Greatest I am wrote:Venture wrote:God commands we want him but not lust him. Lust is a form of want, want is not a form of lust. Therefore lordoflight's argument is misconstrued.
Did fallen angels reproduce with humans during the antediluvian? Does this represent God's creations' corruption, including the angels he cast out? There is a resurgence in popularity and understanding of the Book of Enoch. The scriptures omitted in ancient times have returned due to our want of knowledge and domination. The snake corrupting Eve could represent the bastardized children of Eve, who did Adam and Eve's children have to marry and fight with after all? The omissions and manipulated transliterations of the apocrypha represent religious peoples rejection of the defiling of man by fallen angels mating and manipulating our genetics, along with mysticism and deceptive claims of magic during pre-Christ times. Also, a society forming their belief systems around oral traditions versus peer-reviewed literature has yet to meet an exegesis.
The Jewish Yahweh seems tribal, relentless, natural, omniscient, outside of human conception and will manifest.
The Muslim Allah seems to be especially sensitive against scrutiny and especially reminiscent of a patriarchy.
The Christian God seems anthropomorphized because of works of tolerance, accepted amongst multiple languages and cultures, and has reformations causing divided beliefs.
To what extent are my observations incorrect?
To your first bit, please see my reply above.
As to your last, you have made some errors.
You say God will manifest. How can you know this as a fact?
You also say God is natural which is silly given his supernatural attributes. Imaginary attributes just like him that is.
That natural is also refuted by the bulk of nature as in it, the predominant theme is that offspring bury or outlive their parents and that most parents want it that way. God did the opposite and chose to bury his offspring which makes him a prick as far as nature would be concerned.
Regards
DL
Logical reply above. I never said God will manifest, I know God has and is manifest. Whether he will or not, let's leave that up to fortune tellers and wait around for them to look into their crystal balls first. Or we could not wait, and have faith. Most people think faith is a belief not found in reason and empirical evidence, I believe faith is this issue with dealing with future and/or random events, using past events and figures to guide moral decisions for the future. Jesus and Buddha are the first to come to mind for myself.
As soon as I posted that reply I knew the nature bit was inaccurate and refutable. I am not familiar with Jewish conceptions of God, nonetheless, more familiar than the Islamic Allah. What I think I meant by natural is something of a strong wind, a large asteroid, a wild fire, a flood, or a disease. Something elemental but in oneness through oral descriptions and OT scripture.
I wish I had the courage to cherry pick scripture like you do, but I haven't studied the Holy Bible and its related texts, in their original languages, yet.
"Imaginary" attributes because you probably live in a disenchanted world. I'm not saying you have to go into solitude and hallucinate to know God, but there must be a feeling of God rather than empirical evidence. God of the OT is much different than that of the NT. How do you expect humans to make the transition from paganism and polytheistic nomads to Abrahamic semites, hamites, and japhetites?
God didn't choose, the plan was there before Christus came to the Greco-Roman world. The purpose was not to kill his son, but to sacrifice his son who is a manifestation of himself, to suffer and die for our original departure from God's presence.