I only have a familiarity with Christianity and the “no other gods before me” thing. I am curious what other religions have to say about it.
I only have a familiarity with Christianity and the “no other gods before me” thing. I am curious what other religions have to say about it.
Asking seriously: “ no gods before me”, does that mean it’s ok to have gods after that god?
Yes. Pavel Datsyuk is not God, but when he stepped on that ice, he was no longer a man, but a god.
It means “before” as in “in front of”, not “occurring previously to”
Okay, so, what about after? Meaning he’s #1, can you have a bunch of others behind him?
I guess like the Catholics do, with Mary and saints and such?
Some Christians in India worship Jesus as their top god, and local deities as secondary gods. I’m guessing this is common in places where Christianity spread peacefully into a culture with a polytheistic (and preferably decentralised) pantheon.