Any believer or non-believer knows that when you read books about the history of different civilizations, ancient, medieval and modern, you recognize that they all have something in common: they all, in one way or another, worship some kind of deity or God with supernatural powers. This is where knowing that the God you are worshiping really exists is important if you want to know the truth about what the holy books say, like the Bible for Christians, the Koran for Muslims, and the Torah for Jews.
Whether God exists is a question that many have, some accept it as a truth product of faith, while others simply reject it on the grounds that there is no evidence to prove its existence. For me, if you want to know the real or imagined existence of a supernatural event or deity, it is enough to examine the origin of that belief and why people promote it.
Why do you know that God loves you?. How do you know that the Bible is the word of God?. Why do you believe in a deity with supernatural powers? . Is the god of Christians, Hindus and Buddhists the same god? What is the origin of the God you worship?. These could be some of the questions that we will try to answer in this video.
Is the God of all Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Protestantism) the correct one? Where do the Gods of the Greeks, the Semists, the Egyptians, the Mayans, the Incas, Animist and the African Yoruba really exist?
Is the God of all Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Muslim, Jewish and Protestant) the correct one?
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Trying to prove the existence of God, which only exists in people’s minds, is time that scientists do not waste. The job of science is not to prove whether God exists, neither does the person who is making this video, nor is it to prove whether unicorns exist or not.
Anthropology does not study the existence of God either, but the existence of beliefs, rituals, spiritual worship and religious traditions as part of the spiritual culture of peoples. Anthropologists studying the archaeological artifacts found in excavations of tombs of primitive populations conclude the existence of rituals associated with spirituality and the
worship of deities with supernatural powers.
When you analyze the different religious rituals associated with spirituality, you can only verify the existence of these beliefs, not the truth or falsity of what is being claimed. One thing is to accept the existence of a belief that alleges that God exists, and another thing is to accept as true what this belief is claiming as truth using faith or irrational thinking.
This is where theology as part of philosophy is the one who tries to explain the existence of God using subjective thought, personal experience, and faith to answer these questions. One of the big problems is that faith is not the best method to find the truth about whether or not God exists. Remember!! Faith is the acceptance of something as true when there is evidence to prove it.
Many believers when you ask them why they believe that God exists without evidence to prove it? The answers that many give you is because the Bible says so. When you ask them, how do you know that the bible is telling the truth without evidence to prove it? Many say that the Bible is the word of God. As you can see we are falling into a circular argument or Circular reasoning.
God exists because the bible says so and I believe in the bible because it was written by God. This is an example of a logical fallacy in which a person attempts to prove something using circular logic; they use the conclusion as evidence to show that the reasons for the very conclusion are true.
For you to understand the existence of any type of deity with supernatural powers such as God, it is only enough to find the origin of said belief about mystological figures to understand, if these deities really existed or are only the product of the magical thought of the people .
Where did the first beliefs in beings with supernatural powers or deities arise?
When and where did the different religious beliefs that we know arise? Finding the answers to these questions will give you an idea of the origin of God, but you will also understand the reasons why humans have to create deities with supernatural powers.
All the Gods that we all know through human history, as well as the rituals associated with the worship of spiritual entities, religious customs of the peoples, spiritual processions, religious dances associated with the afterlife, mystical narrations of events or supernatural figures, and the worship of deities with supernatural powers,
has its origin in the magical thinking of people as a product of ignorance about events around them, which produce fear or are unknown, and superstitious behavior as a strategy to try to control those forces or imaginary deities considered supernatural.
To understand if these deities with supernatural powers really exist, we must understand the spiritual behavior of the people, to have a much clearer idea about the reason behind the creation of deities with supernatural powers, as is the case with all the gods that believers worship At this time, but also to understand the origin of spirituality in the first place.
To understand if God exists or does not exist, we must understand from a historical perspective the origin of many gods. Some people consider that the origin of many gods or deities associated with Christianity, Judaism and Islam, we have to know a little about the history of spirituality of the semist peoples,
who were believers in the Canaanite Religion, were the father of many gods, around seventy in total, among the most important were Baal Raman (Hadad), Yam , Mot and Dagan, which have similar attributes to the gods Zeus, Poseidon or Ophion, Hades or Thanatos, among others.
The Canaanites who lived in the ancient Mediterranean Levant from at least the early Bronze Age to the first centuries of the Christian Era. The god EL, is described as tolerant and benign: he receives the titles of “The supreme”, “The powerful”, “God of gods”, “King”, “Father”, “The creator of all”, “kind”, “merciful”.
The worship of the god El was typical of the Canaanite peoples in the 22nd century BC. C. Then it would spread among Assyrians and Babylonians. He was the main deity, the king, creator of all things, the judge who dictated what both men and gods should do.
Both the Greek gods, the Egyptians, the Hebrews and the God of the Abrahamic religions, from my point of view have their genesis in the Canaanite religion, during the Archaic Dynastic Period (2900 BC). The ancient Hebrews had lived in Egypt under the influence of the worship of El.
Those gods permeated the life of the people (according to Ezekiel 20:8). Once in the Promised Land, the Hebrews were surrounded by peoples who worshiped the same god El-Il-Dagan and his son Baal-Hadad-Hammon.
Some of you may wonder, why am I talking about Semitic Gods?
That perhaps gives you an idea of the real origin from a historical perspective of the origin of Abraham’s God. To understand if a God exists or does not exist, knowing the history of the emergence of these gods gives you a much more precise idea of the existence of God, which only exists in the minds of those who worship these deities with supernatural powers.
All the gods ((Christians, Jews, Islam, Protestant, Buddha, India, Norse or Vikings, Celts, Romans to name a few) and those that we know and worship right now are just replicas of ancient gods of the past which were adapted to the spiritual culture of peoples, who are the product of the process of cultural appropriation,
by incorporating these deities from other cultures into their religious culture as part of their religious rituals. The god of the Jews could have its origin in the Canaanite religion. The god of Christians, Muslims, evangelicals and Protestants could have its origin in the God of the Jews.
Therefore the God of the Christians could have its origin in one of the Gods of the religion of the Canaanites or Semites who were polytheists, but, also monotheists. If you want to know if a God exists, try to know the origin of that deity by knowing the spiritual rituals of the peoples who created these gods as a symbol of protection, prosperity, power, knowledge, fertility and control of the supernatural world.
The same power that the gods of ancient Greece had over the believers during that time, today all the gods (Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindu, Buddhists to name a few) that we know right now have and have millions of believers. Just as all the Greek, Mayan, Inca, Roman and African gods or deities became part of the mythological culture of these peoples, you can be sure that the Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and Indian gods will also become part of the Mythology culture of those people too in the future.
Knowing a little from the point of view of anthropology, theology, philosophy and the need for humans to create deities to control the unknown, product of magical thinking which is part of their mental structure. Do not be surprised if in the future new deities with supernatural powers are created to try to explain the unknown and the events that as a human we cannot explain, much less control.
When science cannot explain the origin or cause the certain events, objects, formations, forces in the universe and natural phenomena on earth, many people with magical thinking, introduce some kind of deity as the reason behind this event unknown to science.