The book of Genesis opens with God making humans “in his image and likeness.”
The truth is more probably that Man in creating God thought of the most powerful attribute to give to Him and arrived at that of omnipotence.
He imagined an omnipotent deity to be unique because an omnipotent being would not tolerate other omnipotent beings and therefore this deity would also be supreme.
The next step up would be omniscience, for an omnipotent deity would naturally know everything and a being that knows everything with the capacity to do anything would surely desire to be morally perfect.
Being omnipotent, a rational God would also make Himself morally perfect, and of course an omnipotent God would be rational.
And so the Abrahamic God was created.
The truth is more probably that Man in creating God thought of the most powerful attribute to give to Him and arrived at that of omnipotence.
He imagined an omnipotent deity to be unique because an omnipotent being would not tolerate other omnipotent beings and therefore this deity would also be supreme.
The next step up would be omniscience, for an omnipotent deity would naturally know everything and a being that knows everything with the capacity to do anything would surely desire to be morally perfect.
Being omnipotent, a rational God would also make Himself morally perfect, and of course an omnipotent God would be rational.
And so the Abrahamic God was created.
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