We believe in one God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. There are other religions who have multiple Gods. Could their Gods be the same as our Chris

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We believe in one God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. There are other religions who have multiple Gods. Could their Gods be the same as our Christian God but their Gods are just viewed as multiples not as a single God?
 
No, because their gods are all different from each other. That’s not quite the same as the Trinity.
 
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No.

God revealed Himself to us in a specific way, not through other multiple “gods.”
 
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Are you asking if other religions’ gods are just clouded views of God as He truly is?
 
God has revealed Himself to us as One God, with three Persons. He will not reveal Himself to anyone under the guise of multiple gods. That would be deception because He is not multiple gods: and He is the God who can neither deceive nor be deceived.
 
They believe in multiple Gods. We believe in one God. Also, in most of those religions, the ‘gods’ are thought to have physical bodies or ‘progress’ from a physical body into a spiritual one.
 
When the title and the post are the same. :policeman:

Which one do I answer?
 
No, but I think there are elements of goodness in many other religions, even though the lack the fullness of Catholicism.
 
I am just a newbe and learning the proper way to do this. Answer the Post please.
 
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Could you clarify what you’re asking? Are you asking if some religions we consider polytheistic religions are actually monotheistic? Or are you asking if they worship the same God as us, just a different revelation of God? Or something else?
 
The answer is no, that would be impossible. Even if any given religion were to be a polytheistic religion and within that religion they believe in the Judeo-Christian God among other Gods, that would render their version of the Judeo-Christian God to not be that God at all. By definition, God must be one single all-powerful, all-loving God outside of time and space. To have even just one other God in addition to Him means that He is no longer that God of which we speak. There may be some who claim it, but it is now irrational.
 
Depending on the religion other gods are expressions of one God and not actually Gods at all but rather titans or possibly higher order beings or spirits but not the one God.

Even in the Psalms:
“There is none like you among the gods, O Lord” (86:8);
“For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be revered above all gods” (96:4);
“Our Lord is above all gods” (135:5);
“Ascribe to Yahweh, [you] gods, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength” (29:1);
“He is exalted above all gods” (97:7);
“For Yahweh is a great god, and a great king above all gods” (95:3).
 
I could answer the post, but I believe my response would probably be non-PC enough for some tastes, and too PC for others. The discussion would then revolve around the statement, rather than the statement.
 
This will come down to each person’s belief. Many of which on this forum will be informed by Catholicism, to which I believe the answer will be “no”.

But personally I believe that God is infinite and that there are as many ways to view God as there are people. So I would say sure.
 
I personally believe that at some point in the far distant past, probably just after the Fall and before other religions had time to develop, there would’ve just been the singular understanding and following of God by the descendants of Adam & Eve. As time progressed, this “image” of God was distorted, and the different religions of the day began to emerge. This would explain why so many religions (that of the Ancient Egyptians, the Canaanites, Greece, etc.) all had common themes present in their origin myths and in the characteristic of their chief gods. For the Egyptians it was the creation myth of Ra, for the Greeks it was the characteristics of Zeus, and so on. When you really look into it, a lot of the more ancient religions share a lot in common. Too much, in my opinion, to explain it away by saying that it was just coincidence.

We know from many of the books of the OT that the Israelites turned away from God many, many, many times. Sometimes they did this by cutting him out altogether from their religion, at other times they did this by worshipping multiple deities in addition to him. So we have a biblical precedent that evidences the corruption of the true religion by mankind. Would it really be so unreasonable to say that this is how the other early religions emerged? With most, if not all, sharing a common ancestry in the true God, before being corrupted, twisted, and added on to by man?

Many people like to say that the reason these religions share so much in common is because they stole their ideas and from other religions. Atheists especially love to make this point because they believe it acts as a means of invalidating those religions. I answer instead that rather than stealing ideas for each other, the reason for these similarities is due in least in part to their common ancestry.

We also know from historical data that religions most certainly can evolve from one thing into another entirely, and that this has happened on multiple occasions throughout the course of human history.

With that being said, I don’t believe that Ra or Zeus or any other deity is an accurate viewpoint of the true God. They are corruptions that hold a common ancestry in God that have been so far removed from the original and true depiction of him that they could only ever be referred to as shadows of something long since gone from that religion. I believe this is also part of the reason why God chose the Israelites as the chosen people, and why Jesus told us to preach the good news to the world. Because it was time to correct the errors that the other religions of the world had fallen into throughout the course of their veering away from their common ancestry by bringing them back into the true understanding of the Divine.

As to whether or not the multiplicity of those religions’ other deities was based originally in a singular entity I cannot say, though I don’t personally believe it to be the truth. They were simply additions, rather than fragmentations. I could be wrong though.

I hope this helps answer your question 🙂
 
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We believe in one God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. There are other religions who have multiple Gods. Could their Gods be the same as our Christian God but their Gods are just viewed as multiples not as a single God?
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My view is that if other people’s think of God as the creator of our universe then it is the same God. After that it becomes a matter of what each believe God to have also done and what His nature is and that we can differ on.

So for example we might each believe in a painter who painted the Mona Lisa, it is the same painter but one might think it is an Italian renaissance painter, another a Greek florist and a third a collection of Hungarian art students.

I would distinguish between belief in the painter and then secondarily what we think (or know) of the painter.

In the above analogy the atheist would be the position of thinking that no one painted the Mona Lisa. A very separate belief system to the others.
 
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