Origin of God? (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by dhw, Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 13:31 (2922 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: After all, if he made man in his image, then man must be his reflection.
DAVID: Misuse of 'image'. Our consciousness and ability to think is the 'image', not what we decide to think. We have free will to be stupid if we wish.
dhw: I don't know where you get your authority from, to judge how the word is to be used. I find it difficult to imagine your God creating something which can think thoughts of which he is totally ignorant.
DAVID: I can have my image of God and you can have yours. We are using a word from the OT which does not ever allow a picture of God. Therefore any image is allowed. Mine is consciousness, nothing more.-I thought yours was consciousness deliberately creating billions of solar systems, organisms, lifestyles and natural wonders that would supply the energy to produce and feed humans so that he could have a relationship with them by hiding himself and treasuring their faith. -DAVID: Yes, the Koran has some immature and dangerous passages if followed literally. Man's stupidity in reacting to the religious books is part of a human problem with being free to be stupid. In God's view (I think) humans have to evolve morality. "Do unto others'.
dhw: Of course I am all in favour of “Do unto others”. I'm surprised that you are defending these religious books, bearing in mind that they are written by humans who are “free to be stupid” and contain material that encourages “stupid” behaviour. 
DAVID: I'm simply following the analysis of Karen Armstrong in her book "A History of God", 1993, which follows the mature development of human concepts re' God as the religious books appeared.-A conversation-stopper if ever there was one. Please explain what you yourself understand by “mature”, and why you think the various authors of the OT got God all wrong and why the Koran got it right, although when we look at God's works we see a mixture of the NT's love and the OT's forceful fearsomeness. Or do you not see the mixture?