It wasn't until towards the end of the Roman Empire did we come up with the idea that a single god governs everything and all others are
simply false gods.
Not exact matches
Your
God is made up and
simply fiction... a
false God and religion... which means your Christ is
false.
One thing is certain, if you try to find the truths of this universe, looking for «
god» is
simply a bias that will run you into
false information.
By default, any other
Gods is
simply false and not real.
All of this
simply demonstrates that the Deus of Pandeism is a superior Creator to the
false gods of the ignorant theistic texts, which foist nonsense such as the Earth existing before the Sun, talking snakes, inhereted sinfulness, and resurrection of the dead.
Neither can the churches who maintain this horrible view of
God and that is why so many are
simply leaving this
false and abusive teaching behind.
God is a fool if he thinks you are either with him or against him... that is truly a
false, ignorant statement by men.I am not against any
gods, I
simply do not believe they exist, so I can not be for or against.
Human spirituality can be either true or
false - either related to the ultimate meaning and fulfillment of life revealed in Christ or
simply created by people in their self - centeredness and rejection of
God, and therefore idolatrous.
It appears that Thomas is proposing something unusually sweeping:
God is not some
false answer to the human predicament, nor
simply the brutal cause of their distress but the very predicament itself.
It is equally easy and
false to take a docetic view of revelation: to suppose that the content of the scriptures, for example, is, just
simply, the thoughts of
God, the human writers contributing no more than a pen for
God to write them down with; or to imagine that a person or a group of people or an institution can, as it were, throw a switch from time to time and become a transmitter of revelation from an external divine source: a group of bishops, for instance, when assembled in council, or a pope when defining a dogma ex cathedra.
We can rejoice that we are saved not through the immanent mechanisms of history and nature, but by grace; that
God will not unite all of history's many strands in one great synthesis, but will judge much of history
false and damnable; that He will not
simply reveal the sublime logic of fallen nature, but will strike off the fetters in which creation languishes; and that, rather than showing us how the tears of a small girl suffering in the dark were necessary for the building of the Kingdom, He will instead raise her up and wipe away all tears from her eyes» and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor any more pain, for the former things will have passed away, and He that sits upon the throne will say, «Behold, I make all things new.»
They did not try to establish a
false Jesus, but
simply said, there is no
God at all.