God/Goddess Opinion

[Mannun]

What is your opinion are:
1.) All Gods and Goddess' are one God/Goddess??
----OR----
2.) All Gods and Goddess are individuals and are of their own characteristics and aspects??

[stormer89]

i think both are possible. i think to each individual person it depends on how they view it.

[Kolohe Redux]

Yes, and light is both particle and wave.

Kolohe

[oracle's child]

i believe that all gods/esses and their characteristics are part of the one god/ess.

[Eireayne]

I agree with you OC. I think individual god/ess were created to explain various facets of one complex ungendered life/energy source. Had an interesting conversation with my honey a few weekends ago about this and we've decided to do some comparative world religion study. It was an amazing convo, and it was the first time I talked with him about alternate spirituality. Very cool. We're starting with Hinduism. Anywho, I think that would explain some of the universal similarities between different religions (both mono and polytheistic religions.) Different cultures came up with their own explanations/deities, but the qualities they describe are found over and over again. Sort of how different lanquages create their own terms for the same emotion. Love, Amor, Liebe, Amore, Ahava, Sagapo, Ai, Kaerlighed etc... Different religions create their own deity to represent the same facet of the life/energy source. Does that make sense? I may need to clarify... It makes sense in my head

[Heka]

Eriayne: I think you've made sense.

I think they're both. I look at them as God and Goddess but if I have a particular need I call a particular individual.\

That classfies as having an opinion in both doesn't it?

I think you've looked into it to much Mannun

[watershield]

Neither

Man created the gods in his image, then almost immediatly gave them power over him.

Argue if you want, but until "God" tells me I'm wrong, I'm right!

[hedge*]

What is your opinion are:
1.) All Gods and Goddess' are one God/Goddess??
----OR----
2.) All Gods and Goddess are individuals and are of their own characteristics and aspects??

They're individual parts of a whole.
Gods and Goddesses are just characteristics and representations of the source (the universal energy), different parts but all belonging together - a bit like a tree.

You've got the leaves, the bark, the roots....all make up the tree.
We recognise the individual aspects, but you don't call the tree anything else apart from a tree..it's what it is.

[JBRaven]

Minus for watershields I am in agreeance with everyone.The aspects of the Lord and Lady are just aspects not beings.

[White*wolf]

I believe they are individuals.

[JBRaven]

Do you belive they all have one source of power ir many? In your belief is there more than one in the beginning?

[akumaxkami]

Old thread is old, haha.

Anyways, I'm a hard polytheist. I believe every god and goddess is an individual. However, I do believe that they (and us too I suppos) are linked to one divine cosmis life force.

[notluad]

i think there individual and special and a lot of people who have contact with them including me seem to think they are indivdual but im not saying what i believe is right i dont want to make people think that.

[ImperfectAngel]

What is your opinion are:
1.) All Gods and Goddess' are one God/Goddess??
----OR----
2.) All Gods and Goddess are individuals and are of their own characteristics and aspects??

They're individual parts of a whole.
Gods and Goddesses are just characteristics and representations of the source (the universal energy), different parts but all belonging together - a bit like a tree.

You've got the leaves, the bark, the roots....all make up the tree.
We recognise the individual aspects, but you don't call the tree anything else apart from a tree..it's what it is.

I think you have described it the best I have heard in years...

[Seigna]

All gods and goddesses are separate in my worldview. It just doesn't make any sense otherwise, and my experiences support my conclusion of them being separate.

Can't be sure, though. It's just my experience, as said.