if a polytheist is being confused on the subject of God made us

[Guest God is one]

If a polytheist is being confused on the subject of God made us, then what should be our answer? 

Edited June 13, 2024 by Hameedeh
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[musashi]

Let me put it this way 

If I say to you " that there is more then one GOD and each of them have his own physical presence and have family" what would you say.

Ofcourse you will reject this and will bring me all the arguments and philosophy contradicting my philosophy. But tell you what you will do this only because you were born in the family who believe in monotheism , the idea of monotheism has been pierced into our heart so deep that we start to fing every other theism ridiculous.

Like when we say "how can someone prayer to an animal its to illogical and rediculous just look at our religion it is full of logic and knowledge and stuff".

 

The same way that someone you are talking about will feel about your idea of like "how these guys can pray to someone who doesn't have any physical existence how their GOD doesn't have any family maybe its all their prophet doing behind their just to gain control of masses how can they trust everything their prophet say to be the words of their GOD maybe he is (prophet) is behind all this" his idea of polythiesm has been pierced in their heart same as ours they will about our religion the same way we feel about them.

 

People automatically find the reason and logic behind the thing they support and when they start to hate that because of some misfortune they will automatically find all those logic and reason repulsive and disruptive. 

 

All I can say is their is no answer to that. This is a place where nothing is solved people just babble about their own stuff.

[Ashvazdanghe]

Salam your question is too general which can be answered from different aspects which detailed answering needs detailed question.

Anyway here are some examples of responses to this quetion.

 

 

 

https://www.shiachat.com/forum/topic/235024309-why-god-allows-this/

 

https://www.shiachat.com/forum/topic/234943220-why-god-created-us/

 

https://www.shiachat.com/forum/topic/14128-why-create-us/

 

 

[Ashvazdanghe]

Salam

 

[Guest zabi]

On 6/11/2024 at 10:24 PM, Guest God is one said:

If a polytheist is being confused on the subject of God made us, then what should be our answer? 

Honestly, you don't have to say anything. They don't need to have the same beliefs as you do. Unless they ask for your perspective, I say just leave them alone

[Revert1963]

On 6/12/2024 at 4:24 AM, Guest God is one said:

If a polytheist is being confused on the subject of God made us, then what should be our answer?

I think that it is important to understand that there are difference between Atheists and Polytheists. Atheist do not want to believe in anything divine. Polytheists on the other hand do believe in a devine dimension. I believe, like the Quran imply, that alle Polytheist traditions was originally brought by a prophet from God as Monotheism, only to be corrupted later in varying degrees. When studying comparative religion you discover a lot of similarities between religions. Many of the mythological elements is millenia old. This is true even fore Islam and the Quran makes no secret of it. In several verses it states that it was sendt down reaffirming what had been revealed before. Normally people think that this only relates to the Torah and the Injeel however many of the same concepts are also present in the so called Polytheist religions to a varying degrees. So about what to say to a polytheist who is confused about God and creation it depends on what polytheistic tradition the person comes from.

Normally I am not so fond of a person like Zakir Naik, but I just love it when he discusses with Hindus and tells them what is in their own books. The Hindu Upanishads clearly states that God is one in the concept of divine unity called Brahman. My own experience is that Hindus generally understand the Concept of God and creation very well, but that varies between the different branches of Hinduism. In the other end of the spectrum is Greek Mythology which doesn't have a coherent creation Myth. And even though Greek Mythology has the concept of a supreme god, his "throne" has been usurped several times in history. Greek Mythology does have the concept of Hellfire though, unlike Judaism, but that is an other matter.

A specific challenge is modern neo-paganism. It claims to be a revival of ancient polytheistic traditions from before Christianity and is predominately a western phenomenon. However it was born out of the so called "enlightenment" period. Partly as a reaction to the abolishment of religion, but it does also contain element of animosity towards Christianity in particular and Monotheism in general. Therefore modern neo-paganism often want to reject the concept of a supreme creator god. This is an anacronism (or in Islamic terms "bid'ah") in relation to the ancient polytheistic traditions of antiquity that they claim to revive. So when dealing with modern neo-pagans you might take a two front approach. You could confront them with the real traditions that they claim to follow and tell them that in all polytheistic traditions there is a devine hierarchy with a supreme god on top that in many cases created the world and the humans. The latter of cause depend on the specific tradition that the person follows and therefor it takes a bit of research. An other relevant approach could be the way you would confront Atheists and use the philosophic proof of god. (I think it is attributed to Ibn Sina). You can ask them how causality could ever have come into effect without a first original and necessary cause that was not caused by any thing. Therefor a cause that is independent of anything else and unlimited in time and space. A cause that religious people call God.