Well, the way I see it, the superior power of the traditionally Christian God is usually used to impress the virtue of humility on a person's thinking. But personifiying God would make him a character, and would make it prideful to think Absolute Perfect God would lower Himself to BE your...
My god.
My god is a metaphor for "the collective goodwill of humanity." Humanity is real, and it can be argued that every human being on earth wants good things for himself and his friends, so collecting that makes my "god."
I call myself a "cultural Christian." Christians would call me...
We're really good at recognizing patterns.
But we're also good at making up patterns.
"Telling the difference between a made-up pattern and a real pattern" isn't "deception" necessarily, but perhaps an emergent property of your skill at pattern recognition encountering the wild universe where...
Thought I'd upgrade my game from youtube to religiousforums, trying to find people to talk to that disagree with what I consider facts.
Looks like Candidate #1 here is Lyndon, but I don't really see much wrong with thinking the flood was global from simultaneous ice age meltings.
That IS what...