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God Never Changes:
But What Humans Write About Him Surely Does!
I posted the following on Facebook: "I have not kept up with AI-generated images. I need an image for a Medium essay titled 'God Never Changes.' I was thinking of an image of a god changing clothes. If anyone can make that image, I'll credit you however you'd like or trade some writing for it."
Shannon Huges responded with the illustration above and said, "I just gave it (the AI) your prompt." Clearly, I need to learn to use AI image generation.
This article is one of a series of articles introduced by Flawed Reasons to Believe in God. If you're new to the series, read the Introduction before (or after) the material below.
I call myself a dogmatic agnostic. That means I don't know whether there is a god, and neither do you. Here's what I do know. We have never observed anything supernatural. Everything we have been able to explain has yielded to a naturalistic explanation. We still have things we haven't explained, but reasonable models explain them without requiring supernatural agents. There may be a deistic god, but deistic gods are, by definition, undetectable and do not interact with the Universe in any way. Their action was to launch the Big Bang, then step back to watch it develop. So I will go out on a limb and grant you that immutability is a property…
