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If God is Everywhere. Why Didn't His Word Spread Without Missionaries? [View all]
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/07/17/if-god-is-everywhere-why-didnt-his-word-spread-without-missionaries/
If God is Everywhere. Why Didnt His Word Spread Without Missionaries?
By Hemant Mehta, July 17, 2019
Its a simple idea: If one religion really is right about God, then why would we need missionaries? Wouldnt God have communicated His existence to different people in different ways all while telling the same stories?
Or is it more likely that different tribes created different myths, and the only reason certain ones spread is because the people had the tools and weapons to conquer those with the other myths?
Its amazing how omnipresence has its limits.
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If God is Everywhere. Why Didn't His Word Spread Without Missionaries? [View all]
NeoGreen
Jul 2019
OP
Genesis 1 and 2 describe different gods. They have different names, occupy different
Karadeniz
Jul 2019
#11
I like to think that returning to source, though it may be inevitable, isn't necessarily the purpose
gtar100
Jul 2019
#69
When the orthodox got rid of all the heretics, they lost the people who knew the higher teachings.
pangaia
Jul 2019
#76
The Gnostics have an interesting take on this. To them, the Old Testament God is the "abominable"
Midnight Writer
Jul 2019
#101
The fact that, after language, every group of any size with a written language
guillaumeb
Jul 2019
#7
So you agree there is no evidence that theistic beliefs are the default condition for humans.
Voltaire2
Jul 2019
#33
No, not really. That idea has no basis in fact and is more than just a bit silly.
Major Nikon
Jul 2019
#19
It would be a fools errand to try to convince anyone, self included to believe.
marble falls
Jul 2019
#53
Yes, but he doesn't do parlor tricks and we aren't robots. We all have free will ...
marble falls
Jul 2019
#35
So when my son was nearly killed, and permanently injured by a drug resistant infection
Voltaire2
Jul 2019
#36
First of all, I am so sorry to hear of your son's terrible injury, if something ...
marble falls
Jul 2019
#37
Water into wine was not a parlor trick. It was a simple miracle from a working man ...
marble falls
Jul 2019
#47
You have a good point. He, she, it ... it doesn't matter and it doesn't detract from ...
marble falls
Jul 2019
#79
Hi NeoGreen - As a Christian, I greatly appreciate the opportunity that this forum provides to
Pendrench
Jul 2019
#60