Did "God" Create Us, Or Did We Create "God"?

Question

I put God in quotes because I really do use that term loosely. Call it a higher power, spiritual being, God, or whatever you wish.

Answer 1

I have met very few people who think that they are the HIGHEST power in the universe (though there are a few).

If it's not some diety, then there are other forces and arguably the laws of nature themselves. If you are willing to lump all these entities and things together under the catch-all label of 'higher power', then it seems indisputable that -A- higher power created man.

The HARD question is WHICH one did.

And really is there any alternative? Did man create himself? Was man always there? There are ideas that theists are often criticized for adopting, and I don't envison too many atheists taking them up.

There is likely to be any number of higher powers that HAVE been made up, but it seems to me that there is at least one which isn't... even if it's only the Sun or something.

Answer 2

I have asked that question to myself several times... and although us humans are capable of great things and our creativity has virtually no end I don't believe we are capable of inventing such a lie. On the other hand... it would be really sad if all the so called "holy" wars were fought over a creation of our minds. All civilizations have needed to believe in a higher power, it is something that it's in our core, we can't see it nor explain it, but it's there... and it's there because "God" put it there. At least, that's what I believe.

Great question and lots of interesting answers.

Answer 3

At first, long before Hinduism, the oldest major religion, human created GodS as polytheistic to explain natural weather phenomena that baffled early man. Our current monotheistic view of a God is actually quite new on the evolutionary scale of religion.

Wow Cinnamon- You really don't have any clue how fossils form or evolution works do you?

Try reading up at berkely's website, it is laid out pretty clearly for the most part.

Evolution has been proven true, we can see it both in the lab and the wild, the scientific theory of evolution attempts to use empirical evidence to solve the mechanisms of evolution, not show that it occurs.

Answer 4

Definition of "fact"-1. A thing that is indisputably the case. 2. Information used as evidence or as part of a report or news article. A claim of fact cannot be used when in reference to the bible as it is the bible itself that is in question. Frigging christians just don't get it. Yes it is dishonest to represent a belief as a fact. Just because they're convince something is true doesn't make it so. People (theists) can be very trying sometimes.

Answer 5

Ultimately THE Question (i.e. not yours, of course) is ill-defined and undecidable; hence its inherently enigmatic nature. ... Practically speaking, the notion of "God" (and I am using the term loosely as well), be it human-invented or otherwise, is already amongst us. The best we can manage for now is coexist with it in a way that is NOT prejudicial to our collective existence and happiness - ironically, in this exponentially growing scientific and technological world, "God" continues to be at the center of most violent controversies. ... Personally if you ask me, I think humanity is still way too Green on the evolutionary ladder to be holding on to "Meanings" with Capital M's. Or is that exactly the reason why We do what We do?! ... See, there we go again, back to the ongoing human drama of Being, Nothingness, Transcendence and Beyond! At least we have the potential consolation that on The Universal scale of things, Humanity and all its creations are ultimately IRRELEVANT. :-)

Answer 6

It's the matter of belief. Atheists think that we created God, men of faith believe that God created us and the universe. What group stated above you belong to?

Answer 7

You are not going to get an objective answer to this question. No one can give a completely accurate answer founded on empirical evidence because there is none. No one living has ever *physically* seen God, felt Him, or heard Him, so there can be no objective answer.

My subjective answer, however, is that God created us. He created us because He wanted someone to love Him. I am certain that God is and that God loves because I have seen Him move in my life and in the lives of others and I have experienced things that defied explanation.

I was in a car accident that nearly killed me. I was in a coma for two weeks with a fractured pelvis, paralysis, cracked rib, collapsed lung, and fluid pressing on my brain. The car I was in stopped traveling 100 yards from the edge of a ravine. I was out of the hospital in a month and out of therapy in 3. The doctor said to me that it should have taken me twice that long to recuperate, but it didn't because God healed me. When even the doctor says it should have taken longer, who can I thank but God? No one.

The second part of my subjective answer is that it simply boggles my mind to think that people are more apt to believe that there was cosmic dust floating around in space for all of eternity that, one day, just exploded in such a way as to throw together the elements that life needs to exist. And then that life managed, with no impetus from any outside force, to develop into the complex organisms that exist today. If that were the case, then monkeys would still be turning into humans and there would be a fossil record such that scientists could track every stage in the development of humans -- which they can't because they are still searching for "the missing link."

Answer 8

We created god in our brains and like a virus we transfer it to the next generation. Good news is we are probably one of the last generation to suffer from this.

Answer 9

Take a moment to think of the most powerful being imaginable. That my friend is God. Can you think of something greater? Well then that is God. That is called the Ontological Argument. Aquinas had himself some pretty tight proofs on the existence of God.

Answer 10

God created us and the universe