To be a god is to be perceived exactly as you want to be, with no effort to present yourself as anything other than what you perceive yourself to be.
Everybody else must solve for appearances. The effort required is a measure of your non-divinity.
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This doesn't comport with the Christian experience, wherein humans continually mistake, misinterpret, turn away from, and generally misperceive God.
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That’s one of the many reasons Christianity (and all traditional religions) are basically wrong.
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Humans cannot perceive with divine clarity, without divine assistance/exception (e.g. Abraham on Sinai). Must gods by your definition not want to be perceived as they want to present themselves?
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I should note you are arguing with a strident atheist so I start from very different basic presumptions about the nature of the so-called divine 🙂
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Most definitely, which partially contributes to my curiosity, since "perception" is a two party process.
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So since I don’t believe actual gods exist... that leaves only 3 possibilities re: nature of counterparty
Humans who think they are gods
Projections by humans onto the non-human
Fallacious constructions
2 of which can potentially fit my definition with some work

