Why would a mosquito see the Abdominal Dr Vibes as anything less than food?
Why should I even concern myself with this God fellow if His milieu is so conceptually alien to my own? What's the scripture for if only the attuned can fathom it (surely they don't need to fathom it if they are already attuned)?
I can get my head around the notion that the grand cosmic project is a work in progress and that trillions have to suffer in ways which make no sense and seem cruel from within the mechanism to serve an ultimate goal that is perfection.
But that's not what scripture is saying.
It's saying the universe was made in six stages, It's finished. God's the boss and if you don't start feeling sorry about playing with your penises and stop it in the name of an incarnation of Himself He allowed to be nailed to a tree and die for three days you will suffer forever.
Meanwhile you faithful chosen people go over their and kill those male children and rape those women.
If God is all powerful and all knowing, all possible universes are possible to him and yet he picked the one where he knows I will be born and due to free will take qualitative umbrage at the biblical account of himself and be damned.
He made me with hell in mind.
And I'm supposed to like this chap?
What's more he is supposed to be the same person as Jesus who is by almost every account a likable and approachable superhero with compassion, who feels empathy with the downtrodden, the sick and the bereaved.
It makes more sense to me that they aren't the same person or if they are, the act of incarnation has changed God in ways He hadn't foreseen.
If God can change he isn't always perfect.
Either the Tyrant God is perfect and the gentle Jesus is a corruption of his true self or Jesus is an upgrade Which means the scripture relating to God Mk1 needs to be re-worked.
But the acts of his fully human group of followers don't match with Jesus either. They sound more like devotees of God Mk1.
You can understand where the Gnostics got their groove from. The OT God sounds like a faker, an insecure God wannabe. A Devil (powerful but evil).
Where as Jesus sounds like a representative of a nicer God who doesn't want anyone raped but has interceded as much as he can (Good but limited).
i can see myself being convinced by a Good but limited God. I might thank him for the opportunity of life and forgive him the unavoidable crapness of some of life (mortality for example).
But the the Tyrant God He can just swivel.