When one places their faith in a book written by man how can you be so sure it was inspired word from the Creator. just because it tell you what you want to hear. I am not picking on any particular groups by the way.
2007-05-16 16:08:46 · 35 answers · asked by Jesse B 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Figments of one's imagination can be often so engrained as to stain the brain of their creator. Luckily, some of us got some extra-strong cleaning solvents and washed that pesky god right out of our heads! ;-)
2007-05-16 16:11:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Your facts are upside down. It is not human who created God but it is God who create us and the whole universe. The book is the words of God but it has been twisted by human.
It is not possible for a human being to write a book with such facts during that time. A study has been done to evaluate those facts and the conclusion is clear that the book is not written by human.
Majority of it's content is not what we want to hear. It is full of restrictions and laws of doing things but we still accept it. If it is not from God, it must be from other superior beings.
2007-05-16 18:28:18 · answer #2 · answered by z_jepoh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't uncreate God for the same reason you can't uncreate Santa Claus. Regardless of whether or not either one actually exists, it comes down to one thing, tangible proof. On both sides of the argument, there is nothing tangible that says that a God either exists, or doesn't exist. You can say God does exist because I believe strongly in what Christianity teaches me, but it doesn't prove that it is true. And you can say that God doesn't exist because the Bible was a book written by men who were looking to shape the politics and belief of the time to match their own, but you don't have anything tangible that disproves a God. It just can't be done.
2007-05-16 16:21:13 · answer #3 · answered by Kevin 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You are saying something which is unheard of. It is the other way round.
We did create the wrong perception of God. We attempted to know Him by our intellect and when failed miserably, started questioning His very existence. We know that we can't go beyond the limit of our minds, and a thing which is divine and limitless, can not be gauged by our minds.
You may create or uncreate Him, it will keep you busy. And when you are not serious how does it matter any way?
2007-05-16 21:23:53 · answer #4 · answered by Vijay D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are two ways you can discern spiritual truths:
(1) Exercise enough faith and sincerity to seriously consider its validity, then get down on your knees and ask God if it is true (or inspired by Him).
If it is true, you will get a feeling of great peace, clarity, warmth, love, enegetic tingles... or something like that. It's hard to describe the feeling in words, but you'll definitely know it when you feel it, believe me. This feeling is called "the Holy Spirit". It will testify of all truth (wherever it may be found.)
(2) Another way to find out if it is true (if you're like me, and faith or spirituality don't come naturally to you), is to do a practical experiment, as suggested below:
Alma 32:27-28
27 But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.
28 Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves—It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me.
2007-05-16 16:32:10 · answer #5 · answered by MumOf5 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've wondered if Moses or his contemporaries would be convinced my modern scientific knowledge. I mean, they wrote that stuff down because they had talked about it over fires for years - they really didn't know any more than we do that the creation myth is a fact and I actually suspect they were the smart people of their day - smart enough to change their minds when the facts run counter to their theories.
But to get to your question...the men who created god are long dead. Sure, over time, mankind could just run out of steam on the whole god idea but that takes generations of people NOT teaching their kids that there's a god to explain things.
Bats - chill man, Buddhists, even atheistic Buddhists *can* talk about god and there's no doubt that the idea of god is real, even if the being is not. Can the idea of god be un-created?
2007-05-16 16:15:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
If man created god, it was as a religious concept only. How can you uncreate something that does not exist in reality, but only as an idea?
The only way to "uncreate" god is to forget it. That's "man's" problem.
2007-05-16 16:16:20 · answer #7 · answered by talcottsk 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If we HAD created God, certainly we could uncreate Him.
But we didn't.
Hasn't this question been asked a jillion times already? Oh, wait-- but you didn't actually want an answer, or you would have checked the archive...
And no, by the way, it doesn't tell me what I want to hear.... whatever gave you that silly idea?
2007-05-16 16:31:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thats a good one. I guess you can't really take it for gospel(sorry bad pun) but the Bible has been rewritten so many times Im sure King James made a few changes to his version. I think that most holy scriptures are set forth more as a guide line than a set in stone law... not sure if that answered your question or not
2007-05-16 16:14:06 · answer #9 · answered by azreil325 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Someone who places their faith in a book needs their head examined. Someone who places their faith in the force that's evidenced in Creation is doing exactly what the Creator intended them to do.
BTW, since when does the Bible "tell you what you want to hear"? You think we Christians wanted to hear that we were subject to eternal separation from God?? Oh yea, that just floats my boat! Nothing else I'd rather be made aware of!!
2007-05-16 16:20:21 · answer #10 · answered by azar_and_bath 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, who said that man can't uncreate him?
Unfortunately, most people need to believe in SOMETHING, because the prospect that there's nothing after you die just plain sucks. Especially when you realize that your life will never be what you want it to be. Is it all horsesh*t? of course. But a lot of people need that horsesh*t to make it through the day. And the more they doubt it, the harder they defend it.
2007-05-16 16:14:53 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋