Re: Who made God?
Most societies in the history of civilization have recognised that there is (are) power(s) or law(s) that govern all cause/effect relationships and caused what is to be. Further, they recognised that how we homo sapiens behave is causal in terms of probable consequences.<br /><br />Many assign these powers to an individual entity and give that entity a human-like identity, or to a collection of entities. Typically, these entities are believed to be benevolent and vengeful. . .to intervene in the course of human events. Others believe that the entities are neither benevolent or vengeful; they are indifferent to our wishes, responding only to our behavior and probability.<br /><br />Various philosophies and legends develop to attempt to explain these powers and how we should cooperate with them (It) for a successful life.<br /><br />Mother Nature, the collections of "Gods" that the Greeks and Romans specified, Allah, the Christian God, Manitou, and the identities that other societies assign these powers to are one and the same in that they are the identities various cultures have assigned as manifesting the same powers.<br /><br />Believe in quantum mechanics? You believe in what Christians call God. Believe in physics? Believe in thermodynamics, electronics, agriscience, psychology, etc, etc?? You believe.<br /><br />Perceptions and beliefs about these powers are the work of man. If you tell me I don't believe in God you are simply saying that I don't percieve God the way you do, and you don't percieve God in the way I do. Vice-versa.<br /><br />It is the works of man that divide us.
