RE: One God versus many
December 6, 2021 at 7:50 am
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2021 at 7:53 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(December 6, 2021 at 7:21 am)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote:(December 6, 2021 at 7:05 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The trouble with that is that (in Catholicism, at least) saints and angels don’t actually do anything - they intercede with God on behalf of the supplicant. It’s as if Frank is nominally in charge of procurement, but his CEO has to sign off on every order of paper clips. In polytheism, Saint Frank is the one who actually gets you the goddamn PostIt notes.
Boru
Close but no cigar.
Yes, saints (including Mary mother of Jesus) intercede with god on behalf of the millions of supplicants who pray to them, constantly.
Angels are different, they have some traditional roles. One is that they assume corporeal form and act as god's messenger. The Arc angels are also god's warriors, especially St Michael who is head angel. I'm not making this up, I swear.
Bemuses me that a god who is allegedly omnipotent could possibly have any enemies . He should not need warrior-defenders.
In Judaism, the devil is God's servant, not his enemy. The Tanakh makes it very clear that God created evil.
I thought I'd made it plain that I was referring to angels answering prayers directly. They don't do that. In fact, the Catholic 'prayer to the angels' includes the phrase, 'Intercede for me before the throne of almighty God.'
But thanks VERY much for the lecture on Judaism, which I neither need nor requested.
Boru
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