Interesting? The word is in the title of this thread. The subject matter itself is on that very topic. And my use of the word in a message is "interesting"?
I suppose we can also say that God has "evolved" as well...from the worship of gods of fire, war, etc....
Beats me, man. From what I've read, the last time God tapped anyone to speak on his behalf was over 2,000 years ago. He's been quiet on all matters of discussion since.
Ancient cultures used to believe that a god existed only as long as he had followers. So, in a way, gods are also subject to evolution- those that cannot adapt to new spiritual environments end up dying out.
I don't think we can say that, Raven, unless you imagine (after Feuerbach and Marx) that God is only a construct or projection of the human imagination; i.e., a comforting fiction. If we want to speak of fiction here, we need to explain the persistence and universality of this particular fiction. For the earliest clear signs of religious imagination date back some forty-two millennia; e.g., the Lascaux cave paintings in the French Pyrenees.... plus we would have to account for the sheer universality of religious belief and experience ever since.
I imagine that it makes no sense at all to apply "evolution" -- a temporal process -- to a Being Who is not in time (i.e., God is eternal).
What I think we can say, however, is the way human beings symbolize God "evolves"....