Talk:Creator deity

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Contents 1 Goddess? Where is the evidence of this Goddess? 2 Why the redundancy? 3 proposal to merge into creationism 4 Muslims do NOT believe that Man was created in God's image 5 Page move 6 Added a new section on Catholic Church 7 "a god" 8 Picture and room for development in articles

[edit] Goddess? Where is the evidence of this Goddess?

Why is goddess on this page when there are no examples of goddess stated? Rednblu 22:22, 6 Aug 2003 (UTC)

The first line was as follows.

A creator god or creator goddess is a god or goddess which is or was believed to have created the universe, according to various traditions:

Removed goddess from that line because the page cites no documented religion that gives evidence of a goddess that is a creator god. Rednblu 18:46, 12 Aug 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Why the redundancy?

The creator god is the God being that . . . ? Why the redundant insertion of God? What is the justification for the redundancy? Is there some hidden meaning here? If there is some hidden meaning, then that meaning should be spelled out, I suggest. Rednblu 16:07, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)

It's good to have a link to God outside of the strongly emphasised title. -- Toby Bartels 00:22, 4 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Why is that? It seems to me that many people believe in divine beings that are creator gods that are definitely not God. Is it your impression that all "divine beings that are creator gods" are God? Rednblu 00:28, 4 Sep 2003 (UTC)

How about if we remove the brackets from divine being--because for this page it probably is inaccurate to redirect to the God page. What do you think? Rednblu 14:06, 4 Sep 2003 (UTC)

[edit] proposal to merge into creationism

seems to me the only things here that are unique to this page are the mormon and hindu models of creationism, and i think they would do better on the Creationism page. i'd like to propose a merge and redirect. thoughts? Ungtss 20:24, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

i moved the mormon + greek beliefs to creation belief. everything else was already covered there or in Creationism. Ungtss 07:53, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I think you should give this a little more than 12 hours of comments - though thanks for doing a NPOV move. Trödel|talk 13:10, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I agree

Creationism is not a species of Creator deity belief. What characterizes Creationism is its attitude toward the material facticity of a book's account of Creation, not the existence of a Creator God per se. Plenty of people believe in the same Creator that Creationists do without believing in the historicity of the book of Genesis. Not only should they not be merged, references to Creationism should be removed from the Creator deity entry. nelsonleith —Preceding comment was added at 21:56, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Muslims do NOT believe that Man was created in God's image

I'll change it.

[edit] Page move

Isn't the intended scope of the page the concept of a creator god in general, not simply the Judeo-Christian deity named God? If so, we should probably move back to Creator god, and make sure the capitalisation in the article text reflects this. Alai 01:40, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Added a new section on Catholic Church

Like Hinduism and Mormons, the Catholic Church deserves a separate section: reason: it is the biggest Abrahamic religion, the biggest Christian denomination. Thus it also deserves the biggest space.

[edit] "a god"

I think the use of the article "a" is rather unnecessary as Christians and Muslims are monotheists. -- EmperorBMA|話す 18:36, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Definately

DarthSidious 03:10, 25 August 2007 (UTC)DarthSidious

[edit] Picture and room for development in articles

I've added a pic of Haldane's famous response when asked about what could be inferred about the mind of the Creator from the works of Creation. It seems that the article is currently limited to what different religions say about their respective creator. Now, I'm not a philosopher, but there must have been huge amounts written about the mind of the creator over the centuries and that could be a good way to go to expand this article. GDallimore (Talk) 21:43, 30 April 2007 (UTC)