If God not exist, where do people even get the idea?

Question

of a God's existence? Isn't it common sense that there would be no question of existence if there was no God?

Answer 1

By that logic every god ever invented must also exist. How about ghosts and faeries? People clearly can invent many things, including the idea of god, that have no basis in reality.

Answer 2

You can't start there. If you begin with an assumption and no evidence, how could you help people understand what you are talking about. Let's say I was traveling through a maze and taking careful notes about the left turns and the right turns I was taking. After spending many hours in the Maze, I come upon a bright blue sphere. I have a kind of experience and when I come out of the maze I tell everyone about the sphere and I give them directions through the maze so they can repeat my experience. They come back and tell me, no it was green. No, it was pink. Someone finds a square where I found a sphere. There is something odd about this location in the maze and there is much to investigate, but if I didn't take any notes I can't help anyone get to the sphere.

The Absolute may well exist, you just can't start there.

Answer 3

This is all a play on words! The word god exists because mankind created it in order to explain away mankinds trials and tribulations, a force that mankind could turn to and seek comfort and peace from this reality and world. God is the force that is responsible for everything good just as satan is the force the is responsible for everything bad. Religious people will all agree that both god and satan DO EXIST. Non religious people will tell you GOD DOES NOT EXIST! The reality is the non religious people are wrong! GOD DOES EXIST,The real question is what is the meaning of gods existance,? Is he the all powerful being that we need to believe in or is he just a word with no meaning? What one believes is up to the indiviual! But the fact that god is a thought and god is a word proves that GOD EXISTS because ,if in reality he did not ,he would not even be a topic for discussion!

Answer 4

Whether you believe in God or not, it is the nature of human beings to try to understand the reason for things; it's what we do to try to keep bad things from happening to us. For a random universe to exist is a very frightening concept to most people. Having a God that is responsible for every tiny occurrence is a comforting idea; it makes things seem not QUITE so unpredictable and scary.

I happen to believe in God, although perhaps not in the same fashion as many others do, but that's a topic for another question and another category.

Answer 5

Your question reminds me of the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy." a native in the Kalahari Desert encounters technology for the first time--in the shape of a Coke bottle. I found this to be very amusing, but I also began to see parallels between his thought process, and that of the modern day Theist. Both are using CAVEMAN LOGIC to explain their world. I fail to see the difference between “hmm, bottle fall from sky, must be gods” and “hmm, trees and butterflies prove the existence of god.”

In both of these cases, someone is simply replacing one unknown for another unknown, but proving nothing!

Not only can God not be proven, but I will also go so far as to say that God can be disproved. It is impossible for something to be all knowing and all good. If you are aware that something bad is going to happen, and you allow it to happen anyway, then you cannot be all good. If God created everything, then he also created evil. It is also impossible to be all-powerful; can God create a rock that even he himself cannot move?

I would have thought that as man became more knowledgeable and logical that he would have pushed aside his caveman beliefs, but it seems to be just the opposite.

Answer 6

I actually do believe in God, but I thought you should know that's faulty logic. We get terrible ideas all the time, based on little to no information. Bleeding is quite obviously bad for you, any child can tell you that, but just a few hundred years ago it was a common practice for doctors to pour vast quantities of blood from their patients.

Just because humans thought of something, doesn't make it a good idea; and conversly, just because we haven't noticed something, doesn't make it unimportant.

Answer 7

hmmm..good question.

I think God lives within each of us and he longs to be recognized. That's why we search. I believe that the majesty of the earth is a testament to his greatness.

The idea that its all random coincidence just doesn't seem likely to me.

And if we all began as atoms, where did the atoms come from?
By our own laws of physics. Inertia does not exist without a beginning force, ie something got the earth turning, something got the molecules moving.

And then again, I guess its all a matter of faith.
I could ask, "If in the beginning there were molecules, then who/what created the molecules?"

And by that same logic I could ask, "If in the beginning there was God, then who/what created God"

Its just a matter of Faith. So I'd rather believe in God.

Answer 8

Then it must be common sense that mermaids, unicorns, trolls, orcs, dragons, UFOs, cyclops and hudreds of other imaginary creatures are real. And of course not just The God but all gods ever believed by humans.

Answer 9

i think to argue for or against god is stupid. personaly i am agnostic and beleiv there is definetly the possibility of a god and not of a religous sort either.

but in answer to your question, monsters, unicorns, and goblins dont exist. yet we still have the idea. its human experience mixed in with the limitless imagination of the mind

Answer 10

because of fear nothing after death and also i believe people use god and a beleife in an after-life to keep people from drinking straight form the milk jug...so to speak

or maby god exists and created us with the need to chose if god is real or not

or maby people just see the glass as half full when they believe in god so they believe it is him..and maby it is but maby its just phycological :?