It may, or may not be, helpful to retrace the path that I took to come up with my 3rd Question to Bharat.
Bharat wrote to riversea, in another thread now closed: “Panpsychism provides a basis for defining God–which is the common refrain of all religions. All matter has consciousness. The Collective Consciousness of all matter–including you and me–that is God. This idea that “we make God” though our collective consciousness is, in my understanding, consistent with the scriptures but against their popular interpretations.”
Note that 'humans making God through our collective consciousness" is something that Bharat thinks scripture “says”, except that, in fact, no Christian scripture that I know of says that. In other words, IMO, he’s making stuff up and spreading nonsense.
riversea glommed on to what he said and now wants to know:
To be clear, and in response to your observation, the God that I–and, I believe–the majority of orthodox Christians affirm and trust in is indeed constant and not evolving. But Bharat clearly does not believe that is true. Ergo, I agree with you wholeheartedly (fancy that! ): it’s an axiom of Christianity.
Regarding your willingness to entertain the possibility that God has “has evolved along side humans”, Yahweh don’t evolve regardless what the others do. What use does anyone have for a god who is barely a little more clever than us human beings and evolving? Hardly the kind of god that I want to be the “ground of my being”.
): it’s an axiom of Christianity.