03-26-2004, 12:15 PM
Cryptic,Mar 26 2004, 12:02 AM Wrote:God: A being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions.That's a pretty much just the Jewish/Christian definiton of God, but by no means the only one.
It's by no means a universal belief among those that believe in a God that He be perfect, omnipotent, omniscient, the creator of the universe, a "person", alive, knowable in any way, or communicative.
Many (most?) currently practiced religions have deities without some or any of those features. I don't know if anyone worships the Earth in particular, but the Sun has quite a few followers.
-- frink