What is the Point of Believing in God Without Religion?

[Astonished]

No. As Humans always have a variable or unknown element which is what we are weighing out.

wrong and bad are simple matters of perspective. If I am a jew and God told us to invade a town killing everything and take everything of value, then to me that would be a good decision. however if I am among those whom God told to invade... I would say that was a wrong or bad decision.

No being perfect simply mean God does not sin. Meaning it would not be wrong for God to order a destruction of a given people or town.

The decisions God makes are not on a best or possible scale. God know what to do and when to do it so what we would identify as 'variables' would all fall like dominoes so as to come to what God wanted the outcome to be.

Yes that is how God lines up what we would see as an unknown like a domino to be fell.

no. What I see is spelled out by me above.

Being created in the image of God does not make one God. A hot wheels can be created in the image of a 1967 mustang but no matter how much gas you put in one it will never be a 1967 mustang. To be made in the image of simple means you share some attributes. How much or little depends on God.

No, as again our thoughts are not His thoughts. Our ways are not His ways. or so says Isaiah


what would you like to know of God's plan?

Thank you. I was just curious about your perspective on that (and developing my own) but not referring it to any particular decision... just interested in the process, as I always am. That's kind of how I would envisage it as well... as like dominoes.

But in regards to God's being perfect only in that he does not sin, I'm not sure what you mean. I take God to be the creator of the notion of sin, in the sense that without the humans he creates (or other beings... if he created angels as well), there can be no sin. In other words he sets the rules his creations have to abide by... and those rules are whatever offends him. So are you saying that he is perfect because he abides by his own rules or are you saying that sin is somehow an objective concept, separate from both God and man, that both have to abide by?

It's a lose-lose situation. I keep saying, there's nothing to reform in that book, it's talked its way into a corner it can't get out of. Either god is a hypocrite and not a role model to emulate nor worthy of worship or adoration, or he negates the entire idea that there is any such thing as objective morality which is probably the most irritating misconception the religious hold.