with the thousands of different gods throughout human history just represent our individual attempts to come to grips with oblivion?
2007-03-08 04:55:04 · 14 answers · asked by Samurai Jack 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, its their anxiety about life!
2007-03-08 05:00:14 · answer #1 · answered by jimmy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Death is the ultimate action caused to induce faith in people. Think rather of the order faith brings to our lives. Events occur that are usually ascribed to the belief of a living god. Faith in that God to create these events control and regulate the lives of the believers.
Good harvests, birth of a child, good family lives all instill faith in believers. Bad harvests, birth of the wrong sex or stillborn, family discord are all negatives usually ascribed to the devil or some action caused by thoes concerned. Bad faith or Ill faith. Faith has been used by man to regulate mans actions from birth till death ....and beyond. All modern day Laws and regulations stem from the faith we hold, not to say that that they all match each and every religious belief. They do mirror each other in most ways. Faith is what I would consider mankind's ultimate survival guide throughout the ages.
2007-03-08 05:28:16 · answer #2 · answered by reinformer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Avoiding death, (securing ones needs) supplying and expressing ones desires, (avoiding the contemplation of death) is included in civilizations and all that goes with them.
Securing ones needs is nothing short of avoiding death. Without spirit death is immediate; without air or in peril, death in seconds; without water, death in three days; without clothing and shelter, likely death in hours or days; without food death in days to weeks..
Behind all this human activity to avoid death is real fear. Constant work to meet needs covers the fear. With the fear covered (religion is one covering) the resulting bondage to the evil behind death is sublimated. Consequences are thus abated; and the means for subjecting and controlling people remain hidden.
I am in total agreement about the relation of fear and anxiety to death. All the gods however stem from ignorance and delusion on one hand and a lack of faith on the other.
Faith in the living God takes one out of ignorance and superstition and not into it. Faith in one God was man's original position, not something he has evolved to.
Faith finally is not a religious set or mental position; but a human ability.similar to our other senses. With it we come face to face with what cannot otherwise be seen,.
2007-03-08 07:07:20 · answer #3 · answered by Tommy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
research those other gods and the entire picture might come a bit more clear.
God in heaven....Lucifer dupes him, Lucifer and 1/3 angels run for earth to hide....God puts man on earth.....over time man on earth worships gods but does not know of GOD yet.
who do you think they were worshiping? actual gods? sun gods? moon gods? those are ALL the fallen angels. each angel has passed himself off as a god over time. The fallen ones are the Nephilim. They and their children are the pharoes of egypt and all those old times and different gods. Just look at the old stone carvings and realize all those bird, lizard looking "preists" it shows.....are actually drawing of the fallen ones, the bad angels.
this is why the bible, God, says over n over again....follow no other god nor image. Cause he is warning you....there is only 1 god....and all these others that claim to be gods, lie, for they were the fallen ones, the gang with Lucifer.
2007-03-08 05:06:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Its impossible to prove a gods existance. The chances of a god existing are a trillion to the power of a trillion to the power of a trillion. The chances that you are worshipping the correct god are almost infinate. Its much more likely that there is no god in existance and these beliefs simply come out of fear of the one mystery that we can never have a definate answer about. Death.
2007-03-08 05:02:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, I believe in gods and goddesses and don't think anything of death or an afterlife. Don't care, I take care of this life as it comes and will do the same when and if there is a next.
2007-03-08 05:00:04 · answer #6 · answered by Huggles-the-wise 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I have no anxiety about death. I believe that most souls cross over. That belief does not necessarily require a God, in my opinion.
2007-03-08 05:04:45 · answer #7 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In my experience, any time you're dealing with human motivations, the facile answers are at best partly true. I think this falls under that heading. I'm sure it's true for some. I'm equally sure it's not true for all, and pretty sure it's not true for most.
2007-03-08 05:03:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not just death, but the unknown/ unexplainable. This is why ancient religions started with so many different gods.
This also helps explains why (to a certain degree), more advanced societies have a greter percentage of its citizens as adherents to religion.
2007-03-08 05:02:34 · answer #9 · answered by purelogic1970 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Absolutely! Try to sit still with your eyes closed and imagine there is no you anymore, no being, no thought,no anything it freaks people out so they make up some imagined place that they can go after death.The part about being good to get there was put in by leaders to control there subjects
2007-03-08 05:04:27 · answer #10 · answered by ink360 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
not by no means for me it is just the opposite death where is your sting with God there is none (i know been there done that)
2007-03-08 05:06:59 · answer #11 · answered by loveChrist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋