As for option 3. I would like to answer in a yes and no manner.
I would say a lot of religions are correct about God in that he is suppose to be perfection/ultimate/greatest possible being. But just like no society ever got everything right about morals, doesn't mean there isn't a right morality, in the same way, not being right about the morality of God, doesn't mean they were wrong in believing he was the perfect moral being.
The same can be said about praise.
God is always going to be a reflection of the morals you believe in. Try as you might, you cannot not have a concept of what you believe is more greater morally or less greater. We tend not to sit on the fence for this kind of stuff, and make judgement even if we are not sure.
I would say, however, if there was no religions, and people were free to decide what God is without being dictated, people would come to near agreement on who God is.
A modern day example of how people distort what they know about God is the example of Salafis. I swear to God, they very well know God doesn't have hands, feet, a face, legs, and that would be beneath his greatness, and that the Quran is speaking metaphorically when it use hands and eyes and face, and it's obvious it's metaphorical, but they love their sect, they love their leaders, and they buy into stupid propaganda...
And Christians with trinity of course they very well know it's nothing but sophistry to justify their polytheism while wanting to remain true to the Jewish roots of their religion.
I would say a lot of religions are correct about God in that he is suppose to be perfection/ultimate/greatest possible being. But just like no society ever got everything right about morals, doesn't mean there isn't a right morality, in the same way, not being right about the morality of God, doesn't mean they were wrong in believing he was the perfect moral being.
The same can be said about praise.
God is always going to be a reflection of the morals you believe in. Try as you might, you cannot not have a concept of what you believe is more greater morally or less greater. We tend not to sit on the fence for this kind of stuff, and make judgement even if we are not sure.
I would say, however, if there was no religions, and people were free to decide what God is without being dictated, people would come to near agreement on who God is.
A modern day example of how people distort what they know about God is the example of Salafis. I swear to God, they very well know God doesn't have hands, feet, a face, legs, and that would be beneath his greatness, and that the Quran is speaking metaphorically when it use hands and eyes and face, and it's obvious it's metaphorical, but they love their sect, they love their leaders, and they buy into stupid propaganda...
And Christians with trinity of course they very well know it's nothing but sophistry to justify their polytheism while wanting to remain true to the Jewish roots of their religion.
