If the gods were truly superior to those who worship them why would they be anything like those who worship them? Our form is not perfect and therefore is flawed. So to think that the gods share our form is to say that the gods are flawed. If the gods are flawed then they are not that which is implied by the word god and that is perfection. To think that the gods share the same form as us is to assume that we are of the perfect form. Since we are inept to do many things, we are therefore not of a perfect form.

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Since man is unable to gain the truth about that which is the creator of all, it is therefore impossible for man to come to know about all things. Thus what man knows or comes to know is limited by finite time and finite minds. What man knows is only that which resembles the truth, since man is unable to know exactly why things are. One would only be able to know why things are if one were able to know the truth of God, therefore one cannot know why things are. If one does not know why things are then one is only able to recognize what resembles the truth.

d be unlike men in every way. If the gods were like men then they wouldn’t really be perfect, and therefore would not be godlike. And in fact those who say that the Gods were born or died are impious. The reasoning he gives here is,”since in both ways it follows that there is a time when the gods do not exist.” If the gods did not exist before the Earth that would mean that they did not create the Earth, and therefore would not be following the traditional views of the gods. The gods were said to have made all that we see and can control all that is, but if there was a time that the gods did not exist and then there is no way they could have created the Earth and therefore would be contradictory to that which we think of the gods. The gods created the everything and therefore must have existed prior to all things.

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