A question that involves reasoning?

Question

Just visualize what I'm saying

Beginning of earth, first life...., and after some years man evolved from those primitive life forms he used to live in caves during the early times. he hunted for his food.He was afraid of thunder,lightening,storm. He had a submissive mind towards those things which he was not able to distinguish properly and consequently he began to worship them and thus early pagan religions rooted up. Later man correlated his concepts about what he was unable to explain in his own words and came to a conclusion that these are the deeds of a power and he called him God

After reading this do you think God is a concept that was created in man's imagination?

If you feel offended by this question then please help me to correct the question

Answer 1

Of course.

Think of this. When you have a small group of say 5 people, there eventually develops a "group mind". Eventually decisions become practically automatic and those who disagree are ostracized, even if the people in the group aren't really "like that". It's as if a higher power were running the group and arranging things beyond the control of the individual members.

It is because the group has actually created an egregore, a spiritual entity that embodies the spirit or personality of the group as a whole. Even if the group decides consciously to make a change, and everyone agrees, they will still fall into old habits and resist the change because the "group mind" is a creature of habit. Many groups fall to pieces over things as simple as a change of venue for this reason. You piss off the egregore too much, and it ceases to work with you and starts to work against you instead.

Now let's say that a bunch of people in various groups all over the world at various points in history take note that without the Sun, a plant won't grow, and it gets cold and they're uncomfortable. They wish the sun wouldn't go away in the winter (in some places it goes away completely, in others it just shows a briefer appearance) and that wish becomes a prayer. And since they're in the habit, they start praying to the sun when they plant their seeds to help them grow faster and stronger, or maybe giving thanks to the sun for helping it grow when they eat it. Eventually the Sun takes on a personality, it becomes and egregore and a God. It is a real thing, made real by the power of belief. Eventually the personality can be sensed in the absence of the actual Sun. People dream about it, talk to it, pray to it, stories develop about this personality's origin and maybe, eventually, as people learn more about the Universe, it becomes separate from its original physical representation, eventually, if the belief survives long enough, people forget that it was ever associated with the Sun at all.

That's where the Christian God came from, but he was a sky God, rain/thunder, etc. Like Zeus or Thor.

That is not to say that the Gods are not real or that they are impotent. They are as real and as powerful as we make them.

The human imagination has incredible power, especially when lots of humans are involved in the imagining. The implications are astounding, really.

Answer 2

God as humanity knows it was..yes a created concept by humanity to explain the unknown.

God is probably nothing at all in any way as our religions tell us.

Suzanne: Very excellent point but let me throw in some debate points.
As we are well aware there are multitudes of planets in the cosmos so many that we don't even have a number for them. So while the odds that a cell would evolve thru random chance seem slim on Earth when you take the rest of the universe into context then it becomes a very likely possibility.
Now the cell, as I too studied, is very complex even in the simple unicelluar organisms but I do not believe it totally beyond reason that it assembled slowly over eoans. Even the cellular mitochondria has its own DNA showing that is was once a seperate cell that fused with a Cell and became part of it.

I do not know for sure if God created life or if life came about on its own or if God created life and caused it to evolve.




nemrod777:: for someone who gave no proof at all to his side you are sure quick to point out any flaws in opposition. So how bout you give real, solid facts proving God did everything..oh yeah, there are none. SO if you don't need facts then why does the other side?

bballboyr:: Evolution has never been disproven conclusively. It has flaws but generally scientific tests back it up.

Answer 3

It's a great question and my (admittedly trite) answer is "no."

But let's back up a moment and visualize the entirety of your question, not just the second part of it after human beings began to walk the earth.

Go back to the first part of your question: "beginning of earth, first life ... and after some years, man evolved ...." Have you ever pondered just what started life to begin with? Many atheistic scientists would have us believe that cellular components randomly came together and formed a cell. Have you ever studied a cell? I have. I spent four incredibly hard, yet enriching, years as a pre-Med student (I ultimately went into regulatory law enforcement, but that's beside the point!). During those years, I studied the cell intimately: each component is made up of a sometimes infinate number of sub-components. If even ONE of these sub-components or components is faulty, the entire cell dies or grossly malfunctions. My point is, cellular life is INCREDIBLY complex, although it appears to the naked eye to be simple. This complexity completely rules out the possibility that life arose randomly.

That's why I wanted you to focus back onto the initial part of your question -- because you skipped the most important part!

Spend some time truely pondering the beginning of life. Do some research and fully realize how impossibly complex a unicellular organism is. After you've done this, then ask yourself the question you asked us: do YOU think God is a concept that was created in man's imagination?

Peace.

Answer 4

First you need to explain the beginning of life, science has not done this so far.

Information is needed for this accident to happen, even if you put in eons of time you still need information to form the amino acids into the correct sequence to get this "first life". We now know about little things like DNA, left and right handed Amino acids, structures that have to be their for life to happen.

Oh; by the way, you guys find that missing link yet, didn't think so. Another problem is the "Cambrian explosion" which goes further to disprove evolution.

Listen, I am not offended, you just need a rational premise to the start of your question for it to make sense. I will answer the second part of your question.

God is real, the rest of this stuff is a fairy tale.

Answer 5

What is your question again? If your question is "After reading this do you think God is a concept that was created in man's imagination?" Then my answer is yes. If God created human and the universe, then someone must have created God, because something cannot be created from nothing. So humans created God.

Answer 6

I'm not offended by the question at all, if you are truly asking.

But no, I don't think God is a concept imagined by man, it does not explain the earth and its beauty, its perfectness (well, until man gets ahold of it lol) and the glory of the heavens.

Pagans, it seems to me, worship different aspects of God and try to make each of them a separate entity.

Answer 7

No I don't believe it to be the imagination of man that created God.
I believe that God created man in his own image. I am not offended by your question, because if that is your belief, I cannot be the one to judge you.

Answer 8

Don't for get Julian Jaynes's notion of a bicameral mind. The idea being that earlier in our brain development, when we had conflicting ideas (voices), we didn't know they were internal. So if you had a conflicting feeling or emotional response to it, you heard it as an external voice.

Thus explains religion.

Answer 9

no because one evolution has been disproven time and time again and two because god was litteraly with man in the garden of eden he communicated with man and had a relationship with him the fall of man changed all that

Answer 10

Have you read 'The History of God' by Karen Armstrong?