Is God an imaginary being created by the human imagination, the logical conclusion of human reasoning ,or...?

Question

an idea implanted in ( ie, revealed to) you by God/ Allah?

Please try to support your answer as best you can with psychology, logic, or experienced revelations you have personally received from God/Allah.

Someone has posted this Q as an A to my Q: "Why pose a question which nobody has an answer to?" This is not an A to the Q and should not have been posted as such. It is, though, an interesting example of a cynical Q that alot of philosophers( incl theologians ), and ordinary people ask themselves all the time. I would respond to that Q this way : Why ask a Q if you are convinced you know the A? And I would remind the person that we usually ask Q's precisely bec we either don't know or we doubt what we think we know and, either way, maybe someone out there might just know something we don't know. And, I hesitate to point this out, lest I be criticized for saying it: some people ask Q's to simultaneously learn and teach as Socrates did in Plato's dialogues. Q&A activity is a collaborative effort by all participants who have mental and emotional maturity or are seeking to develop it..

Who is the father of Psychology? William James? Plato? Aristotle? Wundt? Also where are the quotation marks and can you site a link to them in your A?

Answer 1

All Gods are first created by the human imagination and then given life through the constant invocation of their names, rituals, ceremonies, sacrafices, texts, songs, etc. That energy that constantly goes out into the universe in the name of a god, is what gives a god it's supernatural abilities and it's right to intervene in a human's life. When the god's name and his/her story told over thousands of years by millions of people, that life truly becomes a God-Form. If the religion in which worship this god, becomes dominant and / or well known and accepted in world culture, the symbolism of that religion can become implanted in the cosmic consciousness of the entire human species; it becomes an Archetype.

Humans than lose control over their deity, which it never really sought before. The act of creating a god, is to give that god as much power as possible, far exceeding the abilities of the human race combined. Again, this is done by the constant invocations, songs, poetry, and conversions, so more people can put that energy into the God Form. They would have shaped the deity's personality, likes, dislikes, rules, laws, commandments over time, constantly changing with the needs of the humans that worship it. It will merge with other gods due to human warfare and dominance, it will receive additional names and glories due to language differences of the people who have been forced into to conversion or otherwise.

Then the only way to rid the human race of the god, is to stop calling its name, stop worship, or recognition in all forms. That is the death of a god. They do become very real and very powerful, but the human mind creates them, and only the human mind can kill them.

"The human giveth, and the human taketh away, blessed be the ability of the human"

Answer 2

Well, all major religions of the world have some form of Supreme Being. I will use God as this is the Supreme Being I have accepted and have chosen to serve.
I think the God is real because if humans look around them through the dawn of time to the present day there is an indictation of God. There is a sunrise/sunset, animals of all breeds, plants and shrubbery that supply food, trees that not only supply shade but some also supply food. God has given man the ability to make clothing, tools and other technology to make man's life easier. If there was no God then there would be no man as mankind was created in His image.

Answer 3

oxygen on earth is 21% of the atmosphere. this is a constant # that makes life on earth possible. if it were 25% fires would erupt everywhere. if it were 15% we would suffocate.
There is such a precious balance that a % or 2 off in any direction equals no life. It takes an incredible amount of design to get the figures of all the atoms in the world precise to support life. the universe is a highly complex design. therefore, there must be a Designer.

Or there are only 2 options for the world. either no one created something out of nothing or someone created something out of nothing. which view is more reasonable?

Do you think if you put a book, even a small one, in a shredder and then threw up the pieces in the air they would fall down exactly as laid out in the book. i think not.

Answer 4

Logic, huh? You got it.

Even if A god is real, there are clearly many others we have created with our imaginations, so i have no problem believing that could apply to all of them instead of all but one. This doesn't mean "God" doesn't exist, it just implies that gods we talk about are. I believe that is logical.

Also, many people clearly DON'T have the idea planted/revealed. This would imply that God/Allah chose who to give belief to (and then who went to hell), thus negating free will. This isn't an unprovable concept (it could even be an inevitable conclusion in some beliefs about God and the world), but it is unappealing and against what many people believe.

Also, "experienced revelations" would apply to this. If God chose who to give those to, he would be messing with who believed and who didn't, and clouding up whether people deserve hell for disbelief.

I hope this is all logical to you, it is to me.

Answer 5

I wouldn't expect a "real" God to be a jealous, selfish, vengeful, murderous megalomaniac like the one depicted in the Bible. The one depicted in the Qur'an isn't any better. These are human "qualities", suggesting that God/Allah was created by humans rather than the other way around.

Answer 6

God may be an imaginary being created by human imagination, and through wonder at the observation of the fantastic complexity and workings of nature. People believe they are seeing the work of God. Jesus said that you will know him by his work (not only about God, but about every person).

God may be something people believe in because they were taught that God exists, etc. and they don't have the imagination to question it. They believe that ancient people saw God and spoke with him, and that's all they need to confirm their belief.

My conclusion is that God exists through our imagination and also because of our lack of imagination.

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Answer 7

God imagined us first.

John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
John gets a little wordy but eventually reveals that the son of God, Jesus, is the Word or Logos in the original writing.

If you are standing in darkness (John 1:5) it's kind of hard to understand. But when you are standing in the very presence of God's Holy Spirit, it gets very clear. Kind of like trying to explain green to a person who has lived in pitch darkness their whole life, but if you bring them out into the light, they can see green grass.

OK, so John was pretty vague for our way of talking. Try my version... A part of God's consciousness came up with the idea of the Universe, time and everything. He called that part of Himself Jesus and make him the logo for the whole concept. Kind of like Colonel Sanders is the logo for KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken). Sanders came up with the idea, made the receipe, created the business and became the emblem or logo for the company. So God imagined, then created EVERYTHING. (Some things gave themselves too much pride and turned bad by their own choice, but they were not created bad.)

God invented it all and gave humans the innate knowledge of that fact. Isolated cultures all knew the existence of the "Creator of the Universe and everything", a.k.a. God. It takes years of closed eyed logic to finally convince oneself that God doesn't exist. People always knew that the earth was spheroid, they could even see that when they got high enough, but their flat world logic convinced them otherwise. We can't fit God into our comfortable little box, so we pretend that He is not real.

I dare you to ask God to make Himself real to you. Keep your eyes & ears open. Don't try to claim that the warm touch on your head or shoulder is just your imagination or wishful thinking. Real is real, sometimes it is as subtle as a gentle breeze. Better that than a hurricane for your first encounter. If you insist it is your imagination then you are running in fear back to the darkness of your cave. God is gentle with you because He loves you, he won't yank you out of your cave into the blinding noon day sun, He'll coax you slowly to the big bright outdoors and lets you adjust.

Answer 8

God is an imaginary being created by the humans to control people. I can't understand why some people still believe in a fictional character.

Answer 9

Electricity as example

Take electricity
You can not touch it, see it or taste it but you learned the effects that it has and you learned how to use it. How come you do not learn to fellowship with God.

MY EXPERIENCES

I experienced God many of times, when you fellowship with him. He will be there for you, he knows your needs and wants. One night after doing the will of God (ministering to someone against the book of James) I was driving back home and I continued to fall asleep on the fwy. On the third time, my ears popped opened, like a loud explosion, I felt a rush of pins and needles swirling around the inside of my head, I felt pins and needles from my elbows to my hands and then I was wide awake, like I had slept for days. I drove all the way home and when I got into the driveway I started to fall a sleep again. Once he picked me and my motorcycle up, while riding in the mountains after I was about to crash. I blacked out and when he set me back on the path, I woke up. Once he sent an angel down to stop me from doing something stupid, this angel looked like a human but when I turned away for a second and then back he vanished. I can go on and on. Have faith, sit in a church and learn God's word. You need to find a home church, be obedient, follow his word, be baptized with the holy spirit, show your self approved and do the will of God (Mark 16: 15 - 18)

DO THE WILL OF GOD
You need to find a home church, be obedient, follow his word, be baptized with the holy spirit, show your self approved and do the will of God (Mark 16: 15 - 18)

Answer 10

Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:


Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.


Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,