Is the search for God instinctual?

if anything i think it is a product of imagination, ambition and ego. the ability to contemplate give way for desire or ambition of what is imagined and desire fuels ego to expect "more", thus holiness. plus once the ball is rolling some saw/see it as a way to profit in multiple ways.

No!

Most Chinese grow up never questioning anything. Most of them are atheists. And they don't feel bad about it either. Over in India, most of them are Hindu, or Buddhist, but again, no one cares whether or not people seek out the religion. I mean, sure, cavemen probably looked up at the sky and wondered "uhhh??" .. The first form of religion was worship of the sun. The reason? The sun makes the plants grow, it gives life. A good reason, right?

Religion is not inherant.

Yes and no.

We have to distinguish between search and search.

Within this world everything is based on instincts. And basically we have one overruling instinct or desire: to receive as much pleasure for ourselves as possible, and to avoid pain or suffering at any cost.

Based on this foundation we do everything, even when we hope for a "Higher Being" we just want reassurances against death, we want to believe in an afterlife to avoid eternal darkness, we want consolation for suffering, loss, etc.

When we search for a "source" or "spirituality" we do it to gain knowledge, fame or power, we want eternity, or because we escape from the emptiness of this life.

But there is a point when the drive for searching for a creating force, a source changes, when instead of the intention of "what can I get out of it, what is the reward" we start searching because we just want to get closer to this source, as we feel there is a higher meaning in all this, instead of the "gift" we just want to get closer to the "giver of the gift", regardless of the gift, and even that even that we do not want for our own sake, but for completing a perfect picture of which only our piece is missing.

And this at the end is completely opposite to our original instinct our original nature.

http://www.laitman.com/2011/01/the-primordial-poin...

http://www.laitman.com/2008/12/it-doesnt-matter-wh...

http://www.laitman.com/2009/11/creation-is-the-des...

I hope you find this useful, all the best.

as human we always searching for answers, some of us find it and some of us stay wondering. but there are a group of people that are lazy and dont want to think a little bit beyond and leave everything to the existence of a god that interfere with everything.

Scientifically, all things return to the source from which they came. Human beings have evolved to life with the ability to seek out its source, whatever It may be.

No. It's what makes us different than animals.

Does it matter?