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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not the atheist you're responding to, PP, but it appears your logic is this:

I assume I am right and I, above everyone else,knows the truth
I assume we were created and there is a creation therefore there must be a creator
I believe in my concept of the creator which happens to be my god
Therefore my concept of god is "the truth"

I hope you see the flaws in that. If not, I don't trust your ideas of good vs bad theology. Your logic could be applied to any concept of god... Or to aliens, pink unicorns, and space monkeys.[/quote]

None of the above is valid.

Creation indicates a beginning.  The laws of physics indicate an Unmoved Mover.

The definition of God is a Supreme Being, so by definition, there can only be one.  Absolute truth is inherently exclusionary, because X does not and cannot equal -X.  But God and His own truth are not possessed by the few;  again, by definition, they transcend all, are universally applicable, to all people at all times, just like the laws of physics.

There is no way I, a limited and finite human being, can know everything, because I am not God.  It does not follow that there is no such thing as God.[/quote]

Sorry but to correct the record, physics does not indicate an unmoved mover.  We have no idea what came before the instant of creation for our universe.  It could have been the slingshot crunch from the last universe's collapse.  The whole thing could be a huge yo-yo.  Or we may be a tiny bubble of our own, completely unaware of the billions of universes around us.

Actually the idea that the laws of physics are universal is not agreed upon.  There may be universes with their own physical laws.  This is a real topic of investigation for physicists.

As for your comment on monotheism, it is a tautology.  If you define God as a Supreme Being, then that makes him a single being but only because you defined him in that way.  It does nothing to prove that God is a single being.  Even the Bible makes this kind of hard to accept.  The mystery of the Trinity has not only three forms of God but three separate consciousnesses.  We know this because two of them talk to each other, so they have separate thoughts.   If they have separate bodies and they have separate thoughts, it is hard to argue that they are one being unless you want to use another tautology.

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