The Million Dollar Question

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Except when it came to the morning, midday and evening sun.

Sure. These are only inconsistencies in Egyptian theology, not with the definition of the term god.

The point I was making is that a deity's attributes and domain depends on theology. The Egyptians, as you said, had a very muddled theology. Who, exactly was the supreme deity of the Sun?

Seems like it changed as time went on.

So, let's move on to theology. Does the proof of a deity being real depend on how consistent the theology is? Christians have a supreme being but they haven't been 100% consistent where attributes are concerned.

Since theology is merely the study of god then no I would say it would not necessarily have to be consistent in order for that god to exist because the theology could simply be in error. A perfectly consistent theology would have to be possible however if the god did exist. Christian theology is the most consistent and philosophically astute theology however. That could very well be because Christians are studying something that actually is real rather than something man-made. This is not a proof that Yahweh exists, simply something interesting to ponder.

How far back are you going in this very long time?

Well many of God’s attributes are explicitly mentioned in scripture itself.
As for the rebuking of heretical teachings by the early church, this seems to only substantiate by claim that Christians have had a very definite definition of God for a long time. They used that definition to correct or rebuke anyone who created their own false definition. We still use the writings of the early church fathers today because the theology has been so consistent.

After that the Roman Catholics managed to wipe out all the opposition until Protestantism came along. I'm going to finish this post with

The Eastern Orthodox Church may be a bit offended that you seemed to forget that they even exist.

I'm not going to quote them but there are a considerable number of them. The question of whether or not the Christian God is a Trinity isn't as muddled as Egyptian theology but all that can be said about these different ideas is that Jesus is in there somewhere.

Non-Trinitarians are actually a great minority and regarded by most as non-Christian churches. Interestingly enough, I was just talking to a couple Jehovah’s Witnesses on my front lawn the other day and to say that they are Christians is simply inaccurate. They have borrowed much of our terminology but that’s about it.

Okay, so let's go with your definition. How does that prove the Christian deity is any more real than Odin who was the highest of the Norse gods?

It doesn’t. That was not the original question though was it? The original question was to define the term god, not to prove any god exists.