God does not have to actually exist for people to believe in Him because faith is actually a choice, and people can choose or choose not to believe.
Why would one choose to believe even if uncertain?
Because there is a utility to belief in that it comforts us spiritually while giving us the correct moral values to uphold from generation to generation to keep our group in existence.
If God was a creation of Man, He was created for a purpose and that purpose remains operational from the time of Abraham to us in our time and beyond.
We already know that the five world religions have lasted significantly longer than secular political ideology because they are support patriarchal moral values ie marriage and family values.
We should already know by now that deviation from supporting patriarchy results in matriarchy, and to discover that your society is a matriarchy is to know that your civilisation is suffering from a terminal disease.
If God was a creation of Man, then He was created for a purpose, and that purpose was to keep our group in existence and apart from others.
Judaism has been the most successful because Jews remained in existence despite having been deprived of their homeland for 2000 years.
The Abrahamic faith most similar to Judaism is Islam.
What was God's purpose in creating man?
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ReplyDeleteDoes no one read the Bible anymore? It is all in there, what men and women are for:
ReplyDelete[Man] is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.
1 Corinthians 11. 7 - 9
There are trophy wives and also trophy husbands.
ReplyDeleteCan we really choose our beliefs? Well, William James thought so, 'The Will to Believe', 1896, but I am not convinced. So that is where faith comes in.... just accepting what you know ain't so.
ReplyDeleteAny act can be justified with some reason either spurious or not. For anything we want to do, there is a abundance of ideologies we can now choose from to justify it. If you took a position for or against something, I could easily come up with a reason contrary to yours, and you too could do the same to me. The only that is king is our personal preference.
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