Is it possible that man created God because we would all like to believe there is something after death?

Question

Take a look at my other questions I have posted and tell me what you think.

Answer 1

Umm, Yes, I think exactly that. Welcome to the club!

Answer 2

Philosophically speaking: everything is related to cause and effect. As far back as Socrates, he discussed with his student that there must be an Ultimate Cause. So without going into 6,000 years of philosophy, it would seem there is good logic to the existence of God.

There was an answer listed that most religious reasons why there is a God/ afterlife are silly (paraphrasing). The only problem is that is exactly what the other answer said about religious beliefs all over the world. What is amazing about all those religions, is not what is different, but how much is eerily similar. If there is no God, how could so many people, without contact with each other, come up with the same stuff? I do not think chaos theory can even touch that.

Additionally, take Christianity for example:
reality of life at that time:
1. women were lower than slaves in society
2. respect was with the wealthy and well-traveled
3. the respected only associated with their own

If one was going to create a religion, the following is NOT the way to do it!
A man is born of virgin (good trick!), who was rejected by the people in the town that he was raised. Jesus never had much money, and never traveled more than 30 miles from the town of his birth. He hung out regularly with the lowest of society. He was crucified between two thieves. Jesus was buried in a borrowed grave. Then according to the gospels the Roman Guards fell asleep during the resurrection, which was punishable by death. then two women were the first ones to the grave. just to add insult to injury, the only people that saw the resurrected version were believers.

If man was going to make up a religion, and try to get the whole world to follow it, this is a pretty stupid way to do it.

Answer 3

Since creating is specifically defined as making something out of nothing, your question is thereby answered. Man, or woman if you want, can't create anything. The human being, of whichever gender, has to take something, even an idea or notion, in order to make something else. In Behavioral Psychology, thoughts and feelings are considered human behavior, and are within the realm of things we can change. Thereby, if they already exist, we can't create them, and we can't create God, or even an idea of God. The human being with all it's multitude of neurons to use to develop thoughts and feelings, either reactively or proactively, already exists before their thoughts or feelings about God, or a god, develop, and therefore, the idea of humans creating God is totally kaput! Only misguided egotistical individuals would think they could create anything. "Being creative" doesn't mean you actually create anything. It means you imitate that behavior as best you can. Some of us seem to forget that definition and assume "godly" status within our own egos. Now your question might be, who created these critters who think they're so "creative"? Answer: Some Forever Loving Being (aka: God) who has created all the necessary guidelines to get to forever nirvana (aka: Heaven), or screw up along the way and suffer the consequences. The choice is yours. God Bless you.

Answer 4

Prehistoric cave man invented theism as his/her mind evolved the ability to want to understand the world around them and at the time theism was the best they could come up with. Ironically the inventing of god was a vital step in human evolution just as now we are at another as to weather to let god go and believe in the truth that can be proven by facts or to keep on believing what we have always been told regardless of how improbable it is. The choice is up to you but remember in millions of years it could make a huge difference to the human species.
And that would make us god and god whatever we are to god I don't know because he isn't real.

Answer 5

not only to promise lfe after death, but also the bible answers many questions that were unanswerable at the time.

why so many languages?--tower of babel

where did life come from?--god created it

how did the moon and stars get in the sky?--genesis chap 1

why are there sea shells on land hundreds of miles from the ocean?--the Great flood

the bible was used to keep the peasants in line. fear of hell prevented the common people from killing, stealing, etc.

i do believe that the bible contains much accurate history of the jewish people though.

Answer 6

It is not just possible, it has already been proven by Anthropology. Every human culture to have existed has created their very own different version of religion. It is clearly man-made otherwise there would be one very clear religion covering all parts of the world and all time periods.

Answer 7

Of course, darling. Because that's what happened. Do you really, really think there is some big guy up in the sky making good crap happen to us? Because there isn't. Look at all of the people in pain around you. People are just pathetic and want to think there is someone who cares-- but there isn't. God, I can't believe you just realized that.

Answer 8

God created us in his image. Why are we all so different ?
Man does create God in man's image, when we do not understand he is spirit.
There is no way that man could make up a story of such vast infinite wisdom.
There is no way that man could write the bible out of our own initiative or inspiration.

Answer 9

It's quite possibly. The first religions were probably worship of animals/natural objects (sun, etc.). They were to explain things, but much later you can see an afterlife coming into play with religions.

Answer 10

exactly. not to sound rude, but that really isnt a huge discovery. i dont want to speak for others here, but didn't most of us atheists here think that question when we were like 13?

and Featherman, why can't someone have that much wisdom? haha these churchgoers give the human race NO credit and i hate it.

Answer 11

i would say yes man created the imagination but it is not true. I've seen people get healed, life changed when they give their life to jesus, people prosper and so on when they hv God. i can testify to dat cuz i was ill and prayed to God and i can tell u i was healed. i know God is real.