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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

God as a Character

Some people think of god as a big part of their life. Other people think of god as something many people believe in, but they believe is fake. But, it is interesting to look at God as a character in a book rather than a possibly real, all-knowing, powerful being. I always thought of God as a sort of nice, caring, person who calmly made things happen. I never really knew if I believed in god but that didn't matter. Looking at God as a character in a novel made me change my view on God a little. I noticed that God is very physically strong and can get very angry. He made an entire flood destroy all life out of pure anger. God as a character is also not perfect, which is very interesting and can be controversial to people. In the beginning of Exodus, god makes mistakes about the humans. They eat the forbidden fruit, which he didn't want them to do. God is also characterized as a forgiving person, which is not contradicting to what I previously believed. This is shown in the orange and yellow branches of the mind map above. The characterization of god is slightly different to what I previously believed. He is not as calm as I believed. Looking at God as a character really helps to understand how he is shown in the bible. Thinking of him as real makes us biased because we want to believe that he is perfect and does everything right, but looking at him as a character we can see the imperfections. This is very interesting because now I realize that I may be biased to real people in my own life. If these were characters in a book, I would view them differently than I do right now. Of course they would be characterized similar to how I feel, but there would be differences, just like the characterization of god.