When man invented god, did he have could intentions or did he start out to control his tribe using religion?
439419
I don't believe the concept of god was invented as a conspiracy.  It simply evolved from the anthropomorphization of ancient astronomy.
136429
Man created god. In our own image. And wrote the bible as well.
527461
God would not do that. Men created religions and it is the word of men that you quote, NOT GOD.
585915
I think that all Mythological Gods (especially the Biblical GOD) are Metaphoric representations of elements that are extermely important to the Human condition. I guess it is also possible that many Mythological Gods were attempts of Humans to focus their Mentay or Spiritual powers in hopes of gaining control over the Earth or the Sun or the Sea or anything else they wanted to control. I suppose either would be possible, but I doubt any of them are real people.
1134747
If god created us in his image ? He must have been pretty confused . He did not get it right as we are all different.Most of us are ugly and decrepit and crazy Maybe that's why there are so many gods and religions ? Man a god like creature. NEVER
264120
Men created gods and goddesses to explain the things he couldn't understand. As men evolved and learn ways to understand what was going on around him, the need lessened for deities. But even after all of these years, most of us still haven't let go those beliefs in things greater than ourselves. It's in our nature. Call it faith if you will. It may be right, or it may be wrong, but it is still what we personally choose to believe in.
365725
The latter seems much more plausible. Man has made a lot or gods.
882031
It depends what you mean. If you mean when did people start to worship a God or Goddess, then evidence of early pagan religions have been found in cave paintings! So a long long long time ago\n\nEDIT: Just thought if you mean when did organised religion start, I know that Egyptian civilization can be traced back as far as 5000 bc ish, I think that when the very early form of their religion came into being. Not sure if theres any that are older.
717172
Religion is a mental virus, coined "meme" by Richard Dawkins.  It was not created intentionally by men, but rather, is the product of the way our minds work.  \n\nHumans spread ideas to eachother, so an idea that tends to replicate itself, begins to evolve just like any other replicator.  Religion started by ancient men noticing that the sun brought forth life, and that the stars could be used to determine the seasons for agriculture, herd migration, etc.  Over time, the sun came to be seen as a sentient being, and the star formations as well.  These became gods and all the worlds ancient religions evolved from these primitive concepts.\n\nTo the extent there is any truth within any religion, it's incidental.  The successful religions are those that have outcompeted others in spreading themselves.
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First God was the Sun, Then God evolved into being a Woman (during Egyptian Culture aka: Goddess). Then God evolved into being an Idol (Paganism), Then around the time that Judaism got it's start God evolved in being a Man. God is whatever religion says  God is, Religion has the power to make God into a corn muffin if they so desire. Who has the power to go against the Global Religions? No one.
726142
God wasn't created.  He evolved from Apes.
1117433
Both. God made man, man forgot God, man uses God as a convenient excuse for his desires/actions.
934100
God was created (by) the first man to think of him.
707293
Who made the world?  God\n\nHow he control this?  His Creation, or plain.
57685
Every human person is endowed with a spiritual soul, with intellect and with free will. Man is rational and therefore like God; he is created with free will and is master over his acts. \n\nGod created man in his image and established him in his friendship. A spiritual creature, man can live this friendship only in free submission to God. The prohibition against eating "of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" spells this out: "for in the day that you eat of it, you shall die." The "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" symbolically evokes the insurmountable limits that man, being a creature, must freely recognize and respect with trust. Man is dependent on his Creator, and subject to the laws of creation and to the moral norms that govern the use of freedom. \n\nAlthough set by God in a state of rectitude man, enticed by the evil one, abused his freedom at the very start of history. Man, tempted by the devil, let his trust in his Creator die in his heart and, abusing his freedom, disobeyed God's command. He lifted himself up against God, and sought to attain his goal apart from him. By his sin Adam, as the first man, lost the original holiness and justice he had received from God, not only for himself but for all human beings.
981566
Science, like god, was invented by several men over the thousands of years.
1104910
religion is a man made way of controlling the masses and god, in any format, was invented by man not the other way around so there will be no punishment for disbelieving