who created god

Originally posted by Storm
IMO, man created God and not the other way round.

Fair enough. A lot of people cannot fathom a supreme being, and that is not a bad thing. We cannot all believe in God. But I simply cannot picture my life without God.

This thread asks, as I stated before, an age-old question. And one that there is unfortunately not really an answer for. With every answer, another 1,000 questions will arise.

There is nothing wrong with a person of faith asking questions. But you have to remember that there are some things that cannot be answered.

like why people put blind faith in something that has absolutely no direct affect on their life, cannot be seen, touched, or even proven to exsist.

Now that's something that can't be answered.

God was created by man, the universe's quintessential storyteller. As for an "afterlife" (an oxymoron if I ever heard one), we better make due with the one we have now. Nature, quite simply, doesn't keep dead things around. Take it from an ex-Catholic, our religious leaders are nothing but con artists and opportunists. John Paul II, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, et al., -- why would anyone listen to these people? Fear, I suppose.

Originally posted by Linkalicious
Yah...

Because if "he" was a "she" then "she" had better get her ass back in the kitchen behind that oven and stove...

I dont get the point of your post...? does it even have one?

Originally posted by Linkalicious
like why people put blind faith in something that has absolutely no direct affect on their life, cannot be seen, touched, or even proven to exsist.

Now that's something that can't be answered.

Blind faith? Very hard to produce. It's like me flicking though a list of American Football teams and saying "Hmm the "San Francisco 49ers"... I'll take it" and believing devoutly that they would always win. You need some proof that something good happens before you worship anything. We call it prayer. We feel a presence in our lives, as we talk. Or listen. Listening is more adult like, but asking is more common.

Anything can be answered. Everything has a cause, except the prime mover. It's like the turtle under the world. Some people think that the only way that would work was if there were infinity turtles, each supporting each other. They ignore one fact; turtles can swim. They support themselves. Like God. I remember that somewhere in the Greek, or Hebrew, of the Old Testament, he answers his name with something meaning "I am always". He exists regardless of anything else. He can do the metaphorical doggy paddle.

Nobody made God because he does not exist.But offcourse you can say the people made God in their mind;

Originally posted by Jodo kast
Nobody made God because he does not exist.But offcourse you can say the people made God in their mind;

You can also say that aliens made us to simulate war, a concept impossible for real lifeforms. alien2warstarwarsstarwarswaralien2

Doesn't mean that I'd believe you.

My policy is, if there is a supreme being, which is possible in my view considering all that there is, then it truly is omnipotent. So if you're gonna believe that a God is there, talk directly to it and don't be sucked into believing you need the happiness-erasing middlemen that are Priests.

If God is a God it'll hear you wherever you are.

I agree with Link though to an extent. I hate it when people say "I prayed for a new car, God blessed me with one." Only humans could ever be so arrogant as to believe an omnipotent supreme being has nothing better to do than hook you up with a BMW.

-AC

Who created god?

I think we as humans are so limited and parallel in our knowledge and thought processes that our minds could not possibly fathom the answer to that question.

IMHO whatever consumes you is your god....

I think that would be more accurately described as an idol, at least if we're talking God vs. god(s) to avoid confusion 🙂.

I dont get the point of your post...? does it even have one?

Who created God?

We did, because we needed something higher to believe it. However, that doesn't knock the existence of a higher being. It's just we have created so many gods in human history that it's hard to believe if any of them are real or just our imagination?

We did, because we needed something higher to believe it. However, that doesn't knock the existence of a higher being. It's just we have created so many gods in human history that it's hard to believe if any of them are real or just our imagination?

That is an insightful bit on your part--I am being sincere here (I hate having to mention that...).

like why people put blind faith in something that has absolutely no direct affect on their life, cannot be seen, touched, or even proven to exsist.

Now that's something that can't be answered.

Pain. Pain is an illusion. Pain is not felt by the body; it is felt by the mind. It is not real in the sense that the computer at which I am typing is real. It cannot be accurately measured or weighed. Without our brains, we are a mass of organs/organ systems that each "do their own thing". I cannot fathom the amount of processes that our body starts and completes each day--surely it is numbered in the trillions? (Does anyone know?)

Without our brains (cerebrum, I mean), we would continue to live. Our hearts would beat, our lungs would inhale and exhale, but we would be cut off from the world. No senses, no movement. Without the cerebrum, what would we be? Automatons. This thing inside us that makes us us--it gives us pain and pleasure, fills us with emotion, allows perception, and more. And most importantly, it gives us personality.

It cannot be measured or seen or touched, yet it essentially is what we are. Can we prove it exists? Only by our own confirmation. We cannot look at someone and say, "Ah, now THERE'S a guy with personality," or "Gee, I'll bet his parents didn't have complete personality centers (or something along those lines)." The existence is based purely off of our convincing ourselves that fatalism is not true.

If I didn't make much sense, I apologize, but I'm beat and wanted to post this quickly before I went to bed.

i think that god has always been here and always will, watching over us and protecting our loved ones that have died.

and someone wrote something before saying what did he do till he invented humans - well think!! what would you do if you had the world in the palm of your hand and it was all to yourself...

Pain is not felt by the body; it is felt by the mind.

"who created god?"

A guy on shrooms.

..............or a really really bored neanderthal

Originally posted by BackFire
"who created god?"

A guy on shrooms.

Naw man, They guy on Paoti created God, the guy on Shrooms created the devil.

It was a clever buissness man who wanted to think of a way of controlling the world through fear and superstition without any real effort.

the fear and superstition is created by the person, not the religoun. Business men are not that smart anyway. People in general are just really really STUPID and lazy. I guess that could be related to followers of religoun too, so maybe it was a moderatly intelligent business man.

It was invented as a way of controlling the locals, and a justification of the right of the king to be more important than his subjects