How did God come into being on earth? How did the Greek gods originate?

Don Baten

This question is not logical.

"So who created God?" This question is one of the main arguments put forward by atheists to justify their unbelief. Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), famous British philosopher, in his highly influential essay titled " Why am I not a Christian put forward this question as his first argument. Modern atheists echo this argument - including Richard Dawkins (" Illusion of God”), as well as the Australian scholar Philip Adams, who in 2010 at the World Congress of Atheists in Melbourne, Australia, stated:

“The biggest argument in favor of the existence of God is that there was some kind of Creation, a beginning ... But it is easy to refute this argument. If God was in the beginning, then who gave rise to God?”

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If it is necessary to prove that the Creator God was created by another creator, then one more creator who created the creator will be needed - and this gives rise to the effect of an endlessly falling domino.

The universe had a beginning, practically no one argues with this, since the laws of thermodynamics require it: the universe is depleted, but it could not always be depleted, after all, in this case, by now it would have been depleted completely. The stars would not radiate their energy and we would not be here.

Some have suggested that one universe gives birth to another, but again, there cannot be an endless series of such births and deaths, since for each such cycle there must be less and less energy available for work, and if this continued forever, the death of everything would have come long ago.

The beginning should have been

One of the proven principles of logic/science/reality is the principle of causality: everything that has a beginning must have proper cause. This principle does not say that "everything has a reason". Bertrand Russell mispronounced it. No, the principle is: "Everything that has a beginning there must be a proper reason". And just a minute of reflection will confirm this conclusion - that which has no beginning does not need a reason. Moreover, the reason must be proper or adequate. The words "You were found in the cabbage" are not a proper explanation for your existence.

This principle of causality is so fundamental that if I said that the chair you are sitting in must have had a beginning, but appeared for no reason, you would probably think that I need psychiatric help.

Modern atheists, who love to use the words "rational", "justified" and "scientific" to describe their beliefs, believe that the greatest of all beginnings - the beginning of the universe - had no reason! Some of them admit that there is some problem with this, but argue that the explanation "God made her" does not explain anything, because God himself must be explained. However, how justified is this argument?

What could have been the origin of the universe?

The cause of the universe had to be non-material, because if this cause were material/natural, it would be subject to destruction, like the universe itself. This means that the beginning would have to lie in itself, and here you face the same problem as in the theory with the cycles of births and deaths of the universes. So, the cause of the beginning of the universe had to be supernatural, i.e. non-material, spiritual - the reason that is abroad space-matter-time. Such a cause should not be subject to the law of decay/smoldering, and therefore it should not have a beginning. So, the reason should have been eternal in spirit.

Moreover, the cause of the universe would have to be incredibly powerful; huge scale and energy, which we observe in the universe, and this reason should have been proper/sufficient.

To me, all these descriptions are reminiscent of the God of the Bible. The Bible describes God the Creator of the universe as:

1. eternal
   Before the mountains were born, and You formed the earth and the universe, and from everlasting to everlasting You are God. (Psalm 89:3)
2. omnipotent
   Yours, O Lord, is the majesty, and the might, and the glory, and the victory, and the magnificence, and everything [that] is in heaven and on earth, [is Yours]: Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom, and You are above all, as the Sovereign. And wealth and glory are from Your presence, and You have dominion over everything, and in Your hand is strength and might, and it is in Your power to magnify and strengthen everything. (1 Chronicles 29:11-12)
3. spiritual (intangible)
   God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24)

Note that the Bible says: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). Here God created time itself. It could only be created by the One who is beyond time, who is not subject to time or eternal.

So asking who created God or where did this Eternal God, who has no beginning, come from is like asking "Who is this bachelor married to?". This question is irrational. The Bible corresponds to reality, and this is not surprising if you think about the fact that the Bible was given to us by the Creator Himself.

Two"great beginnings" for no reason!

People who deny the existence of a Creator are not only forced to believe that matter appeared for no reason, but also in the fact that she herself a life arose for no good reason. Even the simplest single-celled organism is incredibly complex. A simple bacterium is full of incredibly complex nano-mechanisms that it needs to maintain life. A single cell needs more than 400 different proteins for the functioning of mechanisms that are absolutely necessary for its life. How could these protein-based mechanisms have arisen by themselves, even with all the necessary components (20 different amino acids, each of which is presented in large quantities)? For every protein to function, the amino acids, which often number in the thousands, need to be linked together in the right order.

Just think about the one major mechanism that copies pieces of DNA to create each of the proteins. Let's take just one protein component of this mechanism, which is less than 10%. This protein consists of 329 amino acids. What is the probability that this protein came about by chance, even assuming that all the necessary and only correct ingredients were available? Let's calculate it like this: 1/20 x 1/20 x 1/20 ... and multiply by 329!6 The probability is 1 in 10428 ... that's one followed by 428 zeros! Even if every atom in the universe (1080 is a number with 80 zeros) were an experiment for every possible molecular vibration (1012 per second) over the estimated evolutionary age of the universe (14 billion years = 1018 seconds), that would allow "everything » for 10110 experiments - and this is much less than the amount required for there to be at least a small chance for the formation of this single protein - they no longer talk about the other 400 proteins necessary for this process.

We admire the scientists who are discovering nano-technologies in living things - and this is really an amazing branch of science. But what then should we say about the One who created all this? How big is He in His mind?

Not surprisingly, Richard Dawkins acknowledges that scientists may never know how life could have come about through natural processes. However, he rejects the creation theory for the erroneous reason discussed above.

What is the proper reason for explaining the origin of life? This reason must be incredibly reasonable - far beyond our understanding of the mind. We admire the scientists who are discovering nano-technologies in living things - and this is really an amazing branch of science. But what then should we say about the One who created all this? How big is he in his mind? And this question reminds me of another characteristic of God that the Bible says He is omniscient. Cm. Psalm 139:2-6, Isaiah 40:13-14.

Looking at God's creations, we know enough about the Creator to be "unanswerable". Romans 1:18-22 says:

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth with unrighteousness. For what can be known about God is clear to them, because God has shown them. For His invisible, His eternal power and Divinity, from the creation of the world through the consideration of creations are visible, so that they are unanswerable. But how, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, and did not give thanks, but became vain in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened; professing to be wise, they became fools."

And here in the Bible it is explained why people chose to believe in impossible things - that first the universe, and then life on it, arose without any adequate reason. They decided, without any logic, to accept that their two "great beginnings" had no good reason, instead of recognizing and glorifying their Creator.

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You live in a material universe that is made up of energies that vibrate within a certain spectrum. Your physical senses are only capable of perceiving the lowest range of this spectrum, namely the material or physical universe. Your conscious mind, your conscious self, has the ability to tune into and experience higher levels than can be perceived by the senses. Above this physical spectrum are emotional energies, above them are mental energies, and even higher is the level of identity.

When you go beyond the four levels of the material universe, you reach the lowest level of the spiritual realm. There are many spiritual Beings in this realm. Some of them are the Beings who created the material universe, including the planet Earth. Their common name is Elohim, the plural of God's name used in the Old Testament. Some of the spiritual Beings have taken physical incarnation but have now ascended back into the spiritual realm. When you balance all karma, resolve all false beliefs by putting on the mind of Christ, and achieve your original purpose of coming to Earth, you too can become an ascended Being, or an ascended master.

After ascension, you become a spiritual or immortal Being, which means you don't have to come back to incarnate on Earth. You then have two options. You may choose to continue your personal growth as you progress through the various levels of the spiritual realm until you reach the highest level of consciousness commonly referred to as Divine Consciousness. Jesus said, “You are Gods” (John 10:34) because you have the potential to reach the fullness of God consciousness. Your second option is to temporarily put aside your own growth for the sake of service, helping those on Earth who have not yet ascended. You then become a spiritual teacher for unascended beings. Jesus, Krishna and Buddha are the most famous examples of such teachers.

As you progress through the levels of the spiritual realm, you will eventually reach the highest level of the world of form. The Mother Light here has the highest vibration. If you rise above this level, you will reach the Being who created the world of form. Most religions call him the supreme God or Creator.

Most religions teach that there is nothing outside the Creator. However, if this is true, then where did the Creator himself come from? In fact, there is a level above the Creator, namely, the one that is called the Absolute. The reason this level is unknown to most people is because there are no words, images, or even concepts in the material realm that can describe the Absolute. In fact, while you are on Earth, you do not have the opportunity to fully comprehend the state of consciousness that exists in the Absolute. The reason for this will soon become clear.

There are self-conscious, intelligent Beings in the Absolute, but they do not see themselves as separate from each other or from God. They know that they are God, manifestations of God, because there is a clear understanding in the Absolute that everything is a manifestation of God. In the Absolute there is only one God and many manifestations of the One. The illusion that someone or something can be separated from God is not possible in the Absolute. Beings in the Absolute cannot form a sense of identity as separate Beings and have not experienced anything that is separate from the Absolute - for truly nothing can exist outside of all that exists.

The beings in the Absolute decided that it made sense to create a world where separation was possible. Thus, a person could start with a very limited sense of identity as a separate being. Then he could grow in self-consciousness until he reached the consciousness of the Absolute. This Being could then enter the Absolute with an understanding of what it is like to feel separated from Him, which represents b about greater value for the Absolute.
The Being who created the world of form in which you live was once one of the Beings in the Absolute. This Being volunteered to temporarily separate from It and create – out of its own Being and consciousness – a world that seems to be separated from the Absolute. In this world, there may be separate forms that do not look like manifestations of the One God. In addition, individual beings may live there without the conscious knowledge that they are manifestations of the one God.

These beings may then begin with a limited sense of identity and self-awareness, thinking they are separate from their source, from each other, and from the world in which they live. As they gradually rise to higher levels of consciousness, they will eventually gain the ability to see the oneness of all life. Then they can either enter the Absolute in the fullness of Divine consciousness, or become the Creators of other worlds of form. However, until such a being reaches the level of Divine consciousness, it is simply not able to comprehend the Absolute. Obviously, you are one of the beings that was created with limited self-awareness, but with unlimited potential to expand it. This expansion of self-awareness is the main purpose of the creation of the world of form. Thus, this is the universal goal of life.

The ancient Greek gods often took on a human form and lived in a society similar to a human. They were subject to ordinary emotions and too often interfered in people's lives for their own benefit. The essential difference between gods and men was only that the former were immortal. Each Greek city-state had its own chief god or pantheon of gods, and depending on the location of the city-state, the characteristics of the gods could vary widely.

It is difficult to trace, since there are several myths about the creation of the world. But, as a rule, it is customary to give the laurel branch of recognition in this matter to the Greek poet Hesiod, who lived in the eighth century BC and wrote Theogony - the genealogical epic "The Birth of the Gods", explaining their origin.

Greek gods as a creation myth

According to Hesiod, the process of the creation of the world and the emergence of the gods was as follows: from the unknown universe, out of nowhere, the god Chaos (emptiness) appeared, which became the basis of everything - the basis of creation, birth, creativity. Chaos was so infinitely powerful, magnificent and fruitful that it pulled out of itself several creatures - its children: Gaia - who became the goddess of the earth and the basis of everything that exists, Tartarus - the god of the abyss and nothingness, the twins Eros and Anteros - the god of love and carnal desire and the god of denial love, Erebus - the god of darkness and Nyx - the goddess of the night.

Gaia was so attractive and beautiful that the insidious Eros, the only one who did not have his own children in the highest divine pantheon, did everything to arouse the father's desire for his own daughter.

From the union of Chaos and Gaia, the heavenly god Uranus was born, personifying the masculine principle, and then a whole host of titans: three hundred-armed giant monsters with fifty heads and three one-eyed cyclops monsters, all of them Uranus forever exiled to his uncle Tartarus, and only the following six sons and the same number of daughters remained with Gaia: Oceanus, Coy, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Chronos, Fairy, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Tefeya and Phoebe.

The most cunning of them was Chronos (the god of time). It was his mother Gaia who persuaded him to avenge the children who had been cast into oblivion. It was he who overthrew his father from the pedestal and became the ruler of the world, and then he himself, having married his sister Rhea, became the father of many children, whom he devoured one after another.

Only one of the newborns of the inconsolable Rhea managed to be saved by deceit - it was Zeus. And it was he who subsequently took revenge on his father, releasing the brothers and sisters swallowed by Chronos, but thereby unleashing one of the first and terrible wars in heaven and on earth - the war with the titans at Mount Olympus. In this war, the sky collapsed to the ground and it trembled and groaned with horror and grief, the ocean overflowed its banks and threatened everything in its path, the mountains collapsed, and even Olympus nearly opened up and capsized into Tartarus.

The era of the victorious gods

It was the children of Zeus who became his saviors, lovers, enemies and comforters. They helped him defeat the titans and establish power on Olympus, dividing the spheres of influence between numerous relatives: so the brother of Zeus Poseidon began to rule the seas, and Hades the underworld (the world of the dead).

Since the children of Chaos had bred before and tirelessly, then, in the end, each of them found his own business. His children Nyx (darkness) and Erebus (night) had many children, among them: Ether (light) and Hemera (day), Somn (death) and Mor (sleep, doom), Eris () and Nemesis (vengeance), Geras (old age), Charon (ferryman in the realm of the dead), three furies - Alecto, Tisiphon, Megaera - and several nymphs of the Hesperides.

They, and numerous children of Zeus from three wives, seven official mistresses, dark and dark lovers, began to rule the world. Since there were many of them - that is, a lot - and they all had, to put it mildly, a difficult disposition, wars and strife between them did not subside, falling from time to time on mortals - people. From which, by the way, children were also born to the gods - demigods who performed their feats, enjoying life, falling in love and fighting for love, glory, and simply because they could not help but fight.

By creating their myths, marrying, breeding and sending the most passionate god-heroes to Hades, the ancient Greeks thereby created an integral divine family, where everyone was relatives and did not tolerate "strangers" - but only on the original land of the Hellenes. Conquering other territories, to the colonial lands, the Greeks willingly introduced new ones to the divine pantheon - local gods, connecting them with

The question is abstract, and the answer will be the same. In the sense - "Any physical theory ... is just a hypothesis that cannot be proven." Art. Hawking. So, here is my theory, not everything, but only the answers to your questions. Being, as a way of existence of the world, cannot be created, as well as God - they are absolute, i.e. not dependent on anything, are a thing in itself. Our Universe is a different matter, and its existence can be called recursion, i.e. this phenomenon is constantly created, initiated just by God. "The Big Bang can be considered the beginning of time, in the sense that earlier times are simply... undefined." Art. Hawking. I believe that B.V. it's just a convention, a metaphor for the next "creation" of our world. How it really is, we will never know. And our world is created each time with a specific purpose, "under the mind", it is conditioned by this and there can be no other, but this is already a moot point. And because of recursion, our world cannot have the crazy dimensions that we attribute to it. We observe all the wonders of deep space on the borders of our world, in the zone of formation of its matter. Well, the observed must be named and defined somehow, hence all these fairy tales about Black holes, singularities and so on.

"The final work of the late theoretical physicist (St. Hawking) says that the process of expanding outer space has clearly stopped, and the Universe has reached its maximum size. In the last years of his life, the researcher was convinced of the existence of a boundary beyond which the Universe ends. And beyond this boundary , they say, there is an absolute void in which there is neither light, nor matter, nor space, nor even time. Here he was mistaken, emptiness cannot be absolute, outside our Universe there is ABSOLUTE Existence (whatever you want to call it, ether, apeiron, nothing changes from this. I call it "primary matter"). So God is the FUNCTION of this absolute thing, it is not an object, not a subject, much less a thinking being. This is one of the PROPERTIES of the absolute. Which constantly creates our world. Perhaps this is a necessary condition for the absoluteness of the World, here one can fantasize. "Unfortunately, the human mind is not able to fully comprehend the concept of such a void, but we can make assumptions about what it is and what laws it obeys."

"The scientist suggested that there were a great many Big Bangs, they all happened at the same time, and each of them gave rise to a separate world." - here Hawking is also mistaken, and specifically that the infinity of separate worlds "occurred simultaneously." We can think so, but given the properties of the absolute (hypothetical) - the absence of time - for us, the time between the creation of universes may seem like an instant, or maybe billions of years, the absolute doesn't care. In general, my theory is set out in the book "The Theory of Everything That Is Not", it is in the networks, everything is detailed there. (By the way, with its help you can explain almost all the mysteries of our world) ...

Who is God the Father is still a topic of discussion among theologians around the world. He is considered the Creator of the world and man, the Absolute and at the same time triune in the Holy Trinity. These dogmas, together with an understanding of the essence of the Universe, deserve more detailed attention and analysis.

God the Father - who is he?

People knew about the existence of a single God-Father long before the Nativity of Christ, an example of this is the Indian Upanishads, which were created one and a half thousand years BC. e. It says that in the beginning there was nothing but the Great Brahman. The peoples of Africa mention Olorun, who turned water Chaos into heaven and earth, and on the 5th day created people. In many ancient cultures there is an image “the higher mind is God the Father”, but in Christianity there is a main difference - God is triune. To put this concept into the minds of those who worshiped pagan deities, a trinity appeared: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

God the Father in Christianity is the first hypostasis, He is revered as the Creator of the world and man. The theologians of Greece called God the Father the basis of the integrity of the Trinity, who is known through His Son. Much later, philosophers called Him the original definition of the highest idea, God the Father Absolute - the fundamental principle of the world and the beginning of existence. Among the names of God the Father:

1. Hosts - the Lord of Hosts, is mentioned in the Old Testament and in the psalms.
2. Yahweh. Described in the story of Moses.

What does God the Father look like?

What does God, the Father of Jesus, look like? There is still no answer to this question. The Bible mentions that God spoke to people in the form of a burning bush and a pillar of fire, and no one can ever see Him with their own eyes. He sends angels instead of himself, because a person cannot see Him and stay alive. Philosophers and theologians are sure: God the Father exists outside of time, therefore he cannot change.

Since God the Father was never shown to people, the Stoglavy Cathedral in 1551 imposed a ban on His images. The only acceptable canon was the image of Andrei Rublev "Trinity". But today there is also the "God the Father" icon, created much later, where the Lord is depicted as a gray-haired Elder. It can be seen in many churches: at the very top of the iconostasis and on the domes.

How did God the Father appear?

Another question, to which there is also no clear answer: “Where did God the Father come from?” There was only one option: God has always existed as the Creator of the Universe. Therefore, theologians and philosophers give two explanations for this position:

1. God could not appear, because then there was no concept of time. He created it, along with space.
2. To understand where God came from, you need to think outside the universe, outside of time and space. Man is not yet capable of this.

God the Father in Orthodoxy

In the Old Testament, there is no appeal to God from people "Father", and not because they have not heard about the Holy Trinity. It's just that the position in relation to the Lord was different, after the sin of Adam, people were expelled from paradise, and they went over to the camp of God's enemies. God the Father in the Old Testament is described as a formidable force that punishes people for disobedience. In the New Testament, He is already the Father of all who believe in Him. The unity of the two texts is that in both for the salvation of mankind the same God speaks and performs deeds.

God the Father and Lord Jesus Christ

With the advent of the New Testament, God the Father in Christianity is already mentioned in reconciliation with people through His Son Jesus Christ. This Testament says that the Son of God was the forerunner of the adoption of people by the Lord. And now believers receive a blessing not from the first hypostasis of the Most Holy Trinity, but from God the Father, since Christ atoned for the sins of mankind on the cross. It is written in the sacred books that God is the Father of Jesus Christ, who during the baptism of Jesus in the waters of the Jordan appeared in the form and commanded people to obey His Son.

Trying to clarify the essence of faith in the Holy Trinity, theologians state the following postulates:

1. All three Persons of God have the same Divine dignity, on an equal footing. Since God in His essence is one, then the properties of God are inherent in all three hypostases.
2. The only difference is that God the Father does not come from anyone, but the Son of the Lord was born from God the Father eternally, the Holy Spirit comes from God the Father.