Forge of Creation

Of Gods and Mortals

Is it pos­si­ble that our defi­ni­tion of God has chan­ged over the last 10,000 years?

Could it be that the ori­gi­nal mea­ning of the word God was “a mas­ter more powerful/intelligient than anyone else we have encoun­te­red”? or even “the strong guy that wields light­ning and orders us around a lot”? and that through cen­tu­ries of encoun­ters with god and story­te­lling about these expe­rien­ces we have embe­llished to the point of dei­fi­ca­tion? It would explain a lot…

Gods power is sup­po­sed to be unli­mi­ted, but was it?. The 3 Omni’s are desc­ri­bed in theo­logy: Omni­po­tence (limit­less power), omnis­cience (limit­less know­ledge), and omni­pre­sence (unli­mi­ted in space and time). None of these words are actually men­tio­ned in the scrip­tu­res, but are Latin deri­va­ti­ves of the words used in the bible to desc­ribe God’s power, know­ledge and pre­sence, no won­der Chris­tians have come to believe the powers of God are unlimited.

As the late Sir Arthur C. Clark has said, “any suf­fi­ciently advan­ced tech­no­logy is indis­tin­guisha­ble from magic.”  And truly, the 3 Omnis can each be desc­ri­bed by some form of tech­no­logy that can even today be envi­sio­ned by us mor­tals. Howe­ver, the god desc­ri­bed in most reli­gious wri­tings is mis­sing at least one if not all of these qua­li­ties. Good and evil aside, the powers of god lis­ted (or infe­rred) in scrip­ture are simply a level of rela­tive attain­ment that is somewhat above that of man­kind and can­not be called abso­lute because they are lacking.

As a pro­po­sed God, one should have:
1) The abi­lity to tra­vel ins­tan­ta­neously (and indeed be simul­ta­neously exis­ted) to any point in time and space (wormhole and/or time tra­vel tech­no­logy) 
2) Have all know­ledge at one’s dis­po­sal (ins­tant access to a cos­mic rela­tio­nal data­base of correct infor­ma­tion that encom­pas­ses all past and future rea­lity).
3) Have the power to con­trol all the energy of not just a local solar sys­tem (see type 1 civi­li­za­tion as desc­ri­bed on the Kar­dashev scale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale), but also have the power of the uni­verse (type 4) at their disposal.

So.

Who or what was he? The pos­si­ble choi­ces range from an extre­mely astute and resour­ce­ful man, to a fairly inte­lli­gient and savvy being from another civi­li­za­tion. We have no hard evi­dence that alien life ever visi­ted our pla­net, but neither do we have any that a being that could be God exists. Scien­tists are con­vin­ced that we have had the same rela­tive men­tal capa­city for the last 40,000 years. This capa­city has built the atom bomb and wal­ked on the moon. Could not one of us have con­vin­ced the rest of us that he need be worship­ped? By the accounts desc­ri­bed in sac­red records of all reli­gions, I expect that someone had some really great advan­ced tech­no­logy at their dis­po­sal or we would not have these accounts to remind us of the power of god. We have no evi­dence that man­kind had it, so I expect one day we will find out that some of our galac­tic neigh­bors were “pla­ying god” in their spare time.

I do not dis­pute the notion that a truly omni-powerful being that could be called “God” in the clas­sic sense can exist. Rather, I doubt that such a being could have any need at all, let alone to help us to reach “his” level. Nor would he have any need of our worship.  the crea­tion of the earth is no more or less sig­ni­fi­cant than a given grain of sand on any beach, a super­nova, or the big bang.

I also do not dis­pute the idea that our spi­rits are self-aware and thus indes­truc­ta­ble. There is more evi­dence both scien­ti­fic and inci­den­tal that our spi­rits do not die with our bodies, but rather follow the birth of the next in line as desc­ri­bed by rein­car­na­tion. This follows the first law of ther­mody­na­mics sta­ting that energy is not crea­ted nor des­tro­yed but moves from one sys­tem to another. Our self awa­re­ness is the energy that moves from one mor­tal being to another…plausible but not proven.

It is reli­gion that I dis­pute and con­si­der worth­less. It has been the means by which man­kind has ens­la­ved and corrup­ted ever­yone and everything of value. It gives power to a select few at the expense of growth for the whole of mankind.