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<blockquote data-quote="Calzone" data-source="post: 5616916" data-attributes="member: 87629">Mixing &quot;the gods created the world&quot; and &quot;the gods get their power from their worshipers&quot; can lead to problems:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">How did the gods get the power to create the world if they had no followers? After all, there aren't followers until there's a world for them to exist on.</li>
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Similar to the above, if the gods created their followers, where did they get the power to do so?</li>
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">If people worship the gods because of their power, How do they ever convince the first follower to worship them? Just picture it:</li>
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">How did the gods make their first followers aware of their presence? If you can't appear as a ghostly shape or a booming voice in the heavens, how will people ever know to beseech you for strength in war or healthy crops?</li>
</ul>There are ways around these problems, but you generally have to presuppose the gods having a measure of god-like power.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Calzone, post: 5616916, member: 87629"] Mixing "the gods created the world" and "the gods get their power from their worshipers" can lead to problems: [LIST] [*]How did the gods get the power to create the world if they had no followers? After all, there aren't followers until there's a world for them to exist on. [/LIST] [LIST] [*]Similar to the above, if the gods created their followers, where did they get the power to do so? [/LIST] [LIST] [*]If people worship the gods because of their power, How do they ever convince the first follower to worship them? Just picture it: [/LIST] [LIST] [*]How did the gods make their first followers aware of their presence? If you can't appear as a ghostly shape or a booming voice in the heavens, how will people ever know to beseech you for strength in war or healthy crops? [/LIST] There are ways around these problems, but you generally have to presuppose the gods having a measure of god-like power. [/QUOTE]

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