Full Idea
It is said that …the idea that God is eternal and imperishable and perfect in happiness was introduced by way of transference from mankind.
Gist of Idea
The perfections of God were extrapolations from mankind
Source
Sextus Empiricus (Against the Physicists (two books) [c.180], I.045)
Book Reference
Sextus Empiricus: 'Against the Physicists/Against the Ethicists', ed/tr. Bury,R.G. [Harvard Loeb 1997], p.25
A Reaction
This view is found in Hume, and in Feuerbach. I presume 'transference' means extrapolation and idealisation. If God exists, we may have no option but to think of God anthropomorphically.
Related Idea
Idea 22730 All men agree that God is blessed, imperishable, happy and good [Sext.Empiricus]