Its also silly to deify humans
Isn't that what the Council of Nicea did when they deified Jesus?
Humanity will NEVER become godlike and understand this universe
True and false. Humanity will never become godlike because gods don't exist. In the same way we will never become Orc-like or Fairy-like.
But when it comes to understanding the universe, we actually know quite a bit.
we still kill each other and are greedy manipulative bastards
And so is god, according the bible. Sodom and Gomorrah, the Great Flood, first born of Israel. Etc. Not sure what point you are making here.
You may think that God is a silly concept and product of human imagination, whereas I believe that He imagined(created) us long before we could do much more than climb trees and eat bananas...thus we are a product of His imagination.
You are entitled to any belief you like. Tom Cruise thinks he needs to hook himself up to a car battery every day to cleanse his spirit of body thetans, which are the left over souls of dead aliens.
Too many people only know God as a character in a book or a story told round a campfire. Too few people have actually met Him.
I don't think anyone has met him. And those that claim they have are either delusional or crafty scam artists.
OK...if a Creator of all seen and unseen existed, how would YOU choose to define Him? How would you relate to humanity? What would you expect out of them? How would you use your power to interact with people?
First off, I would set conditions: how does he manifest himself? What are his key characteristics? Is there only one of them? What experiments can I devise that would shed light on his/her nature?
Point being: the evidence should
lead to the conclusion. Not the other way around.
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