RE: Q: do you, Christian, claim that God exists, rather than you believe that he exists?
February 22, 2014 at 6:56 pm
When people speak of the God character they are talking about the specific ethnocentric Jewish deity of the Bible because of our cultural brainwashing. We have been so brainwashed with that fairy tale that it's almost impossible for an average person to envision any other deity, even if he's hard core atheist. The average American disregards other ethnocentric deities, such as Allah and the assorted Asian Indian gods.
The interesting thing is that in the Bible there are very few references to the supernatural celestial deity. There are some references to a desert mountain dwelling deity. However, almost all of the God and Lord references refer to the various Assyrian and Babylonian Emperors who ruled the Middle East for centuries. They were worshiped as God and the Lord because they had absolute power of life and death over everyone. This is especially true in those stories where the God character is being mouthy and spewing assorted threats against everyone.
The God character died with the last last Babylonian Emperor when his empire was destroyed. That's why no one has heard from him since.
So the answer is that the God character as portrayed in the Bible is non-existent. He was simply a series of men who ruled the Middle East thousands of years ago.
The interesting thing is that in the Bible there are very few references to the supernatural celestial deity. There are some references to a desert mountain dwelling deity. However, almost all of the God and Lord references refer to the various Assyrian and Babylonian Emperors who ruled the Middle East for centuries. They were worshiped as God and the Lord because they had absolute power of life and death over everyone. This is especially true in those stories where the God character is being mouthy and spewing assorted threats against everyone.
The God character died with the last last Babylonian Emperor when his empire was destroyed. That's why no one has heard from him since.
So the answer is that the God character as portrayed in the Bible is non-existent. He was simply a series of men who ruled the Middle East thousands of years ago.
