Can theists' God regain the greatness some of their own would diminish?

Question

From a dear theist friend. Opinions?
"We make His essence dependent on the primitive and cruel writings and traditions of bygone priest-classes with their own agenda. We besmirch His name by insulting the intellectual pursuit of truth in science if it contradicts already contradictory references. When science comes up with a solution that undoes scriptural interpretation, we have to invent yet another metaphor to cover our absurd meanderings, e..g., the days of Genesis, the solar system, etc. In this the doubters are correct, we have reduced Him to be “God of the Gaps.” And each gap that science closes demonstrates our folly.

We are disrespectful of His great gift of discernment, on which our free will depends.

I suggest that God is not defined by our ignorance. He fits gloriously within any future achievement of science – whether in physics or evolutionary science.

To conceive of a discovery that would diminish God, is to have already diminished Him."

Tonymrep:
Perhaps so, but is that all you read into it? I'm not a believer, but I think his attitude could raise the level of discussion.

Answer 1

A-F'N-MEN

To blindly follow a book written by people who did not know that bathing was a good thing is just silly. God gave us free will, intelligence and reason..to turn away from these gifts is to spit in God's face. To refuse to study the universe is to deny the greatness of creation. I have always believed that scientists may in some ways be the most devout people on Earth for trying to understand the wondrous creation all around us in detail...so enamored of God's work scientists want to see every single part of it.

Answer 2

God cannot be dimished.

If, in thier minds and hearts, people diminish God, then people are in fact only increasing thier ignorance and blindness.

How can God compare to anything conceivable by man?

Any wonderous discovery or idea, is in fact a testimony to the Glory of God, even moreso in that anything glorious or amazing or wonderful in this world is the but the dim echo in this shadowy cave of somthing that in its own sphere is beyond comprehension in the scope of its glory and wonder.

People that cling to aged ideas do so because they are afraid to be present in the Living experience, and they are afraid of what this would do to thier precious and pendantic conceptions, and rightly so, for they would be shattered.

Definitions of God are a fools game. Ideas about God are an amusement for those to afraid to seek God out and Know him.

People project thier own ignorance and fear onto the One Untainted and Perfect thing, because they have no other way to understand it, God is beyond reckoning.

Answer 3

Pedantic