Meanings of “God” in some scriptures

[jimhabegger]

Whateverist, I love your questions.

This new idea, about what “God” means in the scriptures, is part of that process.

Why do you suppose what "God" means is a question? Does the idea of God arise naturally or is it a cultural hand me down?

I’m not sure. Partly curiosity? Partly to see what I think about what other people say? Partly because a different way of understanding it might help me get more out of my scriptures?

But my question is, why do people assume that the God they imagine to be the architect of cosmology has anything to do with the God they imagine they commune with inside? Why the merge?

It might have been because I thought my scriptures were saying that there is only one God.

If God really was the architect of every facet of the cosmos, He would truly have to be something supernatural. Or so it would seem from our perspective. But perhaps there is no creator and therefore nothing supernatural. An inner God could be accounted for by entirely natural means. Shouldn't nature be enough?

I don’t see how it could possibly have any consequential meaning to say that there is or isn’t a creator of everything. I don’t know what it means to you to account for something by natural means. Can you explain what you mean by that, and give some examples and counter examples?

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You could take it a step farther, OP, and posit that all gods throughout all of time have been anthropomorphic projection.

Some of them, but not all of them. Some gods have actually been human.