Why Do Humans Envision God?

[minsocal]

A good question, I think? What are the possibilities?

 

To justify there own thoughts and feelings?

 

To aspire to thoughts and feelings beyond where they are now?

 

To justify where their "culture" has been?

 

To aspire to where they would see their "culture" progress?

 

The individual rooted in the past.

 

The individual rooted in the future.

 

The society rooted in the past.

 

The society rooted in the future.

 

The individual who sees past and future.

 

The society that sees past and future.

[romansh]

Why?

What is the cause?

What is the purpose?

 

The universe unfolding might be an answer.

[soma]

I would say people envision God to explain what cannot be explained to fill in all the holes. 95% of matter is space so there are a lot of holes to fill up.

[minsocal]

Are there limits to what we as humans, in this time and place, are able to envision? Are we arrogant to assume we can transcend our own limitations? Is that., as Darwin said, "our greatest sin"?

[JosephM]

I personally would not call it arrogance. Our progress, especially as evident in sports has been to constantly push our perceived limits to new boundaries. Perhaps many of the limitations we perceive as limitations are of our own making?

Joseph