If you hadn't ever heard anything about God (a thought experament)?

There is already some great research on this...

Feral children (children raised in complete isolation) have no concept of a god, and none claim that any dieties appeared to them. It's a fun websearch...

I'll give you the assumption that there is a God because otherwise this is pointless, but I think I would need more justification for your assumption that we have an innate desire to connect with God. I know that most religions will try to convince of this, but they are far from impartial in this question. I would guess that we have an innate desire for answers and admit that belief in God is an effective way to satisfy this desire, but I think it's a leap to say we innately believe in God.

Also, the assumption of having only our own experiences, if you mean isolated from science, technology, history, etc., is a bit too hefty a burden to assume away. I mean we grew up under the constant influence of these things, so who could say what we'd be like without them? If we're only assuming away any knowledge of theology, then I'd guess that I would still be an atheist. I may have hoped for a God when I was younger or been good 'just in case,' but I never really bought into it.

Many remote tribes that have been discovered over the centuries, had no knowledge of the Bible or outside contact where knowledge of God, had some concept of Him.

The native Indians of North America had knowledge of a higher being before this continent was discovered by the Europeans.

So, I would have to say, yes, I, too would have knowledge of God. Of course, I have no idea how I would visualize Him. I expect I would not think of him as a the guy next door. More likely as a spirit. Just as every group or tribe have in the past.

I seriously think, left to my own devices, that I would be a sun worshiper.

It's just so obviously the biggest, brightest and most powerful influence in our little corner of the universe, that I would tend to logically think it was our god instead of a puny man that had been a baby and died like everyone else.

I think gods patterned after humans or animals simply lack imagination or display a big ego.

Just my opinion.

There is no God. There is nature however, but that is a much different thing.

I appreciate your questions. They are good ones. But since I do not believe in God then I cannot imagine he/she/it as being like a human, or having a relationship with he/she/it, or thinking anything written by humans as being anything other than that...a bunch of text written by humans!

I'll be interested in reading the answers you get however!

Things are the way they are. Whatever is is. There is nothing we can do to change it. So whether there is God or no God. It is. What will you finally realize? Isn't that what matters. In other words, what is really true is really true. Good thought experiment by the way.

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The whole universe may be part of god's body & we are part of that body & that is the relationship between you+me+everybody+all the creations of nature contained by god's body(universe). So, god is man+woman or either containing nature. God's emotions can be thought by nature's mood or atitude. we are the part of god therefore nothing to be scared of if you are acting tohelp the nature to grow or expand.

I think if I had never heard anything about God, I would picture Him as the giver of life, the sun. I would still talk to Him everyday and thank Him for my life and the lives of my family. Small children who have never heard of him in their homes and schools would be the ones to ask. It is really strange because they all seem to know Jesus.

Since alot of our western culture (even science) is based on a Christian deity, and Christian thinking, I think the world would be a different place indeed if we had never heard of god.

To those who object to me saying that western science is based on christian thinking, consider this: In Christ and Science (p. 23), Jaki gives four reasons for modern science's unique birth in Christian Western Europe:

1. "Once more the Christian belief in the Creator allowed a break-through in thinking about nature. Only a truly transcendental Creator could be thought of as being powerful enough to create a nature with autonomous laws without his power over nature being thereby diminished. Once the basic among those laws were formulated science could develop on its own terms."

2. "The Christian idea of creation made still another crucially important contribution to the future of science. It consisted in putting all material beings on the same level as being mere creatures. Unlike in the pagan Greek cosmos, there could be no divine bodies in the Christian cosmos. All bodies, heavenly and terrestrial, were now on the same footing, on the same level. this made it eventually possible to assume that the motion of the moon and the fall of a body on earth could be governed by the same law of gravitation. The assumption would have been a sacrilege in the eyes of anyone in the Greek pantheistic tradition, or in any similar tradition in any of the ancient cultures."

3. "Finally, man figured in the Christian dogma of creation as a being specially created in the image of God. This image consisted both in man's rationality as somehow sharing in God's own rationality and in man's condition as an ethical being with eternal responsibility for his actions. Man's reflection on his own rationality had therefore to give him confidence that his created mind could fathom the rationality of the created realm."

4. "At the same time, the very createdness could caution man to guard against the ever-present temptation to dictate to nature what it ought to be. The eventual rise of the experimental method owes much to that Christian matrix."