If you could create god to be whatever you wanted god to be, what would god be like? How would god relate to you (if at all?) What would god’s involvement in the world be, and what would be god’s purpose for the world and our existence?
I’ll have a quick stab at ten characteristics (in no particular order) off the top of my head and suggest that my created god would:
- desire good for the world, not bad (I would not want a sadistic god who delights in my discomfort),
- be interested in me,
- communicate with me personally,
- give me what I want, when I want it,
- prevent evil from taking place (e.g. the Holocaust, Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe etc), or
- punish those who do harm to others (e.g. Hitler, Robert Mugabe etc),
- remove pain, mourning, sickness, grief, discomfort etc from the world,
- not be hypocritical,
- enable me to make decisions for myself (I don’t want to be a robot),
- let me live forever, without getting sick or decaying.
That’s how I would create god, how about you? What would your custom god look like? In the next blog I will give some background to how I got thinking about this topic.
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Great way of putting it!!
Lego God, can I steal it and use it in speaking to people? Its great
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