an interesting observation over the past year or so...
It seems to me that individuals tend to make their god in their own image personality-wise.
Those who tend to be fairly open-minded individuals tend to have a fairly sane and reasonable view of God. He sounds like an enlightened person and a generally Nice Guy.
Those who tend to be extreme in their viewpoints tend to have a God that is also very extreme, if not outright malevolent, having a very narrow and absolutist avenue of judgement (which predictably ensures that this particular believer is saved, while condemning to 'god's wrath' other believers whose beliefs vary slightly from this believer's view or other miscellaneous do-gooders).
A curious phenomenon indeed.
It seems to me that individuals tend to make their god in their own image personality-wise.
Those who tend to be fairly open-minded individuals tend to have a fairly sane and reasonable view of God. He sounds like an enlightened person and a generally Nice Guy.
Those who tend to be extreme in their viewpoints tend to have a God that is also very extreme, if not outright malevolent, having a very narrow and absolutist avenue of judgement (which predictably ensures that this particular believer is saved, while condemning to 'god's wrath' other believers whose beliefs vary slightly from this believer's view or other miscellaneous do-gooders).
A curious phenomenon indeed.
