Belief in god?

Question

How is it that people from different countries and cultures all believed in god before they even met each other to influence them? e.g Alexander the Great was a Greek king, who believed in Zues, and other Greek gods, and the same time, people in India also believed in Vishnu, and other Hindu gods. Red-Indians believed in their own pagan religion, before they met the Christian invaders. How come we all had the same idea of god?

Harry R- sorry, your probably right, I asked my friends the same question, they told me that Pagan ment you worshiped aspects nature. Never belive all of what your told then.

Sorry- I asked my friends the same question, and they told me that Pagan ment you worshiped aspects of nature. Never believe all the things you hear. I'm not Christian, Muslim or Jewish, I didn't know that it was considered offensive (that's what it said in the dictionary).

I'm not Christian, Muslim or Jewish, I didn't know that the word 'Pagan' was considered as an offensive term (that's what it said in the dictionary).- I guess that makes me narrow minded

I'm not an idiot who keeps on repeating myself, there is something wrong with my computer. sorry.

Answer 1

No, all those culture did not have the same idea of God, they all are very different and unique in their own right. Vishnu is not the same as Zeus, to say they are the same would be an insult to their respective cultures. Besides, before the advent of Christianity, most of the world was polytheistic, believing in a multiplicity of Gods and Goddesses, it was more balanced and natural. Monotheism is one of the worst things to have happened to humanity, look at all the harm it has caused.

And please do not be mistaken, Pagan is not an offensive word by any means and there are some of us Pagans who do worship actual Gods, not just Nature. We all aren't Wiccans or pantheists. ;-)

Answer 2

It's different reasons for most of them. The pagan religions in the ancient world were created because of the people's confusion about nature. They needed some explanation and decided that there were "gods" who created nature, e.g. Poseidon, god of earthquake and the sea. We did not all have the same idea of God. That's a completely erroneous statement, the Indians had nature gods, and Buddha is completely different from them just as an example. And the similar monotheistic religions- Christianity, Judaism, and Islam- are similar because they all descend from God's calling to Abraham.

Answer 3

My grandfather died this Saturday.
He was an exuberant, vital and happy man, until a few months ago. He had a stroke and he quite literally withered way before my families eyes.
That's why I need a belief in a higher power. Because, without it, the sheer helplessness of not being able to DO anything would completely consume me.
I need to believe that there is something more than the grave. That there is a spirit, a soul, that transcends this..life. That we are a little more than just maggot food...
Maybe all these people needed to have similar belief

Answer 4

This is indeed a good question (except for that quip about the indians).

At one time man did worship the one and only creator. Before that man lived as a child, I was not there but I believe man (millions of years ago) looked up at the stars and wondered...

It is only western ignorance that assumes everyone else is pagan. The indians religions are more rightous then a belief in a bloody walking corpse.

Answer 5

Actually these are very different deities. Most Pagan (and early monotheistic) faiths see Gods and Humans in the same realm, of the same stuff. Gods are simply more powerful and usually immortal.

In Greek mythology, for example, Prometheus steals fire from the Gods. Greek Gods are emotional, imperfect, and sometimes even mortal.

The Gods of the Bible, Yahweh, El, Jehovah, are all very different too, in similar ways. The idea of a perfect and universal God was a much later construction.

Answer 6

questioning it is merely about particular there are different "stepped forward" lifeforms contained in the universe is really diverse to believing in anal probing cattle mutilating beings vacationing us to play round with hicks. Or the insulting insinuation we gained't have likely finished X devoid of help from extraterrestrial beings. Now it truly is what believers in extraterrestrial beings in many situations imagine. And it is also very few hundred% particular that if there is the different stepped forward existence available, it is going to likely be that some distance away the daylight ought to burn out in the previous we've had any probability to come back across one yet another. there is no info. it is merely an identical. @??Lucy?? ???????? Alien believers are literally not 0. not in any respect heard of Raelians or Scientologists? and do not Mormons type of remember on intervening extraterrestrial beings? @Jayson That wasn't an anthropologist, it change into Arthur C Clarke, a SciFi author. would not eliminate from the validity of the actuality, merely conserving. further i have were given to say questioning it is merely about particular there is different existence available is no longer "believing" in extraterrestrial beings. i imagine we in all likelihood will locate different existence someplace in this image voltaic equipment, even with the actuality that i should be taken aback if it is even as stepped forward as microbial existence is in the international. yet i don't have self belief it is there or no longer there, I merely imagine it could be. what's the point of searching in case you imagine you already know the reply for particular?

Answer 7

All people are accountable to God whether they have “heard about Him” or not. The Bible tells us that God has clearly revealed Himself in nature (Romans 1:20) and in the hearts of people (Ecclesiastes 3:11).
. Deuteronomy 4:29 proclaims, “But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.” This verse teaches an important principle: everyone who truly seeks after God will find Him. If a person truly desires to know God, God will make Himself known.

Answer 8

As human beings, we all share what is called a conscious or as they say in Greek mythology, an oracle. This gives us a inner sense of right or wrong - a moral center. That moral center is rooted to an even deeper feeling that we were created by a higher more intelligent being. This is what leads us to wonder in our imaginations about God. After following the path of these thoughts the next step is to define more specifically who God is.
Bringing one closer to the idea, and original imprint for them of their creator.

Answer 9

You think they are the SAME idea of God? You don't even get a consistent argument for one kind of god in the Bible. How different would gods need to be before you noticed it? And if they're not different why do different religions, including all the sects of Christianity, fight about it so much?

Answer 10

I think it speaks directly to 2 basic truths about humans:

1. We seek to understand, and we do that by theorizing.
2. We, like all animals, have a drive to survive. And, since we are able to be introspective, we actually hope to survive....even death (an oxymoron).

I would also add that superstition stems from my #1 point. Put that all together and you have the variety of gods, heavens, hells, afterlifes, spirits, etc....
And, because we are all different, our circumstances are different, our languages are different, you have complete disagreement about what god and the afterlife looks like.