User blog comment:Thescarypea/SPN's God is really weak/@comment-34326521-20160519063522/@comment-46.23.164.255-20160522192735

Blaziken, I'm completely with you here.

Thing is, and I apologize if this insults anyone, we're talking about fictional things, which can be altered however desired, since a thing not based in reality cannot be classified into what it is or is not like. Take vampires, which have 4000 years' worth of mythology behind them, for example: sometimes they're demons, sometimes not. Sometimes they burn in the sun, sometimes not. Sometimes they have fangs, sometimes not. So what is the universal attribute that connects all the vampires from around the world? They all drink blood? Not all of them, e.g. the Chinese vampires feast on life force or emotions. The thing that comes closest to being a defining attribute for a vampire is that it drains something from humans. But if absorbing something makes a creature a vampire, why aren't the soul-sucking Dementors in Harry Potter regarded as such?

The point in the example above is that fictional things don't have any standards or definite attributes they have to possess in order to be regarded as what they claim to be. The Abrahamic god in the Bible differs hugely from the one most common folk believe in, yet they both qualify as a version of the god Yahweh, as does the version of him as a cosmic clockmaker who manufactured the universe but doesn't engage in performing magic tricks in it, which is pretty much what Supernatural's god is about. To be fair, as far as the god with the capital G is concerned, the attribute of creating is much more universal than the attribute of being all-powerful and all-knowing. For example, in my country it is far more common to refer to him as "Luoja", meaning 'Creator', than as "Herra", 'Lord'.

The show's portrayal of the Abrahamic god has been quite clear for most of the show's run: that, within the show's reality, there was a god who created the universe - created, as in worked for it, instead of just magically conjuring it into existence with a snap of his fingers - and that that god is the god referred to in Abrahamic religions, but that he isn't the flawless, omnipotent being the religious texts and believers claim him to be. It has been established on multiple occasions that within the show's reality, the Bible has more things wrong than it has right, Jesus was just a man, and that most of the attributes attached to the Abrahamic god by his followers are false. He is still the show's version of the concept of the Abrahamic god found in the real world, and, as fictional entities have no model sources or definite qualities, people disappointed in his attributes or portrayal in the show are just projecting their own ideas of a concept found in the real world onto said concept's portrayal in a fictional world. If it had been established in the show's universe that the Abrahamic god is omnipotent, then it would've been a problem when he suddenly isn't. But the fact that people in the show's reality believed the Abrahamic god to be omnipotent (or that the people in the real world believe the Abrahamic god to be omnipotent) doesn't mean he has to be that for real. In my view, vampires don't sparkle and fall in love with high school chicks, but Stephenie Meyer's Edward is a vampire nontheless. It's her view of a vampire, and my differing view does not refute it.