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Originally Posted by Pokerlogist
Thanks for making your thesis more clear. These are reasonable issues.
This is the way I understand it. In anthropormorphic terms, the Christian version of God is an artist. Like all artists he likes to create interesting and beautiful works.
First, God created the universe for himself as dynamic work of beautiful art. Its purpose by was to please him with its grandeur. It was not necessarily made in order to create life. It was not created in the image of God.
He then decided to create the first life forms on Earth as his second work of art to please Him with their fascinating evolution. They were also not created in the image of God.
He then created humankind as his third work of art to please him as the first life form with advanced intellect and imagination. Humankind was said to be created in the “image of God.” This implies a closer connection with God than inanimate universe or ordinary animals have. Most important it implies that humankind has dominion over animals and over inanimate objects. Thus that is why religion is human-centric rather than animal-centric or universe-centric. (Even without religious considerations, I’m not sure why anybody would want to equate the importance of us humans with ordinary animals or with rocks.)
Under this simple three-stage scenario, the timing of human creation and size of their universe would have no particular bearing on the nature of humankind’s belief in a Creator God.
Why would you create one universe when you could create an infinite variety of universes?
Why would you create one species when you can create millions of intelligent, feeling species?
Why you interfere in your creation by sending down your "son", rather than just letting the creations play out? Remember you can create an infinite number of all varieties
Why would you insert an "eternal soul" into the creatures you create, when it's cleaner to just have them live out their life and pass into the cosmic memory of that universe? Why have them survive death and send them permanently to either paradise or torture?
Why would such a vastly creative, beauty loving being who can create infinite universes, send down 10 holy commandments to one particular tribe, one of which is to obey the person whose balls produced the sperm that created you?
Why would says that creations who become attracted to the wrong gender are an abomination?
Why the **** would God send down a law that you can't eat a herbivore that doesn't spew up and re-chew its food? (i.e. that fails to chew its cud - the reason pigs are forbidden)?
Why would you suspend the laws of physics to make it rain for weeks, to flood the world and drown everything?
Do you see the problem here? A God of your scale wouldn't do the kind of things that are attributed to him, nor would he tell people about it. Why would he? We know that now because we know more about the universe, morality, philosophy. Meanwhile, primitive tribes from the bronze age would certainly and absolutely and repeatedly make up these stories about the supposed acts of powerful beings that look exactly like what we see in bible. They fit with their prejudices, morality and view of the world.