Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “Who created God?”, Leave a Reply below!
I’m agnostic.
If God exists his species could have evolved in some way.
This question bleeds into something incomprehensible … the mechanics of time.
If it takes something greater to create something great, then the greater needs something greater to create it.
Even if God came from a species that evolved there is always the question of what happen the second before.
In each culture and at each point in history, the indigenous deities are reflections of the people, environment, and values of the culture. All humans who believe in god(s) create their own. While there may be an overarching cultural theme, each individuals concept of god is unique to some extent.
God doesn’t exist so nobody did.
Nobody created Santa Claus either.
If you want to know who created the idea of a supernatural being who controls everything? Lots of different people have come up with such ideas. The first one was so far back in prehistory nobody knows his name. You might as well ask “Who created fire?”…to which I suspect the answer is “The same guy who created God. He created it to burn the first apostate.”.
god is ultimate in every thing.. go is not like us and not like any of his creatures .. so god exist by himself…
think in it.. and if the is one create god .. who create that one too… endless thing.. and it must have an end.. that end will be the ultimate.. that end will be god him self
god is ultimate in every thing.. god is not like us and not like any of his creatures .. so god exist by himself…
think in it.. and if the is one create god .. who create that one too… endless thing.. and it must have an end.. that end will be the ultimate.. that end will be god him self
Hi, just browsing for information for my True Religion website. Can’t believe the amount of information out there. Not what I was looking for, but interesting page. Have a good day.
Did God create itself, or Is it possible to just BE and then at some point realise who you are? I hate quoting the bible, but it does say something like: “in the beginning there was the Thought, and the thought contemplated itself”. Much as we become conscious at some point in our earthly life that we are a physical individual but do we actually ever contemplate who we REALLY are?
IF GOD CREATED THE UNIVERSE, THEN WHO CREATED GOD?
Earlier it was impossible for us to give any satisfactory answer to this question. But modern science, rather we should say that Einstein, has made it an easy task for us. And Stephen Hawking has provided us with the clue necessary for solving this riddle. Actually scientists in their infinite wisdom have already kept the ground well-prepared for us believers so that one day we can give a most plausible and logically consistent answer to this age-old question. Let me first quote from the book “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking:
“The idea of inflation could also explain why there is so much matter in the universe. There is something like ten million million million million million million million million million million million million million million (1 with eighty zeroes after it) particles in the region of the universe that we can observe. Where did they all come from? The answer is that, in quantum theory, particles can be created out of energy in the form of particle/antiparticle pairs. But that just raises the question of where the energy came from. The answer is that the total energy of the universe is exactly zero.”
Here the question stops. So the clue is this: if we can ultimately arrive at zero, then no further question will be raised, and there will be no infinite regression. What I intend to do here is something similar to that. I want to show that our God is a bunch of several zeroes, and that therefore no further question need be raised about His origin. And here comes Einstein with his special theory of relativity for giving us the necessary empirical support for our project.
God is a Being. Therefore God will have existence as well as essence. So I will have to show that both from the point of view of existence as well as from the point of view of essence God is zero. It is almost a common parlance that God is spaceless, timeless, changeless, immortal, and all-pervading. Here we are getting three zeroes; space is zero, time is zero, change is zero. But how to prove that if there is a God, then that God will be spaceless, timeless, and changeless? From special theory of relativity we come to know that for light both distance and time become unreal. For light even an infinite distance is infinitely contracted to zero. The volume of an infinite universe full of light only will be simply zero due to this property of light. A universe with zero volume is a spaceless universe. Again at the speed of light time totally stops. So a universe full of light only is a spaceless, timeless universe. But these are the properties of light only! How do we come to know that God is also having the same properties of light so that God can also be spaceless, timeless? Scientists have shown that if there is a God, then that God can only be light, and nothing else, and that therefore He will have all the properties of light. Here is the proof.
Scientists have shown that total energy of the universe is always zero. If total energy is zero, then total mass will also be zero due to energy-mass equivalence. Now if there is a God, then scientists have calculated the total energy and mass of the universe by taking into consideration that there is also a God. In other words, if God is there, then this total energy-mass calculation by the scientists is God-inclusive, not God-exclusive. This is due to two reasons. First of all, even if there is a God, they do not know that there is a God. Secondly, they do not admit that there is a God. So, if there is a God, then they have not been able to keep that God aside before making the calculation, because they do not know that there is a God. They cannot say that they have kept Him aside and then made the calculation, because by saying that they will admit that there is a God. At most they can say that there is no God. But we are not going to accept that statement as the final verdict on God-issue, because we are disputing that statement. So the matter of the fact is this: if God is really there, then scientists have shown that both the total mass and energy of the universe including God are zero. Therefore mass and energy of God will also be zero. God is without any mass, without any energy. And Einstein has already shown that anything having zero rest-mass will have the speed of light. In other words, it will be light. So, if God is there, then God is also light, and therefore He is spaceless, timeless. So from the point of view of existence God is zero, because he is spaceless, timeless, without any mass, without any energy.
Now we will have to show that from the point of view of essence also God is zero. If there is only one being in the universe, and if there is no second being other than that being, then that being cannot have any such property as love, hate, cruelty, compassion, benevolence, etc. Let us say that God is cruel. Now to whom can He be cruel if there is no other being other than God Himself? So, if God is cruel, then is He cruel to Himself? Therefore if we say that God is all-loving, merciful, benevolent, etc., then we are also admitting that God is not alone, that there is another being co-eternal with God to whom He can show His love, benevolence, goodness, mercy, compassion, etc. If we say that God is all-loving, then we are also saying that this “all” is co-eternal with God. Thus we are admitting that God has not created the universe at all, and that therefore we need not have to revere Him, for the simple reason that He is not our creator!
It is usually said that God is good. But Bertrand Russell has shown that God cannot be good for the simple reason that if God is good, then there is a standard of goodness which is independent of God’s will. Therefore, if God is the ultimate Being, then that God cannot be good. But neither can He be evil. God is beyond good and evil. Like Hindu’s Brahma, a real God can only be nirguna, nirupadhik; without any name, without any quality. From the point of view of essence also, a real God is a zero.
So, why should there be any need for creation here, if God is existentially, as well as essentially, zero?
But if there is someone who is intelligent and clever enough, then he will not stop arguing here. He will point out to another infinite regression. If God is light, then He will no doubt be spaceless, timeless, etc. Therefore one infinite regression is thus arrested. But what about the second regression? How, and from whom, does light get its own peculiar properties by means of which we have successfully arrested the first regression? So, here is another infinite regression. But we need not have to worry much about this regression, because this problem has already been solved. A whole thing, by virtue of its being the whole thing, will have all the properties of spacelessness, timelessness, changelessness, deathlessness. It need not have to depend on any other external source for getting these properties. Thus no further infinite regression will be there.
H. S. Pal
God (any god or system of deities) is a delusion created by people who had no way to answer the questions posed by existence. “Why does the sun move across the sky?” is one example. Well, they didn’t know why, so they created an answer that could make their observations make sense to them. In Greek culture, the sun was pulled across the sky by a god in a chariot. Other cultures came up with other answers involving a supernatural being or beings of some sort. There are still many questions we don’t have answers to, so we continue to “fill in the blanks” with this idea of “god”.
God also often plays into the idea of immortality, which humans desire because we are conscious of death and fear it above all else. Many religions provide the balm of some sort of eternal or spiritual life beyond our temporary, corporeal existence, which is extremely comforting.
The idea of god and the threat of losing his favor/immortality/heaven/etc. is also a very good method for controlling people’s behavior — a fact exploited by religious and political leaders throughout history. They perpetuate the idea of god/heaven/etc. as a way to manipulate the masses. I suspect there have been many religious leaders who did not believe in god at all.
I actually envy people who believe in god, an afterlife, and all that goes with it. I don’t, personally, but must be so comforting for them.
I don’t believe it’s unreasonable to state that, in whatever sense god might be said to “exist”, it was given existence by none other than the human mind. That much seems totally obvious. At least until we discover some other type of mind with which we can communicate and then compare notes (“Did you guys detect a god? Yeah, so far neither did we.”)
People create gods to explain what they do not understand.
Stephen Colbert said it best, “There Must Be A God Because I Don’t Know How Things Work!”
Man has worshiped everything from the Sun, to the elements, to the polytheistic hankerings, to the great monotheisms, to the atheists of today. We are getting closer and closer to the right answer.
God is existence itself. God created the universe so therefore exited before the universe, and will exist after the universe is destroyed.
The video was an interesting compilation of the views of both religionists and non-believers about the meaning of life, nature of god etc.
However, I think it provided a vehicle for religionists to preach to us without proper responses from nonbelievers. Thus the religionists were telling us that we’d be happy if we lived life according to religion or that all we have to do to make life wonderful is to “submit” to god, or that god exists outside of time, space and infinity itself so he created infinity.
There were no appropriate atheist responses to these preachings which could have been 1) that people in godless societies are quite happy and even more so than in religious societies; 2) that we wouldn’t be happy killing people who don’t believe or who violate the sabbath. Giving up thinking for ourselves, or voting the way the mulahs, priests and rabbis told us to vote also would not make us happy at all; 3) Submitting to, being obedient to and asskissing a god to get his rewards and prevent him from killing us is not our idea of a happy life. Asskissing an authoritarian ruler is something we Americans discarded in 1776 when we got rid of one king. We don’t need another and don’t need to act like children for rewards or to avoid punishments. And 3) regarding the assertion that god exists outside of time,space and infinity, definitions of god do not prove its reality. There is no objective evidence for this kind of entity in the universe.
Brian Yoder says: “Nobody created Santa Claus either.”<
Don't say things like that about … sniff … Sanna.
Man created god. In the film I agree completely with the man interviewed that said man evolved too intelligent for his own good. That man evolved with the capability to wonder about life itself, and as a necessity to protect man’s sanity (because a mentally unstable individual would do poorly at surviving without today’s technology) man evolved with the concept of a higher power to explain away all of the unknowns. With god as a mental safety net, man could continue to evolve and become more intellectual until he had the capability to explain that which he could not previously.
Man created “ALL” of the gods. All gods were created in man’s image.
For me, I only know one God. And that is He!
And it only proves that not all issues in this world can be unlocked by the limited mind of human being……
There is no God, he is an imaginary creation to help human beings cope with the world.
The human brain created god. That is, created a viral delusion that continues to plague many of us even today.
God was created in Man’s own image…
but, if we speak about what has been recorded, when Moses asked, “Who shall I say sent me?”, what man has identified as God answered, “I Am that I Am.”
So, is Popeye God???
… no more and no less than I am……. when I am in the clarity of the “I AM” id.
When you identify a singularity… something which doesn’t have an opposite counterpart… (like the “I AM”)… if you want to call it God for the sake of conversational ease and a point of reference, so long as you communicate to me that you don’t require me to worship that singularity, we will get along fine.
Depends on which religion’s god you’re talking about, but the kinds of ppl who ask these questions don’t care to think through it that much. Suppose for example, that a religion believes God is eternal, it would then make no sense to ask “what created a being who has already existed?”. Just something to think about.
no one created god cause there is no god