What would you do If you were a God or Goddess? What would your people call your religion? Just a curious?

Question

Just wondering I would not take this question offensive. Besides we can not be god snice the snake try to Get Adam and Eve to think that. But, Just a QUESTION want if you were a GOD?

Think of the power you have.

Answer 1

As a priestess of a coven I am a goddess every full moon when I am acting as priestess. I become her avatar, the name of the tradition doesn't change I just embody her and her energies. What a rush! As to the Adam and Eve thing read this:

(2:16) Then Yahweh God gave the man this admonition, "You may eat indeed of all the trees in the garden. (2:17) Nevertheless of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you are not to eat, for on the day you eat of it you shall most surely die." Fateful words, those. We will refer back to this admonition later.

Then Yahweh decides to make a woman to go with the man. Now, don't forget that the Pantheon had earlier created a whole population of people, "male and female," who are presumably doing just fine somewhere "outside the gates of Eden." But this set-up in Eden is Yahweh's own little experiment, and will unfold to its own separate destiny. (2:21) So Yahweh God made the man fall into a deep sleep. And while he slept, he took one of his ribs and enclosed it in flesh. (2:22) Yahweh God built the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. Right. Man gives birth to woman. Sure he does. But that's the way the story is told here. (2:25) Now both of them were naked, the man and his wife, but they felt no shame in front of each other. Well, of course not! Why should they? But take careful note of those words, as they also will prove to be significant...

Now this next part is where it starts to get interesting. Enter the Serpent: (Gen. 3:1) The serpent was the most subtle of all the wild beasts that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, "Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?" (3:2) The woman answered the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. (3:3) "But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, 'You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." (3:4) Then the serpent said to the woman, "No! You will not die! (3:5) "God knows in fact that on the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil." What a remarkable statement! "Your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil." The Serpent directly contradicts Yahweh. Obviously, one of them has to be lying. Which one, do you suppose? And, if the serpent speaks true, wouldn't you wish to eat of the magic fruit? Wouldn't it be a good thing, to become "like gods, knowing good and evil"? Or is it preferable to remain in ignorance?

(Gen. 3:6) The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was desirable for the knowledge that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She gave some also to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. (3:7) Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realized that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together to make themselves loincloths. The author makes an interesting assumption here: that if you realize you are naked you will automatically want to cover yourself. Further implications will unfold shortly...

(Gen. 3:8) The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. (3:9) But Yahweh God called to the man. "Where are you?" he asked. (3:10) "I heard the sound of you in the garden," he replied. "I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid." (3:11) "Who told you that you were naked?" he asked. "Have you been eating of the tree I forbade you to eat?"

And so the sign of the Fall becomes modesty. Take note of this. The descendants of Adam and Eve will be distinguished throughout history from virtually all other peoples by their obsessive modesty taboos, wherein they will feel ashamed of being naked. It follows that those who feel no shame in being naked are, by definition, not carriers of this spiritual disease of original sin!

(Gen. 3:12) The man replied, "It was the woman you put with me; she gave me the fruit, and I ate it." Right. Blame the woman. What a turkey! (3:13) Then Yahweh God asked the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman replied, "The serpent tempted me and I ate." So of course she blames the serpent. But just what did the serpent do that was so evil? Why, he called Yahweh a liar! Was he wrong? Let's see... (3:21) Yahweh God made clothes out of skins for the man and his wife, and they put them on. Out of skins? This means that Yahweh had to kill some innocent animals to pander to Adam and Eve's new obsession with modesty!

And now we come to the crux of the Fall. Yahweh had said back there in chapter (2:17), regarding the fruit of the tree of knowledge, that "on the day you eat of it you shall most surely die." The Serpent, on the other hand, had contradicted Yahweh in chapter (3:4-5): "No! You will not die! God knows in fact that on the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil." So what actually happened? Who lied and who told the truth about this remarkable fruit? The answer is given in the next verse: (3:22) Then Yahweh God said, "See, the man has become like one of us, with his knowledge of good and evil. He must not be allowed to stretch his hand out next and pick from the tree of life also, and eat some and live forever."

Get that? Yahweh himself admits that he had lied! In fact, and in Yahweh's own words, the Serpent spoke the absolute truth! And moreover, Yahweh tells the rest of the Pantheon that he intends to evict Adam (and presumably Eve as well) to keep them from gaining immortality to go with their newly-acquired divine knowledge. To prevent them, in other words, from truly becoming gods! So who, in this story, comes off as a benefactor of humanity, and who comes off as a tyrant? THE SERPENT NEVER LIED!

Nearly all of our ancestral tribes (and especially those of us who today are reclaiming our own Pagan heritage) lack that peculiar obsessive body modesty that seems to be a hallmark of the original sin alluded to in the story of the Fall. We can be naked and unashamed! Why, our Goddess even tells us, "as a sign that you are truly free, you shall be naked in your rites." Not being born into sin, we have no need of salvation, and no need of a Messiah to redeem our sinful souls.

Answer 2

I would obliterate everyone BUT the musicians, artists, writers and food artisans and keep around a few little drones to appreciate and worship us. Someone has to clean, plant and pick food and do the laundry... Right?

and we would revert back to the decadent orgies of Greece and just hump and play our music and eat and drink all day and all night!

There would BE no religion because John Lennon would be there too and he would never allow that sort of thing! No Yoko though because she... was none of the above.

I would allow rap I suppose... But not before 8 am and not after 6pm and NEVER on weekends.

Answer 3

But do you truthfully feel that there are 2 creators of the universe--female and male? Or do you feel that there's particularly only one inventive drive and also you separate them into genders to make it simpler to spot with? Interesting questions. I do not feel Wicca specifies the way you need to feel in or reconcile those deities... its simply teaches its practices established at the parameters of a masculine and a female drive. How you reconcile those teachings along with your ideals approximately construction or stories with the divine is as much as you. Now, from my factor of view, it is rather seen how believing in 2 inventive forces could be simply as logical (if no longer extra so) than believing in a unmarried inventive drive. The key proposal there's sexual union. Just as a male animal unites with a feminine animal to create offspring, so the male divine would possibly unite with the feminine divine to create the universe. You see such unions in mythology stretching by way of a quantity of historic cultures, comparable to Shinto of Japan that urged that it was once the sexual union among a male and a feminine deity that created the sector. What makes you feel that there are 2 gods? Personally I feel there are lots of deities, no longer simply 2... however, I'm no longer Wiccan. The dualistic godhead has a tendency to be regularly a Wiccan thought, while different pagan religions produce other conceptions of deity, comparable to universalism (all gods are the equal god), pantheism (all of the universe is the divine take place) or polytheism (there are lots of deities). Why do I feel there are lots of? Well, I simply are not able to assume the universe containing just a unmarried all-robust entity... it is not sensible to me. How might one God create all this and if one did, would it not be a lot more logical and orderly than it's? It turns out to me that construction was once extra of a institution attempt with a few inventive forces operating with their possess detailed person agendas and a few operating at move-functions with one a further, no longer coordinated or prepared in any respect, however nonetheless lovely and stuffed with surprise. It's simply my possess knowledge and belief of the divine, despite the fact that, and I haven't any main issue accepting that others could have factors to feel in a unmarried divine being and even no divine beings in any respect! -Scarlet

Answer 4

I often pondered this thought.. I think I wouldn't be good to be God. I have my own agenda and no matter what I fantasize about doing I would mess things up real bad. I guess I would learn a lot.. and try to do my best... and probably wouldn't change a thing except kill all the terrorists with a lard bomb, and high colesterol. :) See, I would be really mean.

Answer 5

If I was a God, no thanks too much responiblity, having everyone say your on their side, be blamed for all war, being worshipped for creating a life form that doesn't want to evole further than man,

In Truth I would sit with the other Gods in Vahalla, drink and be merry

Answer 6

If I were a God? Well God does the right thing, I won't change the thing a bit, I like the way He does it. PERFECT

Answer 7

I would make pigs fly and talking dogs. There won't be any politicians and all lawyers will go to hell and I could strike anyone with my thunderbolt as I please. The nations will address me as the Grand Pumba and my religion would be called Hakuna Matata.

Answer 8

Come on...have you not read The Bible...read Exodus 20:7..."You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain....."

Answer 9

Quietus Quiescere: God of quiet and rest.

Answer 10

I am Goddess, as you apparently are God. We all share in the Divine and embody Her/His/Its qualities. My religion -- I am Pagan -- honors that in each of us.

Peace

Answer 11

If I was a God my religion would be called, Simplicity.