[MineralMan]

"If you look at the worldful of religions, there can at most be one which isn't the result of man reverse explaining like this. C. S. Lewis put it nicely when he says that the answer of history to the query "well, what other kind of God would you believe in, if you believed in one at all" is "almost any other kind.""

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Well, if you look at the word of religions, it's pretty clear that mankind creates deities in its own image again and again. Some religions, of course, substitute animals as deities, but the major religions all have deities with human attributes. Some have just one. Others have several, each with a nice, neat human task to perform.

[zeeba neighba]

but the major religions all have deities with human attributes.

The God of the bible does not have a human nature. Jesus did of course, but only after the Incarnation.

[The Red Zone]

The unified deities are rare, and the creation account for all but one -- the bible's -- begins as though something else existed with the deity. The Coyoteman can furnish us with any number of these tales. The Hebrew story prevails out of proportion to its initial readership, not because of chance but because of logic.