Do bad deeds >>>>> Good deeds. And if so....

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Oh okay that's interesting, but all the evidence seems to suggest that Deities kinda like comic book characters are created by human beings and given characteristics and abilities. Examples as you would know are ZEUS and his lightning powers then somebody created a better character with cooler abilities like your boy Yahweh so they give him all the omni abilities . What are some other examples or evidence of Deities being created by other means?

Zeus and others come from a place called the 'Metadivine Realm' and, as such, were subject to the decrees of 'fate'.

He and others were 'created' by this 'power' (for want of a better description) as intermediaries between humanity and the 'source'.

YHWH, in comparison, was subject to nothing and was 'uncreated' unless you subscribe to Gnosticism......

I am a non-theist. All atheists are non-theists, not all non-theists are atheists.

http://www.strongatheism.net/library/atheology/argument_from_noncognitivism/

'Morality' is illogical, but humanity is anything but logical.​

 

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[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Your always dropping that knowledge doc, that's why I enjoy your post. But when I said by other means I was thinking more on the lines of being created outside what was written in books by human beings. Everything you said about Zeus and Yahweh was spot on but like my comic book analogy, they seem to be no different than marvel characters in the fact that they were all given some type of super human / supernatural abilities and some people believe one is real and the others are not. So you don't subscribe to a personal deity that intervenes and answers prayers but i'm guessing your more of a Deist or you probably could go Spinoza with it on the pantheism tip with the universe = god?

I have no understanding of what 'deity' means outside of a Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual. Growing up in a Born Again Christian household was an 'experience', but I have no animosity towards those holding any religious/anti-religious belief unless they try to force it on me.

Many 'gods' were given 'strange and wondrous abilities' in order to explain natural phenomena, but they were all subject to a 'higher power' that transcended and limited them. YHWH represented a completely different and 'unique' conceptualization that was unlimited. I can't subscribe to Deism since it makes even less sense than theism. Many anti-theists refer to the 'god of the Bible' as a 'moral monster', but the 'god' of Deism is just a 'deadbeat dad'. What I do subscribe to is Diltheyan hermeneutics to interpret the various and sundry religious texts that spark my interest.......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhel...n_the_natural_sciences_and_the_human_sciences​

 

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