Who/What created God?

i'm not sure i'm totally grasping your point here. are you saying that since most "major" religions have a supreme being that there must be such a being -- even if those religions don't agree with who/what that being is?

if god/gods are man-made, then you'd have to consider what purpose they serve. i'd say a main purpose a god servers is to be the ultimate authority. so even in a polytheistic religion, it makes perfect sense to elevate one god above the others to serve as that ultimate authority.

 

Yes, at least in Spirit.
Examining those "differences" would reveal that the differences are not in God but rather in man's adaptation to socio/economic environmental influences, and their hellbent desire to prove/make differences. tsk "Superficial," even not so superficial differences don't determine a different God. One God is the same as Same God.
Furthermore, I think that that Biblical phrase "God created man in his own image" is taken to heart by most people as God having a man's own individual/superficial characteristics, when Man encompasses a much broader definition than one man's/ethnicity/individual characteristic.

 

Someone who wanted to pass the buck. "God is/says" is the religious equivalent of "They"... only THEY have way more power in real life and always will.

 

i dunno. just because two religions say there is one god, i don't agree that the "one god" must be the same one. if a satanist says that satan is the supreme, does that mean he's the same god as the christian one?

 

I think maybe one has to look past religions' pageantries, egos, super egos, all the psychological bullshit and propaganda that we're bombarded with in society to truly believe there is but one God, albeit many religions. It's a very idealistic concept, something to constantly shoot for.

Going on the premise that there's good in everybody, I'd say probably. If somebody worships the bad guy I'd say that his priorities, emphasis, etc., are out of order, not necessarily wrong or bad. Also, maybe satanists are just pissed off at God and calling Him Satan as a blasphemy. I dunno.

 

Neither the Greeks nor Romans had a monotheistic religion. There may have been Gods that were more important than others, but they did not worship ONE main god. As Nut already pointed out, Hinduism is a mixture of polytheism and monotheism.

You should read up on Galileo; it makes you question just how right Christianity is. If God is all-powerful and all-knowing, why would he not know that the Earth is NOT the center of the universe and that it revolves around the sun?..."But it does move."

 

so you're saying that since the only thing monotheistic religions can all agree upon is that there's one god, that is the only thing that is actually "true" and all the trapping of those various religions are to be "looked past"? that seems kind of arbitrary.

hmm... so if i understand, you're saying man created religion, yes?

 

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but they don't agree that it's the same god, so what is the justification in saying they all worship the same one?

and that seems kind of circular. you're using your belief to justify your belief.

but religion is the way one worships/honors god. are you saying that there is a singular creator and the religions that worship him just guessed at his existence?

i didn't follow that at all.

 

Ain't my fault they don't realize there's but one God.

Yes, that's true; because I'm both insecure and superstitious.

Guessing? Probably more like coming to a wise conclusion from experience and observation.

Kinda like the "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" thing.