(April 29, 2010 at 11:45 am)Loki_999 Wrote:(April 29, 2010 at 5:36 am)True Christian Wrote: God is a being that no one can really comprehend but that most humans have felt, hence the many religions that have existed for millenia.
I liked your post very much and made a pleasant change from some of the regular posts we get from theists, but I have to pull you up on the text I bolded.
I'm sure there is a large % of people who believe they have felt god throughout he millennia... not just Yahweh, but whichever god they happened to worship - I presume you do not claim that people who worshipped Zeus were actually feeling the presence of Yahweh or Jesus? Especially as Yahweh and Jesus were relative latecomers to the religious scence.... the Egyptians had quite an advanced and complex religion while the Hebrews were still formulating their deity.
I would accept that you believe all forms of deity are simply different people's interpretation of the "one true god" ™, the creator as it were. And therefore these people were feeling this presence.
A nice twist you have there saying that god chose the Jews because they had a monotheistic religion (i'm sure there were others... Zoroastrianism for example was around before Jesus and presumably before Yahweh was anything more than a minor desert god).
Back to the point though... most I would say have not felt god. Possibly a large %, maybe even a majority/most believers, but there have always been atheists, agnostics, and deists in the world, so no, not most.
True, im just saying "most" because up until the last century, "most" humans believed in a higher power. This is what i meant by feeling the presence of God.
And those who believed in previous deities also felt "God" although i dont think calling "him" "Yahwe" is correct because Yawhe is just an approximation of the idea of God, like Zeus or Jupiter or any other "Gods".
God, to me at least, is an entity, again, that we cannot comprehend and who did not involve himself directly with humanity until Jesus.
