Is God made up

Answer 1

no one,you must belve he's fake!

Answer:

The invention of gods and supernatural forces to explain the workings of the world was one of mankind's earliest inventions. There is no record of when these beliefs came into being but evidence suggests that early man used magic in an attempt to control hunting and other attributes of his life.

Answer 2

A1:

God is real

A2:

Usually, one may naively think they should immediately know what is made up/imaginary/mythical and what is not/what is real.

Science, when describing the world, with evidence, promotes hypotheses to theories and these are considered fact or overarching factual/true explanations of how/why things occur the way they do. These theories are considered true and obviously true by common sense.

Equally, by common sense, people think they would know by common sense that dragons and unicorns and other mythical creatures are obviously not real.

However, some people may think that dragons did once exist (Kent Hovind for one insists on this) and this is where my main point begins. If you truly believe something, it is real TO YOU. Ghosts can terrify people who convince themselves that such things as ghosts exist, which they obviously don't. People who really believe in God or a god from any religion seem often incapable of seeing another viewpoint (perhaps because of some emotion attached to such an object). There is also the force of indoctrination that can instill abiding convictions in people. But just an emotional or indoctrinated attachment to something does not make it real.

To early people, the world/universe must have been a baffling place and death was very frightening. To claim the existence of a God to explain the appearance and origin of the world/universe would have brought comfort from fear of unknowing, and a loving heaven-providing God, as a notion, would have comforted people from fear of death.

But there is no evidence for God anywhere. Everything works on its own. This is the emphasis of the introduction of A Brief History of Time. Here it is stated that really everything works by itself 'and (there is) nothing for a Creator to do'.

Life is autonomous and self-contained and self-replicative and foments its diversity by evolution as revealed by science. The elements and compounds rule the universe on their own, freezing, thawing, sublimating. The atoms reveal themselves in the feeling of the wind and the pressure of tyres. Ocean currents and weather cells churn completely on their own. DNA replicates itself. Tectonics brings the continents into position and gravity drags the planets hysterically and perpetually around their stars. The elements effluoresce from nucleosynthetic reactions in the cores of these stars and photosynthesis, by itself, fuels almost every ecosystem on Earth. Everything occurs by itself, as revealed by science and there is no evidence of a God anywhere.

Some may object at this point and insist The Bible has credit. The Bible may have some human-historical credibility, yes. But when things (like God) are deemed and deemably supernatural, that is not a logical position at all. Science works by evidence and the repeat of results from experiment. Some may argue that if God is written down in the Bible, perhaps he did appear to at least one person. Then there would be credence to God. To respond to this, one must remember that there are multitudinous religions on Earth all with different opinions, stories and gods. It would be appropriate to immediately ask if Zeus or Athena once appeared to a Greek observer, justifying belief in such an item and what this would mean for the existence of the Christian god, when I'm sure many would agree that Zeus, Athena or Apollo are not real.

Answer 3

Jesus is NOT a made up person. He is God in the flesh, and walked the earth 2000 years ago. He was born into this world, lived an entirely sinless life, and died. Being GOD He didn't stay in the grave, but rose from the dead 3 days after His crucifixion, and ascended into heaven. Read more about His entire life in the New Testament of the Bible. You will be happy you did, and that is the truth.

Historically Jesus really excisted so he's not made up but the whole religious part is not proven.

Answer 4

Egyptian gods weren't exactly "made-up" they were actually real people who were deified. And if you know your history correctly, most of all the gods of every culture---strangely--- are based on the same humans.

Answer 5

No a spesific person did not make up the gods a group of people who knew jesus made up all the gods because jesus told the people that " there are loads of gods up in heaven and my father is one of them and we worship lots of gods but the most important one for most people are God "

Answer 6

There are tens of proofs for God's existence. These have been recorded for centuries and are easy to look up. However, this subject ultimately becomes one of personal belief, since our possession of free-will mandates that it be possible to put forth arguments (fallacious or not) against every one of the proofs.
Here are a few.
1) Teleological Argument: The universe has definite design, order, and arrangement which cannot be sufficiently explained outside a theistic worldview. (This is how Abraham, without benefit of teachers, came to reject the chaotic world-view of idolatry and the possibility of Atheism). For example, theoretical physicist and popular science writer Paul Davies (whose early writings were not especially sympathetic to theism) states concerning the fundamental structure of the universe, "the impression of design is overwhelming" (Davies, 1988, p. 203).From the complexities of the human eye to the order and arrangement of cosmology, the voice of God is heard. God's existence is the best explanation for such design. God is the designer.Is there evidence against Evolution

God's wisdom seen in His creations

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2) Anthropic Principle: The laws of the universe seem to have been set in such a way that stars, planets and life can exist. Many constants of nature appear to be finely tuned for this, and the odds against this happening by chance are astronomical. Professor Russel Stannard (a particle physicist) states: "The universe has been bent over backwards in order that intelligent life should exist...must have known we were coming."

3) Sensus divinitatus: The innate sense of the divine exists within all people. People and cultures of all time have, by instinct, sensed a need to believe in and worship something greater than themselves. No ancient society ever existed that did not believe in a supernatural power.

4) Tradition: There are historical events which cannot be explained without God. Many people have had personal experiences that turn them toward theism, but there are also historical events such as the Giving of the Torah to over two million people at Mount Sinai, which are underpinnings for the belief in God.

5) Pascal's Wager: Belief in God is the most rational choice due to the consequences of being wrong. If one were to believe in God and be wrong, there would be no consequences. However, if one were to deny God and be wrong, the consequences are eternally tragic. Therefore, the most rational choice is not agnosticism or atheism, but belief in God.

6) Logic. Why is there reality rather than nothing? Aside from God's creating it, there are only five options:
a) The universe is eternal and everything has always existed.
- Even atheists have abandoned this possibility, especially because it would violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

b) Nothing exists and all is an illusion. There is no reality; there is only nothing.
- This possibility, it should be obvious, is completely self-defeating. In order to even make such a proposition, the subject has to exist in some sense. If all is an illusion, where did the illusion come from? Even the solipsist, who does not believe in the existence of other minds, has to explain the genesis of his own mind.

c) The universe created itself. This is the idea that the universe and all that is in it did not have its origin in something outside itself, but from within.
- Like with the previous two, this makes a logical absurdity. It would be like creating a square triangle. It's impossible. A triangle by definition cannot be square. So creation cannot create itself as it would have to pre-date itself in order to create.

d) Chance created the universe. The odds of winning the lottery are not very good; but given eons of time, everyone will win. While the odds of the universe spontaneously appearing are not minuscule, could it happen, given enough time?

- This option is a dishonest sleight of hand that, like "survival of the fittest," amounts to nothing, because it implies that "chance" itself has quantitative causal power.
The word "chance" refers to possibilities. It does not have the power to cause those possibilities. It is nonsense to speak of chance being an agent of creation, since chance is not a force. "What are the real chances of the universe being created by chance? Impossible. Chance is incapable of creating a single molecule, let alone an entire universe. Why not? Chance is no thing. It is not an entity. It has no being, no power, no force. It can effect nothing because it has no causal power within it. It is a word which describes mathematical possibilities which, by the curious flip of the fallacy of ambiguity, slips into the discussion as if it were a real entity with real power, the power of creativity." (R.C. Sproul, Not a Chance. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1999.)

e) The universe is created by nothing. Simply put, nothing created the universe.
- The problem here is that it is either a repetition of option "a" (the universe is eternal) or fails due to the irrationality of "d." In our current universe, the law of cause and effect cannot be denied by sane people. While we often don't know what the cause of some effect is, this does not mean that there was no cause. When we go to the doctor looking for an explanation for the cause of our neck pain, we don't accept the answer "There is no cause. It came from nothing."

Now, the other side of the Question: why might people notbelieve in God?

1) Peer influence. In high school, for example, the one or two religious believers in a class may be subject to ridicule.

2) Convenience; desires. No one wants "bothersome" rules, or limitations to their personal pleasure. We see how lack of self-discipline has led to epidemic obesity, drunkenness, divorce rates, violence etc.

3) Lack of proper information. People have inaccurate notions about God, religion and belief. They've picked up tidbits, jokes, and "sound-bites," and on such solid authority they dismiss the entire topic.

4) Unfortunate experiences. Many have had personal hardships, or a harsh religious upbringing or education, and as a consequence may retain an unhappy feeling towards belief, without realizing that emotions and proofs are two different things.

5) Many think that science, and specifically Evolution, have proved that there is no God. They don't comprehend that even if Evolution was an unquestionable fact, it would not automatically follow that God isn't there. They also seem unaware that there are a significant number of highly-qualified scientists who do not believe in Evolution.

6) Intellectual laziness. Many people have simply never delved into the subject, to see if God's existence can be convincingly demonstrated.

7) Stereotyping. People call us "religious nuts," "Bible-thumpers," etc.; so the average layperson may get a negative feeling toward all belief, not realizing that he/she should first look into the existence of God in principle, before necessarily looking into religion.

Answer 7

No one intentionally 'made up' the notion of God. These things rarely happen in any religion, because people sincerely believe in the deity they worship. Religion is an evolutionary process and scholars tell us that the God we know today evolved from a more primitive deity who probably began as a storm god and was one of several gods the Israelites worshipped.