If God exist, I'm not sure how anyone can claim they know who he is. The world is filled with beliefs in God, each is right, the others wrong. Worse, even if you're sincere in your beliefs, if you're wrong, it's off to eternal torture. Admit it or not, most of us accept and follow the beliefs of the culture we're born into. Hard for me to accept a God that would eternally damn every sincere Muslim, Hindu, etc..
Seems to me man designs God to fit his cultural experience.
The bible is a hard way to know God. It you study how it was made, you know what you're reading has 1000's of additions, deletions, etc. We have no original scripts, just 1000's of copies of copies, each being changed. We know several of the NT books were not written by the said author. It's clear man changed it so much to create doctrine to fit the culture of that period for 100's of years.
Still, I like to remain humble. I follow God by my heart. more than I do words written by others. I refuse to live and judge others by a cultural code written by man to control others. Most belief systems have caused so much evil, I find it hard to see God in any of them. If God is really the way most religions portray him, I wouldn't want anything to do with him.
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