manifold
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OK N4, I think I understand your analogy. Unfortunately I think it is a poor one, no offense. "Greatness" of a musical band is a purely subjective matter of taste. I know people who think the Beatles suck donkey pole. Likening one's belief system regarding the existence or non-existence of a higher power to musical preferences just doesn't work for me.
And the qualities of a "greater" being are not a subjective matter of taste? Either one knows nothing of such a being, or one believes in a communication from that being. And those supposed communications are at least as contentious about which is the correct "interpretation" as debates about what is the "greatest" band of all time. Just like it may be a combination of personal preference and selective criteria that informs one decision about the "greatest" band, so are the scriptures selected and interpreted by preference.
Absolutely not. God either exists or does not, regardless of how many people believe or disbelieve. And if God does exist, his qualities are what they are, again regardless of what people have written and preached about him. Nothing subjective about that in the least.