Who said man created god

The inversion of natural order. God created every man Votes: 0. Man created God, not God, man Votes: 0. God created woman to tame man. Votes: 0. Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass. Man is created for the glory of God. God created man on purpose, and for a purpose. God created heaven on earth but man created hell. God has created the world to play hide-and-seek with man. Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent. Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God.

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks. The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man. The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring--thus he erred himself. I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees Votes: 0. If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible? God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.

In the beginning Man created God: and in the image of Man created he him. God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat. First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God. Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in. Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves. Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man.

God alone can fill it infinitely. Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece. From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm. How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God? Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.

It's in the Bible. God created it. Kristensen, who has authority in Norway to perform weddings and conduct funerals through Human-Etisk Forbund the Norwegian Humanist Association , puts religion into an historic framework. He stresses how the fight for sheer survival was so hard thousands of years ago, and humans were so vulnerable to the forces of nature, that they strengthened themselves, for example, by creating an animistic view of the world in which animals, plants and other objects possessed a spiritual essence, and the dead could be called upon for assistance.

When the first agricultural-based societies emerged in the Mediterranean and Middle East, new gods were created to give hope for good weather, a good harvest, fertility and other needs from tools to bread-baking. In the far northern areas, where people had to live with snow and ice, it was logical to even create a goddess for skiing, who was called either Skadi or Skade now a Norwegian word used for injury. It has been said that "God is the noblest work of man" ; and to Heine we owe the taunting remark that "if God made man in his own image , man made haste to return the compliment.

Related e. Wikipedia Wiktionary Shop. A small number of poets and philosophers began to question popular views of the gods. Several of these were subjected to investigation, accused of heresy, and occasionally even brought to trial.

Though this pantheon occupied the central place in public worship, the average person tended to rely more on one of the minor deities or fertility gods for help because of their greater emotional appeal and practical value.

Only the mystery religions of Dionysius and Eleusis, partly drawn into the official cult, contained some of the same attraction. The traditional gods also began to come under attack for their intellectual inadequacies.

A few philosophers had already shifted their interest away from the role of gods in mythical stories, supernatural events, and everyday life and instead towards the search for a single rational principle at the heart of the universe. These talked more about divinity than deities, physical causes rather than the divine interventions, invisible forces rather than tangible images.

As Jaeger argues, this ultimately led "to a consciousness of the problem of religion itself - the problem of accounting for the universal dispersion of the idea of God and of discovering its sources. A forerunner of these critics was Xenophanes BC , a poet-philosopher from Ionia.

In surviving fragments of his writings, he queries whether natural causes lie behind extraordinary divine phenomena and denounces the immoral and excessive behaviour of the gods.

He also remarks on variations in the way gods were popularly depicted:. Mortals imagine that the gods are begotten, and that the gods wear clothes like their own and have language and form like the voice and form of mortals. But if oxen or lions had hands and could draw and do the work with their hands that men do, horses would have drawn the form of gods like horses and oxen gods like oxen and they would represent the bodies of the gods just like their own forms. Though these remarks sound sceptical about any idea of gods, Xenophanes still believed in the divine.

He did this distinguishing between the firm knowledge of the unchanging, refined divine nature and unreliable opinions about changeable conceptions of the gods. Plato probably had something similar in mind when he complained about those of his predecessors who advocated that. A century later the philosopher Democritus c.

As a result, earlier beliefs and practices came under greater scrutiny. Like Xenophanes, he distinguished between what he termed genuine knowledge and conventional knowledge. He placed "images" of the gods in the latter category, and identified a psychological motive in their formation. It was as men of old experienced fear of extraordinary phenomena that "perceiving these images, [they] imagined that each was a god, although God in reality is only that which has imperishable nature.

While they were mistaken in doing this, he believed that the gods were more than the products of human imagination, for an imperishable emanation of the divine still existed within them. Another philosopher, Prodicus c.