God is man's quest for himelf

[blazeofglory]

Our elementary needs are foods and security. Then comes philosophy. Now with technology galloping and production triggering man has a little time for thinking. Philosophy is the upshot of that.

We all are amazed at the creation of this universe and a thousand qestions crop up from our minds.We go beyond what we see and hear and seek for an answer to a question we have been seeking since the dawn of civilization or the time man started thinking.

All of us no matter which roots we are of materilism or spiritualism are always seeking for the answer.

What do we do when we find no answer. Man does not want to die in confusion.Then he invents an answer. The answer is his invention of God, heaven and angels.

Seeking God is seeking the meaninng of life, the origin of man and the purpose of his creation.

All of us wonder at what are. Sheer an occurence of or a combination of physical entities or of elements of this universe combined into a particualr shape.

A thousand assumptions were made. We have rakcked our minds and our cpacities for or faculties of imaginations to arrive at the answer to that Original question.

Man' s ranges of thinking and domains of his imaginations may go on expanding endlessly the way the universe, astronomically speaking, is exapnding but arriving at the answer he is seeking thru milleniums will not materialize.

Spiritualists claim they have an answer. But you and I bent a little on skepticims can not subscribe to their answer.

I beleive God is man's quest for himslef, and nothing more.

Man seeks for hinmslef but in a different image.

[weepingforloman]

Hey, this thread idea dies every time. Time to hang it up, huh?

[NikolaiI]

If humans invented God, then I am assuming God doesn't exist. That is, if we created him in our minds, we have not been able to create him in reality, just like anything else like him - angels, demons, faeries, or mythical creatures. I am willing to admit that humans created God, but it doesn't seem like anything necessary.

So much of philosophy was written with an eye for proving God, or using God as a basis. Science and mathematics, too. The time that so much of that is coming from is one where Christianity is mandatory, and reason is put on hold for religion, but rather for those in power, to please their delusional requirements. I am coming to realize that much of the human race up to this point has been delusional, individually, and collectively, in a collective psychosis.

Anyway, God is an interesting phenomenon, but I don't think it has anything to do with seeking for meaning. It has to do with seeking for God. The reason God is so much a part of philosophy is because of the subjective way philosophers have looked upon questions of life, always from inside a rigid system, again, where Christianity is mandatory, and not from outside, either outside Europe or outside humanity.

If we look at things from outside, then we examine other religions and ontologies, and if we look at things cosmically, the idea of God seems very absurd.

And by the way, I agree with most everything else you said on that Inventing God thread that was shut down.

What do you think?

[Visionary3]

blazeof glory, I respectfully disagree with your comment that God is man's quest for himself. We may have some attributes of God as we were made in His image, but we most certainly did not create the universe nor the earth and all living within it. We did not create dark matter which is defying gravity and moving the galaxies further apart and faster.

We did not create animals to know what to eat, nor how to care for their young. We did not give the birds their song, nor implant migration in the geese.

We in this country go far beyond basic fulfillment of food and shelter and creature comforts. We have to deal with the opposing forces of good and evil throughout our lives it seems. We are fortunate to have leisure time to philosophise about God and ourselves which many people on this planet do not, so in this regard we are on a quest for ourselves.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Hey, this thread idea dies every time. Time to hang it up, huh?

Wonderfully expressed, Blaze, notwithstanding the above response! Unfortunately too few of us are capable of what Keats defined as "negative capability":


"that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason."

So, when we are hungry enough for food or an immediate answer, we turn to the nearest fast-food chain, whether for a burger or a theology.

[Logos]

"God is man's quest for himelf"

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The answer is his invention of God, heaven and angels.

Seeking God is seeking the meaninng of life, the origin of man and the purpose of his creation.

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I beleive God is man's quest for himslef, and nothing more.

Man seeks for hinmslef but in a different image.

This is a religious post, which, before the Religious Texts forum rules were changed,

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15410

would have been moved there, even though it is more of a blog entry than a topic inviting discussion.

Please read the rules.

You would do well to start a Blog blazeofglory :)
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