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what does it mean to believe in one God
so the simple meaning is monotheism that
there's one God not many other gods but
the deeper meaning is to believe in the
Oneness of God that there is no other
than God God is complete totality
wholeness Oneness nothing exists aside
from him I once heard Christopher
Hitchens explaining how he felt that
ultimately Humanity would become
atheistic and he said it like this man
used to believe and many Gods then man
progressed to believe in one God and
eventually if you keep following that
man will graduate to believing in no
Gods I heard that and I disagree with it
fundamentally but I have to respect the
logic there's a certain elegant
Simplicity to that argument that it's a
logical progression many gods one God no
Gods but here's where Christopher
hitch's formulation is a little bit off
because he's not actually saying the
whole sentence it's not that man used to
believe in many gods that's half of the
sentence it's that man used to believe
that many gods were responsible for many
things many different phenomena forces
of nature the sun and the rain and the
wind and the crops so many gods to
account for many things then eventually
monotheism becomes fashionable and man
believes in one God to account for many
things but then what happens in the
so-called Modern Age is that we realize
that there are not many things matter
and energy are one there's just really
one thing so now we've got only one God
we've got only one thing and the
ultimate development will be to realize
that it's not one God and one thing it's
one thing that there's no difference
between creation and creator that
nothing exists outside of God's absolute
Oneness and that ultimately we will
discover that the more closely we look
at creation itself the more we will
discover Oneness the more we will find
God because that is all there is