2007-03-23 05:42:49 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, I would think not. But that the first man did create God is to be expected. If you are going create an independence of mind by asking and suggesting new possibilities, you have to be grounded in someway. It seems to me that the God thing started simply by having a full belly on a nice sunny day in the tree with the kids and the wife snuggled up next to you and a warm sun rising above you. What more do you need to feel like you belong.
But then on a day when you don't have any food, it is raining and cold, your kids are starving and the wife is ready to take off with Fred, God might seem like a good idea, or explanation for events beyond ones control.
However, feeling helpless is a very bad place to be. It is a better idea to accept some responsibility for the difficulties but creating or personifying nature into something akin to a God who you have disappointed, which explains the bad luck and weather.
So, you call out to Fred and say, Hey Fred, I have a great idea. Lets start a church so we can pray to a God for good weather or we can be thankful for good weather and bountiful food for our families and praise someone of thing for the good fortune. And Fred would probably say, yeah I have been thinking the same thing lately. It is a ***** being blamed by the wife for every bad day that, what's his name, gives us.
2007-03-23 06:00:49 · answer #1 · answered by zclifton2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Technically the first person WAS god, since god is the noosphere. If god is a tyrant it is because we are tyrants.
On the other hand religion was created by a few people seeking power over the many. If religion is a tyrant it is because they obtained greater power that way.
I cannot comment on other holy books, but the god defined in the christian bible is definitely a tyrannical dictator. That god is not loving as some people suggest, as it only gives gifts to people who love it in return.
2007-03-23 05:47:24 · answer #2 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your rambling isn't something yet nonsensical babble. What does it would do with Jehovah's Witnesses? not something you reported has something to do with what they instruct. (Isaiah 40 8:17, 18) that's what Jehovah has mentioned, your Repurchaser, the Holy one in each of Israel: “I, Jehovah, am your God, the only coaching you to income your self, the only inflicting you to tread interior the final way you will possibly desire to stroll. O if in basic terms you will possibly easily pay interest to my commandments! Then your peace might grow to be purely like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
2016-10-19 10:39:13 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was the intention. With a fearsome God behind him, the man became powerful. With power, came corruption and tyrants, sometimes. Behold the first priests/clerics/witch doctors/whatever.
2007-03-23 05:46:16 · answer #4 · answered by Steven D 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
When was the last time God forced YOU to do something. The tyranny, like the concept of God, belongs to humanity. Stop trying to shift the blame. You tyrant!
2007-03-23 05:48:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
When you read the account prior to the Great Flood God seems suprised by the wickeness of man.
2007-03-23 05:46:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No one created God. God created man. No greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for another. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have ever lasting life.
2007-03-23 05:48:34 · answer #7 · answered by Apostle Jeff 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It doesn't matter any more. He is dead. He probably had no idea he was the first one to create god.
2007-03-23 05:52:23 · answer #8 · answered by ShanShui 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God doesn't tolerate much blasphemy
2007-03-23 05:48:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
God seems to only reflect who his creators were.
2007-03-23 05:47:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋