God is a concept fundamental to our human intelligence.
To understand God, we would first need to view theology as a study having two genres.
The first genre is 'The Old Testament'. We will refer to it here as Old Theology. It is the study of our old way of thinking, which religious texts define as our old lifestyle, old righteousness, or old covenant with God.
The second genre is 'The New Testament'. We will refer to it here as New Theology. It is the study of our new way of thinking, which religious texts define as our new lifestyle, new righteousness, or new covenant with God.
From the very beginning, as a species, our intelligence was basic, and our reasoning, barbaric. We had no civilization. We created Old Theology to derive a way of thinking that would elevate our basic intelligence from barbarism to a civil culture. Old Theology derived a design based on an imagination called God. Here is why.
Being primal, we were as children, having only a physical understanding of our world. Proving to us the existence of thoughts or logic was next to impossible. Everything we knew of our existence revolved around our five basic animal senses, as defined by the Culture of Biology. We had little to no imagination to be intellectual, and so Old Theology designed for us an imaginary role model. It defined higher intelligence as a God.
God was a Being, all-wise and all-knowing, superior to us in size and strength, and living somewhere we could reach imaginatively but never physically. God had a physiology according as each culture could relate. God had legs to walk the earth, arms to fight our battles, eyes to judge our faithfulness, a mouth to speak our blessings, ears to hear our prayers, and nostrils to signify God had breath. Our obedience to the words spoken by God, which basically were commandments to make us civil, made our lives better, so much we became obsessed with acquiring higher intelligence, an obsession that made religion invaluable.
Our old way of thinking, designed by Old Theology, worked well in fulfilling its purpose, which was to elevate our way of thinking. Formerly barbaric and uncivilized, we now were a species with a civilization, also an enhanced imagination, able to build advanced societies and to create much goodness, but regrettably also much evil.
Our evil inventiveness made it clear, that as children playing in an unfamiliar environment of intelligence, we would one day, foolishly orchestrate our own extinction. Our old way of thinking could not save us from this destiny. What we needed was a new way of thinking, and so necessitated the creation of New Theology, to derive for us a new way of thinking. Old Theology had done its duty and become redundant, having no purpose but a point of reference. New Theology was the way forward. The following text from the Christian religion tell us.
The Holy Bible:
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. (Hebrews 8:7 KJV).
Let us contrast Old and New Theology.
Old Theology had derived and centred our old way of thinking on the concept of God. New theology likewise has derived and centred our new way of thinking on the concept of God. New Theology is a reinvention of Old Theology, but rather than inventing new tools to facilitate a new thing, New Theology has opted to redefine the tools of Old Theology, for easier communication of an intellectual process. For example, both Theologies define God as higher intelligence, but while Old Theology defined God as a Supreme Being, New Theology has defined God as a Spirit.
The Old God was physical or “of the flesh” because we had poor imagination, unable to understand anything outside the scope of our basic animal senses. The New God is intellectual or “of the spirit” because we now understand logic. A spirit is a character, a behaviour, a lifestyle, or a way of thinking.
This redefinition of God, maintaining the same vocabulary but having a different application, is the major obstacle to our accurate interpretations and understandings of the texts of Theology. Every person interested in the knowledge of Theology should note the difference, that the God of Old Theology is unlike the God of New Theology, and interpreting the texts of The New Testament within context of the God of The Old Testament leads to delusional discourses and the creation of selfsame applications.
This new definition of God conclusively means that everything formerly associated with the word ‘God’, now has a new meaning, a new understanding, also a new user experience, while maintaining the same vocabulary. The following chapter provides us with a few examples.
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