Do theists make god to be more than he/she really is?

Question

and if so, then by definition, he isn't god. i mean, when we love something very much, we would like to think that the thing is infinite, perfect, and every good thing about it, but from the scriptures, it doesn't seem that he is perfect. therefore if he is greater intellectually, does that warrant him the status of "god." in my opinion, a god should be omni present, omniscient, and omnipotent, and if one's missing then he/she isn't a god. idk, i just wanna hear what others think about this, especially rational theists, if they exist.

Answer 1

Yes, they do.

A "rational" theist is a contradiction in terms!

Answer 2

If theists were honest they would have to say that they have no more idea about God than atheists do.  By their definition, God is beyond their wildest imagination.

Answer 3

First the he/she thing!  If god is in fact real it would not have a s*x or gender.  We attach that to  God due to our own human condition.  Why would god have a s*x, does it need to breed?  Get my point?  Theists due in fact rally for god becuase that  is the nature of religion.  I have never been  to a bible study  where the people question god's biblical actions.  I don't believe in infallibility, if there is a god then I think Pascal's quote is best, "Whatever is, is right." Right?

Answer 4

Yes.  God is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent.  

Fanatics do exagerrate.  I observed this with many Christians.  They put Jesus to the place of God.  They already say He is God.  But He is just an empowered incarnation and not God Himself...

Answer 5

if you read carefully, i think this might help

-- "Their very denial of every adjective you may propose as applicable to the ultimate truth - He, the Self, the Atman, is to be described by 'No! no!' only, say the Upanishads(261) - though it seems on the surface to be a no-function, is a denial made on behalf of a deeper yes.

-- "Whoso calls the Absolute anything in particular, or says that it is this, seems implicitly to shut it off from being that - it is as if he lessened it. So we deny the 'this,' negating the negation which it seems to us to imply, in the interests of the higher affirmative attitude by which we are possessed. -

-- "The fountain-head of Christian mysticism is Dionysius the Areopagite. He describes the absolute truth by negatives exclusively:

"The cause of all things is neither soul nor intellect;

nor has it imagination, opinion, or reason, or intelligence;

nor is it reason or intelligence;

nor is it spoken or thought.

It is neither number, nor order, nor magnitude, nor littleness, *nor equality, nor inequality, nor similarity, nor dissimilarity.*

It neither stands, nor moves, nor rests... It is neither essence, nor eternity, nor time.

Even intellectual contact does not belong to it. It is neither science nor truth. It is not even royalty or wisdom; not one; not unity; not divinity or goodness; nor even spirit as we know it,' etc., ad libitum.(262)

-- But these qualifications are denied by Dionysius, not because the truth falls short of them, but because it so infinitely excels them.... It is above them.

It is super-lucent

super-splendent

super-essential

super-sublime

super everything that can be named.

Answer 6

Click this link, then click current series and listen to the podcast. It may change your mind.

http://lcbcchurch.com/