Not exact matches
So let me get this straight, it's far fetched for us to NOT have been created by a God and that's illogical but you believe there's a heaven and hell, a mystical
deity who watches over us yet fails to intervene in bloodshed that occurs daily in his name, this
deity is all
powerful but for some reason can't do anything
more than a coin toss could and for some reason everything he can do is limited to exactly the same domain as nature (EX: God can never regenerate a missing limb)?
An atonement theology directed towards the assuaging of guilt before God is a
powerful gospel — in contexts where God is immediately and almightily real; or where (as we may note
more skeptically) a religion is still
powerful enough to hold up before its host culture the image of a holy and righteous
deity before whom none is worthy except through the appropriate cultic observations.
A personal god was nothing
more than an exalted father - figure: desire for such a
deity sprang from infantile yearnings for a
powerful, protective father, for justice and fairness and for life to go on forever.
It would have been easier to just try again with two
more people but somehow that never occured to an all
powerful deity.
Actually, this monetary god is likely
more powerful, evil, and wrathful than any previous
deity.