There is always a big issue with how someone misuses a definition of a word, just because the connotation of it is negative. Jealousy IS the love that you think of when you think of God. He yearns for us so much and wants us to only want Him, because He is that all powerful, all knowing being that you are told He is and He knows what is best for his creation. His character is to love us so much that He would provide for us the best, because that is all he knows. The only way for us to experience who God is isn’t to make up in our minds whatever we want Him to be, otherwise you do get a god that doesn’t fit the real God in the Bible. We have to seek the real God and all Him to reveal himself to us. If that is not the focus, we create a god that seems so human, so imperfect. It ends up becoming a story of the blind leading the blind. In that sense, you are sort of right that God did not send Jesus to create a religion, he came to bring us closer to the Father so we can experience that love that so many misunderstand. We simply have to want to know Him, not try to make up what we think He is incorrectly.
Essentials: the attributes of God, the teaching of the Trinity, and Christology.
You keep talking about the real God, but isn't the real God up to the beholder? Why is it that God must be anything or anybody other than what people need him (or her or it) to be?
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Why would someone find solace in an idea? wouldn't it be more comforting to think about God as being real? Your idea of leaving God up to the beholder is like kids telling their parents how to raise them. God is everything that people need them to be, but moreso He knows what we need better than we do. God tells us multiple times (Deuteronomy 31:6, Joshua 1:9) that He is with us wherever we go, and to not be afraid. An idea can't protect us, but a real uncreated being could and does. We can't think of him as someone with human qualities, otherwise our thoughts of him are downsized into something as meaningless as what you have developed. God doesn't have a loving personality. He IS love, and can't do anything otherwise. He also is righteous, holy, perfect. These aren't His personality, these are all He knows. Would you rather that be an idea or truth? I know I'd find comfort in someone like that actually existing.
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