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Originally Posted by Didums
You also have to remember that if the concept of God Is Not made up by Us, then the word of one of the world religions that believes their book Is the word of God is likely to be true (bad phrasing, my bad).
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Why are you making that connection? If God exists, then why assume that anyone here on Earth has the true/pure scoop on God? These two things don't follow.
Maybe humans want to make God into something they can understand, so in that way they "made God up" but what if God as God exists is not understandable by humans at our current level of perception and awareness. That's just one of endless possiblities.
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There is always the chance that there is a God figure that isn't bound to our definition of God and has never shown himself, but if God exists like that, then his existence means Absolutely Nothing.
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That doesn't follow either. For example: If God is the force making the protons and neutrons go round then that does affect us very much.
Also it's a mistake to turn away from religions totally because their symbolism can tell us so much about our own internal order, humans tend to project onto the cosmos what they are inside. Our religious mythologyis rich in detail about our inner beings. It is not meaningless.