Is it because we made him in our likeness, and not the other way around?
2006-08-04 11:31:37 · 7 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All Gods are just fake creations by man.
Humanity has created many Gods, for example – Gods of Olympus, Ancient Egypt, Babylon and so on. Most of us are atheists about most Gods humanity has created, except the latest craze, the current God in the Bible. Learned atheists have also rejected this version of a God, but some hard-core believers still hang on, presumably until a better image of God is created by man.
Faith in God seems to be nothing more than humans attempting to run away from reality, an excuse to avoid thinking and evaluating evidence. Faith is just an emotional escape and really just a substitute for opening your eyes to reason.
Believers talk about God creating man in his own image. It’s in the Bible so it’s fact – get a grip, get real. The facts suggest the exact opposite. Man created God in his own image. I’m sure humanity will disregard this God, as they have disregarded all previous Gods, it’s just a matter of time before humanity creates another God that better serves their emotions and image.
2006-08-04 11:35:29 · answer #1 · answered by Brenda's World 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Because we are humans and we have to relate to Him as best we can. In order to do so we use what we know to describe Him and relate Him to others.
When scripture speaks of God's anger it is not that God is necessarily angry as humans sometimes are; it is that what we see from God we relate to our expressions of anger, thus we describe it as anger. When we speak of God's generosity, we are relating what we observe from God that seems like human generosity.
It's not that we "make" Him in our likeness, but we do describe Him in our likeness. Because we are human, and not divine, we are unable to describe the divine from a divine perspective so we are left describing Him in ways that are ultimatly below the divine because it's the best we as humans could ever do.
2006-08-04 11:45:25 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human-like qualities? Or is it that we have God-like qualities and made them human.
2006-08-04 11:36:53 · answer #3 · answered by 1big teddy graham 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Children resemble their parents. We are children of God, so there are going to be physical and emotional and spiritual elements in common.
2006-08-04 11:41:10 · answer #4 · answered by Cookie777 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly! ; ) As a question of mine yesterday pointed out...actually it's invisible, so the believers should be to...doesn't make sense why not, it might make life easier.
2006-08-04 11:36:54 · answer #5 · answered by Indigo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Qualities like my infinite wisdom and immortality?
2006-08-04 11:36:34 · answer #6 · answered by Netchelandorious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, he was created by men with limited imaginations
2006-08-04 11:40:31 · answer #7 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋