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GOD CREATED MAN MAN CREATED GOD
Debate Score:39
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DID GOD CREATE MAN OR DID MAN CREATE GOD?

WAS IT A GOD OR SOME FORM OF SUPREME BEING THAT CREATED MANKIND OR DOES GOD NOT REALLY EXIST BUT RATHER A STORY OR IDEA CREATED FROM THE IMAGINATION OF MAN?


GOD CREATED MAN

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MAN CREATED GOD

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Miracles happen daily, they defy man's explanation through logical and scientific means, to choose to ignore them and not credit them to a higher authority isn't logical or scientific. Hundreds of millions of people testify openly to communication with God, to dismiss this as mass hysteria is preposterous. Every species on the planet created with a similar genetic code. The probability factor is astronomical even allowing for millions years, random events could not have equaled the complexity of this code. Darwin's theory of evolution is also flawed, each species has a unique genetic footprint often less than a fraction of a percent in degrees of separation. It is far more likely the modern man survived because they were the most violent and conquering. Every other species or "tribe" simply annihilated every other similar sentient species on earth. There is no concrete evidence of "evolution" today it is still an unproven theory as is the theory of relativity, there are very few science facts much of the entire body of knowledge is theoretical.

20 days ago | Tagged As: GOD CREATED MAN
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Let me give you the answers for all

Theists - God created Man

Atheists - Man created God.

39 days ago
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Of course God created man, How would man create God, if God was one who created earth!!!

God was the one created Earth and man, It would make ABSOLUTE no sense if God create earth then created man to create God if God was the one who made the man!!!

READ GENESIS 1 you will find the REAL truth!

38 days ago | Tagged As: GOD CREATED MAN
- banned999(136) Disputed
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WASN'T GENESIS CREATED BY MAN?

YOU ARE ASSUMING THAT GOD CREATED EARTH THEN MAN. WHAT IF EARTH WAS NOT CREATED BY GOD AND THAT GOD WAS JUST THE CREATION FROM THE IMAGINATION OF MEN?

38 days ago | Tagged As: MAN CREATED GOD
- veronica(44) Disputed
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Look everybody, we have an evolutionist. He believes that the Earth just happened to show up revolving around the sun after a 'big bang' happened... which begs the question... where did the bang and the primortial soup and everything that you can come up with that happened first where did all of that come from?????? Genesis is the first book of the Bible written by Moses, a man on the Earth. God spoke to Moses and told him what to write. Moses wrote what God spoke to him, so the author is God. ~! V

20 days ago | Tagged As: GOD CREATED MAN
- Kinda(380) Disputed
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Bullshit. Not just that Genesis is bollocks, but also your argument. You're assuming everybody thinks that God created the earth. ONLY those people believe God created man. However those who think God created the earth also think God created man. Do not mix the two up (which is what you just did)

38 days ago | Tagged As: GOD CREATED MAN
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god is omnipresent and omnipotent and we even believe. first of all i don't know why you have this doubt because if man had created god then why can't we able to see him?so it is god who created man.

34 days ago | Tagged As: GOD CREATED MAN
- dacey(35) Disputed
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If this is the case then for all of the faith you have in your god and for what you believe it to be why do you call it a him? Bcause nothing to see, but LIFE itself, is enough for me to see that man created god.and if you believe jesus will come again then expect to find him in a mental ward.just imagine some long haired dude wrapped in a sheet popping up out of no where proclaiming to be the lord in this day n age.As for how omnipresent and omnipotent you claim this god/creator of all things, to be,begs the questions?why create and ignore such a hostile enviroment.why not omit the evil,why punish a world of misguided uninformed peoples that have been divided into such varied degrees of existence.why allow for sin only to allow for forgiveness ,why allow for hate only to allow for love why announce one god but allow for all gods? I can keep going but why allow myself to be condemned as blasphermous.

15 days ago | Tagged As: MAN CREATED GOD
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Yes, God created man. It says it planely in Genesis. On the sixth day of Creation, God took the dust of the earth, fashioned it as Himself, and breathed the breath of life into him... Adam. From then on, man duplicated himself thru babys. ~! V

20 days ago | Tagged As: GOD CREATED MAN
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How would Man create God? He is all powerful and mighty. God created man, Genesis 1:27

39 days ago | Tagged As: GOD CREATED MAN
- simsoy(8) Disputed
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well that would mean that people invented the idea of there being a God.

16 days ago | Tagged As: Neither
- dacey(35) Disputed
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just as they have created umm everything else through thier imagination!

15 days ago | Tagged As: MAN CREATED GOD
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what makes man different from his fellow organisms on earth?

curiosity.

the search for knowledge,technology,and answers.

from the beginning of man`s, we were searching for answers about life`s greatest mysteries.

when we looked up in the sky, when we tried to find order in the world that was all we knew,it was answers that we were looking for.

in those times, we didn't have what is now called "science".

the smartest were those who spoke well and were very charismatic.

and we called these men prophets.

some of them did things that science could explain partly.

but, back then it was magic.take a car back to the bible and it is magic. but we were not satisfied. we wanted to know the source of this magic and use it.

and so along history,some if not a small part of those we called prophets, used our curiosity.

they told us stories,and myth,that made us shake.

they told us how to reach for the source of what we used to call magic.and each had a different story.some of them manipulated us, trying to make us work for them,worship their philosophy.and surprisingly,we still do.in the middle ages you would pay the priest for redemption.

most and worst of all, they promised us one more thing:

the thing we wanted most of all, hope.we were eager to find what is in the after-life, and they supplied the answers.they would show us the path for heaven, and surprisingly it would depend on us following their ways.we were manipulated.

and who ever not doing so, will go to the opposite place,to infinite suffer. check the sources, the idea of "hell" is not so ancient.hell was the answer. who wasn't affected by the hope for heaven, would be used with the fear to go to hell.

it was those religions that spread out the most. propaganda in the old times would go hand in hand with a sword and a religious book, all over history.

some say religion helped to make the world moral. we don't need heaven to be moral.we need to be moral for other,not because otherwise we will go to hell.you can be a full,moral person without religion.

we wanted god.we needed him for hope,and answers.they gave it to us.brutally. the answers that we looked for now partly exist. we call it science.we no longer need the idea of god.

22 days ago | Tagged As: MAN CREATED GOD
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Humans are animals on Earth just as fish and birds and mammals are. I don't understand why people think that there is something special about them that gives them the privilege to have a god to look after them. What separates humans from other animals is the ability to be creative, and therefore the ability to create god. Modern god/gods are completely imaginary just as the ancient Greek, Celtic, Egyptian, etc. gods where. Religion is simply a series of fairy tales made to explain what people didn't understand. The result: making up an invisible man to blame for everything you can't explain.

38 days ago | Tagged As: MAN CREATED GOD
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It is very likely that man created the concept of gods and other spiritual forces. Under no circumstance has the existence of a god or gods been backed by strong evidence or well-tested theory. The more specific the conception of a god, the more detailed the stories about what that god did or does, the less evidence there is to support the claims.

Even more so, scientific inquiry, experiments, and research have demonstrated that many claims are flat-out false.

Most people of a religious persuasion rely on the flimsiest of "evidence" or philosophical arguments to defend their beliefs. Almost in every case, the religious individual would never accept the same level or sort of evidence/arguments from another person defending their beliefs.

For instance, speaking with many on the question of their faith I have heard the same argument for why they believe what they believe: faith itself. They have "faith", they believe deep-down that it is true...therefore it is.

Now, who would ever accept such an argument when it doesn't pertain to their own beliefs? Also, they don't have much of an answer for when I ask the obvious follow-up: "What about the faith of opposing religions?"

All evidence points to "god" as a psychological construct. It's likely that the construct has helped many types of humans survive; an adaptation perhaps. People who believed in a god were more likely to survive, for whatever reason. That's why the concept is still around, the people who have a tendency to believe in it still exist.

At some point, though, people will probably grow out of the idea of god. The individuals who stubbornly cling to outdated beliefs that are no longer useful may find it difficult to adapt to an increasingly scientific and knowledge-based world. Whosoever does not buck religion may end up extinct.

35 days ago | Tagged As: MAN CREATED GOD
- dacey(35) Supported
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wow what a fantastic contribution.spot on in every degree.

15 days ago | Tagged As: MAN CREATED GOD
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neither it waas the big bang and then we evolved from other things (not aps they are a common ancester) so yeh

38 days ago | Tagged As: Neither
- banned999(136) Disputed
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WHEN I SAY DID MAN CREATE GOD, I DON'T MEAN PHYSICALLY CREATE A BEING KNOWN AS GOD, BUT RATHER WAS THE CHARACTER GOD CREATED FROM THE IMAGINATION OF HUMANS?

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION.

38 days ago | Tagged As: GOD CREATED MAN
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Here is an interesting question... for those who believe God was once a man (I know you're out there!)

If God was once a man, and the God of that man was once a man, who was the first man to become a God?

36 days ago | Tagged As: MAN CREATED GOD
- shorty8876(10) Disputed
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The Creator, The Father, God was never claimed to be a man, Jesus Christ was created by God as his son on earth. God in flesh, simply a form that man could interact with. Jesus Christ died on the cross and was resurected. The concept of a triune God is well documented. To claim the contents of scripture, you must take the time to research the subject. I urge you to read the Bible as a publication, you may find it fascinating and educational.

20 days ago | Tagged As: GOD CREATED MAN
- perspective1(68) Supported
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Its all about communication dude. I NEVER claimed to believe in that... IN FACT I was trying to DISPROVE that God was once a man. Learn to communicate.

16 days ago | Tagged As: GOD CREATED MAN
- dacey(35) Disputed
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no. jesus was born to mary and joseph. jesus was then used as a tool in a cruel game of chinese whispers.

15 days ago | Tagged As: MAN CREATED GOD
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man created god. not only as a way to gain rulership and power but also as a scapegoat for the benefit of their own conscience.As far as the bible goes, it is just another book . this applies to all religions

15 days ago | Tagged As: MAN CREATED GOD
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taking into consideration that each religion believes in its own god, how come the christian god is known as god but all other religions gods have names;considering the word god, according to the dictionary,quote, GOD,n[ME.god,godd;AS.god,god;akin to L.G.god;M.H.G.got;Ice.godh;Sw.gud;Dan.gud;Goth.guth,god. The word is common to teut. toungues,but not identified outside off them.It was generally in plural, and neuter.It was applied to heathen deities and later,when the teutonic peoples were converted to christianity,the word was elevated to the christian sense.There is no conection between god and good in form, nor was the conception of goodness prominent in the heathen conception of a deity]

15 days ago | Tagged As: MAN CREATED GOD
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A simple story. No need for the meandrine moonshine of 'erudite intelligentsia'. Just take yourself back in time & examine unvarnished facts.

Please acknowledge that the primitive mind was bound to generate quite naturally, mythological imagery of an Elysian nature. Also, one must accept that the relative ignorance of early humans, coupled with understandable fears of the unknown, provided those individuals seeking power over their fellows (a natural human trait) with the conditions to set up as Medicine -Men - Witch-Doctors - Sorcerers & Soothsayers etc, all claiming to have insights & contact with a 'Power' - of sorts. So began the blight of Shamanism.

As time unveiled the past, these facts have not been fully appreciated, hence the ensuing rash of Religiosity has not been branded for what it really is - an early conceive, of ignorance & apprehension, perpetuated through millennia by impostors - preying on credulous naivety.

The natural process of evolution, via many devious pious paths, has now landed us with the present crop of Archbishops - Ayatollahs - Rabbis - Popes - Imams - JWs plus a host of other hypocritical sect leaders, incessantly brainwashing the largely unthinking masses with their ridiculous & childish 'Holy Beliefs'.

The Billy Grahams of the World, gifted with gab & showmanship, use their 'bewitching powers' to prey on the gullibility of the artless.

Yes indeed, in modern form, the Witch Doctors are STILL at it. - Mountebanks all!

Supporting Evidence: What a Wonderful World (www.absurdbelief.info)
6 days ago | Tagged As: MAN CREATED GOD
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