Assume God exists.
Various isolated cultures are going to come up with different names for God.
This like saying which Sun? Surya, Ra or Helios?
All are different names of sun. But there is only one sun.
Various isolated cultures are going to come up with different names for God.
This like saying which Sun? Surya, Ra or Helios?
All are different names of sun. But there is only one sun.
Furthermore, assume God doesn't exist. Lots of cultures might invent god for various reasons and they'd naturally have different names and attributes for them, which in fact seems to be the current state of affairs.
In fact, if we assume God exists and is actively in communication with humans, its actually a bit weird that different human cultures would have different conceptions and names for that being. Why didn't it just give everyone the same name and information?
To answer the question of why humans give name to God. It's to make god more relatable so that they can workshop it. And use devotion to come closer with it. Look up Bhakti Yoga.
Now, you cannot worship consciousness as humans because it's invisible and you can never imagine it. You need a version of consciousness that you can see as well as you can relate to. So cultures invent localized version of God which people can relate to. And of course it will have attributes similar to that of the culture. But the properties kind of still hold. Like all knowing, powerful etc.
I've always thought arguments like these are unnecessarily applying a term loaded with human conceptions and biases in a way that doesn't shed any further light on the thing it's applied to. Like, what do we gain by defining "God" as consciousness? Why can't we just say "consciousness"? And is it worth the added confusion that when we say "God", we now don't mean what most people think "God" is?
The only reason I can come up with to do this is discomfort at saying, "I don't believe in God."
If the only common factor is a belief that 'something' created 'something', you're really not saying anything worth evaluating.
People hate not knowing the answer to the big questions so much that they'll readily accept whatever answers are served up to them.
> This like saying which Sun? Surya, Ra or Helios?
The difference is that the sun is readily observed. A conveniently invisible god isn't.
> All are different names of sun. But there is only one sun.
And there's only one human nature, which is why it's not surprising that common artefacts of human nature (e.g. religion) emerged universally throughout ancient human cultures.