Who was God first?

[Cartoonist]

Is there a general consensus as to who or what the first God was? I'm assuming it was the Sun, with the Moon being his brother or rival. I also seem to recall them having found small figurines of the Goddess going back before Noah.

[elleng]

1. Nature, NATURALLY!

[NeoGreen]

2. Venus of Hohle Fels (?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Hohle_Fels

Two views of the Venus of Hohle Fels figurine (height 6 cm (2.4 in)), which may have been worn as an amulet and is the earliest known, undisputed example of a depiction of a human being in prehistoric art

[malchickiwick]

3. Hunter-gatherers were (are) animistic.

They saw the divine not in individual gods and goddesses, but as the underlying reality of the world surrounding them. That covers about 95 % of human history.

Post-Neolithic Rev., the "first" god tended to be a sky/thunder god of some kind, patriarchical b/c it supported the arbitrary rule of the ruler/ruling class.

Those figurines are sometimes called Venus figurines. The book's still out on exactly the purpose they served, but they were incredibly popular across a wide geographic area in the late Paleo.

[Towlie]

4. Countless gods were dreamed up and lost before writing was invented and holy books could be written.

[rampartc]

5. first was mother earth

as maiden, mother, and old woman. holy trinity.

her husband, the sky, begat upon her the sun, the stars, the planets, each with its own sphere of inflience.

then came chronos, time, and the mating of time to mother earth produced life.

in time, life produced humans, who learned (from the tree of knowledge).........

[Cartoonist]

6. Sounds kind of jumbled

And out of chronological order.

[rampartc]

7. does it?

most mythology does.

[Act_of_Reparation]

15. It only seems jumbled because it's wrong.

[MineralMan]

8. A mystery invention, first and always.

My opinion, as always.

[Bleacher Creature]

9. Is it wrong to say George Burns?

[marble falls]

10. G*d - Alpha and Omega.

[guillaumeb]

11. The Creator is, and was.

I hope that this clarifies the matter.

[Cartoonist]

12. Not hardly

I doubt that the first people to invent religion had a genuine concept of a creator. Instead, the first gods were just powerful beings. In the case of the goddess, we're talking birth, but of humanity, not creation.

[guillaumeb]

16. These ancient people probably saw humanity and earth as all of creation.

But we cannot say that they did or did not recognize the Creator.

[Lordquinton]

13. Source?

[citation needed]

[trotsky]

14. Unsupported personal belief.

Since you are stating that as a fact, I thought I'd clarify further.

[MineralMan]

17. Just an unassuming mortal.

Then he got bitten by a radioactive spider and...

[mia]

18. The great I AM

The consciousness of being alive and in awe.

[edhopper]

19. What if God were one of us

just a slob like one of us.

[mia]

20. Love this, edhopper.

Thanks for reminding me of the song.

[uriel1972]

21. I remember reading... somewhere

That after finding all those Goddess figurines the early anthropologists (male) decided there obviously was a supremem male god who was too important to make into little figurines. Heh gotta love that prejudice