More than one God

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At 01:41 AM 3/1/98 -0500, Brian Dean wrote:

>MICHAEL MCGILL(2/28)

>

>Isaiah 45:21,22 seems to contradict Exodus 18:11, "Now I know that the 

>LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly 

>he was above them." Here we have the Bible alluding to the existence of 

>more than one god. Note that it does not say "the Lord is the only god" 

>but rather that he "is greater than all gods."

>

>

>BRIDEAN

>Perhaps he is greater than the other gods precisely because the other gods

>don't exist.  This is because an existing God is greater than a non-existing

>god.  



CREA
     Shades of Anselm's Ontological Argument for the Existence of God!
However, both Hume and Kant have decisively shown that existence is not a
property or predicate on equal footing with other qualities of degree that
can be added or subtracted from definitions at will.  


With Mettaa,

Joseph Crea
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