God without the supernatural?

The title of my blog comes from a book by a philosopher of religion named Peter Forrest who defends a position he calls scientific theism. One objection Forrest has with the notions ascribed to the supernatural is the model is outdated, thus the idea of God as an anthropomorphic entity resembling human beings. While I was intrigued by Forrest's position, later in the sample you can view by searching Google books and reading the first few pages, he decides to defend a God that created us not for our earthly lives but for an afterlife. I would suggest reading the first couple pages, including an introduction to the books overall themes, as some of his concepts are interesting and the argument to support them would be entertaining from a metaphysical perspective.