Phat
Just noticed your new picture. Cute.
I disagree with your statement.
Without man God has 0 authority. It is we who recognize this God or that God. We have dominion over the whole concept of God. We define Him.
The same goes for Jesus.
The problem gets even worse for Jesus. Here we have to not only define His human attributes but also His divine ones and try to dither out how this new hybrid God can die like some poor human schnook.
Plus imagine a huge sacrifice for mankind when all He did was sleep for three days.
The concept of God was crested by man. His mind was inspired by something (inspired) but we are still defining what God is or we all would not be in this place. We seek as we always have with the changing times to improve our notions of what God represents.
If we are truly in His image then you and I do not think as the ancients did.
Our God cannot be the same God that they saw.
This is why the Bibles have a hard time with our new view of slaves, women and Gays.
Let us continue to improve God to our new image.
The ancients knew that God had to grow and change. This is why they did not give God a name and asked us to not follow false idols.
God is dead. Long live God
Regards
DL