the humanity of the Christian God

The Christian god is supposed to be perfect, and yet, he too, is as like man as the gods the Christians dismiss as myths. He was jealous by his own admission; the vastness of his vengeance can be seen in the Bible, through the stories of the flood, of Loki, of Hell, and the revelation; he could be angry, spiteful, even wrathful; he could be a trickster, convincing a man to kill his son just to see if he would do it, then changing his mind. Some people say God never changes his mind, but after the flood, he showed regret and vowed never to destroy mankind again... and yet then goes on to promise the Revelation, in which the "evil" people will be purged from the Earth.

(But so long as man goes on breeding, there will always be evil, so does God plan to sterilize everyone post-apocalypse? Or will all new children be so full of light that they do not succumb to temptation? Will there be no chance for them to sin, because they will be surrounded by good influences? And yet we see that even at the dawn of time, before evil spread about the planet to influence, man committed sin--by eating from the tree and obeying the snake, when Cain killed his brother Abel... And what's with this world with no dark, only light? The world kind of needs the dark to rest, just as it needs winter--and evil for there to be good.)

The point is, even the Christian god has qualities that are divine and human. Just as mankind has the same duality.