Now - I Yrger theist like to talk about the idea of sacrifice to God.
Does God really demand that mankind should offer sacrifices of all kinds to God, predominantly of living things, including one's own children?
I don't think so. That is the way humans do, in order to convince other humans, that they are sincere and honest - for example, a man will give up his car to the father of a girl he wants to marry for a wife.
I wrote above, ". . . for example, a man will give up his car to the father of a girl he wants to marry for a wife."
I want to take back that example, it is ridiculous because it indicates that the man is buying the woman by paying her father with a car.
Hi everyone in similarworlds.com, at this point, I Yrger theist seek to investigate how mankind came to his concept of God.
At the dawn of intelligence in mankind, the smartest man happened to be also the strongest man. So, he ruled over the people living in the same place he lived in.
Over a long time mankind then imagined that there exists God in the heavens, the most intelligent and powerful entity that rules them from heavens.
So that today, there is the most acceptable idea, namely, that there is only one God. This concept is common among Christians, Muslims, and Orthodox Jews. And these three peoples are the rulers of the whole world.
However, Christians, Muslims, and Orthodox Jews still have the naive psychology of mankind, that of offering gifts to their rulers to please them, or to appease them.
So similarly they regard God to be interested in receiving gifts from mankind, to make God happy or appease God, and God Himself correspodingly demands gifts from mankind.
There, that is the basis of what we now call sacrifice.
On my part, from reason and intelligence I know God exists, and He is not keen on sacrifices, because He does't need them.
God just loves to create everything that mankind needs, and we simply just have to express gratitude to Him.
And I will go further, that we can also build temples of gratitude to Him, and we call this behavior, worship.
What do you members of similarworlds.com say about my exposition?
