March 13th, 2010
i'm not talking about any one specific God...i talking about the term God in a generic sense...the supreme or ultimate reality...Because our brain gives us the capability to invent things or stories, you know, it's called imagination.Simple.
How does a small child feel about his or her mom and dad?
They seem awfully "God" like when your little.
They can do amazing things and give you rules to live by. When you do something they don't like, you get punished. When you do something they do like, you get praise and sometimes a reward.
Not really to hard to understand where one might have come up with the concept at all!Gen.8:21;God's were originally immortal men, and as we all know, men are real...well, at least some of them are.OOOoooooh SPooKy is it not He has a basis in reality. Christianity especially gives him person-like qualities. But this does not mean a personal being such as God actually exists.Many humans try to rationalize what they don't understand. Thunder claps, a deity is angry. Many early deities were to explain natural events. When science and technology caught up to it, those deities weren't needed any longer.We have vivid imaginations. perhaps it is a survival mechanism, or maybe it is just something that out increased cerebral cortexes allowed us to have. But saying that something must be real because it isn't based on reality doesn't exactly help your cause, unless you're saying that Jabba the Hutt is real.because look at it this way:
can a house be built without a builder?
can earth be built without a creater? NO! therefore, there has to be some creator. and christians have the bible to lead us and to explain everything to us. Actually one of the few strong arguments Dawkins had in "The God Delusion" is that as a survival mechanism humans have a need to obey and fear authorities, such as parents, and as such this is a hard-wired instinct. This instinct leads, as a side effect, into believing in an ultimate authority.cos mankind has ;-O, an imagination!!!!!!!!
i know, what a shock ehWe aren't purely biological....we have a lot of chemistry and physics going on inside us too.I can't see how one makes another impossible.
Also try eating some shrooms.
"We aren't purely biological....we have a lot of chemistry and physics going on inside us too."
Biology is applied chemistry, chemistry is applied physics.Because a gene called ASPM gave us a highly developed pre frontal cortex that allows us to have an enhanced level of intelligence in comparison with other species.... the same way we can imagine donald duck and mickey mouseI think that even the Neanderthals invented a god, probably the sun was one of them.
Humans need to find answers to questions for which there are no answers.
As a believer in reincarnation, I believe that we are all born with memories of God and Home. They fade quickly while we are still infants. Just my opinion, of course.
By the way, I unblocked you. You are not a report troll.The same way that humans thought up Santa, fictional stories, etc.
Imagination and the want to have a god/s.If you claim that something that can be conceptualized must be real then unicorns, mermaids, bogeymen, pixies and all the other creatures born of our imaginations must be real too.
Just as all these mythological creatures have some basis in reality, so do gods. However just as that does not make any of those creatures real, nor does it make any god real.How could Lovecraft have visualised the Great Old Ones and their horrifying forms? How could Escher have visualised his bizarre, unthinkable geometries? How could Stephen King have come up with his more disturbing, half shapeless monsters?
Simple. We have an imagination. Ain't hard to explain sugar.The answer is in your question - imagination. That's what imagination is all about, isn't it?Well if you think about why gods were imagined, to explain the unexplained, then it's really not that amazing. There is also the fact that all gods, in one way or another, resemble some sort of animal whether it be a snake or a person.
Really gods do have a a kind of basis in reality, things that people couldn't understand combined with the human imagination. If you add those two things together you get a god. Actually man didn't Imagine God, God has revelaed Himself to man, through creationPrimitive people felt the need to explain the world around them, what they couldn't explain they attributed to a supernatural force, god or gods, and for some reason the idea stuck around even when we could explain how the world worked.Well then maybe man isn't a purely biological being. But I can't play with you, the existence of God is a whole separate issue from man's spiritual nature. There's free will, conscience, the world open to thought, love...a load of things.
You seem -- shall we say --- FAR from impartial in your search. Purely biological beings can still have a vivid imagination.You mean to tell me he is NOT based on a Kind a Loving yet unpredictable father figure.
I say he's based on the Idea of a father watching over you, just more powerful.actually, if you look through the facts you will see you are wrong there#If you have any other info about this subject , Please add it free.# |
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