If we view the bible in an academic light, and agree with the academic opinions that the bible was written by multiple sources and yet still contend that god is not JUST a literary fabrication to direct ideas and understandings about morality and other issues, how do we explain from this position the fact that the bible was written by multiple authors and used by them to make sense of different realities of human life?
Meaning how do we explain from the perspective of religion the fact that religious ideas and doctrines were used in this way(to struggle with the realities of human existence) and came about for these purposes?
So instead of saying that god is a certain way and contemporary research contends with the idea of god, how do we reinterpret god and divinity to take account of how they are used as political and social and moral tools?
Maybe we can say that the revelation of god comes or can come or can only come as an attempt of humans to organize and structure society and its operation and thus the actions of individuals within society.
That god is not revealed to us through dogmatic rereadings of older texts as religious texts, since such sharp distinctions did not exist back then. There werent many texts in general surely no sharp distinctions between history and myth and so on.
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The historical relevance of god, even if according to a materialist world view god is a meaningless term, makes it so that even in materialist terms god might as well have been real since the historical belief in a real god caused people to act and do certain things.
We can say that god is something that is inherent to us and our attempts to understand reality as a result of its historic relevance and existence.
The idea of the attempts to understand or define god, much like a person might try to understand certain patterns of his behavior since he can remember himself is this redefinable godhood.
God not necessarily as an all powerful all controlling creator of the universe but as some characteristic that spreads across our understanding of ourselves and the world, a sheet that covers or pervades us. A stratum that is redefined and reunderstood through our attempts to understand it and its role in our lives. it exists in and at the place in which we put it through our questioning and attempts to understand It.
It is at the border, at the limit of our thoughts and research but at the same time it also potentially pervades everything. Godness, manifests itself when we question what is this historical reality of god and our attempts to understand it, and try to understand it from different perspectives. It is inherent to us, a part of us as individuals and as a society but is neither the cause of us nor our creation but is a changing part of us and our existence which changes as we explore it and redefine it.
>>1417829
God isn't exclusive to the Bible.
You have no idea who God is, do you?
>>1417862
No.
>>1417854
Theirs plays no important historical part in my cultural heritage.
>>1417909
It isn't about culture or heritage because God is above the labelling of identity and ethnicity.
>>1417933
But the way towards understanding god is unique and thus his conception is unique to every group that identifies itself as seperate. It can be viewed as a historical movement of conception and re-conception of god and the divine.
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>>1417944
None of them are seperate
