phat writes:
Are you challenging Gods right and position to be whatever He wants to be?
Of course not, that would be silly and foolish.
But in your first sentence you just slipped in one condition on God. You gave God a gender. Gender is a human or animal trait, an artifact of evolution. Gender would only be useful or make sense if the opposite gender existed.
You are challenging God's right to be say, no gender at all.
phat writes:
I would think that we should be grateful that God cares about us enough to want (or need) to have us around.
IMHO, however, God knows us better than we know ourselves, and is not the mean vindicative God portrayed in our literature by our own overactive imaginations.
What! now you are putting more conditions on God. You are presupposing that God
Cares for humans (Caring is a human emotion)
Wants humans around
Recognizes and know individual humans
Is not mean or vindictive (another human trait)
God is not a product of our imagination and cannot be defined and explained according to our whims.
Yes but you just put a significant profile of who this God being is, based on your imagination and whim - counter to your first admonishment. You put God in box and gave God a number of constraints. It is all error in that you are giving God characteristics based on no objective evidence.
You are using a preconceived and egotistical notion that God is mindful of humans. You are even characterizing God as partially human by giving God human traits - blasphemy, if I have heard of it.
It is very speciesist (at least arrogant) of humans to think that we are at the center of Gods mind and concern. God may view us like we might view the mold that grows on the cheese in the refrigerator.
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