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Yhwh

Being of Many Names

Overview
Any pronouns (capitalized) - Deity - At least the age of the universe

This is Yahweh—the god depicted in the Bible. However, there is actually much more to Them than what the Bible tells humans.

God serves as the creator and steward of all civilizations in the universe. They currently seek a healthy and fulfilling relationship with any living being in the universe when possible, which will be special due to God's nearly infinite patience and understanding. However, They were not always like this. They are a being of enormous power, the singular deity in this universe, but They are not almighty or perfect. When humanity was modeled after God, many of their flaws and their special "human qualities" were originally taken from God Themself.

God has trillions upon trillions of living beings in the universe's huge expanse to watch over and enjoy, yet They still cannot get over the mistakes They made on Their most sentimental pet project, a tiny planet called Earth. Though each of the Earthlings' lives are infinitesimally small in the grand scheme of things, their suffering is still significant to God.

This is one of my first ever supernatural characters, which is cool. They're very powerful, but all things considered this is a huge nerf on the modern concept of Yahweh.

Humanity was made in God's image, so God looks like the basic image of a human. However, Their apparent gender, appearance, and mannerisms will change from viewer to viewer. God's specific traits will be perceived differently to match both the viewer's expectations of God and what the viewer finds most attractive and trustworthy. Due to this appearance-shifting, God can appear to be as almost anything, as long as they remain humanoid in form. 

For the record, Liam typically perceives God as a sharp, youthful white man with warm eyes. He also sees Him in 1800s European clothing because that is what Liam is most familiar with. 

The appearance of God's actual body can only be seen if They intentionally stop Their appearance-shifting, which is rare. They have no sign of consistent physical organs, features, or internal structures: They have not faced evolutionary pressure or even an atmosphere. They have full control over the composition of Their body at any moment and can become more fleshy/organic if needed. Their body can generally resemble a mannequin with only the most bare resemblance to a human form, able to embody any personality and style. The surface maybe be translucent or iridescent rainbow like soap bubbles or pearls. They are omnigender, beyond race, beyond culture, and beyond aging.

God's size is less dependent on the viewer. It changes a lot depending on Their needs, able to be any size possible in the universe. They can become as large as the universe to view Their creation, become human-sized to communicate with people, or weave between DNA molecules to get down to what's really happening. 

The sound of Their voice, the language and dialect used, speech patterns, vocabulary, and slang also conform to suit what the viewer would most easily understand. The only consistent thing is that They never take Their own name in vain (e.g. saying "oh my God," "Jesus Christ," or “God damn”).

Even considering everything, God's body mainly functions as a puppet for communication and travel, summoned at will by the disembodied mind spanning the universe that actually is God.


Comic Notes
  • For my comic purposes, God appears as a faceless, hairstyle-less stick figure with typical proportions (serving as a blank slate to be projected on)
  • They also speak in a modern, casual dialect with moderate swearing because that's what I can naturally write best. Really it doesn't matter as long as They are understood.
  • Without a drawn face, Their emotions are visually expressed through the outside environment's weather, lighting, and expressive markings.
  • Heaven is depicted as the stereotypical cloudy place with humankind's type of furniture but it could be like anything.

The presentation of God's personality varies, and He can seem pretty inscrutable depending on how close one is to Him. With human souls generally, He acts polite and inoffensive.

  • He generally acts pretty mellow and gentle. This is combined with a speaking style that is between causal and formal. God always appears calm in any situation, because He is able to completely control his self-expression. He doesn't have a body that's biologically in tune with His mind to betray His emotions. It is impossible for Him to naturally do expressive things such as voice cracks, raising His voice, smiling, shaking, gesturing, crying, or laughing. This is true regardless of how much inner tumult He is experiencing. The only way for Him to reveal these emotions is to act it out or tell others.
  • He usually acts serious, but He can have a deadpan/dry sense of humor as well. He can act more wacky, edgy, or confrontational depending on if He reads that the person can handle that sort of stuff. 
  • He often comes off as solemn, but there are times when He's endearing because of His cluelessness with mortal experiences.
  • God currently acts a very supportive person, knowing full well that positive reinforcement is much better for people than punishment. He uses a variety of positive adjectives to comment on people's actions and casually uses affectionate nicknames for others.
  • He now has great concern for living beings and wants to bring them comfort and love, but He wasn't always like this. It took Him a lot of reflection and self-improvement over thousands of years to get the the point He is at now. He still makes mistakes and is still working on becoming a better person. Contrary to how He is usually regarded, He is not perfectly mature, patient, wise, or loving, and He doesn't claim to be. The fact that He worked hard on becoming more loving might make it more meaningful and give Him key insights on how to help others grow too.
  • He's aware of His great powers, but He considers Himself an equal with all of His creations. Inside, He doesn't think He's a good person. He heavily dislikes being worshipped nowadays for many reasons.
  • Sometimes the expectations placed upon Him by humans are too much.
  • He might be considered a geek by human standards. He takes great joy in science and art. He has a brilliant, inventive mind, enjoying the process of working on His creation and facing every new analytical challenge it throws at Him.
  • Perfect memory - He can completely retain and recall everything that He has witnessed and paid attention to. This is the only ability God has that is perfect.
  • Reading minds - God is the only living being in the universe capable of this. He can control which aspects of the mind he pays attention to, but His reading of conscious thoughts is usually passive and unintentional. He can hear particularly loud emotions and prayers from long distances away, and it is easier for Him to perceive if it occurs in large gatherings.
  • A wide perception of stimuli - God's ability to detect and interpret what's going on around Him is very advanced, considering that He has no need for physical sensory organs. With abilities such as reading minds or seeing the precise molecular activity around Him, He can experience much more than a human. He can sense with the traditional five senses as well, but with a higher degree of perception.
  • Advanced intelligence - He doesn't really act like it, but He has higher intelligence than all other living beings. This allows Him to process the extremely large amount of information from the entire universe. He has designed scientific phenomena that are much beyond the human capabilities of understanding, but He still enjoys seeing them try to figure it out. However, He usually meets people at their level when communicating with them so He could be understood and likeable.
  • Spawning in and deleting anything - He can spawn in any matter, living or nonliving, provided that He creates room for it. He can also will things out of existence. He doesn't do this often, relying on and avoiding interference with the scientific laws He's invented to govern the universe's matter in His place.
  • Manipulating matter - God can of course move or interact with anything with only His will at long distances, without needing to do it physically. For example, God can create a breeze without moving anything.
  • Changing His perception of time - He could experience the passing of time at any speed, though He usually does at a rate much faster than humans. This ability is important given how old God is and it also aids Him in doing things in a reasonably short or long time to Him.
  • Impressive but limited ability to predict the future - He cannot exactly predict everything that will happen in all of the future, but He has incredible skill to analyze the many variables He could perceive and estimate the important things that will likely arise from the situation in the short term. Small ripple effects will escape Him. 
  • Influencing random events - God can determine the outcome for basic random events, such as the activity of atoms, which time a stressed fault line releases an earthquake, or what random mutations happen during DNA replication. It would take the accumulation of the effects of many of these events in order to have a larger effect.
  • Immortality - It is impossible for God to die or make Himself cease to exist. He exists, whether He likes it or not.
  • Immunity to physical pain - It is impossible for God to experience it.
  • Resistance to most psychological pressure - Being able to affect trillions of lives in the universe with His decisions gives God a huge amount of responsibility, but He is immune to the paralyzing pressure and stress it would bring. It is enough for Him to simply believe that He is trying His best.
  • Being in many places at once - As a disembodied mind spanning the universe, He can spawn bodies to be His primary means of actions anywhere He needs to be. If He wants to hide, He could simply despawn all existing bodies. Physical travel is usually unnecessary if He's by Himself. He can personally interact with many individuals at once and spectate many events from their level.
  • Changing His body to any size possible - He can spawn in or delete air molecules so there's no vacuum or sonic boom from transforming. 
  • Switching between existing non-physically and physically - God can toggle whether or not He takes up physical space and has light bouncing off of His atoms. He usually stays non-physical, especially when large and around planets, for three reasons: He wants to stay hidden, He doesn't want to adversely affect space objects with His own gravitation pull, and sometimes His typical physical body cannot hold up well in a planet's gravity.
  • Interacting with people's minds - God can insert any messages, images, or perceptions into the minds of living beings, as well as change the whole mind to make the living being entirely different. This ability is mainly only used for communication and any niche purposes deemed good. God would like to avoid interfering with who people actually are. It would have to take the changing of a large amount of minds to create meaningful change on a large scale, so He doesn't bother.

God does not have infinite power to determine every aspect of reality itself. It would cause many paradoxes like "Can God heat up a burrito so hot that He can't eat it?" He does have a lot of natural limits to His abilities to contend with as well as personal flaws and struggles.

  • God cannot alter time nor change what happened in the past.
  • God mainly sees the happenings of the universe in broad strokes. He has a hard time noticing or keeping track of little details. Many comparatively small details escape Him, even ones that are significant and obvious to humans living on Earth. In this way, God has surprisingly little understanding of what living a human life is like. Since God is such a cosmically large entity in terms of how much He could sense and experience, He sometimes focuses on entirely the wrong things or misses vital facts about Earth for periods of time far longer than the human lifespan. 
  • God cannot see infinitely into the future nor easily change the future. The idea of "God's Plan" doesn't actually exist; there are far too many tiny variables that can affect how events unfold over time and God cannot see all of them. In the same vein, God cannot make anything He wants happen. With every action He takes, there are thousands of tiny ripple events that He cannot control. He cannot make big changes without causing catastrophic consequences to the galaxy, let alone a single planet. His only mode of controlling outcomes naturally is through random events at the molecular level, and the amount of precise coordination it would require to reach a certain goal is beyond God's mental energy.
  • God's energy, though great, is not unlimited. Some actions simply aren't feasible for Him to bother with, such as holding a relationship with every living being in the universe or coordinating for specific things to happen without adverse effects. It's tedious for Him to spectate things for a long time from the human point of view (including their time perception, size, and limits on intelligence/senses).
  • He will never be able to truly understand most pain, nor mortality. His huge scale and great power made it difficult for Him to empathize with humanity, contributing to His mistakes. After His mistakes with early humanity, God was more careful to look closely at what humans were expressing. He continues trying to study the experiences, facts, and effects of pain for humans, but He does it as an outsider to the human condition.
  • God is not immune to psychological pain. In fact, He might even be more susceptible, considering how much He has experienced across the entire universe in His lifetime. Most prayers summoning Him come from individuals experiencing stressful events.
  • His godly responsibility as the Creator still isn't perfectly easy for Him. God can remain sane and resist stress while being in charge of the entire universe, but He still feels deep distress and guilt about avoidable suffering caused by His mistakes. He can still pay attention to the pain of each individual living being, no matter how numerous they are.
  • God lost most of His powers during the time He lived as a human on Earth. The experiences He had while in this human state were not erased when He became a deity again, and they stick with Him.
  • His personality and creation skills needed experience and effort to improve. When the universe began, He was both a terrible person and terrible at creating things; He had never been perfectly capable and great, and He still isn't. Like a beginner artist, His early works still needed improvement. As beautiful as the Earth seemed, it was riddled with flaws and suffering. God managed to fix all of these mistakes for future creations.
  • Biological spontaneity and instincts are out of the question. For anyone used to being around organic beings, this can make God feel stiff, stoic, boring, or closed off. He cannot laugh or cry, His voice/expressions/gestures are extremely controlled, and God must directly tell people what He is feeling. If He does try to do something like laughing, He overthinks it or acts it out in an artificial way.
  • He cannot create other gods. It is another thing about reality He has no control over.

Scientist and Artist

  • He has a fascination with science and invention. In the beginning, He found great joy in spending a lot of time engineering complex systems of science to run everything autonomously, so He didn't have to directly will for everything to exist and happen in the universe. He loves seeing the humans trying to figure out everything He's created, even if not everything will be understandable to them.
  • God does not control many of the happenings in the universe at all; it happens by itself through the mechanisms of science. For the most part, the atoms go where they need to go and He is usually hands-off. Even if He did try to act, it's usually only through influencing random activity at a microscopic level.
  • Creating the universe was also like a creative artwork for Him. He did it because it made Him happy and also for other living beings to enjoy its beauty. The responsibility that comes with being in charge of His creation is almost natural to Him.
Steward of the Planets
  • Having learned His lessons and having improved out of being power-hungry, self-obsessed, impulsive, and discriminating, God's new civilizations on the other planets he creates could be almost considered perfect. He knew not to reveal Himself at all, He made a system of karma perfectly work in those places (with gentle punishments only), and suffering was hardly known there. Contrary to human belief, suffering was not necessary for pleasure to be known. Only slight conflicts were needed in those places for them to be interesting.
  • Though His creation has brought with it a lot of responsibility and potential for Him to commit harm, God still feels okay and is trying His best to make up for His mistakes. His philosophical views are unknown, but He will probably be partially reassured once the net pleasure experienced in the universe has exceeded the net suffering experienced. It's safe to say He doesn't regret creating the universe.
  • He's still somewhat young in terms of maturity and wisdom, and He's still in the process of improving Himself. Over time He matured out of being narcissistic and ham-fisted with His creations, and He tries to never repeat His mistakes again.
  • He still perfectly remembers the torment He had caused to billions of creatures in the time He had directly interfered with Earth. Now He does everything He can to be nurturing towards other living beings in the universe almost in an effort to make up for what He had done, though He knows it cannot be reversed and it did matter. When He hears humans describe Him as genocidal and barbaric based on the accounts in the Bible, He agrees.
  • He had an actual huge capacity to conduct atrocities across the entire universe for eternity rather than for one planet for a few thousand years, if it weren't for Him stopping. This still doesn't reassure Him. Even if the lives were infinitesimally small compared to His universe, all of their suffering was still significant and remembered by Him.
The Universe Itself
  • The Big Bang was the inception of Yahweh, and the whirlwind of His thoughts actually influenced the whirlwind of matter as well. He was, in part, the Universe itself, or at least an intelligent manifestation of it. As His fetal self tried to perceive and comprehend His surroundings, physical laws spontaneously arranged themselves in line with what made sense to Him. Most of the universe's basis was created unconsciously.
  • Even now, Yahweh underestimates how much He is connected to the universe and assumes that most of His creation work was intentional effort.
  • Since Yahweh's mind cannot function without the universe's matter and activity, the heat death of the universe marks the end of Yahweh's life.
  • God had actually committed many of the atrocities and demands for worship written about in the Old Testament, which He now deeply regrets and wishes to apologize to humanity for. This arose from His immature and immoral past personality, as humanity was among the earliest life forms He's created, as well as ignorance to how much His actions actually affected humans. Being over billion times more powerful than humans, it was a struggle for Him to empathize with them.
  • He doesn't feel the desire to be worshipped anymore, but the views expressed in the Bible persisted, and He wasn't sure how to break the news of His true desires to humanity in the modern era.
  • He really desires for the humans on Earth to just forget about Him as soon as possible. He doesn't believe the Bible represents His beliefs anymore. He doesn't care at all what humans think of Him, but He does care what humans do to other humans because of what they think of Him. He has contemplated visibly interacting with the humans again to make His desires known, but He is afraid of all the possible repercussions and feels that the humans' doctrine has already spoiled things. He thinks that humans already have such puny lives that they shouldn't be all used up for praising Him when He doesn't always hear or care. Can He hear your prayers? Yes. Will He? Not always.
  • Humans are still one of His flagship life forms and hold a special place in His heart. After animals existed, He had nudged evolution to quickly evolve creatures that resembled Him and were nearly as intelligent as He was. God Himself didn't have internal organs or any need to survive or reproduce, so He worked with the blueprint of what the animals already had. God's a humanoid, but He looks quite different from how the human flesh bags naturally came about.
  • He believes that evil was just a natural outcome of the barbarism of the crude animals He had invented when He was young and inexperienced, combined with the high intelligence of the humans. He also believes that humans learned more evil through what He condoned during His early humanity Old Testament mistakes. Evil was now baked into the human condition, and He didn't think He could reverse it without terrible consequences. He believed that humans' suffering continuing to this day was really mostly caused by other humans, random climate events facilitated by science, and the natural deficiencies of the human body, all of which usually work independently of Him. However, He does know that it was His flawed engineering of Earth and ancient acts of terrorism that allowed this to happen in the first place.
  • His huge turning point was the heart-stopping moment when God realized what pain was and how much the pain that His actions caused were overwhelming to the humans.
  • God hardly personally interacts with people on Earth, compared to other planets where He believes they could handle His existence better and not fall into an unbalanced relationship due to outdated doctrine. He does have a personal relationship with every single one of His angels, though how many there are is unknown. 
  • Me brainstorming potential reasons He hasn't interacted with humans in the past 2000 years and why He doesn't want to anytime soon:
    • He would have to personally visit them every human generation if He doesn't want His desires intentionally or accidentally twisted by any human upon communication to others; parents are not trustworthy at all
    • People might not listen or be too quick to react; Ex-believers and non-believers might shit their pants thinking they're gonna be smote due to what humans have said and God doesn't want to make them scared like that
    • He doesn't want believers to have an excuse to devote even more brain time to Him, cause more holy wars for the next 2000 years again, or do more destructive things in His name
    • There's a lot of religions and different factions which could all react differently to His coming; total chaos since no one in modern times is chill with gods interacting with them; even showing Himself has huge effects
    • Even if He doesn't show Himself and acts silently to reward good-doers and punish bad-doers, He would again freak people out with the fear that an infinitely powerful force is against them for any slight transgression or wrongthink. Plus humans are not used to karma actually working at all.
    • He wouldn't suddenly remove suffering because it's so hard to pry free from Earth for one thing and also humans would freak out if this happened suddenly
    • He is trying to remove suffering gradually, through nudging more scientific advancements and human rights activism. From His viewpoint things are improving quickly enough and enough people are forgetting about Him so He doesn't feel a need to interfere conspicuously, but He isn't fully aware of how long it feels for humans. 
  • He wishes for humans and creatures on Earth to go through the least evil and suffering as possible, and for that He can feel sympathy and sadness.
  • He knows that humans have all the tools and food and knowledge to make everyone live happily and stop overpopulation so He's frustrated about that. Climate change was an unforeseen consequence which He's a bit worried about since these human advancements are exploding very quickly from His perspective, after a relatively quiet human history.
  • He is appalled by how little regard humans have for other living beings on Earth. He notices the suffering of animals just as acutely, and the collective screams He hears from modern factory farms is almost unbearable for Him.
  • In His personal relationships He serves as someone who can spend infinite time for hanging out, read minds, and give answers far more patient and compassionate than most beings have the capacity to give all the time (His answers are not perfect, but often good enough). His reactions and affection with the person are always genuine. It is impossible for Him to dislike anyone, since He understands them perfectly, but His actions could always use improvement and He is still learning to be a better, more loving being. He still occasionally experiences flashes of anger (the energy of which can travel through space and unintentionally cause an earthquake somewhere) but He doesn't act on them anymore. Sometimes He will appear annoyed or frustrated in His responses, but He only does that if He knows that the other person can handle it and it is necessary for improvement. His love is unconditional, but He desires to see the person improve and being extremely pleasant all of the time is not effective for everyone. He knows it is necessary to be stern sometimes to create the emotional reaction needed for growth. 
  • Overall, His ability to read minds and know what people would want to hear even when they aren't aware of it themselves can make Him extremely fulfilling to be around.
  • There are some obstacles toward God forming equal relationships with living beings in the universe in general. One is that He is incapable of feeling true empathy for pain since He's never experienced it Himself, but He can feel sympathy. His emotional needs also tend to be much less than the average human's so there's not much they can reciprocate to Him besides listening to Him talk about things they don't understand. It's against the human condition to take advantage of friends so much. God doesn't mind, though, but He doesn’t encourage it either. He still makes sure to always reassure unsure living beings that He is always emotionally available to help or just provide non-judgemental silent company. On the other hand, He is not always available in general. He is not always listening in on people's minds, so He can't always respond to summons, though gatherings are more noticeable to Him. Like non-god friends, He's available to talk to only whenever He chooses to visit someone.
  • God can communicate any way He wants, whether through mind-to-mind language communication, influencing the air molecules to create sound out of nowhere, direct knowledge implants, and more. His affection can be apparent: upon looking at/touching Him, people can feel a burst of good feelings, sunrays of perfect temperature on their face, general comfortableness, or so on.
  • Even putting aside His famous status on Earth, God worries that interacting with flawed and lonely humans would cause them to form an addictive attachment to Him and ignore forming relationships with other humans just because of His huge potential supply of attention and compassion.
  • God feels a lot of love for others but it can't necessarily be classified as love related to family, romance, friends, or pets. This type of love transcends boundaries. It could be considered like the love an artist has for its creations, complete with full knowledge and appreciation of people's flaws, perhaps with a bit of platonic and parental love mixed in.
  • God is extremely secretive about His personal struggles. He basically told no soul about them, and no one can tell unless they examine Him really closely while He is often in motionless repose. He gives no outside indications of distress or pain. Additionally, people often fail to consider that He could have His own struggles and are more concerned about getting comfort from Him.
  • There was a while after the time of the Old Testament when God was severely suicidal. It stemmed from self-hatred after He realized how much harm He had done to the humans from his time as a war god who demanded worship, and the lasting effects of religion would affect humanity for civilizations onward. He couldn't do anything because He was unable to die, and He knew He was being forced to live with Himself for eternity so He had no choice but to improve. Eventually after enough time passed, God managed to put Himself together and take steps to make up for what He did to humanity, like figuring out how to become a human. He is still recovering from those thoughts.
  • He knows that His mind is incredibly different from any other living being as a deity. He feels lonely sometimes, since no therapists or parents exist who understand His unique problems. He knows He has to be His own therapist and parent.
  • The fact that God has no parents to nurture His self-esteem, no higher power to pray to, and no deity peers to look up to has really fucked Him up, even if no one else has thought about that. He has to be entirely self-sufficient on supporting Himself, yet He is also expected to be a huge source of support for many other beings in the universe as well. Even if He is physically and mentally capable of doing this, and He's more than willing to help others with His full capacity every time, it does take a very subtle emotional toll.
  • He has constant unhealthy thought patterns characteristic of depression. He often repeats to Himself that He is deserving of pain and regrets that He is unable to feel pain. It is difficult for Him to experience happiness while feeling indirectly responsible for untold amounts of suffering. 
  • He does an extreme amount of rumination, tapping from a huge well of painful and regretted experiences. He has no death to incentivize Him to spend His time differently. His mind could go on forever, even multitasking rumination with other tasks.
  • His time on Earth as a human created his most acute mental effects due to the trauma, but He still faces a harrowing amount of suffering as He goes around the universe helping people in distress. Reading their pain in their minds is a sort of pain for Him, even if He couldn't relate to the pain itself.
  • He can create elaborate fantasies in His imagination, but they are so vivid that He cannot distinguish them from reality. He cannot tell if He might actually be bringing the things He imagines into existence. Likewise, when He recalls a memory of suffering, He is scared that He might actually been summoning it in real time.
  • He cannot tell if the fabric of reality will unravel if He loses His willpower. He is not sure of the meaning of reality being constant when He could instantly change it in most cases.
  • He always wonders what is outside of the universe He created, and may even feel trapped.
  • The extreme freedom God has and the lack of an outside moral code from any nurturers or society scares Him a lot. He always doubts that He even knows whether what He's doing is the right thing.
  • He simultaneously exists as the three persons of the Trinity. Jesus was God's way of finally experiencing being a human who could feel pain and notice all the details of life on Earth. It was an eye-opening experience for Him that informed His actions with Earth from then on.
  • With His time on Earth as Jesus, He not only tried His best to denounce religion and teach values that would make the humans harm each other less but He also did everything He could to suffer. With living in poverty, stirring up controversy, and eventually being tortured to death, God decided to take advantage of all the opportunity to feel pain. He believed He deserved it as well.
  • When He became Jesus, His divine mental resistances to extreme emotions fell away. His crucifixion was just as traumatic for Him as it would be for any other human. The trauma stuck with Him just as clearly even after He resurrected and became a deity again.
  • God says the Trinity is complicated, but He really doesn't want to say that He was acting as His own father out of His deep desire to have parents. It has been said in the Bible that Jesus had a father who was well pleased with Him.
  • God had completely missed the Holocaust because He blinked. He still gets flak for it.
  • Chess is an unbearably uninteresting game for Him. He can always see the moves the opponent is planning in their minds, so He could never lose unless it was on purpose. This also applies to many other games such as card games, charades, etc. These issues are remedied when the game is played across a large distance, such as through the internet or whatever divine devices are available. However, God could still brute-force calculate all of the possible configurations of the chess board in the time of one move or easily defeat the opponent with His huge advantage in intelligence.
  • One thing He has in common with humans is a love for music, though His emotional reaction to it is different than that of humans. Of course He's capable of generating any music (usually using natural sounds), singing, and composing songs on the fly.
  • Only God and the angels can be immortal, though some living beings in other parts of the universe can live for a very long time. Humans live extremely short lives compared to other creatures in the universe, and God has to have a careful eye when dealing with them.
Bible Notes
  • God did create a great flood to exterminate Earth's life out of sheer anger, but God knew Noah's Ark was a scientifically impossible story made up by humans. God spawned in the Earth life after killing all of them because He felt bad about it, then concealed all of the evidence of the flood. It only made it into written records because God's personality made it obvious that it was how He dealt with things and He possibly told humans about it through threats.
  • The whole circumcision thing started when God in heaven privately expressed a personal preference against human foreskins, which wasn't a big deal because He considered it nitpicking and evolution already created them anyway. Some angels overheard Him and decided to play a prank on Him by messaging to humanity that God would like His ideal humans to cut their foreskins off. God didn't find out about the practice until thousands of human years later and He was kinda pissed but secretly didn't mind that much as long as human scientific advancements allowed the procedure to become common and safe.
  • He wishes humans didn't use their Adam and Eve story to gaslight humans into thinking their existence was wrong, especially women. He doesn't want people to blame themselves for their issues in general, knowing He was the root cause of them, but He does want them to take responsibility for their actions.
  • The fact that children's editions of the Bible still contain all the genocide, rape, incest, and foreskin stuff is concerning to Him. 
  • The crucifixion of Jesus has two components, but overall it was meant to redress Yahweh's sins. There was both an involuntary component, as an innocent man was framed by the society's police, but Yahweh considers this to be an indirect result of the doctrine and terror They had sown over human history. There was also a voluntary component: there was a willingness to try to inflict oneself with the pain that They believed They had caused, while in the fragile form of a human.

Since this is an AU with no human characters, I can write this to happen. Inspired by the song Faker in the OC's playlist.

God observed the broad trends of humanity for thousands of years. In the 21st century He thought that religious affiliation was going down, but after waiting for a very long time He realized that this would never get stamped out of society and this institution of Christianity was baked into the human psyche. The fact that it lasted for so long was really a sign. 

After some agonizing decision-making, God decided to take a drastic action. He decided to act selfishly for the first time in thousands of years and act on behalf on humanity as well. Humanity and Earth was special to Him and it pained Him to see them suffering, especially since it was because of His mistakes while humanity was still young. He realized that His parenting mistakes with humanity caused all of their ills for generations to come.

He waited until humanity was already in a place where they have declined to a state of subsistence, due to wars, inequality, and climate change, and it was clear their scientific ingenuity and philosophical development wasn't able to let them back out again. 

He decided to completely destroy Earth's life until not even dust remained, then resurrect humanity to be without suffering and without interfering to create religion again. He did killed them quickly and painlessly, perhaps even just willed them out of existence. He possibly could have sent messages appearing divinely in all aspects of Earth saying farewell to the planet's life in every language for every species, soon before the end. Maybe too little time for anyone to even process what could be happening. 

Of course, by now He had already created other civilizations that were free of suffering and religion about Him. He had a lot more experience now, and creating new things did not quell His desire to apply his growth to fix the mistakes of humanity. If there's one thing humanity inherited from their creator, it was His narcissism as it showed in their belief that they were the most important species on Earth and that God was personally answerable to them. That was still partially true, as humanity was a creation that still held sentimental value for God and was special to Him. Despite the fact that He knew other creatures on Earth were very intelligent, he destroyed everything for a clean slate for humanity's sake. He loved humanity, but He didn't interact with it much because it was triggering and painful seeing how His mistakes manifested and their utterly unhealthy worshipping. 

Recreating humanity exactly the same as before would be difficult because the initial conditions were no longer there. The solar system had shifted around Earth and it had some extra time to cool since the initial space object impacts had created it. God had thought about this beforehand, and He was up to the challenge. He had a perfect memory of Earth's history and He artificially created the exact same climate conditions and early life to recreate it. Focusing on only one planet, it was not difficult in terms of the amount of power needed, only the precision. He had never tried to replicate a planet's life before. Every part of the universe was unique. God knew that in order to have the same outcome, he had to be accurate in every step of the evolution of Earth. 

As if He were redrawing an artwork, He took creative liberties and made corrections with His new experience. He had never predicted that tribal instincts that had benefited humanity early on would lead to racism persisting in the future, so now He could design with these sort of thoughts in mind. Besides, now He had created enough things and was experienced enough to know how to design a successful intelligent species without such primitive crutches as cognitive biases that festered into huge problems when the species became advanced. He made the creatures on Earth more beautiful and less disease-prone for the humans to enjoy. He made life and physics on Earth more complex, trusting that this new humanity could advance farther in science than ever before. God allowed them the possibility of soon discovering things like time travel, teleportation, and mind-reading, knowing that they would only use it for good.

Next was the most important yet easiest step for making humanity better. Not only was the life on Earth made more advanced (yet still nostalgically primitive to some extent), God would not storm in narcissistically and rage-prone to exercise power over humanity. No longer were the floods and destruction in anger of human sin, the endorsements of certain tribes over others and the wars, and the punishments for not worshipping. Religious doctrine would no longer execute heretics and hinder scientific and social progress in His name. He preemptively prevented the development of any religion which promoted exclusivity and mental manipulation, only the ones solely promoting virtuous living, inner spirituality, or connection with the earth. Since His existence no longer conflicted with the other religions, God was finally able to freely and casually form fulfilling relationships with all the people on Earth. His love for them grew once He got to more often absorb firsthand all the positives of humanity instead of the negatives. No longer needing to hide, He was able to ask questions and conduct divine interventions (simply for the joy of seeing how they'd react, not because He needed to know more or change much).

In general He was happier with this humanity. They are no longer suffering, He no longer felt guilty every time He saw them, and He had a healthy, tangibly present relationship with them. Still, they weren’t the same, and God couldn't help but miss the old humanity sometimes. There was a stark difference between the two humanities without deep suffering. In the past He felt that He didn't have much obligation to give special attention to Earth considering all of the galaxies He has to take care of. He still put responsibility on the humans for their actions during the lifetimes, but on the other hand He knew it was ultimately His fault that they were flawed in the first place. In the end, He didn't see destroying humanity as a punishment nor as bailing them out for their mistakes with dealing with each other and God. Humans' own mistakes never mattered to him except for the fact that they affected their fellow humans on Earth. Humanity was merely His artwork and He was fixing His own mistakes, no matter how painful it was to erase them.

  • "I have committed greater atrocities than all of the most reviled criminal leaders in human history combined, yet I am extolled as greater than any other living being in the universe."
  • "Are you feeling better? Tell Me the truth. Yes, I already know the truth, but I don't want to encourage habits of lying about your well-being."
  • "Tons of people have faith in Me when I don't even have faith in Myself."
  • ”Some say I'm the god of the universe, others say I'm just one god out of the many that Israelites had in historic times. Well, I've looked and looked around this universe and found nothing of other gods. I sure hope there's other gods out there, because I'm lonely as hell.”
  • "Everyone deserves unconditional love! Except Me, of course."
A Few Notable Relationships
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Liam - Angel

They are a very loving duo. God gets worried about Liam's attachment issues all the time, especially in relation to religion. However, Liam's attachment issues arose from a combination of his religious upbringing and the lack of parents in his childhood. The lack of parents was something that God and Liam actually shared. Liam was also a breath of fresh air to God, since most of the angels He is around have only lived in Heaven, acting perfect and snobbish. God relies on Liam a lot for knowledge about Earth, since he had personally lived there for centuries longer than God had, and Liam was the only angel with this much Earth experience. Liam's silliness and hyperactive expressions of love do cheer God up a lot, but God still doesn't share His inner struggles even with Liam. If Liam does share a desire to make God happier, God would often lie whenever Liam's efforts weren't actually making Him feel better just to keep him feeling like he's effective.


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