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God still demands a monotheistic worship of Him. (793 hits)

As we have seen, the whole Bible teaches a strict monotheism. God's people have always been identified with the one-God message. God chose Abraham because of his willingness to forsake the gods of his nation and his father and to worship the one true God (Genesis 12:1-8). God chastised Israel every time she began to worship other gods, and polytheistic worship was one of the main reasons that God finally sent her into captivity (Acts 7:43). The Savior came to the world through a nation (Israel) and through a religion (Judaism) in which the people had finally purged themselves of polytheism. They were thoroughly monotheistic.

Today, God still demands a monotheistic worship of Him. We in the church are heirs of Abraham by faith, and this exalted position demands that we have the same monotheistic faith in the God of Abraham (Romans 4:13-17). As Christians in the world we must never cease to exalt and declare the message that there is only one true and living God.

Posted By: DAVID JOHNSON
Sunday, September 23rd 2012 at 2:25PM
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Since the members of the each religion believe in God maybe we need to come up with a comprehensive definition of the one true God. If we could define who that one God is then we could all get behind that God and then we could form one unifying religion! All right, problem solved! Well, not actually. In order to develop this comprehensive view we will have to include everyone equally and even if we get everyone on board the minute someone feels left out BAM!…a new sect and then like cells dividing more and more new sects and then new religions and then we’re right back to where we are now.

It is difficult to define God because God is such a nebulous, formless concept while our existence contrasts such an ethereal thing. We are dense, “formed” beings that come in many different varieties. How are we going to agree on what form the formless God is? The masculine ideal has seemed to work (for men). This archetype presents God as a father figure and us as His unruly children. That form is easily understandable, we get that, we can relate it to our “world.” We understand the father/child dynamic. Many of us fear our fathers. How often have we heard our mothers say…

“Wait ’till your father gets home!”

…and cowered in fear as we anticipated the return of our father. We knew we were in big trouble and if we were smart we cleaned our rooms, washed the dishes, vacuumed the living room—essentially, we did whatever we could with the hopes that our father would have mercy on us. Yes, we did wrong, but we get that now. We understand the consequence of our errors. “Daddy, please don’t beat me!”

This concept is easy to grasp because it plays to a very simple evolutionary constant—men (on average) are physically stronger than women and the threat of masculine strength being used maliciously should be enough to get the weaker women and children to stay on the one true path and who defines that one true path?
Sunday, September 23rd 2012 at 2:28PM
DAVID JOHNSON