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Why did humans make up god?

There are two gods one real, the environment around living things and us, this is god or god created it as something, which we experience. Any form of god that is based on a religion is false as all religion is only concerned about human beings. Human beings are only animals and are of no more important to this world than any other living creature. We still need to survive just like all animals and are born and die the same way, humans have made there symbolism meanings eg ideas and visual communication (text pictures, symbols, verbal visual communication.) there greatest achievement and weakness, having this ability is not so different to apes, its just that humans have taught each over which is only due to how our brain functions. Look at ants and there social structure is the human race just evolving through instinct and not actually thinking about what it’s doing but just reacting to the symbolic meanings from which we create.


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  • god; all made up and no place to go

    Humans made up god to allay their fear of the unknown. (Coincidentally, God made up humans to allay His fear of the unknown.)

    24%  Voted for by Kevin, Ace Firice, Annabel Lee, mellilot, lost faith. (16 total)
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  • Hope??

    I believe that when the bible was written, it was mainly just stories. People took those stories as hope, so it was passed down, and is what it is today. I have many thoughts about how someone came up with the stories. My main theory is that a schizophrenic man thought he hear “God”, and wrote it down. Back then people didn’t know the facts about mental disorders, and the ones they knew about were treated with death. A man that simply heard voices or saw things that weren’t there could have been considered a saint. People then, as they do now, what something bigger to hope for, they want more out of life, so they convince themselves that there is more after life. Believing in God helps them survive in this world. If that makes someone live their life to the fullest or believe that they have some purpose in life, so be it. Of course, it’s only a theory, no one will be able to prove what really happened.

    Jennifer

    15%  Voted for by Kevin, Jenni495, ilovemygrape, Jetsabel, creSSfairy. (10 total)
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  • Religion

    Religion was made by humans

    6%  Voted for by whisperinghope, lost faith, serene darkness, GLAMOURisCOCAINE.
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  • We Were Alone

    My real guess is that we made up god because we had nothing to fall back on. No one to blame, and people from the beginning wanted to be diverse. Have this one group be different from the other. Such as sinners, and gods children. We created ideas, and those ideas became obsessions then those obsessions became religions in which so many people still follow with a passion.

    6%  Voted for by Annabel Lee, lost faith, ShockinglyCute, billego.
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  • something to believe in

    humans need something to believe in, becuase without belief there is nothing to build on, we all believe in something whether it be god/s or something else and most times its what keeps us going.

    6%  Voted for by nell, lost faith, billego, ohsweetie2788.
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  • You can't make up something that already exists!

    Humans didn’t make up God….God made up humans! People didn’t just make up God to have something to believe in or something to hope for….He’s not just a really nice dream that people have, like dreaming of having the perfect date for prom. God is real and nothing a human says or does would change that.

    6%  Voted for by Duckgurl07, Babygurl07, Aislinn-Marie, estelm4.
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  • God was made for power

    God was created by early humans as a means to explain things around them, have a place for hope. They then realized that people are generally stupid and would believe anything they hear so they used this “god” theory to control people and gain power, this is how religion was created. Then everything snowballed from there.

    4%  Voted for by lost faith, HunkeyChunkeyMonkey, bobrocks.
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  • we could call it Dog

    People made up God in an attempt to describe the self which is deeper than the body and the mind.

    4%  Voted for by Kevin, lost faith, Happy 420.
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  • Agree to disagree

    I’ve read every single comment here. And of course as is the system of this site, they are all respected, people’s views, no matter how ridiculous they seem, should always attain a certain amount of respect. BUT, I think the main problem here is that people don’t realise one thing. Humans have always had the same mentality. To think for one second that logistically speaking the people in biblical times weren’t as clever as today’s modern standard is the root of this problem. Jesus and the whole thing could have been a sham, yes. He could have been some sort of magician or something. But again, wouldn’t people have noticed? And would Christianity have spread so far? Personally, this whole God issue is a touchy subject for me, since my faith isn’t as strong as I’d like it to be. That being said I am in fact Roman Catholic. Explain this to me though, if there isn’t a God (even though I understand all your points and for the most part agree) how do miracles happen? Honestly tell me. I have witnessed miracles. I have seen a friend of mine possessed and then exorcised. So explain that to me. The coincidences are too great, and even thought as a race we doubt many things, I think this is pretty spot on. Now imagine there isn’t a God, either way the life of a Christian is a happy one. If one had to follow the advice from the Bible and truly live their lives as it is written then they would have a happy live. If you’re a believer or not, makes no difference. The Bible isn’t just stories, myth or fairy tales. The Bible is a book of guidelines as well, aiding people who read it. After all, it is the ultimate all time best seller. ;-) must be worth a read then.

    Chris

    3%  Voted for by zehnten, ohsweetie2788.
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  • Need

    I think that history was somehow twisted and the Bible was written as some kind of story to bring hope to everyone, to give them something to believe in because humans need that – humans always believe in something, they believe the keyboard infront of them exists because if they did not they would go insane. They believe someone made the keyboard because otherwise it wouldn’t exist. They believe someone made the someone that made the keyboard otherwise they would not exist… It’s just human logic throwing itself off course whilst all the time we try to keep our sanity on a leash.

    3%  Voted for by AngelsLethargy, lost faith.
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  • Emancipation

    It all boils down to an apriori sense of being somehow enslaved. I think mainly this would arise from a lack of control over our environment. Through religion we create a possible means by which we can control the uncontrollable through prayer, sacrifice, whatever…tribal peoples’ beliefs give some merit to this idea.

    3%  Voted for by Kevin, SaintEnvious.
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  • Limit?

    Any god is conjured because many people dislike limits. It is certainly applying strictures to oneself to say that what is infront of you is all you get.

    3%  Voted for by lost faith, leggomyeggo.
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  • Because Man's Knowledge is Limited

    This still being the case, one cannot conclusively argue that God exists or doesn’t exist. It is purely a matter of Faith.

    3%  Voted for by lost faith, wbiro.
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  • Hard

    I think that depends on what “god” you’re talking about. Most people seem to be taking it as the Christian idea of “god”. That one seems to have started out as a sort of boogey man to me, just read the first testemant with all the geniocide and ripping apart of pregnat women. Then they softened him so that they could better control people. Well on the large scale, I know the vaste majority truly believe in what men thousands of years ago wrote and then men hundreds of years ago re-wrote. But the basic idea of high power was just trying to cope with the unexplainable. Over time it evolved into a tool to gain power and oppress others, just like everything does eventually.

    Voted for by heresyistheway.
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