{"id":325,"date":"2007-05-30T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/blog\/archives\/325"},"modified":"2007-05-30T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T15:08:10","slug":"requirements-for-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/church\/requirements-for-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepsi vs. Coke:What Makes God, God? (Part 2 of 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are some <a href=\"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/archives\/324\">requirements for a god<\/a>? I mean, honestly just  some throw-down requirements?<\/p>\n<p>Powerful, someone might say.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But then that&#8217;s what people throughout time have ascribed to gods. The Greek and Roman gods had immense power and despicable attitudes  and, on a whim, they wreaked havoc on the lives of men. Odin was immensely  powerful and so was Thor and Loki a horrid prankster but in the end one of his  jokes went too far and struck up the Ragnorak. Gods with ultimate power and the  immoral antics of men.<\/p>\n<p>Power was equated to Deity so much that Head of States would  ascribe Godhood to themselves and reserve divine privileges. After all, if the  emperor could kill you, take your wife, make you bow down to him and is the  ultimate authority in the state doesn&#8217;t he have all the power? Doesn&#8217;t that  make him a living god among men?<\/p>\n<p>Even today we&#8217;re still of the very public opinion that  whoever has the most power wins. Germany  is stronger than Poland  and she wins. And then they can do whatever they want until someone with more  power steps in and does something. Even now we hear the murmurings of other  countries talking about the advantage that America takes of other nations.  Political issues aside, the fact is that power lets people do a lot of things  that are downright wrong.<\/p>\n<p>So then when we think about God having ultimate power I  think we&#8217;d also agree that such a being would have to have some sort of  rational, moral or responsible usage of that power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are some requirements for a god? I mean, honestly just some throw-down requirements? Powerful, someone might say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}