Why did people create gods?

Question

Fear, not understanding nature, love...

Answer 1

Gods (Jesus, Allah, etc) were created thousands of years ago to keep the masses from uprising. Religion provides hope and sets guidelines such as thou shall not Kill,Steal or bang thou neighbors wife. Giving hope to the poor kept them in check, history shows those without hope in a depressed society will uprise in anger and kill all those in power so the powerful created gods to provide the poor with hope to prevent there own demise and maintain control over the masses. pretty simple hope this helps. Remember all gods are fictional characters!

Answer 2

I don't think anyone could really answer that question. In order to make this question relevent, you have to first prove that humans did in fact create a creator, which you can't do. I'm an atheist, but I'm still not convinced that humans "created gods." I think they may have elaborated and gave these gods a more humanistic persona.

The fact is, something created life. That doesn't mean that "something" is a bearded man in the sky. It could be an element, a force, a principle, etc. Whatever it is, it created life therefore it is the creator, therefore it is "god." I think people gave the idea of a creator a persona because it was easier to understand considering we don't exactly know what that creative power is.

Answer 3

In a time of ignorance to explain the unexplainable, such as plague, lightning, thunder, etc. The gods of the earliest multi-god system were just as real and crucial to these people as the single-god concept is to the people of today, and they were based upon the constellations perceived in the night sky of the northern hemisphere, roughly speaking, the first zodiac. This knowledge (20 years study) does not mean that I am athiest. I still believe that there is an awesome overall controlling force beyond our puny 3-D brain's understanding that has the ability to guide nature into growth and survival or complete and total destruction - if you wish to call it "God" - then I'm okay with that.

Answer 4

No One Created God...God Created People And Their Is Only One God..The Greatest N The Powerful...

Answer 5

Dear God of Yahoo! for this Question,

Gods used to give us the reason for something and provided us with answers and also idealised human potentials like the fastest, strongest, wisest or that god who can do whatever impossible thing. It explained alot for everyone.

There are political reasons too but essentially gods in pantheon of gods or totemist cosmology really let people have a story that told them:

what there reality is
how it became
how they should treat it
how they shoulf treat each other

I hope this sheds some light on a very big question. I suggest asking a librarian for books about this. The theology section should be inciteful for you.

Regards, \


Ouros "The Mountain God"

Answer 6

At first they formed both a basis for socieity and the understanding of nature. As nature became better understood through science (despite religion's best efforts) it was relagated to holding society together.
If people beleive that their actions will have no consequences post-mortem than society become far more anarchistic. Religion provides a deterrent agianst bad (not functional for society) behavior.

Answer 7

There are so many things in this world which doesnot have answers to. We lack in answers today and obviously they didn't have answers at that time too. So there is a need for superpower to be there. Even I am doing research in quantum related field in physics and I cannot complete some of my understanding without the effect that might arise from superpower being. And we cannot imagine such superbeing to be bad or neutral, we need that to be good one, loving one and one wanting us to correct others who have left the right path. When we combine this all, this gives us a good reason to have god in this universe above all factors.

Answer 8

Do you mean why did people create religion?

I think its because we all recognize the power of something greater than us, that we are a part of, and we see miracles everyday in nature and each group of people expressed this by choosing the religion that made the most sense to them.

Answer 9

to answer questions that cannot be explained...for example if you lived in the ancient times like the beginning of human existence and you got a hurricane and you had no idea wht the heck it was you cant come up with a meaning to all this knowing that it was not manmade then there had to be something more powerful than humans that can alter the winds and oceans to make a hurricane so they created gods for all kinds of unexplainable things..now i for sure believe in one god or do i?

Answer 10

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