Dear Yuyutsu,

Saw the following:

Forgotten gods: When we buried Summanus’s lightning

He was at one time a god so widely respected and feared that Romans went to great lengths to escape his power. But by the first century BCE, he had fallen into such obscurity that Ovid could refer to "a shrine dedicated to Summanus, whoever he is." What can the followers of other gods learn from his fate?

Same thing will happen to your God

Dear David F.,

Summanus must have done his job as a god, he served his purpose, then made way for others.

The role of a god is to provide a focal point for devotees to concentrate their mind on, thus gods have attributes that attract the minds of their devotees and help to keep them steady. New generations tend to be attracted by different attributes, thus require new gods.

Over millennia, some Hindu gods too became less popular and others took their place and came to the fore - that is as should: all that is born must die and that which is born of the mind must be forgotten.

The Biblical god has fewer attributes than other gods, thus he survived that long and probably will for some further millenia, but yes, he too will eventually be forgotten.

God has no attributes, God does not even exist, not even as a concept, God was never born thus cannot ever die, God cannot be conceived by any mind, thus cannot be forgotten either.