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The imagination ability of man has contributed to a better understanding of religion and to the living of dynamic religious experiences. One of the most important functions of imagination ability in the individual's religious life is the development of representation about God. Since the human can not directly experience the God, he experiences the God in his inner world through his special representation. In the development of God's representation, various factors play an active role, such as relation to family, gender, religion, and psychological dynamics. Erich Fromm examines God's representation with an evolutionist and psychoanalytical approach. By going out of the Old Testament, he suggests that God's representation reached this day by passing three stages and that human will become independent from God in the future time. E. Fromm divides God's representation into authoritarian and humanitarian. He claims that authoritarian God's representation has deprived human and negatively affects the development of conscience, whereas the humanitarian God’s representation has 

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