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God Created Man Man Created God
Debate Score:212
Arguments:183
Total Votes:219
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 God Created Man (91)
 
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Who Created Whom?

Flip a coin, it's your call



Did God create man, or did man create God?


God Created Man

Side Score: 105
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Man Created God

Side Score: 107
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3 points

It is widely accepted for 99.9% of Gods that they were created by man.

Side: Man Created God
3 points

Haha yeah. Its amazing that all religions agree on that fact.

Side: Man Created God
Melds(9) Disputed
2 points

All religions could be wrong; that doesn't affect whether a god exists or not.

Side: God Created Man
Melds(9) Disputed
2 points

Even if there were millions of false gods, that does not mean that there wasn't a god that did create man.

For example, look at a large lottery. You could say that millions of people bought a ticket and didn't win, but now you're jumping to the conclusion that no one won because there are so many losing tickets. That doesn't make sense.

Side: God Created Man
Cartman(18192) Disputed
2 points

Would you participate in the lottery if it had been going on for thousands of years and no one had ever actually won it?

Side: Man Created God
milovsky(23) Disputed
1 point

i like the lottery analogy, especially when the lottery has been described as a 'tax on stupidity.' Thats all religion is, smart people creating stories that allow them to persecute and capitalise on ignorant people

Side: Man Created God

Man did need a way to cope with what was going on around them.

Side: Man Created God
Melds(9) Disputed
2 points

How do you know? Did you ask early man personally?

Even so, this is not a direct argument for or against a god creating man. Even if early man synthesized their own god, that does not exclude the possibility they were still created.

Side: God Created Man

Someone down voted me ? Seems legit.

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Side: Man Created God
Melds(9) Disputed
1 point

Convincing argument.

There should really be a way to comment instead of calling everything an argument. :)

Side: God Created Man

It would be very fun to start building a God.

Mankind has expressed great need and urge to build huge buldings, massive spaceships, huge walls, huge lasors, indestructible materials and tank armour.

Mankind also desires to develop the technology to develop time travel, teleportation and mind reading, as well as creating objects out of nothing.

It's about time mankind starts building a GOD!

Side: Man Created God
3 points

It's about time mankind starts building a GOD!

I'd invest in that ONLY IF I could see a proper business model.

Side: Man Created God
2 points

I'd invest in that ONLY IF I could see a proper business model.

How much money would it take to build a God?

Side: God Created Man
ProLogos(2794) Disputed
2 points

It's about time mankind starts building a GOD!

They've already finished.

Here I am.

Side: God Created Man
1 point

They've already finished.

Here I am.

Are you actually going to debate?

Side: Man Created God
Melds(9) Disputed
1 point

This is not an argument. You should write a debatable position.

Side: God Created Man
1 point

This is not an argument. You should write a debatable position.

I was talking to ProLogos, not you.

Butt out.

Side: Man Created God

I think Gods live only so long as there are people who believe in them.

Side: Man Created God
Melds(9) Disputed
2 points

Only if they didn't exist to begin with. If they exist they would continue to whether or not someone believed in them. Your point is really that false gods only live as long as there are believers, but that isn't what this topic is about.

Side: God Created Man
IAmSparticus(1516) Clarified
1 point

Ever read American Gods by Neil Gaiman?

Side: God Created Man

No, I have not...........................................................................

Side: Man Created God
2 points

So many cultures through history had completely different explanations for God(s), believed in different temperaments and needs of God(s), justified their cultural behaviors by God(s) even though those mandates were as diverse as cutting a man's heart out or loving thy neighbor. It is germane to early human civilizations to try to explain that which they could not explain by creating religions. If indeed there truly is one God and s/he made everything and she shared that news with the world then s/he did a very inconsistent and crappy job of it. Furthermore, as immense as all of space is it's hard to believe a) one God made all of that, and b) that the importance of life on Earth has the central importance expressed in the religions of this world.

Side: Man Created God
1 point

So many cultures through history had completely different explanations for God(s), believed in different temperaments and needs of God(s), justified their cultural behaviors by God(s) even though those mandates were as diverse as cutting a man's heart out or loving thy neighbor. It is germane to early human civilizations to try to explain that which they could not explain by creating religions. If indeed there truly is one God and s/he made everything and she shared that news with the world then s/he did a very inconsistent and crappy job of it. Furthermore, as immense as all of space is it's hard to believe a) one God made all of that, and b) that the importance of life on Earth has the central importance expressed in the religions of this world.

Do you believe there is any evidence to support the existence of Christ?

Side: God Created Man
1 point

Indeed, I believe Jesus Christ lived and walked, and I believe he was a good man with good lessons. But I also believe the scriptures written many years after his death are at best paraphrasing what he said or what had happened and may be at worst the spin and public relations campaign of a fledgling church.

I also believe many other great people walked in other places and times around the world and contributed to some of the other religions that are out there.

The fact that most of these religions claim they're the only true way and the rest are wrong is telling.

And the fact that a God who cared so much as to send his only son did practically nothing to prove to the rest of the world what was correct is a sincere indictment on the omnipotence of God and/or the preeminence of the Christian message.

Side: God Created Man
Melds(9) Disputed
1 point

Regardless if a culture "needed" a god or not has no bearing if a god exists or not.

Announcing their presence and acts is not a requisite of creating man.

Your belief of the difficulty of creating the universe doesn't argue for or against a god.

The accuracy of world religions does not have any bearing on the creation of man. The universe could have been created by a god and all religions Could still get the details wrong.

Side: God Created Man
1 point

And that is true. Indeed a God could have done all this and the existing religions don't understand or explain it right. Could be.

Side: God Created Man
1 point

Of course God is man made. I should say... All gods are man made since there are thousands. The human homo sapien mind cannot tolerate two things... Thoughts of its own demise...and the idea that their life is random and the events of the world and their life is built upon randomness...and most things are without purpose. Ergo...meaningless. This is why we have superstition and religion and gods and conspiracy theories.

Side: Man Created God
Melds(9) Disputed
2 points

Of course man is god made. There are thousands of interpretations of the god that made the universe. The human mind is very flexible and can easily comprehend death and the cause and affect nature of the world.

I would continue, but you define your own interpretation of the universe then use this unsupported argument to say that life is meaningless and then use THIS unsupported point to explain why there is superstition, religion, and conspiracy theories.

Side: God Created Man