What is required to make a God?

[arthra]

There are what I would term "made up gods".. they are the result of our idle fancies and vain imaginings...

 

[Fisher]

What is required to make a God?

It takes your life to make a God. Your time.

EDIT: Maybe it sounds nonsense to you. It is perfectly right to me.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

It takes your life to make a God. Your time.

That would mean God is inside you and not an external being with whom you can create yourself?

 

[Unveiled Artist]

It takes your life to make a God. Your time.

EDIT: Maybe it sounds nonsense to you. It is perfectly right to me.

I never heard it put that way. However, I dont believe in an external being so this is more of a curious question of how people would God to be to them if they had a choice to create him,her,it.

Which would mean either non believer have to make believe there could be a God to fabricate one they think is a plausable one. Ex. Make up a unicorn and say, I rather it have a blue horn rather than pink. (As a author of fiction does)

For believers to step from their concept of God and see if they can put together one that maybe they desire of a God but in their reality, is not true God of their faith.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

There are what I would term "made up gods".. they are the result of our idle fancies and vain imaginings...

How would you create an idle fancy or imaging....like an author of fiction, what things would you make of your character or God?

 

[Unveiled Artist]

A vivid imagination.

Nice.....what would be in your fiction book if your charactor is called god. (How wouls you define and create your fictional charactor?)

 

[wizanda]

First to all the religions who claim your god is real, as some ancient book states it... Is the same question that is being asked here, other than proof outside of time; most of it is man made religion. Our concepts about god have been passed down from generation to generation, thus you assume they're real due to heritage; yet have no more substance than anything we create fictionally. Unfortunately many of you won't question this, and will assume as it has been passed down, it must be true.

@Carlita Brilliant question.... To create a god as stated above, it needs some form of historical backing... So in the past we can see it based on elements within life, that are ancient, such as the moon, sun and stars... As time has passed on, we now base it on our own passed down preconceived ideas... We even find Paul appealing to former gods with no name from other religions, to acquire more followers.

Really you would expect people to look outside of the box, for something that goes beyond all preconceived understanding, to something that could qualitatively summarize existence in one go; yet often they don't, and are happy to make up mythologies they like the sound of.

The next step would be elements within our own characteristics, that we admire or fear, such as the Greek mythologies, so a goddess of love, a god of war, playful, trickster, etc....That has been slightly over simplified with time, that we've got old testament god of fear, and new testament god of love.

There are gods where we can appeal to, for life's basic elements, such as a god of the harvest, god of water, wind, earth, spring, etc.

What the Catholic religion (universal) tried to do, is encompass many of these ideas wrap them into one and claim it as a final solution, unfortunately bastardizing many of its roots in the process.

So can we summarize a simple basic building elements of a god, it depends on your audiences interests....Plus what is interesting, is when you study the worlds religions, what audiences flock to certain ideas.

 

[Nakosis]

I think it is probably more important to uncreate Gods.

I suppose you might create a God as an idealized self. The perfect being to strive to become.

Why do people create Gods? Because Gods can do things they wish they could. Like know all things, be all powerful? To be able to love yourself and others unconditionally. Maybe to smite your enemies?

However as long as it is idealized and externalize it is something you can never be. It will remain separate, an idol. The ideal unrealized.

 

[Looncall]

If I wanted to make up a God, how would I do so? What ingredients would I need to do this?

In sculpting, you have clay, oil, and water. To create a human figure, one needs these items to shape and polish until formed as desired. A clay figure cannot exist without a creator.

In human relationships, we need two (for sake of example) people. Love doesnt develop on its own. Two people develop or create love by how they interact with each other, care for, and do things for the other. Love does not exist on its own.

To create something into existence we need things and/or people (again, for sake of point).

By definition, among many, God's existence (well say external whether it be from mythology or not) is separate from humans. (In this case, Im not looking at pantheism, panentheism, and variations of), who is invisible or as some say "beyond our understanding" or our "inner" (hidden?) consciousness.

If that be the case, Gods are invisible regardless if you read a out Him in any boko, see him in nature, or in yourself, he, a pronoun, not abstract concept, is still there.

If you were to create a God by this definition and keeping in mind the need for things or people etc (not fictional things), how would you do so?
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A step further, once you created your God, in what ways you would make him, her, it known to others?

EDIT

Folks an example is on post 14. Im not asking to resphape a pre existing god nor replacing one. Call hsi george.

One needs a vivid imagination, abundant gall and a good supply of gullible people.

I expect the first tribesman who found he could escape the grind of survival by pretending to talk to gods knew right away that he was onto a good scam.

How Joseph Smith must have laughed alone in the night!

 

[Augustus]

You need a common traditions and understandings that you can adapt and add to. You don't create a God from nothing, you create it from already existing ingredients which you use in slightly different ways.

 

[psychoslice]

The ingredients for making a god in my thinking is fear, ignorance, and superstation, I believe this is where the idea of god originated from.

 

[Kuzcotopia]

All it takes is faith and trust.

 

[Kuzcotopia]

All it takes is faith and trust.

And something I forgot. . . A little bit of pixie dust. . .

 

[psychoslice]

And something I forgot. . . A little bit of pixie dust. . .

I think it would take a whole truck load of pixie dust lol.