If there is nobody or nothing else to worship god, then (relatively speaking), is he really a god.
He would need lesser being to worship him and prove that he is a god (because if there was nothing to compare him to, he would just be normal).
This means that he only becomes a god when we become sentient and aware of him.
Therefore, god only exists when there is somebody to worship/acknowledge him.
Therefore, he didnt exist before makind, and wasnt able to create them until they had been compared with him to prove that he was godlike.
Therefore, humans invented god.
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.
Another typicial answer from an atheist.
I have nothing to lose by believing in God. I have a lot to lose by not.
it is your nerve system that signals it
Actually, the pain receptors in your body are triggered, the impulse is sent up through your spinal cord, it hits the thalamus and is sent to the appropriate area of the brain, and then--ONLY THEN--is pain felt.
EDIT: Blast! Sorry about the double post...argh, I hate it when I do things like this 🙂.
Is there any difference between creating a religion, and creating god?
Is it 'god' that required humans for 'him' to exist, or is it religion that requires humans for it to exist?
If jesus is credited as the founder of christianity, mohammed is creditted as the founder of islam, buddah is creditted as the founder of bhuddism, then that means that their religion only started when they created it.
If the god of their religion exists, then the religion should have existed since the beginning of time, but since the religion was created by man, then the god is also created by man.
-sigh-
God could not exist before humans (or angels, faries, leprechauns, whatever your folk tale)............
If a being existed all alone, it would not be a god......it would just simply be. There would be no other being to compare it to.......it would simply be 1 being in a 1 being existence, which would make him the exact same as all other beings, average...not a god.
Humans created god to explain things they had no answer for. "why's the sky blue?"......."'cause god made it that way"......."why's the grass green?"......."'cause god made it that way"...........humans did not know what an atmospher or chlorophil were. 'tis why religion is declining today. As we grow as a race and find the answers to these questions ourselves, we no longer need some magical wizard who creates things at will without method to credit them to. Knowlege is slowly killing god.
Don't you guys think that we are wasting our time trying to guess who or what created god? Shouldn't we define ourselves FIRST before we even try to define a being such as God (if he exists of course). The question here is whether you reject the existence of God. Does a being have to be really made out matter in order to exist? The scientific rule here says yes (I'm under the assumption here NOT making a general statement). Therefore there can't be no God. Again, if you take the scientific argument as truth then how do you fit matter in things like mind and thought? Any of you have the same wacky theory of mine that God has lock the door in our minds? And that only by finding a key (here a key is a metaphor for Philosophy) we can't really experience God? What is the standard form that all Religions use to try to communicate with a god? By using prayer. And isn't prayer something that we do mentally?
Going back to my original statement of defining ourselves. IMO the best way to help define a person is to look inside our heads and try to define what I'am and what I'm suppose to do. Worry about defining God later.
Originally posted by eleveninches
If there is nobody or nothing else to worship god, then (relatively speaking), is he really a god.
He would need lesser being to worship him and prove that he is a god (because if there was nothing to compare him to, he would just be normal).
This means that he only becomes a god when we become sentient and aware of him.
Therefore, god only exists when there is somebody to worship/acknowledge him.
Therefore, he didnt exist before makind, and wasnt able to create them until they had been compared with him to prove that he was godlike.Therefore, humans invented god.
that is possibly the worst philosophical bullshit i've ever read in my life, and i've taken philosophy classes....! Something doesnt have to believe in order for the beleived to exist!
And God tells him "Kill the Iraqis!"
and apparently God is talking to those Iraqi terrorists (many of them aren't even Iraqi......many are actually Muslim extremists who have come to Iraq) to kill innocent people.......truck drivers.......aid workers.......anybody who's not Muslim.
Hell.....I despise Christians but aleast their god doesn't tell them to decapitate people who don't believe the same way as you..........which is apparently what the god of Islam is telling these Iraqi terrorists.
and yes.......to save arguement.......they are terrorists. They are not acting on behalf of the Iraqi government as military would. They are actually even acting against their own country's government.......killing Iraqi government officials. That is terrorism.