somone here asked me to be more specific so...
Introduction
To start with I must say that I was never any good at writing, and I have a very small space to write in. Nothing I write here will be "enough" unless the reader chooses to expand it.
Also I would like to claim that everything one knows is a big collection of "experiences".
Experiences can be first hand (see\ hear\ feel) or second hand through communication such as words. Because of the difference in the "pool of experiences" every person has, people will understand different things from the same facts. Some what explaining this would be the next parable:
A real estate person is trying to get a group of ten people to join a deal, he starts bye saying it's a good deal, person A will join. Then he explains why, people B and C will join. then he explains the underlying reason why this is the best deal in the world , people E F and G may join , perhaps person N may never join , even if he were to explain for ever. God is perhaps the most debated concept in humanity …
Also I would like to point out that people are guided bye reason-thinking and bye feeling. The feeling is normally a black and white thing, "I either believe in god, or I do not". While the thinking part is grayer, everyone knows there is a chance god exists, and there is a chance he doesn't the question is how much.
I also believe the two strive to be united, or at least as close as possible. If someone believes in god, his reason will try to prove gods existence, if someone doesn't his reason would try to prove gods inexistence.
A change in belief-feeling is more problematic, it normally changes due to an event or trauma BUT I believe the event will only change it, if the base of the reason is there. [Someone may choose not to believe in god because his mother died, BUT only if he was ready to "not believe in god" also before that .Someone who was fully based in religion will not change it because of AN event.]
Therefore I would claim that any series of events which happened to me are insignificant in this context.
Chapter 1- The creation of religions and god
There are approximately 40000~50000 theis religions, even if there is one absolute truth at least all but one of these were created, and are fable. Since religions are a big factor in the concept of god I think it is worth investigating WHY and how these religions were formed. I would claim that the religions would not be created unless there was a REASON for then to be created, here are a few reasons:
1. POWER- it is a fact that religion gives power to certain people. These people can range from the local Rabi [who gets a salary] to the ruler of the Roman Empire [who gets an army which is zealous and fanatic and people who will follow him blindly].
The power factor is more dominant in the early religions, when most of the people did not know how to read and write and were not schooled at all. Under these circumstances the leader of the people could say whatever he wanted, and the people would follow. For instance throughout the book of kings the religion of the people is the same of the king.
2. UNDERSTANDING- People have a tendency to want to understand everything. From a very young age kids are asking their parents questions out of curiosity. Later on humanity funds scientists and explorers, all to understand, to answer that urge of curiosity. BUT no matter how advanced we are there will always be something we DON'T understand, humanity dreads this. As an answer to this problem a grate invention can be made, a "force" not understandable to us, an answer to all questions.
3. HOPE while the scholars may be interested in curiosity, and the kings in power the basic people use god as a simple manor of hope. God is a "thing" to address when you have a problem, to complain to when life is bad, and too ask for a better future.
Note: belief in god tends to get stronger in bad situations.
So we know why someone would create god, the question is how. At the early times it was easy, the people would believe everything the "Shaman" would tell them, also if it is ridicules story's about ghosts and spirits. The further humanity progressed the harder it was to have plausible religions, because people became more critic and more learned.
The religions had to evolve, from the pagan religion at first to the more complex theologies of the Greek then to monotheistic religions and later the more complex "relative" religions which were formed recently.
Generally the latter religions make more "sense" than the former, but I would claim that if there was a TRUE religion, an absolute truth there is no reason for it to exist from the very beginning, and the fact the religions evolve to things which make more and more sense only questions the truth of any of them.
Chapter two-The imposable absolute truth, the circularity problem
Back to the fact what people know is a bunch of experiences-everything we know is relative to ones experience. Even something we refer to as a "fact" all it means is that it is a widely agreed concept, there is no absolute fact.
EVAN if there is an absolute truth- A god which is true and controlling there is no way we can obtain any knowing of him, since everything about us is relative. Some may claim that the fact we can't obtain the truth means that there is no absolute truth, but I will not go that far, all I will claim is that the fact it is not possible for us (people) to obtain any knowledge of god means that any theist RELIGON existing is not TRUE(in the absolute way).
CHAPTER 3- man created god, so what?
As proven even if there is a god the god we refer to is "made in earth". The question is what are the consequences of this? At first glance they are horrific, no form of moral or ethics are needed, and everyone can do what he wants…
But we have an innate love for good, and perhaps we can claim that we don't understand everything, we can use god as a concept, a relative truth to make us do GOOD things , we can create god again, and use him the same way we might use "form world" as an idea , to help us reach what we believe as good. But this is a wide field open for much debate and disagreement , and deserves not a chapter, and not a book but many libraries.
the last part was basecly my qustion
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