by Mike Edwards
I began to reimagine God in my early twenties. What I was being taught in church about God didn’t align with my understanding of a perfectly loving, morally good God. The only kind of God I thought was worth believing in. What did I know about love? I had parents and other relationships. I couldn’t imagine that God’s love wasn’t the same of what I understood about perfect human love. It doesn’t make sense why a Creator wouldn’t love the same way we humans believe were seemingly created by a Creator to love (aka goodness vs. evil). I decided in my journey to reject harmful portrayals of God that conflict with universal human understandings of love and goodness. I came to believe that God is not defined by rigid doctrines or literalist readings of Scripture. See some of my core beliefs below as you imagine what you think God is really like.
- God must be perfectly loving
The only God worth believing in is perfectly loving and moral. We can understand God’s love by comparing it to the best of human love—especially parental love.
- God’s love is patient, hopeful, and other‑directed
- A loving Creator would not act in ways universally recognized as immoral (e.g., cruelty, favoritism, violence)
How Can We Know What God Is Really Like?
- Moral intuition is a primary guide
If a religious teaching contradicts universal moral intuition, it should be questioned.
- Our innate sense of good and evil is not inferior to ancient texts.
- Moral intuition helps us discern God’s character more reliably than rigid interpretations of Scripture.
How Can We Know God If The Bible Isn’t Inspired? Trust Your Moral Intuitions!
What Does God Think About Moral Intuitions Versus Biblical Truths?
- Scripture requires interpretation and is not always definitive
There are contradictions, moral challenge, and different interpretations in the Bible, No one can claim perfect interpretation. Christians interpret differently passages about hell, women, and LGBTQ+ . Therefore, dogmatic certainty about God’s nature based solely on Scripture is unwarranted.
https://what-god-may-really-be-like.com/2025/04/06/should-we-assume-the-bible-isnt-inspired-by-god-and-does-it-matter-all-rants-against-the-bible-here/ – This is the main document that has all my rants on the Bible
God is not defined by rigid doctrines or literalist readings of Scripture but by perfect love, moral goodness, and the universal human intuition of what it means to love well. My work encourages humility, moral reasoning, and rejects harmful portrayals of God in favor of a love-centered understanding.
Mike Edwards was added as a writer and has been a great addition to the Done with Religion site. Mike provides many interesting views and various ways of looking at things. He is not afraid to ask questions and he keeps an open mind as to teachings of the institutional church. Mike also has his own site where he writes at What God May Really Be Like
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