how was god ever thought up?

Answer 1

hmmmm...
that's deep man... wa-ay deep
nice going... keep it up

Answer 2

Primitive people needed an explanation for the world, so they started giving natural phenomena human characteristics and personalities. These forces of nature, being more powerful and wreckless than human beings, became gods. For example, the first Greek gods, Gaia - the personification of the earth, or Uranus, the personification of the sky. Eventually, gods were created to explain not just forces of nature, but human emotions and states of mind or actions - Eros, god of erotic love, Ares, god of war, etc. Once they established personalities for forces of nature, or strong emotions, they could explain the unexplainable by assigning responsibility to these other, more powerful beings. Eventually, when human economies developed and sophisticated societies arose, inequalities popped up between people that hadn't been there during the tribal era - some people owned more wealth than others. The gods were then used to help explain why some people were rich and some people were poor. What's more, the gods could be used as an excuse to keep people in line - rebel against the rich and powerful and you'll displease the gods who will then take out their wrath on you. Most people, being retards, bought this explanation because it was simple and easy to understand. Then, one day, some philophers in Egypt decided that instead of many gods, there was really only one god, a big boss pulling all the strings. This movement caught on for a little while but then was squashed by some fundamentalist Egyptians, not before, however, the idea was carried off into the desert by a tribe of patriarchal, uptight jerks who had a vested interest in keeping everyone seriously in line. That tribe was the Hebrews and their god inspired the creation of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, three micromanaging religions that serve one purpose - to keep folks under control.

Answer 3

If we think of it caefully God is a very complex idea. It seems unlikely that people just came up with it. I understand the pagans and other people who beleive in sun gods or other nature based dieties. But this God that Islam and other Abrahamic religions introduced is very 'out of thoughts.' Way to complex for the people back then and even for us.

This one-single God was not thought up, God has always been there period. His prophets who received revalations from God introduced Him to the people. The God of today seems just too much for a person to make up.

By the way, if you are going to ask why God didn't just introduce Himself. Well thats quite easy. If He had done that the whole world would beleive without really trying. God has designed life as a test, if we saw Him then all the questions on that test would have been answered for us. As you see God knows us more than we know us or Him. He has made things logical so we follow along.

Answer 4

Back in the time before history, man stood on the plains of whatever-area-they-lived-in and they saw lightning flash across the sky, and they heard the thunder that followed it. This, of course, terrified the crap out of them, and, as is overly-analytical human nature, they felt the need to explain the phenomenon, because in explanation lies understanding instead of fear. So, since man at that time didn't have the knowledge or resources to really understand what was going on in the sky, he used the resources he had: namely, his imagination.

There's that, and there's also the fact that man is generally egomaniacal, so it's a given that he would create a god(s) who is(are) perfect in every way (just like we would aspire to be, and sometimes actually imagine we are), and then flip it around to say that *we* were created in *his* image. It's a nice little ego boost.

God was created the moment that evolution provided us with imaginations.

Answer 5

He wasn't.

He put the knowledge of His existence into the hearts of men.

Why had every single culture group up to the 1800's come up with or serve a deity of some kind? Men know in the innermost parts of their hearts of God's existence. The various religions are man's different ways of trying to explain God. They know He exists, but they are just trying to explain Him.

Up until the Age of Reason, all men believed in a deity of some kind. They knew one existed. It wasn't just their way of explaining various phenomena. People "thought up" superstitious stuff like magic and wizardry for stuff like that. It is when the superstitious crap got mixed with the religion that twisted view came into the minds of men.

Man could not have just evolved into more intelligence and "thought up" a higher being. Our intelligence, emotions, reasoning, etc. surpasses that of all other beings on earth in ways that cannot be described. There is no creature that even comes a hair close to us. In the process of evolution, did we gain souls, faith, beliefs, or religion? Did we gain the ability to engage in economic activities, the ability to step outside of ourselves and examine our lives, or the ability to literally have full and complete dominion and control over the earth? Did we gain the power to literally be able to do anything that we set our minds to? How about our imaginations; did we gain that in evolution as well? It would be asinine to think so.

Also, men 3-4 thousand years ago had the same level of intelligence that we do today- they were still men. According to evolution, we have not witnessed anything evolving in the past 6,000 years because evolution will sometimes speed up and other times slow down to point of apparent stopping. For the past 4-6 thousand years, we have supposedly been in one of these slow periods. So our minds have not evolved any more- we have the same level of intelligence they do. We are just standing on the shoulders of 500 years of knowledge; something unprecedented in history. We, over the past 500 years, have just been able to make records of events, discoveries, etc. and communicate them faster. This "common knowledge" is what has led us to become the most advanced civilation to ever live on earth (that is if you don't believe that there were ancient civilazations more advanced in knowledge, just lacking in electric technology that we have). So men back in the day were not stupid little monkeys who believed anything that was told to them. Men were more like that in the 10th-13th centuries under the oppression of the Catholic church which perverted from the true things of God.

God was not thought up. He created us and put the knowledge of His existence into us. It is impossible for man not to have a god of some kind. We all make for ourselves a god, whether it be an actual god that is literally served and worshiped;an idea, prinicipal, or concept that we put our complete faith and trust in, such as science and reasoning; or ourselves. We all believe in something. We all have a god.

God was never conjured up. He is real.

Answer 6

God is an invention of the guy who wrote the Bible...
The Bible is meant ot control people and organize their daily lives
Since, man is asking the dead writer where the hell did he came up with this God idea ???
but at no avail
We will keep asking .. no problem

Answer 7

just FYI God wasn't something that was just spontaneously thought up by some random person who is bored w/ life. God is known from the bible, which was from stuff recorded a LONG time ago.

Answer 8

I assume people were trying to figure out answers to questions they couldn't answer, so they decided, what if there was a person so powerful that they were above everyone and everything, so powerful that they could do things unthinkable and unimaginable.

This is kind of like.. how were dragons ever thought up?

Answer 9

I imagine if you give anyone enough time to think of where everything came from they would always come up with the idea of a 'geater being' to basically feel less ignificant and to give their lives meaning and purpose, its hard to do that for some if they dont have something there (fill space)

Answer 10

well in many ways but actually deep down inside he gave us knowledge that he's there

actually in different communities pple made idols as a symbol of their god...in the Kenyan community[kikuyus]believed that God lived on mt Kenya[thus givin him the name Mwene Nyaga].....they wuld rise early in the morn pray facin that direction....they did this 3 times daily
still there r a lot of superstions on why it rain[in the past]they wuld say that God is either bathin/cryin once there wuld be thunder n lightnin they believed that he is angry at them

Answer 11

God thought himself up.We came much later.