Assuming God exists, (S)He is essentially only human. Yay or nay?

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God made man in his own image. In regards to your second answer jesus, god and the holy spirit are one in the same. In regards to the entire post humans are the result of over 3 billion years of evolution, please nobody reply to this as I'm not getting into a debate about evolution again with a bunch of fucking idiots.

This poll is a massive facepalm. Can't believe people are giving serious answers.

Here is one way you can view prayers...
If you pray for patience, God will not just give it to you, He will give you the opportunity to express or find patience.

As for injustices going on today, I think it's pointless when people say "why does God let bad shit happen?" because we really DON'T know what a hypothetical god does and does not let happen. For all we know, the world could be this bad even with His damage control, and the world would be 10x worse if He weren't intervening. Horrible things could be happening to prevent even worse things from happening. You could say, if He was all-powerful He could stop both from happening. Sure, that's true, but maybe He created His own guidelines to work within; His own rules in some cosmic game where He's the only player, if that makes sense. He chooses put the limitations on Himself, for one reason or another, but there is still nothing external that can limit Him.

This is not an argument for the existence of a god, just an alternate view I feel the need to point out.

All of that could apply to any hypothetical god, but the rest of what I'm about to say refers to the Christian God.

"Re: punishment - I don't believe there is such a thing as an unfair one."

I get the sense that you're mainly referencing Christianity (sorry if that's not the case), and I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding (or disagreement?) with this Biblical principle: God is not a fair God. If He were fair, we'd ALL be in Hell because according to the Bible that's what we all deserve. He is not obligated to save any of us, but because He is merciful He will save those who seek Him. (I'm not necessarily stating my beliefs here, just stating what the Bible says).

"If there really is only ONE God who made humankind, then surely He must have some human essence."

I don't see why that has to be true, but maybe I'm just missing something.

"He is more than likely not as wonderful as we would like to think."

I ponder on this a lot, actually. It goes back to the old Greek question, are the gods holy or did they create holiness? If holiness exists independently of God, does that mean He's not all-powerful? If God created holiness, does that mean He's an arbitrary God, and He simply gets to decide what is good/bad based on His own whims or agenda, therefore nothing is essentially holy? It's a paradox.

The Bible is clear about one thing, though, even if modern Christians choose to ignore doctrine in favor a fluffy, feel-good Christianity. "Evil" is simply anything that is not what God wants. People almost never set out to do evil things. Someone could have the best intentions and look like saints to other people, and still be considered evil by God. Sinning is simply missing the mark. Your average person would probably be considered "evil," right along with your Hitlers and serial killers. It's a lot harsher than most Christians are willing to admit.

Sorry for the rambling, I just ponder this stuff a lot and like to hear what other people think. I'm also always interested to hear if I've overlooked something or if there's a counter argument to what I say, so feel free to reply.

I personally prefer the vengeful, hair-trigger tempered God of the Old Testament by far. The New Testament suffers from typical sequel problems and limitations imo.

hes an na'vi

i think god is manic depressive and that we're his favorites. i have a lot of thoughts on what god might be but i don't think i can explain them all here...