After 18 years of pondering long and hard about the philosophy or psychology of religion, I can only speculate why I think people believe in Yahweh. I honestly find it sad that I might never fully comprehend/understand your ‘unconditional’ faith. It’s inspiring.
Levels of abstraction are the most logical way for me to define a God:
A computer is smart and can do a lot of things. It’s superior to everything it can describe. It can work together with other computers to achieve great things. But it, alone, will never be able to comprehend the complexity of something like AI.
Just like I, alone, will never comprehend something almighty of which I’m only a fraction.
Anyways; my question:
What makes Judaïsm unique/different from other religions like Christianity, Islam, …?
In my atheist mind I see no distinction between God – Jahweh – Allah. They’re just the same concept in different languages, right?
I can study the history of origins, but that won’t explain the spiritual differences.
Before responding; consider that these religions have been existing for hundreds of years; their differences lie not in the people who’re a part of it today!
Thanks.
(P.S: I’ve also posted this in r/Christianity and r/Islam)
Edit:
Someone in r/Christianity pointed out that they vieuw G-d as a trinity. After a simple search it seems that that’s also the case in Judaïsm. I’m, however, confused by some translation which could be interpreted as G-d being ‘compound unity’ (Triune) or ‘absolute unity’.
https://www.jewsforjudaism.org/knowledge/articles/god-as-one-vs-the-trinity/
Can anyone clarify this?
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