That's kind of the point. Over thousands of years and six continents worth of religions, there have been a lot of definitions for what a "god" is, from the omnipotent/omniscient old man with a long white beard to personifications of nature to ancestor spirits to anthropomorphic personifications of various facets of life. Being immortal, or all-powerful is not in everyone's definition of what a "god" is.
Zeus may be the definition of a "super-powered mage" but to the ancient Greeks, he was a god. And the head of a pantheon of gods to boot.
Yup, there were gods who were accepted as flawed beings by their faith and who were not in possession of absolute immortality nor of ultimate power.
An example of the two was a pantheon that could and would even grow old were it not for supernatural remedies that they used to secure their youth with. Though great, their power also had limits and one expanded his through deals made with something supernatural. They could downright be killed by non-supernatural means and go to an actual afterlife where mortals who died a certain way also went. Despite this, they were still seen and worshipped as gods.
Gods can and do vary from belief to belief with some basically behaving like people with all the nuances that entails. They can be great, omniscient figures that have no physical form and they can be flawed figures who behave like people down to making mistakes that are acknowledged as such. This only make sense given how different societies and subsequently cultures can be from each other.
A society in which raiding is a completely normal occupation would likely not have a religion that frowns upon and threatens punishment upon all manners of violence. It would likely have a component to it's religion that encourages and promises reward if violence is carried out in a manner deemed appropriate.
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