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Thread #110662   Message #2324459
Posted By: Little Hawk
24-Apr-08 - 01:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Theology question
Subject: RE: BS: Theology question
The Egptians went through a phase when they adopted the idea of One God too, Mrrzy, and that was prior to Judaism. I think you would find that the idea of One God vastly predates the Big 3 modern religions that came from the Middle East, but they, of course, would rather think that they came up with the idea themselves than that anyone else had it before they did. ;-)

Also, the many gods and goddesses of Hinduism are understood by Hindu mystics to simply be symbolic aspects of one transcendent Divine which cannot be described in any terms we can express or understand...therefore ultimately Hinduism also embraces the notion of one indivisible Divine (existing above all the various God-Goddess aspects, and encompassing all of them, like a diamond encompasses all its facets), but that one transcendent Divine is not personified as a human-like "being". It's not personified in any terms whatsoever, because it is inclusive of EVERYTHING. Everything that exists is merely an aspect of it.

Therefore you could say that everything (not just humanity) is made in its "image"....only it has no image! Or it has a million trillion images! Whichever way you want to look at it.....