RE: Is "being the creator of everything" an essential characteristic of the xtian god?
October 5, 2014 at 3:05 am
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2014 at 3:48 am by Michael B.)
Whateverist. What you describe sounds more like the Platonic view of a 'demiurge' where there are a succession of created beings, the last of which created what we see. Some forms of Gnosticism took that view. Mormons too believe that 'God' created from pre-existing material. Though all of those would still not have a different creator of man than the rest of creation. Perhaps the closest to that view is the Ancient Greek mythology that Prometheus especially gave man the gift of standing up and gave him the gift of fire (after Epimetheus had given all the available qualities, such as speed, to all the other animals). So Man had a special relationship with one of the Gods, Prometheus.
But to see man as separate from the rest of creation, created independently by a separate being...That doesn't make much sense to me biologically or theologically. I'm not sure how much useful we can say about something neither of us believe in. As ever, I think it's best to engage with Christianity as it is, not with as it isn't.
But to see man as separate from the rest of creation, created independently by a separate being...That doesn't make much sense to me biologically or theologically. I'm not sure how much useful we can say about something neither of us believe in. As ever, I think it's best to engage with Christianity as it is, not with as it isn't.
