by Michael Peyton

Created on: August 19, 2009   Last Updated: August 22, 2009

In the King James Bible you will find the following passage in the book of Genesis: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." Many modern thinkers know the opposite to be true. It was humans who created god in our image. The god of the Holy Bible is thought to have created the universe and earth, is omnipotent and omniscient, highly involved in human affairs, and interacts with his creation; performing miracles, causing floods that wipe out life, and even speaking to humans. If there is or ever was a god, it is impossible that it could be the Christian god. Let us go back to the beginning when man invented the first gods.

It is clear that the first gods known to humans were an invention. In ancient times there was an ignorance of the workings of the natural world. Facts that are now common knowledge like the fact that the sun is a ball of burning gases were completely unknown. Humans in those times were just as curious as we are now and they wanted an explanation. They made up their own explanations by inventing gods. One of the first deities worshipped was the sun. It is easy to see why. The sun brings light and warmth. They believed it to be the giver of life. Many of the gods throughout history were sun gods like Horus who was worshipped by the ancient Egyptians. The gods of ancient times looked like humans and even behaved like humans. Gods had husbands and wives, and children. They also had their share of issues and problems. The gods of the ancient world resembled humans in every way except they had very important jobs like raising the sun in the sky each day or controlling the tide. There is no place for these gods in today's world because science has explained how these natural events occur.

Even Christians have to admit that these gods were invented by the human mind. One of the tenants of Christianity is that there is only one god. By believing in Christianity, one inherently believes that the thousands of other gods that have been worshipped throughout history have been invented by humans. If humans got it wrong so many times before, why believe in this particular god? The only evidence for the existence of the Christian god is The Holy Bible. This book which is supposedly the word of a god, who is perfect and infallible, is filled with atrocities, absurdities, and contradictions. It wouldn't be a surprise to find these things in a book that was written by men but the idea that a perfect god has written this book is pure

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