'Yes'
But 'no' if it's in the
way you like to take certain answers to their illogical extreme. I
bide you use some common sense in making sense of my answer. Anyway
back to the topic.
First and foremost false gods are certainly notions of God, false
ones at that.
Let's just say that Christian monotheism is THE truth, and in that
universe I may suppose a baseball is God and most certanly that
notion is wrong, but it is right in supposing theism, the error
starting in the fact that this theism is associated with a
baseball. This baseball religion is certainly closer to the mark in
such a universe then, then pure athiesm.
Obviously then in such a universe theism, in whatever forms are
false if they fall short of the actual Fact in certain ways, but
certainly more true then athiesm and co. Logically it follows that
in such a universe there would be a 'right' God (the Fact) versus
the wrong god/s (the false notions of Him)
And you are quite right in saying that Abraham did not have
anything to read, what is obvious is that whatever motivated him
was certainly not the bible (it didn't exist then), and on this
many topics can be spun off. And no I do not for a moment think
that there were no other stories like Abraham or that God only had
eyes and destiny for Abraham.
But lest you try to construct too much on this (and perhaps suggest
much out of nothing), lets remember what Aslan says when he tells
the children that 'I tell you your story, not theirs'. Apparently
Abraham's story had become part of our own for some reason that
will become obvious once you follow the text on the many years
after he died.
Yet again you should beware if you want to use this as an argument
that the bible need not be considered in our current context (for
Christians anyway), but it's all too complex to deal with in one
post. Harp on it and we might discuss.
You are quite right when you say that one cannot be wrong if he
worships GOD. But yet again I fear you appeal to jargon and
statements that you go too far on.
Firstly one realizes that if this GOD is something, there are also
somethings that He is NOT.
More curiously He has made certain things about Himself clear to us
that we may know what exactly we have faith in and what to do with
it.
One might then make the curious observation that GOD would not be
content to let the universe just run in any right or wrong way but
demand a certain WAY for it to be run. And worshiping/ putting
faith in such a God would mean surrendering our will such that it
conforms to such a WAY. True enough one cannot go wrong if he
follows this WAY.
Unfortunately if you are just suggesting blind faith in GOD and all my actions
will be fine and water... then I believe you are quite mistaken.
GOD never demands blind faith from us, He demands are
comprehensible to us first by knowing and trusting that which we
first do know about Him, and the faith is that which comes from
that kind of trust, as opposed to a blind adherence to the notion
that I have set my mind to be a fan of GOD and all my actions will
make sense.
A child must first know his father to trust Him in all the
uncomprehensible actions the grown-up will do, just making him
trust in the existence of a parent will have him running to every
grown-up, even those who mean him harm.
Obviously there is a logical need to know at least something about
God, before you can have any faith. Any other then that would be to
say that truth does not matter as long as I believe it hard
enough.
