Showing posts with label One God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label One God. Show all posts

Friday, 26 September 2014

ONE GOD

"That to which your heart clings is your god." – Martin Luther


The Bible proclaims plainly and clearly that there is one, and only one God. When the Bible says that God is one, the word "one" does not refer to a "Family of gods," but to ONE, ONLY, IRREPLACEABLE God.

In some of the villages on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu in the South Pacific, Prince Philip of Great Britain is worshiped as a god. It seemed as though, this began during the 1960s, when Vanuatu was an Anglo-French colony known as the, New Hebrides.

For centuries, villagers had believed in an ancient story about the son of a mountain spirit, venturing across the seas to look for a powerful woman to marry. They believed that, this spirit had pale skin. Somehow the legend gradually became associated with Prince Philip, who had indeed married a rich and powerful lady. Villagers would have seen his portrait - and that of the Queen - in government outposts and police stations run by British colonial officials. Their beliefs were bolstered in 1974, when the Queen and Prince Philip made an official visit to the New Hebrides. Here was their ancestral spirit,

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