Assuming logic and reasoning, how do you explain the creation of religions?

Answer 1

It's an impossibility. If there were both logic and reason as constants, religions would be merely philosophy.

Answer 2

Religion is man's way of explaining what is unknown to them.

God never intended to be followed by a religion. He chose the people of Isreal, to have a "Creator-Creation" relationship with them, not to start the Jewish religion. The same goes to Christianity, it's more than a set of rules and guidelines, it's a way of living to where, everything you do, you do for the Lord, because He's done it all for you.

Religions came about through men, who had questions, but could not get answers, because they did not conversate with the Lord of ALL. That led them to make up their own ideas, rites and rituals, deities made after their own image and interests, and afterlives made to look how We would want them to look. If you look at it logically you'll see that religions are man made.

Answer 3

Logically speaking, charismatic speakers all convinced lonely and depressed people that they needed to believe in a god or gods. These leaders, sometimes unknowingly, spread the virus of religion, turning people against followers of different faiths. This created a chain reaction; more people joined an increasing number of religions. That's why you have virtually a hundred Christian sects today. Religion is like a virus that is contagious to all but the most intellectually resistant.

Answer 4

The human mind has a spiritual nature. Add to that most everyone experiences dreams and visions. Most everyone experiences the occasional epiphany that seems delivered from outside ourselves. So from a strictly experiential basis, with no training in scientific understanding, how could there not be a 'spiritual', outside-ourselves explanation for all things unknown and unknowable? Then it is not a great leap to organize those spiritual explanations into a religion. Just about every human culture of every time has done so.

Answer 5

Religion at first provided answers to unknown questions. Take for example Pele the fire goddess of Hawaii. When a volcano erupted back then people didn't know about Plate tectonics or Magma, so they attributed the act of nature to a human like entity. They thought when something like that happened it was because of something they did. And so on and so on . You get the picture

Answer 6

Assuming logic and reasoning?.....Why not take that to a higher plain of thought?..... By knowing the Truth of God through the knowledge and discernment of the Holy Spirit..... you would then know for certain that as a master of persuasion, Satan easily deceives mankind into focusing on anything but God. Through the theory of evolution, for example, he has convinced millions that God doesn't exist.

Through hundreds of corrupt religions he has convinced billions of people to worship the sun, moon and stars, animals, nature, deceased ancestors, imaginary gods and goddesses and a bewildering variety of other things—or nothing at all. Even among the many varieties of traditional Christianity we find people divided and bickering over who and what God is, His purpose for us, what He wants us to do and how we should live. The devil has done an effective job of confusing people as to what the Bible really says.

Satan doesn't care which of these groups people fall into. Whether they believe in no God at all, accept and worship a false god or are deceived into a false view of the true God and His plan for us, Satan still has them where he wants them—"alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart" (Ephesians 4:18).

Perhaps this helps us better understand what God means when He tells us that the devil "deceives the whole world" (Revelation 12:9). Paul explains that "the god of this age" has blinded those "who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them" (2 Corinthians 4:4).

In one of His parables Jesus explains that, as soon as some people hear God's truth, "the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved" (Luke 8:12). Satan will stop at nothing to keep people blinded to the fullness of God's truth. The result, as Jesus explained, is that "the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it," and "the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it" (Matthew 7:13-14, NRSV).

Answer 7

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Since early man could not explain or control the world around them, they attributed it to gods. Religion is the practice of appeasing these gods.

Logic and reasoning have little to do with it, it's making up stories to fill in gaps on how the world works

Answer 8

You're talking about human beings. You can't assume logic or reasoning.

You do actually read what people say on here, right?

Answer 9

The simplest form of control for the masses. When threats of what can happen in this life lose potency, you can trot out threats of what will happen to their eternal souls.

Answer 10

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