(December 10, 2019 at 5:26 am)Klorophyll Wrote:But most heathen religions present immortal Gods; even the ancient Greek religion..Zues is immortal according to their belief:(December 9, 2019 at 8:11 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: Okay, there's a couple of problems here. First, some forms of Buddhism do accept the concept of having one divine creator, and many forms of Buddhism believe in a host of different mortal gods, spirits and other entities. Prayers and incantations are abundant in many forms of Buddhism. So, while god is not a central idea in most Buddhist traditions, some sects of Buddhism do believe in a god.
First, I wouldn't call mortals gods, if they are mortal they're not gods, and our inquiry about such a belief stops here. Second, I don't think there is any sect in Buddhism who explicity warrants a creator. From what I could find in popular articles about Buddhism from Wiki and such, the closest idea to God is that of 'Sunyata' which means emptiness from which all things emerge, however any concept of god is by definition the absolute opposite to emptiness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus
Quote:(although he was mortal Zeus granted him eternal youth and immortality).
He can even grant immortality so...does that make him exist?
I have to question your sources because Buddhism does indeed allow for the belief in God; but it should remain personal and never destroy the main goals of a Buddhist or AKA:
Quote:The path to Enlightenment is through the practice and development of morality, meditation and wisdom.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions...ance.shtml
? so what were you reading; exactly?
As for Śūnyatā:
Quote:Śūnyatā – pronounced in English as, translated most often as emptiness and sometimes voidness – is a Buddhist concept which has multiple meanings depending on its doctrinal context. It is either an ontological feature of reality, a meditative state, or a phenomenological analysis of experience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81
How did you understand that the quote above points to God? It's a meditative state, or a phenomenological analysis of experience. So please stick to the definition.
Quote:Quote:EgoDeath Wrote: In Jainism, there is no personal god, but they do believe in five types of supreme beings that they pray to and consider to be authorities in their religion.
Any belief in more than one supreme (omnipotent) being can be proved to be impossible logically, if more than one god exist, then they cannot exceed each other's will, therefore none of them is god.
Also a non personal god cannot be just, because he chose not to guide humanity by any kind of connexion, leaving them in complete existential loss.
But most heathen religions "do" say that there is a powerful father-God -like Zeus- and there are lesser Gods under him -like Apollo-.