Every time I ask a question about God, the Creator, I get hundreds of different answers mostly in constant disagreement no matter whether the respondents are of the "same" faith or not.
That leads me to ask. If a person's God is a product of each person's own desires for a God with specific attributes, why bother citing religious texts that every contributor appears to interpret differently?
If I ask, "what is the capital of France?" every intelligent person would respond, "Paris". If I ask, "is God male or female", I get as many opinions as contributors.
Are you all telling me that each of you make up each or your Gods to your own liking and to your ability to imagine, or that there are many Gods, one for each believer?
In reality, there could be many things that create. Likely, none were supernatural deities or the like.
But as a former christian, I've asked myself the same/similar question, as well as asking others. Here's what I learned:
Everyone thinks they "know" their deity (let's call it god going forward). They gather with other believers with similar thoughts, goals, beliefs, etc. When the gathering disagrees on certain aspects of the same god, they calim it's god's personalization ( of sorts) to each of them.
For example:
Some believed it a sin to smoke. Those that smoked claimed that god told them it's not a sin for them. Or it's a work in progress. Etc. The real answer is it's either a sin or it's not. Either way, each group wouldn't budge on the POV, so they claimed god was being personal with them in regards to their sin. Could that be? Of course, since there's no proof of anything god (other than a book written by men). Likely, one group was right and the other wasn't, yet they didn't want to give up their vice or accept something they didn't personally like. But more than likely, there is no sin more than a person wants to accept.
