It doesn't matter what the invention is.It could be toilet paper or soap or the wheel.We can study history and can name the person who made these inventions.Yet, many Christians, will claim those are God created inventions or God inspired or God made the ingredients and so he made the invention.Do those Christians who think in these terms have a problem giving mankind any credit?
2007-11-01 07:30:10 · 12 answers · asked by Demopublican 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So, based on the first 4 answers, if I have a son who invents something I am the one who invented it.That sort of is what they are saying.God created man and so he is to be credited for what man invents.Am I getting what you're saying right?
2007-11-01 07:39:15 · update #1
Inventions of any and every kind could NOT be the gift of the God of Abraham, according to the bible.
The bible says that God penalized Adam and Eve for eating fruit from a tree that was supposedly going to give them knowledge.
Many additional times, the bible provides examples of people who were penalized for wanting or possessing knowledge. For example, the people who were involved in the Tower of Babel fiasco were thrown into confusion for the express purpose of making sure they couldn't communicate with one another for having the temerity of building a tower to reach the heavens (what d'ya think the space program is?) and Jesus said that to get into heaven people must all be as little children.
Conversely, 'wisdom' or 'knowledge' that is praised by the bible is quite suspect. One good example is Solomon, who is credited with God-given wisdom. Not only does Solomon not invent anything at all, his chief talent seems to be carousing with thousands of women, and that consumes the majority of his time. When called upon to render judgment in the case of the two women claiming the same baby, his solution is crude and almost unworkable. One of the biggest tests of wisdom is ability to make peace, yet all the 'wise' men of the bible make war, talk of war, or promote 'all-or-nothing' belief systems, which create war.
I must say, I am not impressed . . . .
Besides all this, every technological advancement of the last 2,000 years has met with unyielding resistance from the people associated with God, especially power figures. This has been especially devastating during the time when the Roman Empire was taken over by Christianity, since most of the knowledge of antiquity was destroyed, and people were encouraged to be illiterate and religious. Knowledge-seekers were routinely burned at the stake (or worse) and scientists and inventors tormented and hounded beyond belief.
To this very day, the friends of God hate knowledge and the knowledgeable. Current victims include: scientific evidence that gay people are born, not made; scientific evidence of the age of the Earth and fact of evolutionary change; scientific theory of evolution of one species from another; disputation of the non-viability of the unborn fetus; and the list goes on.
God-lovers say that everything one needs to know is in the bible. They study snippets of that tome ad nauseum, as if something good or wonderful could possibly come out of a book focused on fifth-century BCE tribal warfare or 1 CE homilies and platitudes. I kid you not, there is no invention in the bible, not one, unless you count Noah's Ark, which doesn't work on any level at all, and cannot be recreated or put to any reasonable use.
Giving credit to God is a way of being ungrateful. Whenever someone says, "thank God" for this or "thanks be to Allah" that, it is clear that they are displacing whomever should be credited, and therefore insulting that person. Also, there is no need to KNOW (see, that word? knowledge) who to be grateful to, because one can just throw the catch-all "God" in there to take credit for the efforts of one and all.
2007-11-01 12:26:00 · answer #1 · answered by nora22000 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
a lot of good comments on this site,
but to thank God is to acknowledge him as a partner in their life.
someone wrote that men are required to think. This is true, in the case of creation, adam was given the task of naming the animals, for example, exercising his brain.
the bible says that by mediation on the Word of God, men will do exploit. That is men will do. To thank God for success is right.
While you can think what you will, we all know that out of no where, things happen that we can not always understand, and out of these events, we see things differently. Some would say dumb luck, others devine intervention.
it is point of view in the eyes of the actor
2007-11-01 13:47:16 · answer #2 · answered by magnetic_azimuth 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because they say God made them do it!
I despise this ,because God can in no way make every second millions upon millions decision for ppl all around the globe! if he existed and he doesn't ,but if he did and gave free will ppl would make up their own minds!
common ppl what is wrong with your brain power?
2007-11-01 11:37:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I suspect that those types conveniently forget that although God DID make us in His image and that means with intelligence, it does NOT mean that He does the thinking FOR us.
Face it, for too many folks thinking is too hard and they'd just a whole lot rather have someone else do it for them, and if that someone is God, well at least it'll be good thinking, right? *whimperingly*
*deep sigh*
2007-11-01 07:39:03 · answer #4 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
God gives us the knowledge, what we do with it is up to us. I assure you God does not want credit for the atomic bombs the U.S. dropped on Japan.
2007-11-01 07:43:39 · answer #5 · answered by keoh6 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God created knowledge, the key ingredient for inventions.
2007-11-01 07:40:14 · answer #6 · answered by preacher 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
It had to be God to give the person wisdom enough to invent.
2007-11-01 07:36:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
well, they're probably attributing the knowledge man used to have that imaginative influence over creating an object to god.
what's wrong with that....
*edit* omg, sorry but based on your follow up point i'm not sure if you're joking but I thought we've brought it down to the fundamentals where you COULDN'T REALLY miss the point
2007-11-01 07:33:46 · answer #8 · answered by Hope 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
God made man => man made inventions...
that's my line of thinking, anyway.
2007-11-01 07:34:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Who created man?
God.
2007-11-01 07:34:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋