Who came first, god or humans?

Question

What came first, did god create humans, or did humans create god?

it's a serious question, requieing serious answers: humans have always created religions and gods throughout time...and many of these religions said that thier gods created humans...so which came 1st->Humans or god?

Answer 1

I like these question, and all the wrong answers.

Humans created God out of a necessity to explain things in his environment that couldn't be explained.... lack of knowledge.

God = factor X or what I like to call the X factor.

Can't explain it God (X factor) did it.

See how simple their lives are now. No need to find the truth about anything.

Answer 2

God came first

Answer 3

GOD came 1st

read the Bible

Answer 4

humans, cause without humans there would be no gods

Answer 5

GOD  CAME   FIRST  CAUSE  HOW  WAS  THE  HUMANS  CREATED?

Answer 6

At this point in time that question has no absolute answer. It's all up to you to decide what you believe based on whatever criteria you choose. And we live with our decisions...and then we die...and if God created man, at that time you will find out for certain. And if man created god,  you are gone forever.

Answer 7

First off, if this is a serious question the first thing you need to do is learn how to SPELL, that is if you want a serious answer. Second, anthropologists have found remains of early modern humans reaching back as far as 100,000(+) years ago. These remains have been dated and analyzed by multiple scientists, meaning this is real physical evidence. The bible on the other hand states earth is 6000 years old which is totally incorrect and has no physical evidence (faith based). Therefore, humans existed before the supposed time of god. So, in other words humans created the idea of god or some sort of after life.

Answer 8

you will probably get a lot of flack over this but my own opinion, since you asked, is that humans invented gods to answer their basic questions & to blame when things just don't go their way.  it is a wonderful device to offset the unknown, create reasons for things happening when all other possible answers fail.  the scariest things on this earth are those things you can't see, like the future and beyond your horizons.  elaborate stories created down through the ages explains the unexplanable and having gods (male or female) takes the stress of providing answers for things you just can't explain away.

Answer 9

God created the heavens and the earth, he created all living things including humans so I would say the answer is God because there is no other.  I guess you can say there is one thing that is not created and that is God, he has always been.

Answer 10

Humans

Answer 11

God, and the earth, and he heavens, and everything that you see, and can,t see, That's a silly question, Man did not create himself

Answer 12

Humans created gods.  There are at least as many gods as there are groups of people, and all gods serve(d) a purpose in their time---they explain the unexplainable.

Answer 13

The Almighty God in heaven created humans.  Over time, humans have created their own gods, which are mainly everyday necessities for life.

Answer 14

It can either way.

Answer 15

i think we humans are going to create god,most probably we will be god.Our history is somewhat lets say 10.000 years old,think about the evolution in the past 100 years and try to imagine what we shall be in 10.000 years.

Answer 16

Humans created god or gods to explain natural phenomena not yet fully understood for the times.

Although logic and science have explained the origin of weather, the behavior of animals, the formation of mountains, etc. many peoples (both modern and the perceived "primitives") still cling to superstitions such as creation stories, the origin of soul, the result of death -- the myths that humans must bow to a creator that is either kind, punishing, or disinterested.

The mistake many religions make is spreading their beliefs. Historically and in modern times, it hasn't mattered if this missionary work has been applied kindly or literally tortured into the recipients. It has always created derision within groups, cultures, and countries.

As much as a group of people think they believe in the same doctrine and believe they're synapses are all firing in unison, that is a fallacy.

The concept of religion is personal and differs greatly within the group, whether they admit it or not.

That's human nature -- that's what got the mythical Adam and Eve kicked out of Eden -- independent thought.

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Answer 17

Genesis 1:26,27

Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Answer 18

A famous man once said:  if you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?  The answer is four because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.  Saying god created man, as so many have, does not make it so.

Man came first.

Happy hunting.

Answer 19

did you ever watch jurassic park?

God creates dinosaur, God kills dinosaur, God creates man, Man creates God, Man destroys God, man creates dinosaur

Answer 20

Try to imagine what "nothing" really means--no space, no atoms, no sun or stars, no anything.  Then try to imagine the big bang happening out of this nothingness.  Some force, call it what you will, was present at the moment of creation, or there would have been no creation.  Billions of years later, man appeared on the face of the earth.  Did this occur due to a freak accident?

What is it in man that makes all men invent God?  No matter where they live in isolated locations separated by mountain ranges, deserts, rivers or oceans they manage to come up with some version of a god or gods.  Did God design in all men an instinct that causes humankind to seek Him?  Why should we if He does not exist?  That would be a useless mechanism serving no purpose.                                                                  

Why would you ask this question if you and all these people who deny His existence really believe that there is no God?  If you don't believe in Him, then you don't have to worry about retribution.  As you grow older, you will not only believe in God, you will try in the last years of your existence to find Him.  It may be too late by then.  

You can't deny that evil exists.  We see proof of that daily on the evening news.  How then, can evil exist without its counterpart?  Look around you.  Note the perfection of God's creation.  It is man who is destroying it.  

God wants you to know Him.  He planted the seed to know Him within you.  Study and try to attain a highter understanding.  Don't dismiss God without first seeking to understand Him.  Take a philosophy course in college.  Hear what people wiser than you have to say.  Align your thinking with some of these philosophies and perhaps you will learn to see God in a perfect flower, your children, and in the workings of your own human body.   The universe functions like an exquisite clockwork.                                                                    

Don't make snap judgments.  Just because you can't accept the stories of creation is not proof that there is no God.  The Bible is resplendent with tales of people who lived to be 900 years old and who had children after the time they had reached old age.  These stories are exaggerations, and should be taken as moral lessons and allegories in order to guide us on the path of rightiousness.  

Fear God and try to live according to his precepts.  Respect other people and try to treat them as you would want to be treated.  

God is within us and at the same time exists throughout the universe.  He orders the laws by which the universe functions.                        

Science may one day be able to acually prove His existence complete with photos for the front page of the Sunday magazine.  In the meantime, take a  closer look at the world and its wonders.  We are not here by accident.  God came first.  

Now, all of you, go ahead and give me the most thumbs down, that's okay if I have made even one of you think for yourselves.

May the Force be with all of you.

Answer 21

humans came first.

they are many different gods and dieties. this goes to show that the human species is not even sure about there own roots. That they create stories to make it seem like they know where they came from when they really dont and then dont provide real evidence that supports it. and the bible isnt good evidence because its tampered evidence. people have edited and changed the bible alot through out history.

I agree that humans came 1rst and humans just dont know there roots so they create these ideas hoping to satisfy there everlasting curiosity. yet they are just lying to themselves with these gods and dieties and are interlorant when people question about the dieties and gods. The only real things are nature and science.These are things that no one can put up a good argument againts and see these two things everyday.

theres no denying that you dont see science or nature everyday at work.

Personally I hink one possible reason why religious people hate it when you question there beliefs even when provided with hard strong evidence and good reason with logic is because deep down, they are scared of feeling lost. And thats why i think alot of times people turn to religion. Because they dont want to feel lost.

Answer 22

lol this question is asking for controversy. It's really a matter of opinion. My personal opinion: I don't know. lol. From a logical standpoint, I would say that humans created God, because that makes more sense to me. However, I do believe that there is some kind of "force" that protects us, or chooses our destiny. I like to call it "fate"

Answer 23

Lower primates, Apes, Gorrillas, and Monkeys came first. Their species changed over time, or evolved and spread across the globe. Then Humans, without any other way to explain the world around them,  needed a creation story, to answer the age old question "where did we come from?" Most people can name their grandparents, fewer their great grandparents, even fewer their great, great, grandparents, and so on and so forth. We cannot name any prehuman ancestors, merely because they didn't have the intellect to write, let alone keep records. We are product's of our environment, you would be hard pressed to find a true christian in any muslim nation, and vice versa. There are bones of our earliest primate ancestors. Do youself a favor, and pick up a Molecular CELL Biology and Evolution Book, that is of course, if they allow science books in the convent.

Answer 24

God existed always, exist and will continue to exist when we are not a human race any longer.

God inspired the people he selected to tell a history of salvation. and Jesus a real historical figure that walked the earth like any other human being, also is God and while here confirmed the Bible stories. God is and always will be. It is a question of faith and also of reason. thinking is a very important part of believing as well as it is praying. God 1st human 2nd

Answer 25

Humans.

Humans created the idea of god.

Answer 26

Many atheist believe that we all came from a big explosion that came out of no where.

Answer 27

God came first.

Answer 28

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God.

All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be

through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race;



the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

A man named John was sent from God.

He came for testimony,  to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him.

He was not the light, but came to testify to the light.



The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.



He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him.

He came to what was his own, but his own people  did not accept him.

But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,

who were born not by natural generation nor by human choice nor by a man's decision but of God.

And the Word became flesh  and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father's only Son, full of grace and truth.