Where Did The Concept Of God Comes From ?

[Khaliyl]

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[Dasdream]

noone really knows, he's always been here, he's God lol

 

[rocklife]

the "concept" of God? God is God. He is.

concept is defined as "a general idea or understanding, esp. one derived from specific instances or occurrences."

God is not just an idea or understanding. He is more than that, He is the Maker of Life, not a concept. Asking about His concept seems to be belittling God, it seems like you are saying people made an idea of god up. Christians don't view God like that.

the concept of God had to come only from God himself. He is the one who made and talked to Adam and Eve, Noah, King David, the apostles, etc. He showed Himself to us first, even by making us

 

[Rhapsody]

the bible

 

[heron]

Throughout all cultures and generations, people have felt within themselves that a supreme being existed.

Even most atheists I speak with do not object to the concept of an unseen being ... they just don't agree with the religions established around the divinities (making them slightly agnostic). People get cycles of spiritual insight and dry spells, but at some point in their lives, usually consider the possibility.

The concept of God can't be attributed to one person or one group or one era -- the awareness is within us.

 

[FallingWaters]

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The concept of God comes from God Himself, since He exists, and has chosen to make Himself known to us.

It is our job to learn to discern the truth from the lies about God.

For those of us who believe that God the Father sent His Son to earth to reveal the depth of His love to us and for us, we believe that He desires to have daily communion and conversation with us... as He did with Adam... walking in the garden, in the cool of the day.

 

[dvd_holc]

The bible does not give a origin of God it starts off with the assumption that there has always been God who then choose to create the creation.

 

[Dasdream]

We all know there is a God, no doubt about that, where he came from, doesn't really matter, because he didn't come from anywhere, he was already there. Hard to explain, but I am sure he would tell you the samething.

 

[revmalone]

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Greetings
From men who didn't know what it meant. ha ha ha
Rev Malone

 

[ephraimanesti]

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FROM GOD, OF COURSE!
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God--the Creator of all that is--chose to reveal Himself to His creation from the very beginning. It is not possible that "evolved animals" could have throught up such a glorious Truth!

WITH LOVE IN CHRIST,
ephraim

 

[AvgJoe]

Where Did The Concept Of God Comes From ?

God has placed the knowledge of Himself within the heart and mind of every person (Romans 1:18-21).

Throughout all cultures and generations, people have felt within themselves that a supreme being existed.

Even most atheists I speak with do not object to the concept of an unseen being ... they just don't agree with the religions established around the divinities (making them slightly agnostic). People get cycles of spiritual insight and dry spells, but at some point in their lives, usually consider the possibility.

The concept of God can't be attributed to one person or one group or one era -- the awareness is within us.

To expand on what heron said, here is an excerpt from a caption, found on page 1613 of the Reformation Study Bible, entitled Mankind's Guilty Knowledge of God.

All people are naturally inclined to some form of religion, yet they fail to worship their Creator, whose general revelation makes Him universally known. Sinful egoism and aversion to our Creator's claims have driven humanity into idolatry, the error of giving worship and homage to any power or object other than God (Isaiah 44:9-20; Romans 1:21-33; Colossians 3:5). In their idolatry, apostate humans "suppress the truth" and have "exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles" (Romans 1:18, 23). They smother and quench, as far as they can, the awareness that general revelation provides of the transcendent Judge and Creator, and they transfer the ineradicable sense of deity to unworthy objects. This in turn leads to drastic moral decline and misery, as a first manifestation of God's wrath against apostasy (Romans 1:18, 24-32).

God will not allow human beings to suppress entirely their sense of God and His judgement. Some sense of right and wrong, as well as of accountability to God, always remains. Even in the fallen world everyone is endowed with a conscience that from time to time condemns them, telling them that they ought to suffer for wrongs they have done. When conscience speaks in these terms it speaks with the voice of God.

In one sense, fallen humanity does not know God, since what people believe about the objects of their worship falsifies and distorts the truth about God. In another sense all human beings do know God, but in guilt, with uncomfortable inklings of the judgement they cannot avoid. Only the gospel of Christ can speak peace to this aspect of the human condition.

 

[heron]

Yeah... ineradicable sense... I meant to say that.
(-;

About idols, I believe that people truly sense powers that we don't see, and feel vulnerable to the unpredictability. If you ascribe the label of evil spirit (or cantankerous spirit... even self-driven spirit) to these powers, the worshiper is more of a victim than a rebel. They are working with what they know, and what they fear.

But I'm getting off track.

 

[AvgJoe]

Yeah... ineradicable sense... I meant to say that.
(-;

LoL

 

[Stinker]

The secular understanding of 'where the concept of God' came from, is probably when a species of man finally evolved to the point of having just enough intelligence to figure that since he made something from a mud paddy, that something or someone made him and his surroundings as well.

 

[Breaking Babylon]

A concept is a general idea derived or inferred from specific instances or occurrences; something formed in the mind; a thought or notion.

As AVGJoe mentioned, God has placed the knowledge of Himself within the heart and mind of every person. (Romans 1:18-21)

So the concept of God came from God Himself. We didn't find Him, He revealed Himself to us.

 

[PhilosopherD]

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Nobody knows the answer to that.

 

[calidog]

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He is only a "concept" to some.
He has always been a person