Should a monotheistic God ever be considered good or great?

Should a monotheistic God ever be considered good or great? Aug 9, 2018 19:49:59 GMT

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Post by general313 on Aug 9, 2018 19:49:59 GMT

Aug 9, 2018 17:23:14 GMT CoolJGS☺ said:

Aug 9, 2018 16:57:50 GMT general313 said:

There was also a monotheistic development in Egypt (pharaoh Akenaten worshiped the sun god Aten) that I've read is suspected to have influenced the Jewish form of monotheism.

This is the weird thing about skepticism.It isn't really about doubting something and proving it wrong or true, it's largely about creating a fiction to justify the view of something being wrong.

There is no reason at all to think that God of the Bible (Both Judaism and Christianity since they are the same) was either an original concept or the one others copied or, since monotheism isn't an unusual concept, that they developed on their own.By pretending there is a link across all of them, this creates the OP need to create parameters that do not actually exist.

Well, I could say the same thing about faith. Any rational questioning that might challenge cherished beliefs are met with the defensive accusation of "creating a fiction to justify the view of something being wrong".

I think what the OP, I and others are doing here (in exploring connections between various monotheistic religions) is no different than what linguists do when their curiosity leads them to try to explain language similarities and propose common descent among languages.