(February 9, 2015 at 8:19 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Well, the current general consensus as to what defines a god is... I'm going by the current definitions, of which follow (from google):
Quote:God
ɡäd/
noun
noun: God; noun: god; plural noun: gods; plural noun: the gods
1.
(in Christianity and other monotheistic religions) the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority; the supreme being.
synonyms: the Lord, the Almighty, the Creator, the Maker, the Godhead;
Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh;
(God) the Father, (God) the Son, the Holy Ghost/Spirit, the Holy Trinity;
the Great Spirit, Gitchi Manitou;
humorousthe Man Upstairs
"a gift from God"
2.
(in certain other religions) a superhuman being or spirit worshiped as having power over nature or human fortunes; a deity.
Those are the objective definitions. I'm not giving subjective leeway to people to define what constitutes a god any more than I'd give subjective leeway to people to define what constitutes a road or a fruit or a building. Some may WANT to, but we're a social species based on communication, and if you want a word or meaning to exclusively have definition according to your own whims...well, then, you're opting out of communication and your ideas are no longer communicable.
I appreciated the rest of the post so much I had to think twice whether to point out this one fly in the ointment. It would seem that you want to emphasize the Christian god and make it the measure of what will count as a god. When you look beyond xtianity you soon discover a much more varied landscape of gods. I only wish we could clear up the debate over terms so easily but I'm afraid the whole discussion really is stalled at square one unless you want to have a discussion about the Christian god as defined by the bible. Even then we'd need to quibble about how to read the text.