Three Questions for God

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The thing is, even if "Yahweh" is real, I would expect almost no correlation with the steaming pile of horse shit that is the bible. At the very least, the contradictory characteristics would have to be resolved if it was a real thing, I would expect.

So really, I wouldn't have any preconceptions about this being. I'd be learning about it from scratch.

So I wonder, what would identify this God as Yahweh, in any real sense? Seeing as every Christian carries around a different version in their head, often wildly different, how can it "be" all those things? We would already be assuming that huge numbers of people are wrong about fundamental aspects. He sent his "son" to be sacrificed, which is also him, so he could forgive people via a loophole!? Would that be a necessary component? Extremely unlikely, as we know the story got fabricated over time, and Jesus wasn't originally God, for one thing.

Whatever turned up, if suitably powerful looking, religious people would probably all point at it and say "I meant that!" Never mind that it would bear almost no resemblance to the very human characters they describe (differently) in their fairy tales.

This is why I generally take the ignostic position. Even for a specific God claim, such as Yahweh, "does he exist" is not a well formed question that has an objective answer. You'd need to hammer out exactly what does and doesn't count as Yahweh. And whose version do we use? Let alone just "does God exist". The question is next to meaningless. This isn't a pop at the idea of this thread though, it's side ramblings