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God: A Biography: Q&A
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Question:
Thank you for allowing me to read this book, I thoroughly enjoyed it, it was well written and obviously well researched. The question I would have for Jack Miles:
The premise of your book seems to be that God was vengeful and overreacted to the sin of Adam and Eve, and though He continued to be a warrior God, somewhere in history He changed His mind or personality and became "kinder and gentler". Was it ever a consideration that His gift of "free will" was His true mistake, with free will and the presence of Satan, making it almost impossible for human beings to be faithful, requiring God to find another way to save His creation?
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In the Genesis story of the creation of the human species, no reference is made to free will as such. However, at first, God places no restrictions whatsoever on the activity of the first human couple, and later he does, which may reflect some concern on his part. At first, he prohibits nothing. His only two commands are both positive: [1] "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and [2] subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that mov
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God: A Biography
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1). so, my favorite video game of all time is pillars of eternity. I think it’s pretty neat. there are lots of things I love about it, but one of its most interesting themes, in my opinion, is the way the narrative handles its theology.
(I am about to spoil pillars of eternity here btw, assuming that most people don’t care, but it really is a wonderful game and you should play it if it appeals to you.)
you go through this whole story, right, the setup to which involves a lot of “gods messing around in mortal affairs,” and towards the latter half of the game–and in the dlc–you even get to converse with some of the gods personally. most of them are at best petty, at worst wholly immature. there’s this sense of frustration, yeah, when you finally have the opportunity to talk to them, after all this time dealing with the consequences of their actions, and the only thing you can get out of them (despite the richly varied dialogue tree) is a sense of self-righteous obfuscation. and then–
and then!
right at the end of the game, just before the climax, you discover something: there are no gods. not really. millenia ago, a technologically advanced civilization, tired of existential uncert