What are some alternative versions of God?
People usually either don't believe in God at all, or they believe in the God described by their religion. This God is often a guy with a long white beard and white robes who sits on a cloud, omnipotent, omnipresent, omnibenevolent with the exception of occasional loving genocides.
What about other possibilities of what God might be like? Here are some ideas to get the ball rolling.
- Maybe God is the head honcho of the spirit world, but he's completely powerless in the physical world. He found a nice planet where evolution was working, and he sends souls down here so we can play around, but he can't do anything to affect the outcome. When we die, he gives us a report card, and maybe lets us try again.
- Maybe there's another planet out there with very intelligent life. They learn calculus as babies. They grow to be 100 feet tall and can run at Mach 5. They don't know about humans yet, but if they did, they would enjoy their company and would treat them very well as their pets. The leader of these creatures is named God.
Any other ideas?
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One thing I have always thought would be amusingly ironic is if God and Evolution are both real and it turns out God is just a blob of matter exactly the same as the blob of matter that grew in the sea and eventually evolved into mankind and that had been Gods plan all along. 1
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? 3 main types of deity. Buddha, Devi/demon, Kami; which can merge to form trinities. I am unsure that the Christians even know which deity they worship. Some seem to talk about a trinity deity, a demon deity, and a primordial kami. Sacred architecture in the older churches points to a trinity, though. 1
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This God is often a guy with a long white beard and white robes who sits on a cloud, omnipotent, omnipresent, omnibenevolent with the exception of occasional loving genocides. You mean the Christian God. I feel people picture him this way because when we, as people, have lived long lives and we are well educated with those long lives we become old and white haired. People know their Christian God as looking the same as them: "Made in his image" and in knowing this, and knowing how old his legend is they imagine him old. Or at least that's the reason I think they believe that. I never pictured God as some old, white haired, bearded man. I pictured him as a dapper, smooth looking guy, in a white tuxedo. A businessman of sorts, and his heavenly palace is actually an office, with instead of great tomes of lives past, it's just a database on the best supercomputer. |
