Where did gods come from? (2024)

Where did gods come from?

Hesiod's divine-creation myth is also a cosmogony, a story of the origins of Nature and the Universe. The first gods were elemental. They were deified physical parts of the Universe, but they gradually became anthropomorphized, believed – at least sometimes – to have human emotions and form.

Hesiod's primordial genealogy

1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in the depths of the Earth; and Eros (Love) "fairest among the deathless gods".

In the beginning there was Chaos, a yawning nothingness. Out of the void emerged Gaia (the Earth) and other divine beings — Eros (love), the Abyss (part of the underworld), and the Erebus (the unknowable place where death dwells). Without male assistance, Gaia gave birth to Uranus (the Sky), who then fertilized her.

The Mesha Stele bears the earliest known reference (840 BCE) to the Israelite God Yahweh. The earliest written form of the Germanic word God comes from the 6th-century Christian Codex Argenteus. The English word itself is derived from the Proto-Germanic *ǥuđan.

In mythology, some gods are born fully-grown or as children from things in nature. For example, The Greek Goddess of Love, Aphrodite was born fully-grown from the ocean. Others are self-made/created as adults or children with an adult mind. Some magically make themselves pregnant or are born like mortals.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

The Titans. The Titans, also known as the elder gods, ruled the earth before the Olympians overthew them. The ruler of the Titans was Cronus who was de-throned by his son Zeus. Most of the Titans fought with Cronus against Zeus and were punished by being banished to Tartarus.

In Greek mythology, man was created by the titan Prometheus. According to the myth, Prometheus molded mankind out of clay and then stole fire from the gods to give to humans, which angered the gods.

According to Herodotus it was the poets Homer and Hesiod, writing in the 8th century B.C., who gave the Greeks their gods.

Nothing. Since the world was created out of nothing (ex nihilo), nothingness prevailed. Therefore God was idling, just existing, perhaps contemplating creation. Or, God was enjoying His own perfection and self-completeness.

Has God always existed?

The very first verse of the Bible says, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). Elsewhere the Bible says, "Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made" (John 1:3). But God had no beginning! He has always existed -- and He always will.

Its preface states: "the distinctive Hebrew name for God (usually transliterated Jehovah or Yahweh) is in this translation represented by 'The Lord'." A footnote to Exodus 3:14 states: "I am sounds like the Hebrew name Yahweh traditionally transliterated as Jehovah." The New International Version (1978, revised 2011).

The exact time when humans first became religious remains unknown, however research in evolutionary archaeology shows credible evidence of religious/ritualistic behavior from around the Middle Paleolithic era (45–200 thousand years ago).

From a historical and scientific perspective, there is no evidence to support the existence of these gods as actual beings. However, Greek mythology continues to be an important part of literature, art, and cultural heritage.

The studies demonstrate that people are natural 'dualists' finding it easy to conceive of the separation of the mind and the body. A three-year international research project, directed by two academics at the University of Oxford, finds that humans have natural tendencies to believe in gods and an afterlife.

According to the Book of Genesis, God created the universe - and all the heavenly bodies, the sun, the moon, and the stars - in six days. But according to contemporary cosmologists the universe began with a great explosion known as the Big Bang, after which the stars and galaxies slowly formed over billions of years.

Nineteen to the Nineteenth power millennium years ago, before there was a universe, before there was a single molecule, before there was Adam, and after God became lonely, God created the angels to keep his company. God named his first Angel, Zamariel.

Christianity. According to the American publication, the Orthodox Study Bible, 777 represents the threefold perfection of the Trinity.

According to the Bible, dinosaurs must have been created by God on the sixth day of creation. Genesis 1:24 says, “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.”

But many in the Christian world have not carefully considered the evidence found in the Bible, which clearly teaches that Jehovah is the premortal Jesus. The following scriptures are only a sampling of the biblical evidence. (Remember that Lord means that Jehovah is the Hebrew word used.)

Who is the first god in heaven?

Brahma is frequently referred to as the "first god" in Hinduism since he is the creator of the Hindu triumvirate, also called the "Trimurti" or Trinity.

As a Mesopotamian god, Idim was the creator of the first human, and the father of his immediate generations, as he was sometimes referred to in the ancient literature.

Humans were created to know God, to bear His image, and to share in His kingdom work. God intended for humans to glorify Him with their lives, and to desire to know Him. As they bore His image and His likeness, God desired that they seek to know Him, and find out what pleases Him (Ephesians 5:10).