How did god come to be?

Question

Just curious.

Answer 1

God is the name of the English Christian deity. he is Dieu in France, Dios in Spain, Gott in Germany, Kami in Japan, etc. The Egyptian pharoah Amenhotep IV had a radical idea in rejecting the many gods of his land and worshipping a new one alone he called Aton. He changed his name to Ikhnaton. Moses is an Egyptian name. He was influenced by Ikhnaton but not as bold, so he said many gods exist, but he pledged to worship one known as Yahweh above all others, as his first commandment shows. As you see, Moses invented what we call God...if Moses really lived. Someone may have invented him too.

Answer 2

No one can say how God or the concept of God came to be. No knows what God is. Is it a person, a force, or could be considered something like patriotism?

Early men did attribute gods to things. Yet to say that they did so because they were scared is bit far fetch, considering that life in early times weren't a bed a roses. They could of easily dismissed the concept of God or gods because they would of felt like they were being abandoned. However that is what happened to the gods of Greek and roman beliefs. The only God that people remained with is the lord God.

They weren't brainwashed or forced to. Ancient man chose to believe in God and had every reason not to, but they chose to do so anyway.

Like I said earlier no one can say how God came to be, but God still remains for everyman. God also remains to people who say he doesn't exist. You can't say that something doesn't exist, if it doesn't exist. That is double negative. As for pink unicorns, well so far no one has ever been influenced by a pink unicorn. Plus there is currently no such thing as a denial of pink unicorns. This is true because collectively everyone can agree that pink unicorns do not exist.

Answer 3

Back in the stone age , pimitive minds could not understand the forces of nature . They imagined big powerful gods were up in the clouds causing the thunder and lightning . Later gods of sun , rain , planting ,reproduction , war , and many other things .
The idea was that if you needed rain you pray to the rain god , etc .
When early science was able to explain he things of nature , most religions dropped the many gods , and selected only one.

Answer 4

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. God always was and always will be. In this ever changing world you can't count on much but this much is true. God will never ever leave you.

Answer 5

One day, a King was trying to come up with a way to better influence the populace according to his own moral standards, to make them easier to control.

He called upon an unnamed advisor and asked him, "How shall we make the people obey our commands?"

The advisor answered, "We shall create an almighty presence, a God, to which we shall claim to owe allegiance, and our followers in turn shall do the same."

"Intriguing," answered the King, "but, how shall we manifest this presence upon the people? Such would have to be all powerful and mighty."

The advisor thought for a moment and replied, "Recently, a man named Moses has taken to the hills to become a hermit. His vision blurs in old age, we might partake a ruse upon him. Let us creep upon him in the hours before dawn, and work an earthen pot of pitch beneath a bush upon the desert floor, along with tubes running beneath the earth to a hidden alcove from which we might speak."

And so, the King and his advisor did fool poor Moses into believing that the burning bush had been created by God, and thus gave upon Moses the ten commandments which he then engraved to stone tablets.

"Thus," the advisor continued, "we may easily apply the commandments to our own ends. Woman will become subservient to man, sex with those of the same orientation shall become anathema, and your influence shall trickle down through the centuries to influence worlds and civilizations to come!"

Answer 6

Good question.
Christians will tell you that he always was. I used to have trouble seeing how this could work, but look at the alternative. Without God, matter was not created; if it was not created, it must be eternal just as God is claimed to be. So I choose eternal God over eternal matter.

Answer 7

God IS! He has always Been! He will ever ever BE, forever and ever and ever!! Everything will pass, His Words Will never pass, They will never ever end, Thank God!!
Jesus Is The Alpha and the Omega, The Beginning and The End!

Answer 8

Well, as Jesus is part of the trinity and God is his father /and/ him at the same time, I suspect you could argue for some sort of temporal paradox, like wot on Star Trek.

Answer 9

God did not "come to be" as there was no beginning and there is no end to God.

Answer 10

If you ask that, then you must also ask, how did WE come to be, I think it would be appropriate, then you will have an idea, that there is God.