The idea of God is intrinsic on every human being. For someone who doubts this affirmation, just imagine to be the only human being in this planet.
In this imaginary world you find yourself alive, adult, you are able to find food and shelter. You grow. You look at nature, at the animals, at the sea, at the stars; you have also ideas and intuitions helping you, for example on how to protect yourself from dangers; you feel alone and look to connect with the world around you, you need to give a sense on your presence in the world, you ask yourself how you got there, how everything around you has a material presence; at night, when you fall asleep and have dreams, your dreams seems very similar to your reality or very different; you start questioning your perception and asking yourself if the reality you are seeing when you are awake (are you really awake or being awake is just another level of consciousness of which you are unaware: are you are living a lucid dream?), is this reality the real 'thing' and regardless if it is real or not, you ask yourself how it is so beautiful, how it is so perfect, how it IS?
You are alone in this world, no one is influencing you one way or another, you do not have religion lessons at schools (because there are no schools and there are no religions), you do not have a parent influencing your belief system (because there are not parents and there are not belief systems), you are alone and what you have is your thinking which takes you to question what you cannot understand, your curiosity looking for an answer to quiet your mind, to give you a sense of purpose, to lessen your fears.
"Where does all this come from?" When this question will came to your mind you'll be looking for something that has created it all. The idea of God (let's call it God because it is a word universally accepted, even if misinterpreted, because too connected with religions - some people have resistance towards it and they confuse God with established religions and they have to "dismiss the question of God") is intrinsic in every human being: we are conscious beings and as such we ask ourselves questions to which we need (or want) give answers.
To be continued...
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