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Poll: Was god created so that people would feel more secure about themselves?


  • Offspring
    Aug 3 4:24 PM 2007
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  • Applehead
    August 3, 2007
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    Some people use God to make themselves feel more secure, this is true but was He created for that purpose? No He created us. I would point out that hope anyone has that simply saying they believe and merely attending Church is living on false hopes.

  • mudgod
    August 3, 2007
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    Amen Apple

    Jam 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
    Jam 1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
    Jam 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

  • Kazrith
    August 7, 2007
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    im dissagreeing because i believe that god was created to control us, not to make us feel better.

    • Applehead
      August 11, 2007
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      that is because you arent understanding.

  • Kazrith
    August 12, 2007
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    understanding or not, its one opinion against another.

  • Stepherz804
    September 6, 2007
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    Not that I can begin to process how there was just a God out of randomness but Ive heard theories that 'he/she' created us as a model for a perfect world. My opinion sometimes is that we are like a board game and we are like little toys to amuse like the Greek and Roman Gods and Godesses.

  • frattaro
    October 3, 2007
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    People originally created the abstract idea of the divine in order to explain things that couldn't be understood.

  • NeferMaatNetjer
    January 5
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    god created people. people did not create god

  • mudgod
    January 6
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    The creation is never greater that the Creator.

  • Weydon
    January 6
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    Mmm...I don't think that ever applies as a universal truth. It just happens to be so with God.

    • mudgod
      January 6
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      Do you believe that you could create something greater than yourself?

      • Weydon
        January 7
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        Sure, I'm not all that great.

        • mudgod
          January 7
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          You are greater than anything you could create.

          • Weydon
            January 7
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            Hah, well I don't know about that. But thanks mud, that sounds like the nicest thing anyone's ever said about me!

  • pnktrky
    January 28
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    well by definition God created us... end of discussion because that is what God is... although there is that paradox...

  • TeChNoWC
    February 17
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    mudgod

    There are many examples. A tree can create a seed that will turn into another tree more taller than itself, quite possibly. That tree is now greater than the predecessor.

    • mudgod
      February 18
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      Can you, with your own two hands and mind, create anything greater than yourself?

  • TeChNoWC
    February 18
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    Depends on what we define as greater. In size, yes, in specific ability, yes, in a capability to love and value society, probably not - except for creating a child. It all depends on what you are ascribing to the term greater. You used it as a universal value. It is not a universal value. There are many examples of creations' being greater than the creator. But I agree with Weydon, in the case of God the rule applies, and hence we have the allusion of the man and the clay pot as witnessed in the Bible.

  • Just Rob
    February 20
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    Not one, but many

    gods were created by man. All serve the purpose of frightening children and helping support the illusion of "heaven".

    • Weydon
      February 20
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      All can't support the illusion of heaven, not all of them believe in it.
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