Misconceptions about gods and the Bible
Saying that there is no proof of gods, or even that proof is necessary is silly. It means you don't understand the word god. It's like a Creationist saying there's no such thing as evolution because they think evolution means an ape changed into a human.
The only thing that makes a god a god is worship/veneration.
It isn't that everything is a god, it's that anything can be a god. It's like love. Anything can be loved. That doesn't mean it can't be differentiated from anything else. Anything can be worshipped. Something becomes a god when, like the Oxford definition, it is given supreme importance.
Christians, Jews and Muslims are not the only theists.
A god doesn't have to literally exist to be a deity or god. Like the example also given by definition. A personification of fate. Luck. Is a god. Nor does the one who's god something is have to believe it literally exists. It's existence is not necessarily significant.
A god doesn't have to be supernatural or a creator. More often than not a god doesn't fall into that category.
Using God with uppercase G only signifies the specific god above all others within a specific reference. It doesn't necessarily mean the God of the Bible.
The God of the Bible wasn't thought to be omni-anything. Not omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent etc. That nonsense comes from theology.
The soul, to early Bible believers, was the life of any breathing creature. Not some part of us that is immortal.
Spirit means invisible active force. Anything you can't see but you can see the results of. Breath, wind, compelled mental inclination, genetic, traditional, cultural, or social influences, Spirit being are highly advanced people we can't see unless they reveal themselves to us.
The Bible doesn't teach that all good people go to heaven or all bad people go to hell. Hell, in the Bible, is the grave. God is there in a sense, because he watches over it. Everyone goes to hell. Jesus, for example, went to hell.
Jesus isn't physically returning, he finished what he had to do the first time.
Other teachings adopted by later apostate theology are the trinity, the cross, rapture, Christmas and Easter.
There's probably a dozen things that don't come to mind but that's a start.
The only thing that makes a god a god is worship/veneration.
It isn't that everything is a god, it's that anything can be a god. It's like love. Anything can be loved. That doesn't mean it can't be differentiated from anything else. Anything can be worshipped. Something becomes a god when, like the Oxford definition, it is given supreme importance.
Christians, Jews and Muslims are not the only theists.
A god doesn't have to literally exist to be a deity or god. Like the example also given by definition. A personification of fate. Luck. Is a god. Nor does the one who's god something is have to believe it literally exists. It's existence is not necessarily significant.
A god doesn't have to be supernatural or a creator. More often than not a god doesn't fall into that category.
Using God with uppercase G only signifies the specific god above all others within a specific reference. It doesn't necessarily mean the God of the Bible.
The God of the Bible wasn't thought to be omni-anything. Not omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent etc. That nonsense comes from theology.
The soul, to early Bible believers, was the life of any breathing creature. Not some part of us that is immortal.
Spirit means invisible active force. Anything you can't see but you can see the results of. Breath, wind, compelled mental inclination, genetic, traditional, cultural, or social influences, Spirit being are highly advanced people we can't see unless they reveal themselves to us.
The Bible doesn't teach that all good people go to heaven or all bad people go to hell. Hell, in the Bible, is the grave. God is there in a sense, because he watches over it. Everyone goes to hell. Jesus, for example, went to hell.
Jesus isn't physically returning, he finished what he had to do the first time.
Other teachings adopted by later apostate theology are the trinity, the cross, rapture, Christmas and Easter.
There's probably a dozen things that don't come to mind but that's a start.
