Paganism Four

(NOTE: Some of the themes of these articles may not be appropriate for young readers. Please keep that in mind when sharing this information).

It is written:

“  It’s really not important if there are things called gods in heaven or on earth—and there are many of these “gods” and “lords” out there. 6  For us there is only one God, and he is our Father. All things came from him, and we live for him. And there is only one Lord, Jesus Christ. All things were made through him, and we also have life through him.” (1 Corinthians 8:5-6)

How do we know that there is only one TRUE God?

While evidence may be shown of this from the Bible (more evidences in future articles will demonstrate how we are certain that this Book is truly Divinely inspired), we may see this also from studying the nature of the universe itself. One author has written:

“We know from the cosmological and divine design (teleological) evidences of the universe that God must be infinite because He created all space, all time and all matter from nothing. Infinite simply means that He is self- existent, non- spatial, immaterial, timeless, personal, unimaginably powerful and supremely intelligent etc. In other words, there is nothing lacking in Him. The fact that God is infinite impliedly rules out all pantheistic religions such as the New Age Movement, Hinduism and some forms of Buddhism that equate God to the universe as we have seen that universe is not infinite as it had a beginning and was designed by another cause. This fact also disproves polytheistic religions (the belief that there are many gods) such as Mormonism, as there logically cannot be more than one omnipresent infinite being. Let me explain more simply: If there was more than one God (e.g. God “A” and God “B”), then to distinguish one from the other they must differ in some way. If God “A” is infinite then God “B” must be less than infinite (i.e. infinite minus something), as the definition of infinite means that God “A” lacks nothing. Therefore, if God “B” is less than infinite he is not God! Therefore, we can only logically conclude that there can only be one Infinite Being or God who is transcendent or outside all time, all space and all matter.” (Paul Ferguson, God And The Atheist: A Lawyer Assesses The Evidence For The Existence Of God, 1133-1144 (Kindle Edition); Greenville,, South Carolina; Ambassador International)

In order for there to be a measurable difference between the “gods,” then one or more would need to be imperfect. Yet imperfection demands something greater than itself by which the imperfection is measured. Therefore, the “imperfect” cannot truly be God.

However, who ARE these gods and goddesses?

The Bible, of course, has the answers to these questions.

But before we can look at the identity of these gods from the Bible, we must ask: can we actually TRUST the Bible?