Who is God? Does He exist, and which religion, if any, does He belong to? This article dives into these questions and presents fascinating historical insights, scientific perspectives, and religious beliefs that might just surprise you. Here’s a snapshot of what you’ll discover:

  1. Stephen Hawking’s views on God
  2. 5,000 years of civilization’s beliefs about divinity
  3. The deep link between God and religion
  4. An overview of the five largest religions covering 75% of the global population
  5. How many religions have existed since humanity began
  6. A look at languages spoken by humans
  7. How many gods have been worshipped throughout history, with one common thread among them all.

To get you thinking, I’ll ask two critical questions along the way about the origins of God and religion.

Beginning with a definition from Wikipedia,

I am going to start with wikipedia explanation about who is god. Wikipedia says, “god is conceived of a superior being creator and principled object of faith”. So what does scientists think about god? and this is what greatest scientist of the century stephen hawkins has to say about god. He says, “if you believe in science as i do you believe that there is certain laws that are always obeyed if you like you can say the law as the work of god or that is more a definition of god than a proof of his existence.
This was the question from my childhood who is god and i didn’t find the proper convincing answer till date so i thought i have to do a deep research on it to try to understand what and who is god “a short disclaimer before you start reading this, this content is not to hurt any religion or any individual, i am going to speak the facts which are available in records ancient scripts beliefs of various religions and records from ancient civilizations started from 5000 bc onwards which speaks about god and religions and i will make you think deeply and tap your subconscious mind so that we together can figure out some kind of logical answer for it and i’ll be asking you two important questions so be ready to answer them yourself.”

God and Religion

So who is god?, before knowing about god you should have a basic idea about religions. There is a deep root connection between the god and religion. I am going to say a statement which someone may accept and someone may not “there is no god if there is no religion” just think of the world where there is no religion i bet you cannot find a single god, different religion have different gods and each god has different kind of looks and different kind of stories to them speaking about religion.
We all know about the top five religions that have 75 percentage of world’s population practicing, it’s buddhism, christianity, hinduism, islam and judaism. In which islam and christianity are the two regions most widely spread across the world. Do you want to know how many religions are that in the world?.

The Many Gods

According to a independent non-religious afflicted organization that monitors the number of the world’s religions says there are some 4300 religions in this world and 8600 living languages spoken somewhere in this world. Using the ratio of current population to the total number of people who ever lived from the centuries they get estimation of 63000 religious group through the human history. Yes it’s 63000 religious group, other statistic says if non-religion people formed in a single group and form one religion that would be the world third largest religion.
So now i have the first question for you to answer, think deep before you get to answer youeself. Does god create a religion or do we as a human created the religions? think about it and share your thoughts in the comment box. Now that you understood deeply about the religion let’s speak about god how many gods are there in the world. I feel little hesitant to say this but i have to say it, the top five famous gods by number of people worshiping are Jesus, Allah, Vishnu, Shiva and Buddha. we can’t avoid speaking about hinduism and india if we want to count the number of gods in the world. I’m not going to speak about the fictional numbers, the truth is there are only 40 to 50 Hindu Gods that have been ever named and there are about 300 names that have been alternative names of those 40 to 50 core Hindu Gods. However in modern times there are only 8 to 16 different kind of Hindu Gods that are actually still worshiped, so what is the real number throughout the recorded history?. We can count anywhere from 8000 to 12000 gods who ever worshipped by humans.
Yes it’s 8000 to 12000 and i have a second question for you now. Think deep before you answer yourself. So now you know about the number of gods, now tell me – does god created humans or we as human created the gods whom we worship today? post your answers in the comment box.
Before going deep into god’s there are five different types of view people has about god. This will differentiate the belief and opinion about god. You want to identify yourself which category are you in.

Perspectives on God’s Existence

The first category is Strong Atheism they say god does not exist.
The second category is De Facto Atheism they say god almost certainly does not exist.
The third category is Agnothism and they say no one knows whether god exists.
The fourth one is De Facto Thesism they say god exists but they cannot be proven or disprove.
The fifth category is Thesism and they say god exists and this can be proven.
So who are you? which category do you belong? are you the one who say god does not exist or the one who says god almost certainly does not exist or you say no one knows whether god exists or you say god exists but this cannot be proven or disprove, or you believe in god and say god exists and this can be proven. Identify yourself first and depending on the view about the god the ideology totally differs. Till now we saw about the religions now let’s take the deep look about the civilization the connection between the god and the civilization.

God and Civilization

Be it roman civilization or persian civilization, ancient greek civilization, chinese civilization, mayan civilization, egyptian civilization, indus valley civilization and mesopotamian civilization. Every civilization had its own gods. Taking this into account different gods has always been worshiped at different times so who really is god?
The next section of this blog is purly my personal thoughts, you may have different opinion. But with due respect this is what i think.

Personal Reflection: Is God Belief?

According to me, god is nothing but belief. Thinking about god gives you hope and also fear. If you’re doing wrong things which is not good for you or your friends or society the belief in god creates fear in you. This is a good fear, which is needed for a good change and for a better life for you and society. If you’re
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