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The concept of God comes from God Himself, since He exists, and has chosen to make Himself known to us.Any One Can Answer The Above .
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Where Did The Concept Of God Comes From ?
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.
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.
He is only a "concept" to some.Any One Can Answer The Above .
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