Does anyone ever come to think that maybe there really isn't any God in this world? Maybe the word God, the advice and faith we learn and hear today relating to God are simply just make up stories created by some intelligent humans a long long long time ago just to give hope to people and to frighten evil people from doing evil things. I mean, had anyone actually seen one? Yes, some people might answer that they have seen God. If yes, could it be a hallucination or something else which still can't be confirmed till today? I hope its not offending to religious people out there.
2007-06-07 12:41:09 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Suspender of disbelief,
I think you should read the question properly. ;) What I meant wasn't only the word God. But more to the religious matter which makes everyone (okay maybe not everyone but those who believe in the existence of God) to believe that there's a force above that is unexplainable. The question is, do you believe that the force really exist? Or do you think that this belief is merely just some make up stories created by human which had successfully turn almost the whole world into believing that there's God?
2007-06-07 13:07:08 · update #1
Of course! Who else would have created it? ~
And yes, one of the earliest religions was invented in Sumeria, about 8,000 years ago. All present religions stem from there.
2007-06-07 12:48:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I completely get where your coming from. I think that once people could start thining a little more than "Survive, eat, survive, hunt" I think they started to ask "Where do we come from?" and the best answer they could give was that some guy created it. I'm not saying that all religion is crap, i'm just saying that there is no way that a religion that is thousands of years old could be absolutely right, and that we have no way of knowing who "God" is. Maybe someday, we will create another religion and we will get lucky and it will be wright. I don't think god is a person. I think what we call god is just... a being. I think that it looks nothing like a human, and i doubt it physically exists, but i do believe it has will, and i do believe that it is the one that sparked the Big Bang that created the universe. After that though, I don't think it interfered, i think it just created it and let it go about it's natural course.
2007-06-08 11:39:02 · answer #2 · answered by Leon K. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your questions are sincere, and not offensive.
Before asking if God is a myth, we should define what we mean by God. We don't all have the same view of God, and that has led to a lot of pain.
I don't believe that God is an immaterial spirit or essence that fills the universe, but some do. To me, their God is a myth. To them, mine is.
Some believe that when bad things happen it is proof that there isn't a God, the implication being that if there was a God he wouldn't allow bad things to happen. I reject this view as well.
Some believe that evidence for evolution proves that there isn't a God. Some believe that God created life through evolution. I reject both of these. To me, evolution is a religion that requires more faith than any other I have ever heard of, but that is off topic.
The idea of God, however you define him, has been used for various purposes throughout human history. Some people give of their time and possessions to help others, because they believe that that is what God wants, others murder in his name. Others use God as means to frighten people into obedience.
Can the visions, or visits from heavenly beings be explained as hallucinations? I would say yes to some, and no to others. If you read the accounts that have been recorded in religious texts (assuming you believe these texts) like the Bible and the Book of Mormon, you have to either accept them as being what they claim to be, or conclude that they were deliberately written to deceive others. Why?
Because they talk of people seeing, hearing, and touching God. Sometimes large numbers of people at the same time. That doesn't happen in hallucinations.
If you think about it, we can explain away anything that anyone has ever seen, heard or touched, as an hallucination.
No one can prove to someone else that their personal religious experience was authentic, or that it actually happened. Likewise, no one can prove it didn't.
I believe that there is a God, and I believe that we were created in his image, meaning he has a body, like ours, but glorified and perfected. I believe that he has a specific plan for us, and part of that plan is our life on this planet, difficult though it may be.
The most important question is, how can I know for myself? If there is a God, will he communicate with me? If so, how?
Here is a suggestion. Find a quiet place where you can meditate. Think about the perfect order of the planets, the incredible complexity of the different forms of life on this planet, how life is sustained with rain, sunshine, oxygen and so forth, and how it is perpetuated. Ponder these things. Then ask. Then listen.
2007-06-07 21:56:14 · answer #3 · answered by Gideon 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Many people believe many different things. Christianity cannot be proved, it takes the faith of the person to believe. God is real. How do you suppose humans got here? evolution? well, many (MANY) believe that too. Darwin was a genius. But who's proven evolution? there's no real proof. The real answer is right before you. All the tiny worlds inside the human body couldn't just have happed like THAT! Just think about it.
2007-06-07 20:09:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created Humans to Learn the Word of God = The Holy Bible. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
2007-06-07 20:05:39 · answer #5 · answered by Norskeyenta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was Sir James Frazer's point a century ago...
And Claude Levi-Strauss too(later on).
And so many others, I'm just lazy to count them.
And about the ethymology:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=god&searchmode=none
The word was made by people, obviously.If you just try to check all other words about god,theos, deus etc, you'll receive the same results
2007-06-08 01:48:11 · answer #6 · answered by Princess Kushinada 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suspect that YOU are a hallucination. It's pretty obvious that the word 'god' is a human creation, as LANGUAGE is a human creation. But you can't have it both ways. Either our forebears were not as smart as us, in which case we can ignore them, or they were just as smart as us, and closer to the events depicted in the various ancient documents that mention God and gods. Either way, your postulate doesn't fly.
[edit] Hinduism and Buddhism started in Sumeria??? If you say so........ LOL
2007-06-07 19:53:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is just a word...a name. The belief in something, should be beyond words and names. Even "Satan", which just means "adversary".
2007-06-07 19:47:28 · answer #8 · answered by Spambot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that not all of your light bulbs are not lit..................
2007-06-07 21:34:08 · answer #9 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋