Is God a Man-Made Invention?

I run across people who refuse to believe that there is a God. To them, the Bible is just a man-made book of stories. They ask questions like "if you believe in Jesus, then do you believe in Santa Claus too"? It's all the same to them.

Well, I want to ask a question too.

Lets say, for the sake of argument, that the Bible is a made-up book of stories only. Lets say that man, to satisfy his need to answer the question of life and existence, etc, made up the Bible, and of course made up the God that we find written of in the Bible.

My question is this: Why would man ever make up a God like this?

What do I mean? Well, take a look at the way man is in his heart, his mind, his attitude, his desires, his will, his imagination etc. When man creates, he creates according to what's in his mind, his imagination, his will, and his desires, etc. Man tends to fantasize about things he wants for himself.

My point is, man fulfills his own need for religion with a god after man's own image and likeness, doesn't he? Man want's a god that will allow man to do what he wants, without any sort of punishment or accountability (I'm not talking here about people who know and believe the truth). Man wants a god that will fulfill man's desires, like a great genie, granting man's wishes. Does this make sense? Why wouldn't man want a god like that?

But what kind of god do we find in the Bible? Is it a god who does all that man wishes? No. Is it a god who allows man to do whatever he wants and its OK? No.

We find in the Bible a God who does not fit the natural desires of man at all. We find a God who does His own will and commands and requires man to follow His way, not man's way. This God punishes man for his evil. This God is infinitely Holy! Why would man ever create or dream up a god like the God of the Bible? He wouldn't! That's my point. This God goes against the nature of man, and places demands and requirements on man that natural man cannot and will not fulfill. This God tells man that man's natural desires are evil! This goes against the very sort of thing man would dream up if he were to create a god.

If man came up through evolution, and there was no God to tell him what holiness was or what sin was, etc, then how would man ever come up with such concepts? Nothing would be sin. Nothing would be wrong. Man would just live according to his desires of the moment, like animals. The concept of right and wrong shouldn't even come into the mind of man, as there would be nothing to base it on, and man, questioning existence, etc would most likely invent a god based on man's own likeness and nature.

If you were to invent a god to believe in and follow, would he be like the God of the Bible? Would he have the exact same attributes that this God has? Would your god give man commandments to obey like the ones we find in the Bible? What would your god be like?

I just don't see how there couldn't be a God, for one thing. But also, as I look at the God of the Bible, I realize (only by God's grace) that this kind of God would not be the invention of man, because He does not fit with what man, by [his sinful] nature, wants or desires. I conclude that this God is the real and true God (The only True and living God), who interacts with man, and He revealed Himself actually and truly to man, in history. We have this revelation of God today in the Bible.

The Bible is therefore true and must be obeyed, because God commands it. The Bible is not some man-made story book, but rather the very self-revelation of the very God who literally created all things, including man!

Evolution: "So Easy, A Caveman Can Do It."

Somehow, people find it so easy to believe in a theory of unguided, purely natural events which, over supposed billions of years caused man to come about from a single-cell organism which, prior to its own existence, didn't exist.

How can this be? Can anyone with any sense in their head, even if their not Christians, honestly look at the amazing complexity of the human body, and still believe that there was no Creator? How can it be that each and every cell in our body has a purpose, and each and every part of each and every cell has a purpose for the functioning of life, and yet it somehow came about by chance, random mutations?

Hmmm... As far as I'm concerned, it simply is not possible.

If believing in creation requires faith, then how about this "theory" called evolution? It's not actually proven, even though the claim is that it has been. We've been taught this idea since we were children in our public schools and we dare not question it.

I would like to invite my readers to a page which gives the other perspective: http://answersingenesis.org/creation/v22/i1/creation.asp

Please read this article and come back here and comment on it.

God Bless!

chinam