Since the authors of the bible had a very limited knowledge of the world and universe around them. They didn't have science as a way to uncover the truths about the universe. So without this knowledge, they used their imagination to fill in the blanks. Inventing god as a way that all of "this" came about.
2007-01-20 17:31:41 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What is the point for this life? To live! Why is it so hard for people to see that. I don't understand how people believe that this existance is so bad.
2007-01-20 17:37:58 · update #1
people invented god to explain things they couldn't, like the beginning of the universe.
2007-01-20 17:34:11 · answer #1 · answered by seann212 3 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Yes, that's what I believe. In addition to filling in the "knowledge gap", they also use it to fill in an emotional gap: it *feels* right to many people that there is an intelligent being who created a complex universe. It feels good to think there is a purpose to life all ready laid out. It gives people a sense of a solid worldview, having an objective source to dictate all of human behavior. It gives people (individuals and humanity as a whole) the ultimate father figure (or in some cases, mother figure) to answer to.
someone said:
"that's a pretty complex imagination for illiterate nomads living in the desert."
No individual nomad had to come up with it all himself. It is based on an culturally evolving set of ideas, and influenced by different cultural traditions.
2007-01-20 17:51:47 · answer #2 · answered by rgeleven 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything is possible. Should we live our life for God??
Why should the existence or non existence of God affect our lives?
People who believe in God need no bible. They can feel the existence of God by looking to every little creature.Technology nowadays has taken us too far away. We are proud of what we have achieved so far and believe in no creator.
But could any human being create a stone out of nothing??
2007-01-20 18:01:46 · answer #3 · answered by Media 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's a pretty complex imagination for illiterate nomads living in the desert. I personally don't know how anyone can imagine the idea of God.
perhaps humans invented skeptisicm to fill in the gaps.
2007-01-20 17:36:46 · answer #4 · answered by Enigma 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
whilst my baby grow to be very youthful, and he could ask questions i could no longer answer including "what's electricity" (pointing at an outlet), i could say "magic". God is the mystical answer.
2016-11-25 23:28:12 · answer #5 · answered by wilczynski 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I Think GOD was creating to create and introduce some kind of fear in humans about their future. When you want to have better life after your death also do good things in favour of GOD.
GOD was created to fill the gaps
GOd was created to give some jobs to certain races
GOD was created to supress certain races
GOD was created to develop the culture
2007-01-20 17:37:09 · answer #6 · answered by Naren 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
See if you can find Ludwig Feuerbach's "Essence of Religion". It's a very short book (I think my copy is about thirty pages) that goes into this very idea with a variety of ancient cultures.
2007-01-20 17:38:51 · answer #7 · answered by angk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe God invented humans to fill the gaps in space.
2007-01-20 17:34:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Do gays and athiests invent gaps because theyre unable to make two ends meet?
2007-01-20 17:48:39 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The people who wrote the bible witnessed the miracles of Jesus Christ (well, some did) and there is no doubt that at one time Jesus really existed. The question is, was Jesus the son of Christ? The new testament in particular is accounts of Jesus's alleged miracles and acts, and I can't see them making up the entire thing.
2007-01-20 17:35:22 · answer #10 · answered by Gideon 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
to fill in the gaps as well as to have something to look forward to. i mean hell if you didnt have "heaven" to get into at the end of this screwed up world, whats the point, eh
2007-01-20 17:35:14 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋