Did God Create Humans or Did we Create God?

 By Sicebise Msengana

 

Did God create humans or did we create God? As primitive homo sapiens, we became aware or conscious of our mortality around 300, 000 years ago. Which gave birth to many superstitions and religious beliefs that created a variety of deities/gods. 

In some cases, humans claimed to be the gods. Most of the times, it was a priest or king. It was a way of the monarchy or priesthood to rule over their people through divine right. Such examples include the Babylonians, Greeks, Germanic tribes, Aztecs, Mayans, Dai lama etc. 

As human civilisation flourished for tens of thousands of years and revolutions were born. The masses revolted and new gods were invented to counter human demigods or god incarnations. 

The renaissance in the 1500s led to the age of scientific revolution. Today's human beings are technological advanced than their prehistoric predecessors. Hence, our ancestors' gods were different from ours. Their gods were in physical form such as the sun, moon, humans, stars, statues, or anything that you see or touch. 

But modern gods are invisible. The new gods that were created are omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient and benevolent. Despite being all-powerful, all-knowing and everywhere but they are not seen. If God is so powerful and created everything in the mutliverse, then why he is incompetent to prove his existence? Prophets, evangelists, pastors and religious fanatics claim to be his messengers to persuade humanity to believe in him and his existence. But aren't the so-called messengers the same as the rest of us? If these messengers can speak and see God, then all humans can be capable to see and communicate with their creator. Why does he speak directly to every human being? Why does he need other human beings to convince other humans to believe in him when he could just display his existence to all of us? 

Abrahamic religions say God hid from humanity because of Adam and Eve's Rebellion in the garden of Eden. But God could have taken human form and performed his sacrificial death and resurrection immediately after the Fall. Why is his will thwarted and ruined by finite being beneath him? Why can't he stop evil and sin without resorting to death, bloodshed and mass destruction in order for his will to be done? 

Things didn't have to be this way. Can a normal person accept this? Does it make sense to believe this imperfect universe is glorious work of an all-knowing, all-powerful and all-present God? Maybe this imperfect and uncaring world is what it is, indifferent to us and sometimes cruel to us, and we cannot change that. But we keep telling ourselves that there's a God as means of coping with life's uncertainties and suffering.