Questioning Deity
It’s been some time since I’ve updated with any actual content. To confess, that’s because I’ve been lazy ever since class began.
“Questioning Deity” is a subject that has been on my mind for some time now. Obviously, with a blog such as this, it’s safe to assume that I take the position that multiple deities exist. By its very nature, this point of view brings about some questions. Questions that are well needed, as one should never blindly accept.
The first is the most obvious question, and it’s not one that I have an answer to anymore than the next person. It’s “Why?”. Why are they interested at all? Which leads to, “What kind of investment do they have in either the human race or in the Earth itself?”. Or, are they simply responding philanthropically? Or is it a matter of what we would see on our own scale: responding to a species that needs some sort of protection as one would take in a lost animal?
I don’t feel as though it’s the latter, but the question is posted as I’m sure that others would wonder about it.
The question that has been knocking on my thoughts the most, however, is, “What’s the point?”. Humans die, after all, and gods exist for aeons. Does this then make it a requirement that the gods have an interest in the planet itself and/or in the progress of the human race as a whole, or is it simply that deities care about individual humans?
I do believe that some certainly care about the individual. A few deities are simply too compassionate to be responding solely to “the bigger picture”, though of course that must be a concern of their’s.
Also, why is it that deities tend to appear in human form? Not only that, but they seem to have ethnicities about them. Is this merely a manifestation that they choose; a means of representing themselves uniquely to us so that we know which one it is that we’re interacting with? Is it not impossible for a deity to have an actual, human form - let alone an ethnicity of any sort?
What, then, are their true forms? Does it actually matter (I think not, ultimately)?
I even must wonder about their “day to day” going ons. Certainly, deities do not exist solely for us. They exist because they do, just as humans exist because we do. So what is their existence? Do they have a world (or worlds) upon which they exist, or do they float through some energy or ethereal “place”?
What is it that deities do when they are not interacting with the Earth in some way? After all, a being that exists must exist in some way. Since they are obviously not there specifically to respond to us silly humans, they must have ‘a life’ of some sort, in some way.
This is something that I’m very, very curious about.
That’s enough rambling from me today, though. Consider this food for thought. Mull over these questions for awhile in regard to your own deity, if you have one.
~Steph
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