You suggest above that god may not be all-knowing, or all-powerful. That perhaps those who wrote the testaments, both old and new, may have embellished it slightly to show how superior their god was.
How is that different from a pagan god? Knowing that possibly the authors of the new and old testaments may have made him out to be a little more than he was, how can you be sure Jehova and Jesus ARE any more than a man like me but with superpowers?
And, of course, if he is (and I suggest he is, and as far as I can tell, UU does too. It suggests that all mythologies have a kernel of truth in them and that the truth is somewhere between all the various mythologies), your mythology is no more valid than my own.
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You suggest above that god may not be all-knowing, or all-powerful. That perhaps those who wrote the testaments, both old and new, may have embellished it slightly to show how superior their god was.
How is that different from a pagan god? Knowing that possibly the authors of the new and old testaments may have made him out to be a little more than he was, how can you be sure Jehova and Jesus ARE any more than a man like me but with superpowers?
And, of course, if he is (and I suggest he is, and as far as I can tell, UU does too. It suggests that all mythologies have a kernel of truth in them and that the truth is somewhere between all the various mythologies), your mythology is no more valid than my own.