If there were 10 million earth-like planets able to sustain life would God have to attend each one to make a life/creation plan?

^{Read te verse just before your excerpt:
4} He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods of Israel that brought you out of egypt"

So when Aaron say "festival to the lord" he is obviously referring to the Golden Calf idol. and not to the Jehova-deity whose name JV doctrine find so very important that they put it in even where is is totally inappropriate. This post was edited by JakobA the unAmerican. at February 11, 2018 6:45 PM MST

As long as you have been trolling the religious section of answerbag and answermug looking for someway to discredit the Bible, you really didn't know that most translations have removed God's name and substituted LORD or GOD?
Has your hostility really made you that blind?
All you had to do was click the link to see non-JW translations, some of which use God's name. Here it is again:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+32%3A5-8%2C14&version=YLT;KJV;DARBY;NOG;ASV

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+32%3A4&version=NIV

This post was edited by texasescimo at February 14, 2018 12:13 PM MST

Sorry to butt in and not trying to start an argument but I gotta disagree. It is unlikely that Aaron intended the calf to represent another deity, since he proclaimed a festival in honor of God when he finished making it The golden calf was just a visible representation of the invisible God. As was the problem with so many folks back then and even today, they lost sight of that and turned it into full-blown idol worship. In the Israelite's minds, that calf was no longer a representation of God. It became their god. That's why God became so angry and Moses did such a number on the people.

"Obviously not all religions with all their different gods can be true, "

My bible says there are many gods. Some people worship science. Some worship their own intellect. Some worship money. In San Francisco some workers were removing a concrete foundation and it was too big to put on their truck, so they went to get a bigger truck. By the time they got back, a group had gathered to worship this chunk of concrete!

Quote: ["Obviously not all religions with all their different gods can be true, "

My bible says there are many gods...]
Does your Bible say that they are all the true God?

Bibliclaly speaking, there are many gods but for Christians, only one God the Father.

(1 Thessalonians 1:9) For they themselves keep reporting about our first contact with you and how you turned to God from your idols to slave for a living and true God,
(1 Corinthians 8:5, 6) For even though there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many “gods” and many “lords,” 6 there is actually to us one God, the Father, from whom all things are and we for him; and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are and we through him.
(John 17:3) This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
(Ephesians 4:4-6) One body there is, and one spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.



Quote: [...You are simply assuming that everybody who doesn't worship the same as you must be too stupid to discern what's a god and what's not....]
Stupid is your word, not mine. Do you consider everything that is worshiped to be equal and just as legitimate and worthy of worship as the God of the Bible?


(Matthew 7:22, 23) Many will say to me in that day: ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them: ‘I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness!’
(John 16:2) Men will expel you from the synagogue. In fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he has offered a sacred service to God.