Is Christianity Polytheistic?

They would.

Because even though they recognize that satan can be a god concept, they don't think that he is a God.

I would hazard to say that a Christian, if they're being honest, would say that Satan meets the minimum requirements to be considered a god, when speaking in the broad sense of the term.

You'd have to ask Slevesque that. I can't read his mind to decipher what he meant, especially out of context.

Normal people want to worship good gods....you know, favorable ones. And yet, you seem to to be taken aback when I include the criterion, benevolent?

So, do you have a problem with that?

But then, that isn't what anyone else in the world considers to be polytheism, so it doesn't really help your position much.

Continuing your equivocation, I see.

How could it be any less clear unless you are desperately trying to make Christianity out to be polytheistic?

Do you deny that Yahweh is a god concept or are you a polythiest?

Polytheism is the belief in and/or worship of multiple deities, called gods and/or goddesses.

So a believer in a different religion might call Satan god. That's really quite irrelevant to what Christians think.

I daresay that the adherents of each religion are allowed to define their own religion and need not conform it to anything that any other religion believes.

I daresay that the adherents of each religion are allowed to define their own religion and need not conform it to anything that any other religion believes.

No, because those forms of theism and god concepts exist only as generalizations from those individuals religions.

Christianity doesn't consider Satan to be a god, but other religions do. You are therefore insisting that Christianity must be polytheistic because it recognizes the existence of a being that other religions call a god. What do I have wrong?

And they would accept pencils as the god-concept of pencil-worshipers.

Religions don't define their gods by crafting a general definition then look for beings that meet it. They define their gods by listing them.

Speak for everyone except yourself.

Well, how do you do this?

No idea, I'm not an anthropologist.

But I can tell you this: if someone in that new culture told me, "We worship Jerry Lewis as god, but Dean Martin isn't god," my first conclusion wouldn't be that Dean Martin is one of their gods.

I daresay that the adherents of each religion are allowed to define their own religion and need not conform it to anything that any other religion believes.

Dr A writes:So, what is the best English translation of (a) vespuna and (b) qaghruna? Do these people believe in (a) gods and (b) more gods --- or do they believe in (a) gods and (b) devils?

And they would accept pencils as the god-concept of pencil-worshipers.

I'd have to ask them a few questions first.

You ducked the question.

Well, what would you say is common to all the concepts that we label as "a game"?

Dr A writes:Apparently, by virtue of being absolutely anyone in the whole world except you.

Percy writes:There is no substantial difference between the minor gods of the ancient Greeks and Christian angels. In reality Christians believe in a host of supernatural beings, just like the ancient Greeks, and the fact that they prefer the label "angels" instead of "gods" is just a matter of nomenclature. Message 214

Woodsy writes:Christians sure behave as if they believed in a multiplicity of gods. They do pray to saints and Mary. They do expect angels to aid them. Message 63

Mod writes:This, however, I've never heard before.

Robert Wright writes:Some scholars who have used the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint to reconstruct the authentic version of the verse say that children of Israel was stuck in as a replacement for sons of El.

Robert Wright writes: Consider this innocent-sounding verse from the thirty-second chapter of Deuteronomy as rendered in the King James Version, published in 1611:
When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
This verse, though a bit obscure, seems to say that Godcalled the Most High in one place and the Lord in anothersomehow divided the world’s people into groups and then took an especially proprietary interest in one group, Jacob’s. But this interpretation rests on the assumption that Most High and the Lord do both refer to Yahweh. Do they?
The second termthe Lorddefinitely does; this is the Bible’s standard rendering of the original Hebrew Yhwh. But might Most HighElyonrefer to [the Canaanite god] El? It’s possible; the two words appear togetherEl Elyonmore than two dozen times in the Bible. What moves this prospect from possible toward probable is the strange story behind another part of this verse: the phrase children of Israel.
The King James edition got this phrase from the Masoretic Text, a Hebrew edition of the Bible that took shape in the early Middle Ages, more than a millennium after Deuteronomy was written. Where the Masoretic Textthe earliest extant Hebrew Biblegot it is a mystery. The phrase isn’t found in either of the two much earlier versions of the verse now available: a Hebrew version in the Dead Sea Scrolls and a Greek version in the Septuagint, a pre-Christian translation of the Hebrew Bible.
Why would some editor have invented the phrase? Was something being covered up?
Some scholars who have used the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint to reconstruct the authentic version of the verse say that children of Israel was stuck in as a replacement for sons of El. With that lost phrase restored, a verse that was cryptic suddenly makes sense: Elthe most high god, Elyondivided the world’s people into ethnic groups and gave one group to each of his sons. And Yahweh, one of those sons, was given the people of Jacob. Apparently at this point in Israelite history (and there’s no telling how long ago this story originated) Yahweh isn’t God, but just a godand a son of God, one among many.
So how does Yahweh rise through the ranks? How does a god initially consigned to a lower level of the pantheon eventually merge with the chief god, El, and even, in a sense, supplant him?

Except that most people don't recognize Satan as a god.