Thursday, January 04, 2024

Anthropocentric deities?

Indeed, considering that the gods and goddesses of Mesopotamia—the supernatural entities which governed the ancient mind and behavior—were human-made, fantasized products, it is not surprising that basically these uncanny figures mirrored the men and women who created them. The Mesopotamian conception of the divine can, thus, be considered anthropocentric, since it centered on and was constructed after the human model in form and essence.—Tallay Ornan in What Is a God?, 151

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I had a seminary professor who used to say, when you reason from the given to the divine, this is what you get. He would then contrast that with the biblical revelation.
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