“living” imply?”
In the case of our “living” God, this does not imply that “living” involves a human being. In contrast, our “living” God may be compared to that of the dead, such as the Greek gods. God our Creator is eternal.
“The Gods did not create the universe, or the world, out of nothing. That is more than a little preposterous.”
You’re correct. God created the universe.
“Instead, they organized the elements into the world that we know.”
Now that is preposterous. You stated that, “You cannot have life without DNA, without form, without emotion and feeling”, and suggest that living beings “organized the elements into the world that we know”?
I find it interesting that with all man has accomplished, he has not been able to create, or recreate for that matter, another universe let alone “organize” elements to form a “world” as complex as our own.
Here is an illustration:
Get Your Own
One day a group of scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one scientist to go and tell Him that they were done with Him.
The scientist walked up to God and said, “God, we’ve decided that we no longer need you. We’re to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don’t you just go on and get lost?”
God listened very patiently and kindly to the man. After the scientist was done talking, God said, “Very well, how about this? Let’s say we have a man-making contest.” To which the scientist replied, “Okay, great!”
But, God added, “Now, we’re going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam.”
The scientist said, “Sure, no problem” and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt.
God looked at him and said, “No, no, no. You go get your own dirt.”