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[ Indeed. But it only has to be "decided" by whoever is making the assertion. There's no requirement of consensus. ]

If you want to invent your own God, thats O.K..
Its done all the time..
WHich is my point.. I believe..

The/A "word" for the God meme will be filled.. even if its several words..

The GOD concept is pregnant..
Bearing philisophical progeny..

Ignored it if you must but you will not murder it..
That concept is transcendant.. like bubbles in wine..
Even denied a humans God will surface anyway..
Some to frothy logic.. others to cogent opinion..

Thank you so very much for the ping to this interesting sidebar, dear brother in Christ!

Truly, God is not a hypothesis. He lives. His name is I AM. And I've known Him personally for half a century and counting.

And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. – Exodus 3:14

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. – John 8:58

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. – Romans 8:9

People who think of Him as a hypothesis either do not know Him at all - or are trying to comprehend Him with their puny, mortal minds. Truly, any thing they could so comprehend would merely be an anthropomorphism of God, a false "god" of their imagination.

Man is NOT the measure of God.

Job and his friends tried to be the measure of God - they were speaking words without knowledge - and God responded in chapters 38-41. Job's reaction:

Then Job answered the LORD, and said, I know that thou canst do every [thing], and [that] no thought can be withholden from thee. Who [is] he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes. - Job 42:1-6

To God be the glory!