah created the western countries,
The problem is solved, there can be three Gods together,
Who have created the three parts of the earth separately.

But this is not so, each religion says that their God only
Created the entire world, unfortunately there is one world!
One world only! Come on, all of you sit together here
And give me the final conclusion after debate, otherwise,
The scientists are laughing on all of you! Shame to all!

They criticize that these religions do not have even
The basic logic, which is the fundamental common sense.
Because of you, the greatest God is also mocked by them
They say that the religions are rigid conservatisms!
Even a small boy is putting this question to all of you.

Stop all your discourses and first answer this question.
If you want to say that God created the entire world,
You have to accept that there is one God only always
And that His names are all the above three names.

We see in the world a single person having three names.
If there is one God, He only created this entire world.
All the human beings are invariably His children only.
No Father is partial to a single child and therefore
He must have preached the same knowledge to all
In different languages and in different methodologies
To different levels, this is Universal Spirituality.

At the Lotus feet of Datta Swami

ANIL ANTONY

 

[Oliviad]

dattaswami:

Hindus say that Brahman is the creator, Muslims say
That Allah is creator, Christians say that the creator is
Jehovah, all say that the creation is this entire world.
each religion says that their God only
Created the entire world, unfortunately there is one world!
One world only!
Stop all your discourses and first answer this question.
If you want to say that God created the entire world,
You have to accept that there is one God only always
And that His names are all the above three names.
We see in the world a single person having three names.
If there is one God, He only created this entire world.
All the human beings are invariably His children only.
No Father is partial to a single child and therefore
He must have preached the same knowledge to all
In different languages and in different methodologies
To different levels, this is Universal Spirituality.
ANIL ANTONY

Even when a human father gives different instruction to different children, it is either because they are of diferrent ages, or because of partiality. GOD’s Instruction is offered to all without partiality - thus it cannot be that HE does as a human father in the second respect. In the former respect, to as many as are well-disposed to HIM for HIS one only Teaching for all that accept the Truth, HE teaches alike. HE would not give three different Teachings for any reason at all.
Muhammad never worked any Miracle as Moses and JESUS did, nor really prophesied so as to prove himself a Prophet. The basis for his initial recruits was a manipulation of the lusts of his male adherants, and the cause of the additions to their small number was force, not philosophy. Many in islam to this day fear death in acknowledging their own consciences to be calling them out of islam. One man considered an islamic cleric in Iran said he thought most Iranian muslims might secretly want to return to Zoroastrianism. According to many honest people in islamic society, a large number of “muslims” don’t really believe what they feel forced even by family to accept more dearly than belief.
Muhammad, according to islamic sources, had not the character of Moses or JESUS - thus, in introducing what he claimed to be a unique religion or covenant, he does not qualify to be the holy agent. Islam is exactly opposite of Christianity, coming after It in opposition to It. Obviously both CHRIST and antichrist cannot both come from one and the same GOD.
As for Hindus, there is no one such religion as “Hinduism”. Shaivism is not equal to Brahmanism, etc. So which Hindu religion is that first delivered to Hindus?
It is not one and the same thing for three groups to say one god created the heavens and the earth. Christianity has the Tradition of a Divine Revelation, with many corroborating Testimonies of many Witnesses from the beginning. Thus we know the details of WHO GOD really is. To merely speak of a hypothesis of a single god, as certain of the Greek philosophers did by human logic, is not equal to direct acknowledgement of GOD’s direct introduction to HIS own IDENTITY.
I say this not to argue, but only to answer fairly with the Truth my conscience is compelled to offer all.

 

[Marilena]

Here is what I believe, and it is based on the Bible
which is God’s inspired word. Jesus is God, and
the Trinity consists of the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Ghost. God created everything in the universe.
Inlcuding the angels, and even the earth. We can
trust His word, the Bible. It is the truth, and it contains
the knowledge that we need. We can trust His word
100% as to how the universe came into being. See Genesis chapter 1 for the account. He
created man with one language in the beginning, but,
when man made the tower of babel, it was abominable
to God, and He scattered man and confused their languages. Therefore we do not all speak the same
language as we had in those times, one world language. for proof of this here is the scripture
that verifies it: Genesis 11 : 1-7

 

[Maranatha]

dattaswami:

Christians say that the creator is Jehovah

Most Christains do use the name Jehovah.
CA:

When the topic of the name of God comes up, first address the fact that the New Testament Greek always uses the word *Lord *and never *Jehovah, *even in quotes from the Old Testament. *Encyclopedia Judaica, Webster’s Encyclopedia, Jewish Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, *and many other authoritative sources agree that the title *Jehovah *is erroneous and was never used by the Jews.

So where* did *the name Jehovah come from? According to the Watchtower’s own publication, *Aid to Bible Understanding, *“The first recorded use of this form dates from the thirteenth century. C. E. Raymundus Martini, a Spanish monk of the Dominican order, used it in his book Pugeo Fidei of the year 1270. Hebrew scholars generally favor ‘Yahweh’ as the most likely pronunciation.”

In regard to Romans 10:13, the Greek word used is *kurios, *which is translated Lord. However, when this passage is read in context with the preceding verse, the Lord being spoken of is Jesus Christ. So if the Lord in Romans 10:13 is Jehovah, then Jesus is Jehovah.

source

 

[Marilena]

Jehovah is the name that jw’s have included in their Bible the NWT. It is not God’s personal name. Yahweh is His
personal name. They have misued His personal name.
As far as I know, they are the only belief that firmly stresses that it is indeed God’s personal name, when in
fact it is not.

 

[mikew262]

True, there is only one God. However, maybe God is known by different names depending upon the culture.

Something to think about.

 

[Maranatha]

mikew262:

True, there is only one God. However, maybe God is known by different names depending upon the culture.

Something to think about.

I agree that different cultures can have different names for the same concept. We need to be careful that we don’t oversimplify our discussions but claiming each religion just uses different names when in fact they have different underlying concepts.

Judaism, Christianity and Islam all believe in an a single God that exists outside the universe and that created the universe out of nothing. In this respect we all worship the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob. (Jacob’s name was changed to Israel.) If this is the concept that you are worshiping, then you can truly say that we are worshiping the same God no matter what name He is given.

Eastern Religions are completely different:

"Hinduism is pantheistic, not theistic. The doctrine that God created the world out of nothing rather than emanating it out of His own substance or merely shaping some pre-existing material is an idea that simply never occurred to anyone but the Jews and those who learned it from them. Everyone else either thought of the gods as part of the world (paganism) or the world as part of God (pantheism).

If God is in everything, God is in both good and evil. But then there is no absolute morality, no divine law, no divine will discriminating good and evil. In Hinduism, morality is practical; its end is to purify the soul from desires so that it can attain mystical consciousness. Again, the Jews are unique in identifying the source of morality with the object of religion. Everyone has two innate senses: the religious sense to worship, and the moral sense of conscience; but only the Jewish God is the focus of both. Only the God of the Bible is absolutely righteous."
source

 

[Oliviad]

Judaism, Christianity and Islam all believe in an a single God that exists outside the universe and that created the universe out of nothing. In this respect we all worship the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob.

Muslims do not believe in the same GOD as Jews and Catholics. The GOD of Jews and Catholics is specific - the hypothesis of muslims is generic, and the character suited to Muhammad. The islamic god is surrounded with vaguery, so that it is only in superimposing our ideas over a religion with no such specific statements that we color islam’s god as more like ours. The more I have studied their texts, I have found this an inescapable fact about the sum total of all that Muhammad has said of allah. It is likely that the ba'al/bel of Babylonia was once a generic, mono-quasi-personal idea in place of direct Knowledge of the TRINITY, like allah has since been.
Then there are scholars that label the Arians of the fourth and fifth centuries AD as Christian. They, like the muslims soon after them, did not know the REAL GOD of Christians, but only the generic hypothesis left to them after their stripping down of Christianity, which was not itself a stipped-down Christianity, but an anti-Christianity, stripped of all the details as to the GOD of Christians.

 

[Maranatha]

Oliviad:

Muslims do not believe in the same GOD as Jews and Catholics. The GOD of Jews and Catholics is specific - the hypothesis of muslims is generic, and the character suited to Muhammad. The islamic god is surrounded with vaguery, so that it is only in superimposing our ideas over a religion with no such specific statements that we color islam’s god as more like ours. The more I have studied their texts, I have found this an inescapable fact about the sum total of all that Muhammad has said of allah. It is likely that the ba'al/bel of Babylonia was once a generic, mono-quasi-personal idea in place of direct Knowledge of the TRINITY, like allah has since been.
Then there are scholars that label the Arians of the fourth and fifth centuries AD as Christian. They, like the muslims soon after them, did not know the REAL GOD of Christians, but only the generic hypothesis left to them after their stripping down of Christianity, which was not itself a stipped-down Christianity, but an anti-Christianity, stripped of all the details as to the GOD of Christians.

While there are undeniable differences in our understanding of God, as long as Muslims profess to worship the God of Abraham, they are worshiping the same God as Christians.

 

[Oliviad]

While there are undeniable differences in our understanding of God, as long as Muslims profess to worship the God of Abraham, they are worshiping the same God as Christians.

One can take any false god and falsely claim Abraham worshipped that god. Conquerors of Babylon used to set up worship of the chief deity of their homeland, then replace the former chief deity of Babylon with him, replacing Bel with Marduk, for instance. Romans equated their Jupiter with the Zeus of the Hellenes, yet they had originally not been thus equated. Apostate Israelis considered Ba’al, rather than YAHWEH, to be their nation’s god, or even tried to merge YAHWEH with Ba’al - is that not what muslims try to do with `allah?
And remember: satan doesn’t strive to be known as “the devil”, but, as that one person selfishly wanting the Glory of the TRINITY for himself, strives to be considered the only true god!

 

[Gilbert_Keith]

Maranatha

While there are undeniable differences in our understanding of God, as long as Muslims profess to worship the God of Abraham, they are worshiping the same God as Christians.

A puzzlement?

They worship the same God that the Jews did and still do, but not the same God that Christians worship. Muslims and Jews share with each other the denial of the Trinity. As long as they deny the Trinity, would it be right to say they worship the same God that Christians worship?

 

[trustmc]

dattaswami:

Hindus say that Brahman is the creator, Muslims say
That Allah is creator, Christians say that the creator is
Jehovah, all say that the creation is this entire world.
If Hindus say that Brahman created India, and if
Muslims say that Allah created Arabian countries and
If Christians say that Jehovah created the western countries,
The problem is solved, there can be three Gods together,
Who have created the three parts of the earth separately.

Let’s first begin with what Judeo-Christianity actually says: that God created the entire universe, not just the world; so this would include all the planets, stars, galaxies and whatever else is in the universe. To be sure, Islam makes the same claim. Hindus say that there are many gods, so as to which one created the world or the universe, I cannot say since I’m Catholic.

As for the names of God, we Catholics assert that God has revealed his name through the Jewish prophets, and that other monotheistic religions have given our God their own names in seeking to understand him apart from divine revelation. This is why it may appear to the non-religious that God has many names, or that God has revealed his name to different people of different religions throughout the world.

I hope this clears things up so that you may ask your questions with a better understanding of the different religions.

Mike

 

[Maranatha]

Gilbert Keith:

Maranatha

While there are undeniable differences in our understanding of God, as long as Muslims profess to worship the God of Abraham, they are worshiping the same God as Christians.

A puzzlement?

They worship the same God that the Jews did and still do, but not the same God that Christians worship. Muslims and Jews share with each other the denial of the Trinity. As long as they deny the Trinity, would it be right to say they worship the same God that Christians worship?

The Jews deny the Trinity. Is our God the same God as the Jewish God?

 

[Oliviad]

There is evidence that Jews all originally had a very different view of YAHWEH than non-Christian Jews do today. There is evidence that in disputing with Paul the Apostle, the non-Christian Jewish leaders never denied that YAHWEH is THREE PERSONS, but only that the MAN YESHUA’ is ONE of THEM. There is where such men were derailed from true Knowledge of YAHWEH. They did not take the false god of islam and superimpose him over YAHWEH, but started truly with YAHWEH, then, rejecting HIM as MAN, lost their spiritual way, forgetting HIM in the ruins of the shell of what had been, now devoid of True Torah, in failing to move on with YAHWEH into the New and Everlasting Covenant with those of their People that were the first Catholics.
For a while, they showed themselves to have once understood the Doctrine of the TRINITY, still bringing out Trinitarian Treasures of the truly spiritual Successors of Moshe, of the past, in Talmudic statements here and there. islam seems to have accelerated their rejection of the TRIUNE GOD they had known - yet even by the time of the near occurrence of protestantism, some Jewish rabbis were still using trinitarian language of YAHWEH - rejection of the TRINITY Doctrine was neither all at once nor uniform : some of the rabbis admitted they retained a Doctrine that sounded rather “Christian”, while others, though trying to explain this phenomenon away as not meaning how it sounded, yet were stuck with vestiges of Jewish rabbinical antiquity bearing ancient Witness to what GOD they had originally known.
They seem to have put away use of the NAME in putting away recognition of the Faith of their Fathers in a YAHWEH of THREE PERSONS.
All Christians agree that those of my People according to the flesh that are not Christian are said by Paul to have fallen off of the original Olive Tree that is Israel expanded, having recieved to the original part of the nation that followed our LORD, many wild branches from the nations, through Sacramental ingrafting. It wasn’t even most Jews that apostasized from YAHWEH, but only some branches (family lines) who are temporarily veiled to YAHWEH. Apostasy leads to not knowing GOD, and trying to worship WHOM you know not leads to worshipping a mere idea of GOD, which is wherein lies the danger of having a false god substituted. My point is that there are traces of the TRUE GOD in Judaism, but not in islam - yet everyone that is estranged to GOD is as much a heathen as Plato trying to deduce GOD with human speculation about Reason. Jews without CHRIST are as children abducted from their parents at such an early age that the abduction confuses the knowledge of their memory. They have flashes of “FATHER” here and there occur, and they at once do not feel in islam what sentiment that flash of recallection aroused in them. But, then, being so far removed from that missed FATHER, they have only an idea somewhat conformed to that of islam near at hand in their present experience.
Muslims never worshipped YAHWEH, but used a name of one of the Arabic idols, that may have been the Babylonian substitue for a forgotten GOD taught by Noach.

 

[AquinasXVI]

Datta:

I think you should find a copy of The Everlasting Man by GK Chesterton. The question you asked is addressed beautifully and would be impossible for me to synthesize. It has to be read. It is a commentary on the anthropology of faiths and the impact of the man who claimed to be God.

in XT.

 

[allischalmers]

There is only one God, the God of Christianty. the rest do not exsit.

 

[mikew262]

allischalmers:

There is only one God, the God of Christianty. the rest do not exsit.

I believe there is only one God, period. Different cultures may worship him in different ways; whatever the right way is will be judged ultimately by God. Of course, I prefer the Catholic Christian way.