For many centuries, God has changed; His interpretations are what changed him the most. The God of the first century is nothing compared to the God that billions of people worship today. Considering that God has undergone so many different types of transformations, I would correctly say that there have been many different understandings of His role and His teachings. For example, there are several unique types of Bibles that address what God said, but honestly, He only said what He said one way. Various beliefs about God have led Christians to acquire different perceptions about their God, which have led them to worship and appreciate Him in drastically different ways. This can be seen particularly in how deists, such as Benjamin Franklin, recognize God and His Word in opposition to that of the Puritans. As skeptical people, we all question what we cannot see or have difficulty understanding why certain things happen, especially those spiritual or supernatural events. Franklin was born into a Puritan family and seemed to follow the ideas of the Puritans in following the Word of God. Around the age of fifteen, Franklin began to question the Bible, causing his Puritan background to quickly fade. He had begun reading books written by deists and began to question the veracity of the events narrated in the Bible. These deistic authors combined religion and reason to believe in a creator whose presence is not required in their daily lives. After his readings, he was not at all sure that the Bible was a revelation from God. He felt that the men who wrote the Bible were not guided by God in any way. He also began to doubt that Jesus was even the messiah (Franklin, 6). Franklin's God had become... a medium of paper... evident in the differences and very few similarities in how they see God and His Word. Deists believe that God created the universe and left it up to humanity to decide how it will be managed, while the Puritan congregation depended entirely on God to decide how the Earth will be managed and hoped for His love, grace, and salvation. Although these particular individuals came from the same areas around the same time, their ideas about God lie on two different extremes. They were all exposed to the same religious teachings, but the presence of numerous interpretations of God allowed each to have a different understanding of Him and His Word. These different beliefs led these people to live different ways and worship God differently. The existence of numerous interpretations has led everyone to see their role and the importance of the world in the eyes of God in very different ways..