God is impersonal and turned into the Absolute. Either dissolved in the world or moved infinitely far from the world and not participating in it (God only gave the laws of the world) – deism, and in extreme forms, atheism. There is almost no direct contact between God and man, or none at all. God is dead and mechanistic, represented as the First Principle, the Beginning, or as absolute intellect, or as a universal law, or as a supercomputer. Yes, this is exactly the kind of death of God Nietzsche wrote about.
View of Man
The Bible
Man is a living personality, consisting of spirit, soul, and body. Man is immortal, and his body will be restored at a certain time. Man lives only once in this world and will then have eternal life in the renewed world. Man is always valuable in his uniqueness and does not merge with anything. Man is like God.
Babylon
Man is not a personality, but a smart animal or a robot. In this world, he lives once, dies, and either goes into oblivion (or sleeps in Hades), or is reborn as a new person through reincarnation. Alternatively, man loses his personality by merging with the Absolute.
View of the World
The Bible
The world is initially damaged by sin and therefore moves towards inevitable destruction. It cannot be saved or radically improved, especially by the forces of man. The world is under the power of the devil. This world will be destroyed and recreated by God. Man must live in the world, but not be of the world, not attaching himself to it in any way.
Babylon
This world is the highest value. Man must become as attached as possible, participate fully in it, enjoy it, and make peace with its Prince. He must improve and transform this world, striving to build paradise on Earth. Outside of this world, there is nothing particularly valuable. Man will either be reborn through reincarnation into this same world or resurrected to live in it again.
Alternatively, man may attach himself to the world by rejecting it—detaching from it and fighting against it through strict asceticism—so that, by freeing himself from it, he may merge with the Absolute in nirvana.
The Main Conclusion
According to the Bible, reality is shaped by the interaction of the free personalities of God, man, and angels. It is created by God together with man.
In contrast, the reality of Babylon and the Axial Age is deterministic, mechanistic, and digital—in other words, the Matrix. It is built and reconstructed by man under the inspiration of the "great architect"—the Devil.
