Who created God?

Question

Just wonder who created God. God, he or she, is the creator of everything in this universe. That is what many people believe in. Who can tell me how he or she was created. Also why people believe it is He and not She or even it?

For those who believe in God:
why God is being so cruel to the innocent people (e.g. take recent example regarding Maddie). Of course there are people who deserve to be punished but many many people do not deserve the fate which they get. Most of the kids are so innocent. How God would wish something bad, horrible happen to them (die from hunger, AIDS, horrible deseases, rape, accidents, childrens' pornography .....). Please, do not say that it is God's wish. It must be a very pervert wish.

I have heard people saying: innocent people get punished by God because of their bad karma. They pay for the mistakes they made in their previous lives or the mistakes made by their ancestors.

Religious people say: do not do this. God is watching you. He sees everything.

So, he/she is seeing horrible things happening around the world and watching it with satisfaction. Perhaps it is very entertaining to God if he/she does not help innocent people to get out of trouble...

Answer 1

Mankind created God - in their search for a reason for being... In the same way that Gods have been created throughout time. (Incan Sun Gods, the Norse Gods, the Greek Gods, Roman Gods - there are lots to choose from)

Answer 2

Answering your first question if you look at it the way you are how did anything come into the existance without a creator (even the ultimate creator should have been created). A christian response would be that God exists in a relm without time or space he is able to just be even though he will never big bang (although personally i do not see this plausable)

To answer your second question firstly i would say that joy can only exist when suffering is present (you can never always be happy). Secondly god allows us into sin so he can save us. God enables us to have freewill (do bad things) but then gives us a choice to beileve. If he didn't it would just be creating robots.

Your thrid point shows that you may suffer unjustly through karma. however if you are a hindu then it is just as it is your beilef that you did do those things. If you are not then you don't beileve it so you provide another explination for grief

For your final point that god is entertained through suffering is a bit silly. Yes it is true god is omniscient and omnipotent and omnipresent (all seeing, all knowing and powerful). yet he is a loving god and cares for the world. Surly here you are seeing a roman/greek view of god that they all sit up on olmpus and chuckle when the morals can't make fire. If god has true love agape then god has true justice love=justice.
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Answer 3

If I said I created God would you believe me?
Well I did.
I was motivated by...
My need for answers to the bigger questions,
My yearning and desire or a Father without clay feet,
My craving for a God Creator to take responsibility for the choices I make,
My need to control the apparent randomness of life
and the wish to extend my life beyond the limits time has honoured me with.
I have created God.
I did this when first I crawled from the sea and stood upright. and developed language.

Answer 4

God was not created; God simply is.

The inherent problem with philosophical/theosophical discussions is that our profoundly limited physical brains are simply incapable of beginning to imagine what God must be like.

People wonder things like, "what was in the universe before it was created?" and "what did God do before creating the universe?" Spend more than 30 seconds trying to imagine those concepts, and your head will start to throb.

I believe we have souls, and I believe we go somewhere when we die. It's certainly not some heavenly kingdom up in Earth's clouds, so it must be on some other plane. I like to think that when we die we're immediately educated about all the mysteries we pondered in life -- then again, maybe all of this will cease to matter when we die, since our emotions and other human frailties are just that: human.

Oh, and wondering who created God is indicative of being constrained by concepts of time -- e.g. that something came before God. I surmise that time is only a physical characteristic of this universe; on other planes it may not exist. Oh dear, now my head is throbbing again. :-)

Answer 5

god is a creation of mankind, in our limited understanding of the world we have to satisfy the urge to personify things that we view as 'godly', like god. Look at how we personify animals, the weather, all of nature. We can't understand it without comparing it to ourselves.
I think that's why the fathers of the church wrote the bible - in order to explain, through stories, otherworldly/nonhuman things. What we call 'god' is actually the nature of existence - sometimes cruel and sometimes kind. We have to blame it on someone and so we created the concepts of good, evil, god and the devil to stop us from becoming overwhelmed by the whole nature of the universe - which is actually (unless you're Stephen Hawking, in which case you have a vague inkling as to what it's all about) impossible for us to comprehend. We're just not sophisticated enough as lifeforms go.

I mean, we have only figured out how to use about a third of our brain capacity so far!

Answer 6

God(s) was/were created to explain the unexplainable. you have the Maya's sun god, the Greek's water god, the catholics creator, and so fourth. every single one is a symbol of mystery made into a solid form of reassurance. it was the only way human beings could really grasp what they couldn't. another example is the ever-so unpredictable element, air, the weather, described by Native Americans as father sky and/or mother earth.
The reason for God(s) having a majority of being male is due to the idea that men are the superior gender because of strength, bravery, skills, etc. these ideas are made out of pride and self dominants, but there are some religions/cultures that actually value the female over that of the male. reasons to that are because woman are known as the giver of life.
most of this is information heard, but i hope it helps at least a little.

Answer 7

I like Mark's answer.
Because humans were at first unaware of the unconscious and also because humans did not understand where language comes from, they needed to create a higher power who could have given them these qualities.

Answer 8

Perhaps God is one of many others like himself- an alien species who all rule over their own universe; this could make the parallel universe theory possible. Man could have also created God, as stated previously, in an attempt to find meaning in life, or to explain the unexplainable--that is until modern science came along.

Answer 9

the creation of god came when we were created, let me explain what i think.

take the ying yang symbol the chinese circle with the black and whit side's with the black dot in the white and the white dot in the black. this shows that everything has an equal opposite e.g. the opposite to long is short, rich/poor, night/day, man/woman, death/life etc etc.

everything has to exist equally FACT so if you have death in life then surely you can have life in death right, cause after all they are each other's equal opposite. now this is where it get's complex.

for there to be a god there has to an afterlife and for there to be an afterlife there has to be life! so if god is in us and all around us then god is not male or female, it's everything combined as one and everything being equal.

that's the basic's of what i beleieve mate, the rest is to hard to explain over the internet. if you want more info send me an email and i'' get back to you as soon as i can

Answer 10

If you can accept the concept of infinity there is no need for God to be created - he is ans always has been with us.
However I question the existence of God, of whom, by definition, we have no proof, and is unnecessary in the "scheme of things".
I am very unsure but in 65 years have yet to hear anything that convinces me as to the creation of our universe.

Answer 11

The people of this world are lazy.
It may seem like that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the subject of God but it does.

The people of the olden days had problems of their own.
With Kings and Queens, and simple things like seasons crops not growing.

These people wished that there were someone there to guide them. To give them answers to their questions and to FIX their problems for them.

The truth is, that the subconcious mind has made this man or woman...black or white.

During this persons dreams he or she will think, and come up with an answer in the form of their God or Guardian Angel telling them to answer this question.

In a nutshell, most people who believe in God are lazy.
Not being steriotypical, it is just my veiw.

I would like to be proven otherwise.