What was the point in making Him up?
2006-10-23 03:13:50 · 22 answers · asked by Mujer Bonita 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe in God, of course.
2006-10-23 03:19:45 · update #1
How would the idea come up for social concerns? Were they just sitting around one day, thinking of how to control society and someone said,"Hey, let's make up God. That will make them scared."
Sorry, it doesn't make sense people...
Have faith!
2006-10-23 03:22:27 · update #2
As far as things being unexplained, some still do that to this day with evolution. Some may ask," How did the world come to exist?"
An answer may be, " Well, we're not sure, but we think there was a big explosion that caused all this." Is that not placing the cause, also?
2006-10-23 03:26:19 · update #3
Well, u have a point...
This is why HE EXISTS!! no one made him up! Actually, he made us all up when out of his everlasting love, he created us all!
2006-10-23 03:16:29 · answer #1 · answered by Ouzy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was the 'in' thing in the past. If something couldn't be explained by the knowledge at the time then it was considered to be the actions of a supernatural creature of some sorts. Lightning, for example, became Thor's and Zeus's thunderbolts.
Unfortunately, some people took this too far, to the point where only one god was accounted for causing everything.
2006-10-23 10:20:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God does exist and God wasn't made up people were out of the dust of the earth God created us in his image and breathed life into us man has known God from his first day on earth but people have been forgetting him ever since he is our loving father in heaven but because people don't get what they want instantly they turn there backs on him and say if you were really there you would do this or you would do that disobiedent children who care only about there selves sad but true
2006-10-23 10:25:57 · answer #3 · answered by jamnjims 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The point in making up a Supreme Being is to answer life's unanswered questions. People take solice in believing that if they do good in life, there is a wonderful, blissful place for them to 'live' for all of eternity. Uncertainty is the reason God was made up. It makes people not feel alone in the world. It makes them believe that bad things happen to them for a good reason. It justifies suffering and pain. It gives people something to look forward to. It enforces morals on the human race so that we do not live like savages.
2006-10-23 10:20:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The first sign a species is becoming sentient is when they have evolved to the point where they can abstract enough to invent a god. The first sign a species is achieving sentient maturity is when they get rid of their gods. A large chunk of Humanity still has a way to go yet.
2006-10-23 10:47:31 · answer #5 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a moot question. GOD is alive and well,busy expanding the universe along with the rest of his manifestation. Why do you need reminding of this? you already know "GOD DWELLS WITHIN YOU AS YOU", wake up,you will fall behind in you duty to express Gods will.
2006-10-23 10:24:53 · answer #6 · answered by Weldon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there are questions in life that nobody is able to answer, religion claims to have the answers, one of which is god. That is the whole point of any religion anyway: answering the philosophical questions like "where do we come from", "where are we going" and "what is a good person".
2006-10-23 10:19:47 · answer #7 · answered by lindavankerkhof 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If your house burns down or your child dies you have to have something or someone to belive in to make you think that better days are ahead and that you can make it another day
People began to believe in higher beings because they made it easier to rule the people in one of those "I didn't say it he did and he is more powerful than I".
2006-10-23 10:23:48 · answer #8 · answered by Cherry Berry 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was made up for the people to put fear in their minds and hearts...i think we have a brain and we need to think deeper rather than just follow what the bible says...don't u think so?
Just be a good person inside..that's all you need ...why do you need a god to tell you what is right or wrong? it does not make any sense to me....
2006-10-23 10:18:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Many people use God and religion to explain things the can not understand. Rulers have used them to control the people.
2006-10-23 10:16:54 · answer #10 · answered by Dennis Fargo 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
God does exist, Genesis chapter one. Holy Bible
2006-10-23 10:19:46 · answer #11 · answered by lilbaton 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋