The question of God, Part I

Like many others, the question of who God is intrigues me. Not what he is, but who he is. Sure, he is the creator of the universe, the alpha and the omega, referred to by several names throughout the bible and, he with a capital H.

We were created in the image and likeness of God. Is that likeness limited to only our physical image, or are our humanly traits and needs a reflection of his? Perhaps "image" refers to our physical appearance, and "likeness" speaks of a deeper form of similiarity?

Of course, our nature has been corrupted by sin, but what if our innate desires - apart from our inherent *cough* need to pro-create, of course - are a reflection of God's desires? What am I talking about? Let's say, our need for companionship. Our fear of solitude, true solitude. Why did God even create us in the first place? Companionship. Our desire to be appreciated, to be praised. God created us to praise him. Is that a sin? Isn't that conceitedness? But how can one be called conceited if one is the highest being?

God is said to be perfect. He is perfect, I have no doubt of that, but is that only because there is no other being worthy to be compared with him? Of course he is perfect, everything is created by him. With whom do we benchmark him against? Lucifer? Arguably the most beautiful and powerful of all creation, fell short of his glory and was banished to earth. Simply put, Lucifer lost.

God created everything. He set the standards. He defined what was good, and what wasn't. Any flaws that he might have are considered "character traits", not flaws. He is a jealous God, openly admitting that in the Third Commandent. He also bears grudges, and dishes out punishments with a swift and strong hand. Example? Read the Third Commandent, "..visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, ..". Hell, the fact that we were born with sin shows the extent of his grudge bearing. Adam and Eve sinned, their descendents, us, are born with sin. Like, what the hell?

Allow me to digress a little, but, I'm really of the opinion that God should have killed those 2, and started over. Which was better, killing two? Or flooding the entire world save Noah and his family? And which is better, sparing Noah and his family to retain sin's bloodline, or kill all of them off and start over with an untainted creation? And which was smarter, planting the tree of knowledge of good and evil outside of the garden of Eden, or planting it where it was accessible to Adam and Eve and warn them not to eat of its fruit. Which would have been a better choice? To banish Lucifer and his blasted minions to earth with God's spanking new creation or to skip the transit and send the whole lot of them straight to hell? Speaking of choice, that must have been the reason why God did the previous two. How can he claim to give us free choice if he doesn't provide the alternative? Is God also bounded by rules? Why must God allow us free choice if in his omniscience he should have known that we would screw up? Why give the Ten Commandents when later down the road one of his servants would write in the bible that it is impossible for Man to please God with his own strength, meaning it is bloody impossible for Man to keep the Ten Commandents! Why set rules if you know they WILL be broken?

Is God following a pre-defined script? That events have to happen in a certain chronological order :

1) Create angels in the knowledge that one would rise against Him, and with the rebellion 1/3 of the angels will fall, effectively creating an alternative to God.

2) Create man perfect, give them the choice of obeying Him and not eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, or to eat of the fruit and ...

I'm tired .. Christians will know the events that I was supposed to list. But of course would be screaming bloody blasphemy.

I was supposed to be talking about the personality of God and the similarities between God and man. So let me resume.

God has dominion over all things created, and he placed Man above the "fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepts on the earth"(NKJV). Similar form of dominiance?

It's 3am .. I'll continue another day. Shit, did I mention, I'm a Christian, and no I have not turned apostate.