Do you think man made God out of ignorance and fear?

Question

I dont know if you havent noticed im asking questions about religion cause i dont get religion.
i dont see the point why cant you just belive in yourself how come you cant give yourself hope (to christians)?

If you belive in god wh ydo you belive in the devil?

And someone explain to me

DANCE WITH THE DEVIL????

Answer 1

and on the trilionth day...Man created God.

Answer 2

I believe that it is wrong for people to say religion is stupid and I believe that it is wrong for someone to say that an atheist is wrong. We do not really know for sure. It is more of what people choose to believe in. For some it may be calming to know that there is something greater then us and someone looking down on us. Whether God created man or man created God is up to each individual to decide. If people just belong to a religion because of their parents then it does not guarantee that they themselves are religious. Many people just pray to think that praying may give a bigger chance of something to happen. Many turn to God and religion in times of need and forget when everything is peaceful. It is calming for some people to think that there is a heaven after death instead of nothing. Some people would just like to think that there is something more. It's nice to know that there just MIGHT be someone looking over us. Whether or not there really IS someone looking over us is for you to decide.

I'm not sure, but "dance with the devil" is probably just a saying of either doing something wrong or something bad happening. I've never used this saying though, so I do not know.

And in addition to everyone that says God made man: I'm not saying you're wrong or stupid, but as much as i want to live, humans are destroyed the Earth. So, to the person that said God made man out of "love" then what did he do to all the other animals and other creaters living on our planet, whose lives we are destroying with polution and other things. In school, in my science class, we were once discussing what we should do about polution and destroying the planet. One person said, "Can't we just leave and live on the moon." So we ruin this planet and then move onto the next one?

Religion is a hard and difficult topic to discuss on Yahoo answers because you will get many different answers. There is not a right or wrong answer to your question because there is not a right or wrong answer to the way people think.

So did God make man or did man make God? That is one question that we will probably never find the answer to.

Answer 3

The simle answer is no.
Man did not create God. God created man.
The devil is just as real as God. Satan, Lucifer or the devil, was one of God's children just as we are. He rebelled against God and was cast out of heaven to roam the earth without a body. He seeks to influence us away from God and to thwart God's plans.
Believing in God helps us to progress through mortality and to recognize and realize why there is good and evil in the earth. We have hope for a better future by obedience to God's commandments. Peace of mind is the reward for obedience and living by the dictates of the spirit.
Our understanding is imperfect and if we try to figure it out using only our own intelligence without asking God for spiritual understanding, we inevitably get it wrong and begin to argue amongst ourselves about what everything means. With the spirit, we can all understand as we should and peace can exist.
Keep trying and you will get there.

Answer 4

God did not create man out of ignorance and fear. The devil is real because he is mentioned in the Bible a lot.

Answer 5

Nope.

Forget Religion.

The harvest of souls.

No seed planting no harvest.

It is written about Satan in His Word.
The only book that has prophecy fulfilled.

Unknown about dance with the Devil.

You have the right to remain ignorant of His Word, His Spirit, His truth.

Every one is self aware, nothing novel about that. The big Picture is too deep for here. Here is a summary.

Satan rebelled and 1/3 followed. Now in these dispensations is God's plan of Salvation for whomsoever. Otherwise some are guilty as Satan, and Satan has been sentenced to perish.

Answer 6

Absolutely I do.

Humankind (early on) was afraid of weather, poor crops, shooting stars, thunder, lighining, solar/lunar eclipses, death etc...so sought answers in superstitious concepts such as a 'man in the sky'. They gave offerings and danced to placate the nature spirits or dead ancestors (men in the sky) , made sacrifices to encourage good fortune/crops/weather and believed that their ancestors lived forever and that they would too if the appeased the 'gods'.

Soon they endowed actual men with 'god' qualities, they became 'Kings' of others, and the line between superstition and Man As God became blurred.

With the arrival of the 'Aten' (Sun God) in Egypt came monotheism, and this whole concept from the Middle East became a dominionist creed that continues today in different forms. The Sun God. The Son of God. The Solar Aten. The all-seeing mighty patriarch in the sky.

I see men in suits praying for rain > I see men in grass skirts, dancing for rain. Same thing.

Placating their gods. Allaying their fears. Holding to their superstitions. Keeping it anthropically biased.

Answer 7

The Holy Bible says in 2 Timothy 4:3-4
For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They will reject the truth and chase after myths.

Answer 8

Pretty much. "God" was used as an explanation for things that the ancient people could not explain or did not know about. When they didn't know the answer to a question, they generally made one up. It's called the "god of the gaps"...ascribing divine (magical) powers/will as a blanket explanation for things like why earthquakes, floods, disease, or lightning storms happen.

Answer 9

Yes, all the gods were made mainly as a way of explaining the world around us before the advent of science. The Greeks used the god Helios to explain how the sun rose every morning (Helios pulled it across the sky by chariot). In the same way, the Christian god was used to explain our origins (he blew into a handful of dirt) earthquakes (god shaking the pillars of the earth) and seizures (demons!).

Answer 10

        In the Beginning, there was the One True God of Heaven and They created Mankind in Their Image.

        Then, subsequent men and women, out of rejection of the One True God of Heaven, created other gods out of fear of being on their own without the One True God of Heaven.

        Now, modern men and women, out of rejection of all that is called "God," felt they had to come up with any old theory which would explain their very existence. They did this out of fear that they would return to the One True God of Heaven if they could find no excuse other than Them for their existence.

2Tim. 4:3 For the time is coming when [people] will not tolerate (endure) sound and wholesome instruction, but, having ears itching [for something pleasing and gratifying], they will gather to themselves one teacher after another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own liking and to foster the errors they hold,
2Tim. 4:4 And will turn aside from hearing the truth and wander off into myths and [Evolutionary] fictions.

Answer 11

man created the after life because they did not understand why they felt sad when loved ones died. this goes back 2 million years when men didnt even have written languages. we can see the belief in an after life when we begin to see graves off these people and the dead bodies with tools or art. meaning they are taking them with them.

i believe in god because things have happened to me and my loved ones that science can not explain. i however do not believe in the devil, becuase he is red and i go to duke and clearly he is blue here