Did it take a creative mind (or a feeble one) to come up with the concept of a Christian God?

Answer 1

Creative mind, definitely.

A religion was invented based on fear. Fear is lucrative.

Answer 2

Actually, all it took was a few people that wanted to do things differently. For the time, they were creative because the vast majority of the people they were trying to bilk were illiterate and always in the market for a better set of gods (Read about the religious beliefs of Romans and Greeks during the period between 200 BCE and 300 CE, you'll find there were gods everywhere, and people did all sorts of things to make their gods seem more real than the others). Rome eventually outlawed any religion that wasn't ancient because of the huge numbers of gods that were popping up all over the place, so certain scamsters decided to hijack Judaism, a belief system that Romans were unfamiliar with, in order to create their latest new religion. That's why Jews don't accept it, it was never part of their religion, and has no basis in anything that actually happened. They didn't fall for it, but those that were illiterate, uneducated, and superstitious did. In all reality, it was a brilliant move on their part. It made the catholic church (which was the church of Mithras before it became the church of Christ) a very wealthy institution and gave them power beyond what any of the other religions of Rome ever achieved. It's definitely built on dishonesty, but it was brilliantly successful and to this day people still believe the story that is christianity without ever honestly looking at it from critical perspective. They're afraid to look at it from the outside, because they're afraid it may anger their god.

Answer 3

A bit of both.

The anthropomorphizing if natural object to explain the natural world takes imagination, but a lack of desire for actual understanding.

Since all gods an goddesses evolved from this, all it takes is an ambitious mind. One willing to be the middle man between the gods and humanity, and tell humanity how to act to curry the god's favors, an to skim some action off the bottom while they do it.

Answer 4

It takes the same mind as anyone who believes in evolution. Why?
Because they both start with the same root question and need blind faith to choose either answer.
How?
the question is this:
Qhere did it all come from or start?
The answers are clear:
1. God, who just always was with no begining
2. All matter just always was, with no begining

No proof CAN exist for either answer, it is just a plain choice and you go from there.
Curiously, though, that most theories of evolution and cosmological developement have been disproved, either by another, soon to be disproved theory, or by further investigation into said theory.
The Idea of both answers go contrary to the Laws of thermodynamics, yet the possibility of a supernatural (look at the definition, above natural law) being would not be bound by laws of physics. How? No one does, nor ever will know!
I am sure that you have heard many times that the Bible has been debunked. Funny thing is that each and every one of the "inconsistentcies" and "contradictions" that have been discovered, have, themselves, been debunked.
People who WANT the Bible o be untrue, will, fo course, NEVER look beyond what is convenient, so as to have an excuse to not believe, hoping to derail others.
All Biblical archeological study (fakery notwithstanding) has upheld all Biblical assertations. Many things, decried in the past as Biblical untruths, have come to light in recent years, exonerating the Biblical story.
Example?
The Jewish sojourn in Egypt. For years, centuries, really, there was no evidence of Moses or the jews in Egypt. A great many nay-sayers and anti-religion 'experts' pointed to this a proof of Biblical fraud and untruth. In the last decade, many pillars that stood all over the land of ancient Egypt, have been unearthed that told the story of a mass migration of a foreign people from Egypt and its leader name was removed from all record. along with the name of the people that left. It did make a very quick splash in the news, worldwide a few years ago, but it proves the anti Bible people wrong and so it was quickly forgotten and replaced by less important things like which sprt star is on what steroid or some such thing.
Oral history has been proven to be more accurate and less able to be corrupted than written history. This is a currently accepted fact.
Adam, the first man told his story to his children, their children and so on. Adam lived a very long life, some 700+ years. He was surely able to have recounted his story to 35 generations of his decendants, who also precticed the story until they knew it all correctly by heart (the advantage and mechanism of correct oral histories)
Methuselah lived a whole 253 years with Adam and he lived until the Great flood.
In just two men, the story reached from the beginning of time to the world destroying flood (that, by the way, is a common story that exists in 100% of human groups)
Then it started again with Noah, who lived 600 years of Methuselah's life, more than tnough to have correctly and completely learned the creation story.
Noah's son, Shem, lived several humdred with Methuselah and 150 years with Abram (Abraham).
So with only 4 or 5 people, the whole story was learned ans passed on, completely and correctly from the beginning to Abraham (even Issac lived during the last 50 years of Shem's lifeand probably knew him, as his fame as the oldest, currently living human would be known to all)

It is funny to me that evidence is justignored and thrown out when it contradicts atheist views.
How do we KNOW that George Washington ever existed and his life isn't just one big hoax?
The exact same type of proof is all we have about him as we have about Adam, Moses and Christ. How can anyone choose to only believe one story and deny the others? Antiquity?
Does a story become false after it ages a certain amount?

Answer 5

It was a political masterstroke. The jesus "cult" was followed only by beggars and losers because there was nothing else that could have given them hope. Saul of Tarsus saw a once in a lifetime opportunity. He built the idea of the church and sold it to his many elite contacts, thus giving the losers a leader and an elite. From there, there was no defeat possible.
We are in this supertitious chaos mainly because of him.
Of course, many added to the bulk of his frame, like St Augustine, but the basic idea is his.

Answer 6

Creative because of the detailed invention. Feeble because it was a hoax perpetrated on the ignorant masses. Even though Paul might have had good intentions, it was still a hoax and still plagiarism. There's no getting away from it.

Answer 7

It wasn't anybody's concept, it's a record of history, starting with Adam and Eve to Cain and Abel, and so on down through Christ, his apostles and right down to our day as Jesus' command to preach the good news to all the nations before the end comes. Matthew 24:14

Matthew 7:13 - “Go in through the narrow gate; because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; 14 whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it

Answer 8

God was created to make the male species dominate women. That's why they call God a man, it subtlely tells women that man is all poweful and makes them obedient. If God existed it wouldn't have a gender.

That's how idiotic christians are. Selfish BIGOT'S.

Answer 9

Wasn't much of a leap from it roots... The Christian God wan't suddenly invented, but rather, ironically, evolved. It was obviously based in Judaism, but then the Son and the Holy Spirit aspects were borrowed from multiple other contemporary religions to produce the mythos, ritual, and holy days.

Answer 10

Given that there are religions that have stood the test of time for thousands, and many for hundreds of years I'm willing to guess that there was some creativity involved. Unless of course the billions of followers are stupid and you're one of the only smart one.

Answer 11

I think it was a creative mind. To create such an elaborate lie to get billions of people to follow you and worship you you gotta be some kind of genius!