>>18867864If you read the bible you realize its actually a mixed up back and forth between two points of view on what god is.
Fundamentally, god is that ever present other that we are all aware of, but there are two differing explanations for what that is.
One, a more conservative view, is that god is the superego. It is the rules and laws that have been socially imposed onto you through shame based conformity training. The interjecting thoughts and emotions of 'i shouldn't do this!' that are based on being warned that you will be punished if you don't either directly or through social cues you picked up on make up this.
This view sees your actual inner desires that do not conform with these standards as evil, and falling to them to be giving into temptation and sin, and that the wanting of these things are demons trying to trick you.
The other view is in effect the inverse. It is that those inner feelings of your heart are god, and the external social messages are the evil worldly influences, and those interrupting voices in your head about how x or y is bad and you are wicked for wanting it, those are the demons literally speaking to you. This is a more loving view.
If you read theology, either the bible or different peoples ideas or commentary with these two interpretations, that god is the ever present internal other vs the ever present external other, you start to see that its like the stories compiled both in the bible and elsewhere were basically written by someone holding one of these two conflicting perspectives. I believe history just saw gradual shifts back and forth between them and we have compiled it all together which can cause some confusion. In modern times mainstream religions have codified and turned into widespread dogma principals from both of these viewpoints, and this explains why religion seems contradictory at times, you have people trying to live up to select dogmas unable to create a coherent system out of them, then just shrugging
