2007-05-30 06:53:33 · 14 answers · asked by Stew 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You said it!
It is sheer arrogance excluding and demoting everything else in the universe. What if among the many earth like planets being reported daily by astronomers, there are non-humanoid beings?
They have no God?
Is whole of the vast reaches of space beyond earth Godless. If He has a human image it has to have an outline? Finger ends? Then what lies beyond the fingers?
If man created God in his image then all is explained.
This argument is not to deny God. Only the human concept of God.
2007-05-30 07:09:32 · answer #1 · answered by A.V.R. 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Man created God in the image of himself.
2007-05-30 06:57:39 · answer #2 · answered by TarKettle 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
God created man in the image of himself.
2007-05-30 06:57:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
God created man in his image.
2007-05-30 06:56:01 · answer #4 · answered by sassinya 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Always a good question.
One of the things I like about Christianity and this question is that when you look at most of the early religions, their gods are just big people.
Only in the Judeo-Christian God do you find a being that is all-powerful, HOLY, and JUST.
A just and holy being is NOT a comfort. This being would be the worst nightmare for the human race in its current state, unless there is some external, God-driven means of reconciliation.
It always amuses me when I hear that man created God. Man would NOT create the God of the Bible. He would do what the Greeks and Romans... did...
Soli Deo Gloria
2007-05-30 07:05:45 · answer #5 · answered by doc in dallas 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Both. Whether one understands God in a theistic sense or a pantheistic one, as Einstein did, then humans are creations of the universe, either at God's behest or because the universe is divine or exists within God.
There is also no doubt that onto that transcendant reality we denote by using the term "God" people project their own ideas, values and image. Humans have been doing that consistently for millenia, and as long as one knows it is a metaphor (and technically idolatry), it isn't necessarily a problem. Humans are the most transcendant things we've encountered in the universe thus far, and so it is not surprising we find anthropomorphic imagery a useful symbol of transcendence. It is when people start taking the language more literally that they get into problems.
2007-05-30 07:03:25 · answer #6 · answered by jamesfrankmcgrath 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God. who created man.
For if God does not exist, How did this Universe come into existance? From a Big bang? From What? and whatever answer you give that explains where and how the Big bang came about ,I will ask You where those elements came from and will continue to ask that same question until infinity.
Now..With that said, I will answer a question that is always asked in reponse to my question: God exist in eternity, He had no creation, or beginning, Time itself was created by God for us as He does not need it. He exist, outside of time.
In Eternity beyond mans ability to comprehend.
Now with that answered, Can you give me proof of the Big Bang with testable evidence that I can test and examine and hold in my hands in the context that I require?
The Only evidence that I will accept is for a Big Bang to be produced from the Nothingness, if you cannot do that, then God exist. Accept it.
2007-05-30 07:01:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Man created God. The attitude and ideas of this god are always the same as the attitudes and beliefs of the god's followers. It is no coincidence.
2007-05-30 06:57:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
God created man.
If it were the other way around, I certainly would have created God much differently, someone who let me get away with anything I wanted and wouldn't have any claims on how I should act or what I should do.
2007-05-30 07:08:06 · answer #9 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You give man way to much credit to create God and to stick to his story. Not a chance.
2007-05-30 06:56:19 · answer #10 · answered by Rick 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋