Why does the creator have to be "someone?" Isn't that kind of random?

Question

I've read the Bible, and don't believe it, so try not to consider that an answer, okay...

Answer 1

If it's an explosion, that's random. If it's a person, it's more of a willed event.

Answer 2

I am not sure how your refering to "Someone" but "Someone" seems to me to be just a word that people are familiar with, as it is a localized and singular entity. Could not the creator be "several", but as one? It is a hard concept to grasp, (I can't even say that I understand it). One might say, "Something", but then again a thing is a particular identity. So in the end there are some parts of the Bible that I believe and I believe that we are made in "Gods" image, but don't think that is a big guy in the sky, I don't even believe it is a gender, but more of an "awareness". I think that is what I believe the "creator", (what we call God), meant as we have an awareness, (his/her/it/God's image).

Brian

Answer 3

Ancient people knew that they were creative, since they could invent things. They figured the world had purpose, since they saw useful things lying around. For instance, they could eat yummy mammoth meat or drink water in rivers or eat fruit on trees. They then figured someone must have put it there for them. Since they could create spears and such, whoever made the trees must have been a bigger version of them.

Thus, we have the beginning of religion. Religion has always been based on the idea that mankind is special, and the universe must have been made by something more or less like a person, even though we now know that the universe is 15 billion years old and mankind has only been around for a tiny fraction of that time.

Anthropocentrism and vanity, then.

Answer 4

God is ofcourse not a person, nor is god light, these are metaphors, when the bible says god made mankind in his image, it means man has the qaulitys of free will and we are sentient beings. Not that we look like god.
God is neither male or female, when the bible refers to our 'father'
it is a metaphor. like a father god is our creator, and like a father we are not him, also god gives us the spark of life but it is metaphoricaly the mother thats gives us our bodies.
In early faiths the sun was worshiped because it gave light and life to the earth mother and her children. This does not mean they believed the sun to be god but a good metaphor for god

Answer 5

The idea of God being "someone" is a concept that most people can comprehend. The use of the word "someone" has a two-fold effect:

1) it allows us to conceptualize an omnipresent being using our limited cognitive skills
2) the use of "someone" implies some one as in a personal, living being versus a "thing"

Such a concept is akin to referring to God as our Father, when in reality God is neither male or female. Our concept of God reflects a patriarchal(male-dominated society) versus a matriarchal society.

Answer 6

Why do you have to be someone? The creator is a person. You are a person. Nothing random there.

Answer 7

People want it to be a Someone to answer questions.. Something that can be assumed as us..

This is one of those God is a Man.. vs. God is a woman right??? LOL

Answer 8

Who do you WANT it to be?
Would you feel better if the Bible said "and Mr Johnson, who lives at 132 Terrace ave, said "let there be light!".

Answer 9

Just like the song in the sound of music:

"Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could"

Things do not just organize it self by chance.

Answer 10

Because "It" is not a good way to describe something all powerful and all knowing. God is not mortal so I don't think he is "someone" but we can't call him "it" it's not respectable, you wouldn't call your earthly father "it". What other way can God be described.