{"id":277,"date":"2009-05-15T07:33:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T12:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=277"},"modified":"2009-06-26T12:11:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T17:11:44","slug":"god-personified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"God Personified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that the Christian God is supposed to be all-powerful and yet it took him a full 6 days to create the world? Shouldn\u2019t he have been able to do it with a snap of his metaphysical fingers? A real god should be able to think it and it happens. And while we are at it, if God is so all-powerful, why does he have to rest on the seventh day? Humans need rest, not gods.<\/p>\n<p>However, the people who created god could have simply personified nature and if that were the case, than since people do rest, a personified deity might need to rest too. In the ancient world, deities like Zeus lived on Mount Olympus and deities like Odin lived Valhalla. So where does Yahweh live? Heaven. But God\u2019s don\u2019t really need to live anywhere, right? I mean isn\u2019t an all-powerful deity supposed to be everywhere?<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, Yahweh like all the other gods that have come before him are all personifications. Ancient people who couldn\u2019t understand the world used these deities as an attempt to explain the world. They created elaborate stories and gave their deity of choice personalities based on human stories and personalities. That is why God is a jealous God, a vengeful God, a wrathful God, a Just God, etc. These are all human traits. The war in Heaven is based off wars on Earth. God has a son? Humans have sons. God\u2019s live forever and always were and always will be, so how can they give birth to a divine child?<\/p>\n<p>These are ancient stories told to explain what was unexplainable. Now science can explain much of what was unexplainable and so now God is forced to fill the gaps. However, even though science can\u2019t explain everything we should be mature enough as a race to simply say that we don\u2019t know the answers to all the questions without the need to make up answers with stories of divine intrigue. God is no longer even needed to fill the gaps as long as we are mature enough to accept the gaps and curious enough to attempt to fill those gaps through the continued exploration of science and philosophy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=277\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 317364;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that the Christian God is supposed to be all-powerful and yet it took him a full 6 days to create the world? 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