That's an interesting point. How do you distinguish one God from another? How would you differentiate them in order to count or determine if people are referring to the same one? A god is typically not considered to be constrained to a single localized incarnation, so you can't count and differentiate them like we typically do with people. I think we have to differentiate them based on their character, and different religions (and even different individuals within the same religions) certainly have different ideas about the character of their gods.
If each person has their own definition of god, that doesn't mean that a separate god exists for each person any more than having a definition of a unicorn means that unicorns exist. Some definitions are likely to be distorted more than others, and there's no requirement that a definition map to something that really exists. Since many religions include monotheism in their definition of god, it's safe to assume that all of those religions are attempting to describe the same entity.
That's an interesting point. How do you distinguish one God from another? How would you differentiate them in order to count or determine if people are referring to the same one? A god is typically not considered to be constrained to a single localized incarnation, so you can't count and differentiate them like we typically do with people. I think we have to differentiate them based on their character, and different religions (and even different individuals within the same religions) certainly have different ideas about the character of their gods.
If each person has their own definition of god, that doesn't mean that a separate god exists for each person any more than having a definition of a unicorn means that unicorns exist. Some definitions are likely to be distorted more than others, and there's no requirement that a definition map to something that really exists. Since many religions include monotheism in their definition of god, it's safe to assume that all of those religions are attempting to describe the same entity.