Did we invent God?
June 10, 2013 Leave a comment
“This is how God showed his love to us: He sent his only Son into the world to give us life through him.” 1 John 4:9 ERV
At the church yesterday, in front of me was a 6 years old boy with his mother. During the praise and worship part of the service where we sing songs, clap our hands and raise our hands towards heaven, I had a short lesson regarding “beliefs”. In my mind, I was asking how can this little boy expresses worship from the bottom of his heart? How can he know God at such an early age? How come he is able to clap his hand so freely and sing joyful songs as much as the other people beside him do? I was just so amazed by his actions because I know that when I was his age, I did not do that. Did we just invent God and then through examples, bible studies, storytelling and nurturing, conditions our children to believe what we adults think about God? Or was his gesture genuine and it did really comes from his own beliefs and not from his mother.
We learn and come to know God because someone in someways somewhere told us so and we believed.
In the most basic sense, that is how we learn about something… and then we believed it.
Many scientists nowadays has more resources to use at their own disposal to explain our beliefs in God. They discovered amazing theories that explains how things come into being and it’s interconnection to something called faith. Some had came out with published materials exposing our invention of God in our minds.
I cannot explain my faith. When someone told me that God loved me, it just so happen that I latched on to the idea but then things around me started to change. So I decided, God must be there and all I have to do is keep believing in Him daily and so far all I got are all positive things. Why would I not believe in God?
Why not?
See it at YouVersion.com: