Time: How evolution shaped our view of God

Across millenia, almost all of the world's religions have had one thing in common: we envision a god (or gods) that resembles us. REza Aslan argues in his new book, God: A Human History, that our spirituality has been an effort to "make sense of the divine by giving it our emotinos and our personalities".

As it turned out, Aslan writes, evolution has programmed us to do this. The brain's Hypersensitive Agency detention Device alerts you to trees that look like faces or noises that sound like intruders--
which helped us evade predators in the wilderness and leads us to "assume every bump in the night is caused by someone doing the bumping." LIkewise it exaplines why we believe that events in the world are caused by a spiritual force that behaves as we do. Aslan believes in God but thinks this is a cause for a re-evaluation of his essence. "It is we who have fashioned God in our image,"not the other way around."
--Sarah Begley
Page 22 of Time magazine November 20th 2017

Yes. This has been my experience too. When I search for a God (in reality) of the kind that had been described to me I found none like that actually existed and it has taken me 50 years to adapt to what God actually is as I found God.

But, it is not at all what people describe because of anthropomorphization. What God actually is is not the fantasy people describe as children. I think it's okay that people think what they think because whatever works for you, you know?

However, it is sort of like Traveling to another country and having to get over your unrealistic expectations or better said mistaken expectations of whatever country you visit. Because wherever you go things won't be the way you expect them to be. That's for sure, especially if you have never been in that country before and even more so if you cannot speak the language there.

This is even true of people in the U.S. who haven't ever traveled outside their city, county or state before. Nothing is what they think it is because they haven't experienced it before.

And even if you do go to another country for a week or two that is only a snapshot in time and that might change the next day or week after you leave and often does.

How God really is (as opposed to people's fantasies of God) is a surprise to anyone actually experiencing God and dying from the experience and being reborn again as someone completely new and different.

Because if you experience God you are going to die (not necessarily physically) but at the very least psychologically, you are going to die and be forever changed from that moment forward.