<sf> wrote in message ...
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:56:23 -0700, Mark Thorson >
> wrote:
>
>>sf wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:39:29 -0700, Mark Thorson >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >If I were God, I'd make you sneeze again.
>>> >
>>> >Just for bothering me. And you'd better
>>> >not say it again after the second sneeze,
>>> >or you're getting a thunderbolt.
>>>
>>> Aha, so you'd be a micro-managing, vengeful god that smites everyone
>>> over small stuff.
>>
>>When you're ubiquitous and omnipresent, you can
>>do those things, none of which means you won't be
>>easily irritated. The Biblical god is like that.
>
> I prefer the updated version of a forgiving god.
>

There's no reason why God can't be myriad things, including all of those. I
have a hard time thinking any single book, even the Bible, has a correct
"version" of the Divine Being.