Is man a God-made invention? Or is it the other way around?

Answer 1

It’s an age old question, but I think the answer is that men created God. I can go into a protracted discussion of why I think this is the case, and you have heard some of my reasoning before concerning why I think the existence of God is highly unlikely. I won’t bore you, or anyone else who is familiar with what I have written, by recycling my arguments.

All that I can say is that every formulation of God, that has existed, suffers from all the flaws that are inherent in man’s character. The conception of God espoused by Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and a few eastern traditions such as Hinduism, has God exemplifying some of the most regrettable human traits such as jealousy, hatred, malice, greed, narcissism, and hubris; to name just a few human traits. Granted religions also have God embody some laudable traits such as generosity and love.

The point is, no matter how ethereal the founders of a religion try to make God to be, he is ultimately a reflection of ourselves, and is therefore invented by us. A truly infinite creature, when you think about it, would be something quite different from us, by the very fact that he is infinite. Traits such as generosity or bigotry shouldn’t apply to an infinite being. In fact personality, as we would see it, makes absolutely no sense when applied to an infinite creature. Wants and desires lose all meaning in reference to the transcendental.

Whenever we say God wants something, or God loves you, or God is good, we are in a sense anthropomorphizing him, because these terms only make sense within a finite universe, and they are only coherent when used to describe limited sentient creatures such as ourselves.

So even if we were to suppose that a God were to exist, and I and other atheists have been wrong all along, it stands to reason that every depiction of God is ultimately a human invention, because every definition of God that religions have come up with makes him look too human. A real God, of such infinite grandeur as normally ascribed to him by theologians, would be of such substance that he would ineffable and not recognizable to us.
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By the way, thank you for granting me the honor, in a question that you posted several days ago, for naming me as the atheist you most admire on Yahoo Answers. I am deeply flattered.

Answer 2

The answer is much more profound than you may think. Did it ever occur to you that seeking God is based upon the fact that He really exists? Why seek that which does not exist if there is no need to do so? Existence itself implies and demands a cause. Just because the answer is somewhat elusive does not automatically make it false, it just means we aren't very intelligent enough yet to find the answer.

Answer 3

Both, in the year 237,000 A.D. mankind is fated to finally join the sublime datasphere and is now living beyond space and time. Our remote descendants are now our remote ancestors and they spend wet Sunday afternoons tweaking the universe and meddling in the affairs of ordinary humans throughout history and into the future.

I think my version is as least as sensible as the Bible or Koran..(and it explains the big bang, (Bomb making by an out of control bored youngster).

Answer 4

Cavemen invented God to explain thunder.

Answer 5

People, and everything else on Earth and the Universe.

It is all God Made.

Answer 6

Are you taking a poll? I'm sure it's just as easy to ask are you religious or atheist.

Answer 7

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Answer 8

God is not a man that he should lie(law).

Answer 9

Neither. There is simply God and there is simply man

Answer 10

man has found out what is god
http://malsimai.blogspot.com/