Every culture created their own god/gods to suit that particular culture. Everyone who believes has a slightly different concept of God to everyone else.
Isn't this because God exists only in the imagination of believers?
2007-04-04 01:25:25 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Did God Create Humans Or Did Humans Create God?
Who Made Who Who made who? Did God create humans or did humans create god? At first thought one would of course say God created humans. Man cannot create god! What fool would dare say such a thing! After all the definition of God says that it is the supreme being and the divine creator, not the divine creation. So of course God created man, right? Or shall we dig a little deeper into this question and examine it from the other side? Is God just a figment of mans elaborate imagination? Could it be that God is a mythological tool used by man to manipulate the mind to give explanations to the unexplainable? If this is true then humans created god. Since the beginning of mankind, gods and goddesses have been attendant in all cultures all over the world. In ancient times such as ancient Egypt man had numerous gods for individual necessities. The Egyptians made sun, moon, rain, and fire gods in which they would worship relentlessly in fear that the “Gods” would punish them by causing a drout, fire, or other natural disasters. These kind of early primitive form of gods were created by humans in shier ignorance. They couldn’t comprehend how the world functioned. All they knew was that there were necessities in the world that were vital to their survival such as the sun. They were oblivious to what the sun was, but they knew it was consequential to their existence so they labeled it as a god. Years past, and as time went by man obtained more and more knowledge about the Houck 2 environment in which they inhabited. With Knowledge came the dawn of a new breed of gods. Gods that would satisfy mans starving imagination and explain their existence. Expanding from the elementary elemental based gods of the Egyptians came more evolved gods. Gods that were more than just dominators over the elements. Gods that expressed a plethora of emotions toward man and became a more personal form of a God. Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Muslim are just a few examples of the contemporary religions that were created between 2500 BCE to 500 CE . Why haven’t there been any new religions created within the last 1,500 years? The answer is simple. The human race as a whole has become so abundant with knowledge that we aren’t nearly as nieve and susceptible to manipulation anymore. Therefore no new creationist religions have been originated. Sights that would have served as a miracle 2000 years ago have now boiled down to simple explanations of science. For example, in the Bible, Genesis 9:14-15 it reads ; “It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, I shall set my rainbow to be seen in the cloud; “And I shall remember My covenant which is between Me and you; The waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.”. To translate this into more simple terms it implies that God created the rainbow after the great flood as a reminder to man that God will never flood the Earth again. Present day people now know that a rainbow is nothing more than a reflection and refraction of the sun’s rays in drops of water that form the colors in the spectrum. There is no miracle in this although a rainbow is an exceptional sight. It is a hard pill to swallow to think that one religion is right and the other is wrong. Particularly when there is such a vast array of religions in this world. Religion is a peculiar and mind boggling part of life. Although religion is contrived by man it is still righteous and inspires Houck 3 love and good will to all. Religion is the transparent glue that holds mankind together. Like all things it has its down sides, but Surely one wouldn’t desire a world without religion. Man made or not.
2007-04-04 01:30:28 · answer #1 · answered by bornonaplatein1988 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Because in my opinion that's not true yes there has been many pagan cults worshiping idols or the sun, moon etc but that's not the same as the Living God of Judeo Christianity who sent his son into the world to redeem us. The real problem to me is how militant atheists are misrepresenting science to support atheist dogma when any honest scientist will tell you you can't prove or disprove a creator in a laboratory he is to big for that it is about faith and discovering the scriptures and also the life changing experiences of believers. That's why there are many believers who are scientists.
2007-04-04 02:03:22 · answer #2 · answered by jack lewis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No to the latter question. Not "every" culture created their own "Gods" as you say, for only ONE culture held TRUTH. The one that got all these other cultures to INVENT their own belief systems. The ORIGINAL one was the one faith of Egypt and no the people did not INVENT it. Ask yourself, how could such a primitive culture pile up MILLIONS of stone blocks weighing TONS to build Pyramids not even the MOST intelligent can explain?? Inside a pyramid you will find the words to God in heaven written 4500 years ago. As for christians, this religion follows the misconceptions of JUDAISM and not all Jesus taught for it was a creation of the Roman Empire and you are right MAN created this GOD not the other way around.........
2007-04-04 01:37:36 · answer #3 · answered by Theban 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I suppose Missing.... we will spend a lifetime debating this. And in the end we will both find out.
I will not accept it because I have been thoroughly convinced of the truth of the Bible. This is after many years adrift in the sea of doubt, and disbelief.
If God is only in our imaginations, then you are very close to suggesting something like mass hallucination. Which I think is an unbelievable and preposterous idea.
2007-04-04 01:58:35 · answer #4 · answered by thankyou "iana" 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why don't Christians- who believe in God by definition- renounce their faith? Maybe it's the preference for good over evil.Maybe it's the knowledge that there is absolute truth. maybe the comfort of everlasting life in the presence of a loving God. maybe just hanging around people that won't steal their stuff. you're like everybody else, staring into the scary black void of eternity. what have YOU got? doesn't it suck to be you?
2007-04-04 02:02:24 · answer #5 · answered by beauhonkus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it is not that god is only in the imagination. jesus christ was a real man wwho wa tiortured for our sins.
and if you go way back where did adam and eve come from if not from the almighty. they were the first tw he created.
yes other faithe may have a different god, but the majority of religions belive in the one and same jesus christ but he is just called by another name.
2007-04-04 01:43:03 · answer #6 · answered by ann f 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Or just consider the narrower question of whether adherants of the same religion have the same conception of God. Why would it differ for each individual?
2007-04-04 01:30:40 · answer #7 · answered by 2 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Science has multiple theories of the beginning of the universe and the process of evolution. Every historical action or event in history has a different account of how it happened or why depending on the culture, or government, or historians slant on it. Does that mean that none of it ever happened or that none of it is true? The fact that there is multiple stories or versions of an event does not mean that none of them are true. There is ample evidence of God in science and history both.
2007-04-04 01:34:17 · answer #8 · answered by mark g 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
i beleve in god but that is a good one im going to hell because i joke all the time about religus stuff like jesus loves little boys or touched by an angel
2007-04-04 01:30:14 · answer #9 · answered by bik_ko 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If God created us in his image Then why are we supposedly sinners?
2014-03-28 07:33:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋