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This is just something I've been thinking of in my spare time:
Let's say that someone asks you "there are so many gods, which one should I worship? How do I choose?" Let's help this hypothetical person decide. Let's narrow it down.
1) Does the god want your worship?
Consider the god of Deism. It does not care about you. It does not intervene. It does not want you to waste time on it. It does not ask anything of you. It does not want your worship. Let's take all the gods that definitely do not want your worship, and disqualify them
Consider gods like Odin, Zeus. Do they ask that men pay homage to them? I actually don't know, which brings me to my next point:
2) Does the god make an effort to make themselves known to you?
If Zeus wants me to worship him, he's doing a pretty poor job of getting me to know that. I barely even know that he exists, and wouldn't have if he wasn't mentioned in passing during history classes. Let's take all the gods that we don't know about, and disqualify them. If they wanted us to worship him, (#1) they should make themselves known to us.
This means that some god who is only worshipped in some small corner of the globe, and who really claims that they are the one true creator, and deserves to be exalted above all else, should be disqualified. If you don't even speak the same language that this god has its writings in, then it probably doesn't care about you anyway.
Let's say that this god really does expect you to make a pilgrimage across the globe, learn a foreign language, and join their church. Let's say that if you don't, they'll punish you for all eternity. Let's say that a missionary comes and tells you this. In this case, they have made themselves known to you, and made an effort to reach you. Now you should worship that god. If you haven't heard about this god, don't worry about it. There's nothing you could've done anyway.
3) Are they better than you?
Let's say that the god makes mistakes, or is defeated, or fails in some aspect. This also disqualifies them. If a lesser god is beaten up by another god, apply the criteria to this god instead.
4) Are other gods better than them?
Let's say you find a god that meets these criteria, but there is another god that meets these criteria even MORE! Worship that God instead. This means that if your god supports reaches people in 50 languages, and there's another that has a reach of 100 languages, worship the latter.
This doesn't help you determine which god is TRUE, just which one you reasonably SHOULD worship.
Also, by this criteria, the JWs beat out the LDS ;)
Let's say that someone asks you "there are so many gods, which one should I worship? How do I choose?" Let's help this hypothetical person decide. Let's narrow it down.
1) Does the god want your worship?
Consider the god of Deism. It does not care about you. It does not intervene. It does not want you to waste time on it. It does not ask anything of you. It does not want your worship. Let's take all the gods that definitely do not want your worship, and disqualify them
Consider gods like Odin, Zeus. Do they ask that men pay homage to them? I actually don't know, which brings me to my next point:
2) Does the god make an effort to make themselves known to you?
If Zeus wants me to worship him, he's doing a pretty poor job of getting me to know that. I barely even know that he exists, and wouldn't have if he wasn't mentioned in passing during history classes. Let's take all the gods that we don't know about, and disqualify them. If they wanted us to worship him, (#1) they should make themselves known to us.
This means that some god who is only worshipped in some small corner of the globe, and who really claims that they are the one true creator, and deserves to be exalted above all else, should be disqualified. If you don't even speak the same language that this god has its writings in, then it probably doesn't care about you anyway.
Let's say that this god really does expect you to make a pilgrimage across the globe, learn a foreign language, and join their church. Let's say that if you don't, they'll punish you for all eternity. Let's say that a missionary comes and tells you this. In this case, they have made themselves known to you, and made an effort to reach you. Now you should worship that god. If you haven't heard about this god, don't worry about it. There's nothing you could've done anyway.
3) Are they better than you?
Let's say that the god makes mistakes, or is defeated, or fails in some aspect. This also disqualifies them. If a lesser god is beaten up by another god, apply the criteria to this god instead.
4) Are other gods better than them?
Let's say you find a god that meets these criteria, but there is another god that meets these criteria even MORE! Worship that God instead. This means that if your god supports reaches people in 50 languages, and there's another that has a reach of 100 languages, worship the latter.
This doesn't help you determine which god is TRUE, just which one you reasonably SHOULD worship.
Also, by this criteria, the JWs beat out the LDS ;)