2007-04-11 14:57:23 · 22 answers · asked by student 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"If there wasn't ever a God, Man would have to create him" - Oscar Wilde.
2007-04-11 15:03:26 · answer #1 · answered by Taliesin Pen Beirdd 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Herd behaviour, mythology, the alleged "God gene", and hypnosis are all based on the same thing - belief in the safety and security of the ineffable.
This one's tricky. If God did not exist, I don't believe that anything would. But if it were possible for us to exist without the existence of God, then according to Christian theology, still probably not. There's Satan and his usurpation of God's identity to consider.
I'm not sure why I started answering this. People create God because homo sapiens is really homo necans, man the killer. God lets the guilty access privileged hospital beds when they start suffering the side effects of their guilty conscience.
If there were no God, would murder be an offence? Therefore, why do people get sick if murder is sometimes justifiable? Can anybody prove cause and effect? That's what mythology is there for - trying to keep everybody busy on other business, rather than saving people.
If there were no concept of God, would anybody feel like killing anybody? Names only seem to have come about in the form we know them after the Fall. Eve was called "woman" originally. Adam named her both times. God didn't interfere when Adam was naming the animals. That passage is silent as far as God is concerned. Eve named Cain.
Anyway, I don't know.
2007-04-11 22:10:35 · answer #2 · answered by Christian person 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is exactly what the people way back when said, and look where we are now. Yes, man needs a stronghold to believe in. It's human nature. So, the strongest stronghold is deity: the unerring being. God has always been there, and I believe it's real.
2007-04-11 22:15:07 · answer #3 · answered by never you mind 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually yes.
As soon as inanimates objects begin to move human brains seek out a motive force.
The earliest religion was animism.
It was followed by polytheism.
Then monotheism.
Now Atheism.
There is a definite evolutionary scale showing here!
2007-04-11 22:03:34 · answer #4 · answered by U-98 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not a very sound question. When people don't understand things, they ralionalize them. Example: thousands of years ago, man can't understand lightning. Man thinks it's scary and loud. If man didn't create it, then man thinks something else did. Man names this unknown force god. Man worships god to appease him so no more scary noise is made. Man repeats this process for virtually every unknown, creating a multitude of gods. Man worships a different god for every scary thing there is. One day, men argue over whose god is better. One man comes up with idea. My god better, because there only one. Him do everything. Your god weak. Him only rule over big noise. Now, zoom forward in time. Christian: my god better than yours. Him send son. Son save us. Jew: My god better. Him make book first. Muslim: my god better; has better name. Hindu: my god better; him have three forms. One have more arms; can beat up god you like. Atheist: excuse me, would you mind if I played through? Agnostic: excuse me, do I have really have to play?
2007-04-11 22:14:28 · answer #5 · answered by seattlefan74 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it isn't obviuos that man has the need to create god or gods...stop looking at your religion and look at other religions.
Everyone creates their gods. Even different Christian sects have different ideas of who god is and what he does...
People just make S**t up....
2007-04-11 22:25:30 · answer #6 · answered by Julian X 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it would be. Humans are "hard wired" for spiritual experiences. When ever a question arises that cannot be answered, god is called in to provide one, but at the same time does not allow us to "understand his mysterious ways."
The bigger question is, "What happens after we die?" We are the only creatures on earth (that we know of) capable of thinking about that issue. Of course there is no absolute proof one way or the other, so god is called in to provide a heaven and hell. Keeps us on the proper path, I suppose.
2007-04-11 22:05:53 · answer #7 · answered by ThisIsIt! 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
That's really a moot question, because God DOES exist. All you have to do is look around this beautiful world to know that something bigger and more pure than ourselves created it. That's why humans have such a drive to find spiritual fulfillment. God placed it in each human heart so that He could draw them to Him.
2007-04-11 22:04:44 · answer #8 · answered by Tammie 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
No. Why would it be necessary? Do you have any idea about what it means to be a necessity?
2007-04-11 22:03:01 · answer #9 · answered by Seraph 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes. it's human nature to create for themselves an explanation for how things came into existance.
2007-04-11 22:01:13 · answer #10 · answered by Ambiguity 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋